The Comics Gnome Poots…
The Warren Ellis Superhuman Trilogy Ends Starting Today…

SUPERGOD #1
Ah Jeez…
The Comics Gnome POOTS quality over quantity these lean days but still he seems to get through. I’m dying to hear what the Young Kiwis bought at their day at the FunnyBook Bodega. Was it “Gotham”…the nigh-infamous place where Kiwis get fitted for Capes & Cowls?
I still wince that Kiwi didn’t like FELL by Warren Ellis & Ben Templesmith. Friends have different tastes. I suggested Fell…I threw it on her stack last time when she was here in the States. Damn…as if I was an MLB pitcher yearning to have that one pitch back…but iDigress.
Nonetheless, here I am again to pitch to you more Warren Ellis. If you dare…read the Supergod #1 preview here.
This is seriously frakked-up stuff. And it’s great. One of the best Sci-Fi minds, who happens to write great superhero stories. Ellis is at his best when he’s unattached to the properties of MARVEL…where he flexes his wicked buff imagination.
Supergod is the third in what’s known as the Avatar Superhuman Trilogy by Ellis. The first was the politically-edged…

BLACK SUMMER
trade collection, issues #0-7
This story is about a failed superteam, forced to reunite when it all goes to hell…after their former leader (Sgt. Pepper in blood-spattered White) murders the White House for war crimes.
Then came the San Francisco piece NO HERO which was more about sick & twisted visuals, a gonzo nightmare. I might want to read the script someday. The Superhuman team as a brand in modern culture and the costs of admission…quite literally a world without heroes, just a superteam with an agenda a bit too clever for the world to let continue. But the new guy is a lot more than he seems or what the team is prepared to ultimately face in this sick-thriller.

NO HERO hardcover trade collection, issues #0-7
Next comes Supergod. A usual Ellis conceit; grab onto a slice of history and anchor your story there. 1947, 1999, 2001, 2004, et al. Ellis makes certain anachronistic events in history and uses a backstory as the foundation to his vision of “parallel nows”. “kinda-yesterdays” or “almost-tomorrows”.
This time…the “what if” was a Superhuman Arms race during the Cold War years. And its tragic result…

SUPERGOD #1 wraparound cover
The Comics Gnome has never stopped POOT’n fresh Warren Ellis on my coffeetable. Another AVATAR press mini just finished is the pseudo-steampunk/post-spaceflight IGNITION CITY. It has the trappings of a Sci-Fi period piece…but it really is an old-style Western. Stunning art with retro-tech in a Buster Crabbe “Flash Gordon” meets Iron Oxide Look to the Background…an Artificial Island on the equator with the last Launch catapult on Earth. And intrigue, murder & revenge. Foul language, heavy drinking. It’s Classic Warren Ellis doing “His Thang”.

Ignition City #5 wraparound
For the next time you get to Gotham, Young Kiwis…
crea shaakti,
The Warren Ellis Superhuman Trilogy Ends Starting Today…

SUPERGOD #1
Ah Jeez…
The Comics Gnome POOTS quality over quantity these lean days but still he seems to get through. I’m dying to hear what the Young Kiwis bought at their day at the FunnyBook Bodega. Was it “Gotham”…the nigh-infamous place where Kiwis get fitted for Capes & Cowls?
I still wince that Kiwi didn’t like FELL by Warren Ellis & Ben Templesmith. Friends have different tastes. I suggested Fell…I threw it on her stack last time when she was here in the States. Damn…as if I was an MLB pitcher yearning to have that one pitch back…but iDigress.
Nonetheless, here I am again to pitch to you more Warren Ellis. If you dare…read the Supergod #1 preview here.
This is seriously frakked-up stuff. And it’s great. One of the best Sci-Fi minds, who happens to write great superhero stories. Ellis is at his best when he’s unattached to the properties of MARVEL…where he flexes his wicked buff imagination.
Supergod is the third in what’s known as the Avatar Superhuman Trilogy by Ellis. The first was the politically-edged…

BLACK SUMMER
trade collection, issues #0-7
This story is about a failed superteam, forced to reunite when it all goes to hell…after their former leader (Sgt. Pepper in blood-spattered White) murders the White House for war crimes.
Then came the San Francisco piece NO HERO which was more about sick & twisted visuals, a gonzo nightmare. I might want to read the script someday. The Superhuman team as a brand in modern culture and the costs of admission…quite literally a world without heroes, just a superteam with an agenda a bit too clever for the world to let continue. But the new guy is a lot more than he seems or what the team is prepared to ultimately face in this sick-thriller.

NO HERO hardcover trade collection, issues #0-7
Next comes Supergod. A usual Ellis conceit; grab onto a slice of history and anchor your story there. 1947, 1999, 2001, 2004, et al. Ellis makes certain anachronistic events in history and uses a backstory as the foundation to his vision of “parallel nows”. “kinda-yesterdays” or “almost-tomorrows”.
This time…the “what if” was a Superhuman Arms race during the Cold War years. And its tragic result…

SUPERGOD #1 wraparound cover
The Comics Gnome has never stopped POOT’n fresh Warren Ellis on my coffeetable. Another AVATAR press mini just finished is the pseudo-steampunk/post-spaceflight IGNITION CITY. It has the trappings of a Sci-Fi period piece…but it really is an old-style Western. Stunning art with retro-tech in a Buster Crabbe “Flash Gordon” meets Iron Oxide Look to the Background…an Artificial Island on the equator with the last Launch catapult on Earth. And intrigue, murder & revenge. Foul language, heavy drinking. It’s Classic Warren Ellis doing “His Thang”.

Ignition City #5 wraparound
For the next time you get to Gotham, Young Kiwis…
crea shaakti,
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