Most Awesome Thing of the Week - Black Summer
This week's most awesome thing is Warren Ellis' new comic series Black Summer. It's a provocative and thoughtful take on the superhero genre and the responsibilities a vigilante takes upon himself when he chooses to dedicate his life to fighting crime.
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Uploaded: July 30, 2008 at 6:21 am
Author: SpoonyOne
Length: 00:02:53
Rating: 4.94
Views: 15262
Tags: comic warren nextwave transmetropolitan awesome ellis planetary
Video Comments:
PsychoWolf14 (October 6, 2008 at 6:32 am)
Hey.. I might actually buy that comic. Sounds good.
GuyMorad (September 29, 2008 at 2:12 am)
ive never read a comic book in my life, wouldn't mind starting now. well said old friend
MrXtheLittleVoice (September 9, 2008 at 4:54 pm)
Transmetropolitan was pretty, pretty good. I might buy Black Summer.
My friends debate with me, but Preacher is a better comic IMO.
My friends debate with me, but Preacher is a better comic IMO.
KazuoKiriyama666 (September 8, 2008 at 11:10 pm)
Warren Ellis is like the Alan Moore of the 00's. He's the man. Even with his lesser known works like Jack Cross, he's fucking good.
VampiraJen (August 31, 2008 at 8:44 pm)
I hadn't read any of Warren Ellis's stuff until I saw this video, I've now read Planetary, Nextwave and am working my way through Transmetropolitan. I'm loving his stuff, so thanks for bring it to my attention :)
Crutchcor (August 31, 2008 at 3:55 am)
LOL!!! I will look into it. ROFL, awesome post.
ExMachine (August 30, 2008 at 12:45 am)
Buy Transmetropolitan. God will thank you.
Crutchcor (August 28, 2008 at 9:04 pm)
I don't read comic books. Good video though.
NoLifeGamer17 (August 25, 2008 at 5:56 am)
sounds cool, I'm gonna go to comic store and probably check out some readings!
Vigilante008 (August 21, 2008 at 1:29 pm)
I really wanna read this, Its like in Justice League where a parallel universe Lex Luthor Becomes President and Super Man kills him in the office, only the military didnt come after them they became Leaders of the world controlling everything so no crime is ever done, monitoring everything from their watch tower. Hated by all all of the world.
So I hope to find this, might be hard in New Zealand but ill have a look around and see what I can find.
So I hope to find this, might be hard in New Zealand but ill have a look around and see what I can find.
SedrickProductions (August 20, 2008 at 1:23 am)
Ill try to check it out. but were is my comic store>.>
mavis13 (August 19, 2008 at 3:42 am)
Warren Ellis FTW!!! :D
hvaughan5 (August 17, 2008 at 10:00 pm)
Great video, I'll check it out.
overfiend87 (August 15, 2008 at 5:01 pm)
think I'll wait for it to be available in graphic novel, but I love the idea of how evil and good conflict and how it's hard to see what's good and what's evil. Certainly sounds like something I'd be interested in reading.
subfighter316 (August 14, 2008 at 12:15 am)
looks good, but I'm hesistant to buy anything drawn by Juan Ryp, after he worked of Frank Miller's Robocop. I'm not sure if it was because it was a screenplay adaption, or the fault of the writer who adapted it(or even Miller himself), but the art had no flow to it.Also I wouldn't call Spider a sociopath. He's shown to actually care for some, but is just very angry and violent.
gore1sm (August 12, 2008 at 2:08 pm)
rofl endyyn you tripper
LongHairedTed (August 10, 2008 at 10:08 pm)
Are you carrying on with these or not?
jt2580 (August 10, 2008 at 4:40 am)
that sounds awosme and i thik people dont know wtf their talken about cause america is a country where there is fredom and when people say its not american their tryen to put a limit on what people can write not leting them share ideas with the american public ideas that make u think instead of POW good guys win bad guys lose cause in the real world that not the way it is i think people who call a thing like this un american are themselves un american
renzokato (August 8, 2008 at 4:33 pm)
Flawless video. Warren Ellis FTW
mstheroff (August 7, 2008 at 11:55 pm)
Endyyn, "anti-American" would probbaly be a better term for what they meant. And "un-American" doesn't mean worse than an American; it means, in essence, something counter to what is presumably American ideals. The term is really only used for unpatriotic Americans (both parties use the term to describe that which they dislike), for the most part, so no need to bunch up your knickers. I have never heard the term used toward someone of a different nationality.
TendouJigoku (August 7, 2008 at 4:05 pm)
It came out recently that Ellis wrote a good bit of the story for Dead Space
Iwantsuperporn (August 6, 2008 at 4:03 pm)
no, it just means that it's not very "american" like. It doesn't live up to american standards is what it means. It's not demeaning other races such as german (which btw i share the blood, rock on bro), it's like i said, just mentioning it's not american like.
endyyn (August 6, 2008 at 9:21 am)
What the hell is unamerican supposed to mean? I'm unamerican, I'm german. Does that make me worse than an american?
anarchy0productions (August 6, 2008 at 1:08 am)
i was wondering, whats your opinion on the JTHM series and its spinoffs (squee!, i feel sick, and i think zim was one too even though it had none of the same characters it had some of same running jokes and elements like the cd sespool)
auronuk (August 4, 2008 at 10:10 pm)
cheap shot man. cheap shot.