Today was an important episode. It had that feeling. Alice has finally been installed as Kirk\’s assistant on the watchtower and has been given some clue as to what she is looking for — though the sense that some information Read more…
Category: warren ellis
I have been reading and re-reading this series, checking out the wiki, the talk threads to see whether or not this idea that keeps striking me has turned up anywhere and it hasn\’t. Why hasn\’t it occured to someone else? Read more…
It\’s kind of weird, I woke up expecting an interlude for Freakangels and that was exactly what I got. A chance to read back through stuff and re-cap. It\’s such an easy read, and who can begrudge Ellis and Duffield Read more…
Today the main thing I think I noticed aside from the main thrust of the story was that the sky had darkened. Today was packed full of siblings acting like siblings — freakangels fighting in the way fox cubs fight. Read more…
It\’s strange the last two weeks have seemed somewhat more leisurely in their pacing though just as much is revealed. We learn something of how being a Freakangel plays out through someone\’s ethnicity — it was hinted at before in Read more…
To complete the trilogy of talented artists from Whitechapel that I wanted to draw people\’s attention to comes Zira Sparovec. I have had the pleasure, as have the other members of Warren Ellis\’s extended online community, to see some of Read more…
Every single character gets the chance shine here. This week we learn that there is more to Sirkka than was first shown us — that she is not just some shallow hedonist lazing around and thinking of pleasure all day. Read more…
A fairly quiet episode this week. It didn\’t feel gentle in the way that Arkady\’s episodes did though. Whenever Alice is being moved around, moved into place, given how she was introduced, it makes you a bit nervous. Connor seems Read more…
This series answered a question that I am sure a lot of British people have asked themselves — why aren\’t we in space and what it would it have been like if we had managed to get our acts together Read more…
So, the story resumes this week, and Arkady takes us to meet Carolyn. Arkady is like a dollop of honey at helping all these introductions to both a new character and new ideas slide down. Everything seems bathed in sunshine Read more…