Tuesday, 17 June, 2025

Tag: whitechapel


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…


I seem to be spotlighting people that I have found through Whitechapel, Warren Ellis\’s online community today. The number of people on that site with real creative talent is staggering and some of the work that you are privileged to Read more…


It\’s really nice to be surrounded by creative people, and Whitechapel, the community that Warren Ellis has built around his webcomic Freakangels is a real hive of creativity. I first became aware of Ian Gil through a thread that gave 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…


Ellis once again working to confound the tendency that people have to pigeonhole characters or jump to conclusions about what sort of person they are or the role that they fulfill. Today we see that far from being the flighty Read more…


There is nothing out there quite like it. Ellis is not just creating something that no other major comics writers are creating, namely a webcomic that comes out every week, he is creating a narrative that is pretty uncommon in Read more…


Today was a very kinetic episode — as usual packed with more than most would be able to get into six pages. Ellis has the use of comics and their panels down to a fine art as far as conveying Read more…


I think one of the things that I am enjoying most about the characters of the Freakangels is how we are allowed to see the way the main protagonists have been damaged by whatever event has taken place in the Read more…


I know it\’s probably not the best thing to be floating theories around before something is notionally out of the gates but there is enough of intrigue already in the Freakangels to get the old noggin working. I was wondering Read more…