>>When Comic Book Galaxy posted an article pointing this out -- it's at http://www.comicbookgalaxy.com/vox/reviews_archive_092600.html if you're interested -- Ellis's defenders rose up to point out that Thompson was referenced in the text piece in the first issue. Interesting that he's NOT mentioned in the first trade paperback (or any thereafter), which even Ellis admits is where most people who've read the story in the first issue of Transmet have read it. I believe Ellis recently said they've sold twice as many of the first trade now as they did the actual comic. About time somebody at least re-inserted that text piece into the trades, or more rightly put an acknowledgement into every single Spider Jerusalem appearance. And action figure. Oh, and, sent the guy a check.

All in the interests of making a better world. Or at least a fairer one.<<

Okay I get it, acknowledging the source makes it an "homage" rather than a "rip off". What you should have suggested was that Ellis was ripping off Trudeau, that would have really pissed off the hive mind. I'd rather read a bunch of Doonesbury Duke stories than Transmet any day. Of course, that time would be better spent rereading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

I am appalled that whoever wrote the intro to the first Transmet trade didn't think to mention the debt owed to Thompson.

At any rate, I prefer the Super-hero X-Files to the Sci Fi Hunter Thompson.

Comics have a great tradition of ripping of other media. How many cheesy superhero plots have been ripped right out of some currently hip movie?

And isn't it great to know that the self-proclaimed Stalin has found such productive uses for his time now that he's no longer managing his supposedly too time-consuming forum?

The WEF was a stunningly diverse forum ruled with an iron fist. It was bloody great and it's the comics internet's community's loss that it's gone - or at least spread into its divergent parts - V, Super Lime, Grammarporn, Artbomb, Die Puny Humans, Ninth Art etc.

Now it's gone, though, there's something missing.

Rich, how about a story featuring the filthy squabbling now taking place between the forums you mention?

How about the good people who were victims of the WEF? I'm thinking of people like Ken Applebaum, J-Bolt, Jim Murdoch... the list could go on and on. The WEF community was full of people so twisted by a lifetime of failure and anger that they lashed out whenever there was blood in the water.

Many lives... destroyed forever by the cold, brutal hand of Warren Ellis...

Victims of the WEF... Honestly... :rolleyes:

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Germany in 1941 was a stunningly diverse country ruled by Adolf Hitler. It was bloody brutal and it's the world's loss that it's gone ... Now it's gone, though, there's something missing. Like the Holocaust.

There.

I did it. The Law is invoked.

I hereby proclaim this thread over. Everybody can go home now.

I'm not a fan of his recent work, I have no intention of getting Global Frequency, but I do plan to pick up RED when it comes out.

You don't like Warren that's fine. But you people are fixated on it. His forums gone. Move on. Give candy to small children before abducting them or something.

I'm not going to sit here and debate his personailty, you don't like him, don't buy his books. Curse his name everytime you see it. Make a little Warren Ellis voodoo doll if you need to make yourself feel better.

I have spoken.

My problem was with the forum, not the man. If anything, he was the least offensive moderator there, because he at least had a sense of humor unlike the shrill harridans he recruited to boss people around.

The forum, however, was packed with largely unemployable foreigners of questionable sexuality who had nothing better to do than loll around pubs sneering about how they were "waiting for the trade", an attitude that hurts anyone who enjoys comics.

Anyone who enjoys monthly superhero comics, you mean. Most people on that forum don't.