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Burned-out private detective and self-styled shit magnet Michael McGill needed a wake-up call to jump-start his dead career. What he got was a virtual cattle prod to the crotch, in the form of an impossible assignment delivered directly from the president's heroin-addict chief of staff. It seems the Constitution of the United States has some skeletons in its closet: the Founding Fathers doubted that the document... (more)

Freakangels Volume 1 TP

by Warren Ellis, Paul Duffield

Warren Ellis' hugely popular web comic, Freakangels, is here, collected in print for the first time in this gorgeous, full-color trade paperback! Twenty-three years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. Six years later, the world ended. This is the story of what happened next. So welcome to Whitechapel, some years from now, just barely above ground in a flooded England,... (more)

Freakangels V2

by Warren Ellis

Volume Two of award-winning author Warren Ellis' ongoing web comic, FREAKANGELS, is here! This installment collects the entire second arc of the post-apocalyptic saga into 144 gorgeous, full-color pages. Twenty-three years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. Six years later, the world ended. Today, eleven strange 23-year-olds are living in and defending Whitechapel, maybe... (more)

Fell: Book 1

Feral City

by Warren Ellis

Detective Richard Fell is transferred over the bridge from the big city to Snowtown, a feral district whose police investigations department numbers three and a half people (one detective has no legs). Dumped in this collapsing urban trashzone, Richard Fell is starting all over again. In a place where nothing seems to make any sense, Fell clings to the one thing he knows to be true: everybody's hiding something.

Transmetropolitan Vol. 1: Back on the Street

Transmetropolitan Vol. 1: Back on the Street

by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson

Ellis's dystopic narrative, with its full-color tale of a gonzo journalist, shares with mainstream superhero comics a macho ethos that undermines the otherwise cool Watchmen-like script. Spider Jerusalem, a hip reporter of the Hunter Thompson mode, breaks a five-year drug binge on a mountaintop to replenish his resources. The city he returns to resembles the post-apocalyptic Blade Runner and all its funky visual... (more)

Transmetropolitan: Book 2

Transmetropolitan Vol. 2: Lust for Life

by Darick Robertson, Warren Ellis

Outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem attacks the injustices of his surreal 21st Century through black humor as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word in this critically-acclaimed graphic novel series written by comics' superstar Warren Ellis, the co-creator of PLANETARY and THE AUTHORITY. In this volume, Jerusalem targets three of society's most worshipped and warped pillars: politics, religion, and... (more)

Transmetropolitan: Book 5

Transmetropolitan Vol. 5: Lonely City

by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Warren Ellis

Nobody ever accused Warren Ellis of lacking imagination. The latest collection of the Spider Jerusalem saga, Transmetropolitan: Lonely City, is packed with laser-guided satire and neo-adolescent wish fulfillment in the form of a bowel disruptor. Sliding his story of government manipulation and counter-manipulation between moments of reflection and observation makes Ellis's downbeat ending a bit less nihilistic... (more)

Transmetropolitan Vol. 4: The New Scum

by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson

It's no wonder he hates it here. Spider Jerusalem, journalist and heroof sorts in Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan, wades through a sewer ofpoverty and high-tech despair daily in his efforts to understand and report onAmerica. In The New Scum, Ellis contrasts the powerful, in the form ofpresidential candidates, with the powerless, who are begging and hustling on thestreets. The satire is savage and rarely subtle,... (more)

Transmetropolitan: Book 9

Transmetropolitan Vol. 9: The Cure

by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson

This collection of the popular Transmetropolitan series follows the adventures of famous renegade journalist Spider Jerusalem. He spends his time in the future dystopia The City avoiding hit men and dealing with government corruption, media infiltration and conspiracy paranoia. In this installment, Jerusalem and his assistants are racing against government assassins to find the last living transient sex worker who... (more)

Transmetropolitan Vol. 10: One More Time

Transmetropolitan: Book 9

Transmetropolitan Vol. 10: One More Time

by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson

Warren Ellis' searing and satirical socio-political adventures of Spider Jerusalem, the freelance, drug-addled, brain-damaged, anarchic investigative journalist, finally reach their awesome climax - and with gusto! Spider is close to finally nailing US President Callahan, whose attempts to hide his 'unusual' passions have left a bloody trail in his wake. But time is short: the President has declared martial law... (more)

Global Frequency Vol. 1: Planet Ablaze

by Warren Ellis

Acclaimed comics writer Ellis (The Authority; Transmetropolitan) here creates a Mission: Impossible–style force for the 21st century. The Global Frequency is a worldwide organization comprising 1,001 members, each with a specialized talent, which combats unconventional threats to public safety. Some of these menaces are the stuff of science fiction, like a cyborg warrior gone mad. Others are potentially quite... (more)

Freakangels Volume 3

by Warren Ellis, Paul Duffield

Twenty-three years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. Six year later, the world ended. Today, eleven strange 23-year-olds are living in and defending Whitechapel, maybe the last real settlement in flooded London. They've made a new friend, and together they successfully defended their home from raiders - but the post-apocalyptic drowned London that the eleven Freakangels... (more)

Nextwave: Agents Of H.A.T.E Volume 1: This Is What They Want Premiere HC

Nextwave: Agents Of H.A.T.E Volume 1: This Is What They Want Premiere HC

by Warren Ellis, Stuart Immonen

The Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort, or H.A.T.E. (a subsidiary of the Beyond Corporation) put Nextwave together to fight Bizarre Weapons of Mass Destruction. When Nextwave discovers that H.A.T.E. and Beyond are terrorist cells themselves, and that the BWMDs were intended to kill them, they are less than pleased. In fact, they are rather angry. So they make things explode. Lots of things. Starring Monica Rambeau... (more)

Iron Man: Extremis

by Warren Ellis

It's the beginning of a new era for Iron Man as renowned scribe Warren Ellis joins forces with artist Adi Granov to redefine the armored Avenger's world for the 21st century - a landscape of terrifying new technologies that threaten to overwhelm fragile mankind! What is Extremis, who has unleashed it, and what does its emergence portend for the world? Collects Iron Man #1-6.

Planetary Vol. 4

by Warren Ellis

This is it - the long-awaited fourth and final graphic novel collecting the adventures of Elijah Snow, a powerful, hundred year old man, Jakita Wagner, an extremely powerful but bored woman, and The Drummer, a man with the ability to communicate with machines. Infatuated with tracking down evidence of super-human activity, these mystery archaeologists of the late 20th Century uncover unknown paranormal secrets and... (more)

Planetary - The Authority: Ruling The World (August 2000)

Planetary - The Authority: Ruling The World (August 2000)

by Warren Ellis

Counter X Volume 1: X-Force TPB (Counter X)

Counter X Volume 1: X-Force TPB (Counter X)

by Warren Ellis, Ian Edgington, Whilce Portacio, Ian Medina, Ariel Olivetti, Enrique Breccia

Like all mutants, X-Force must face a callous and deadly world - but now they've been trained for it by Peter Wisdom, one of the most callous and deadly mutants of all! The proactive paranormal platoon faces a city transformed by Cold War mad science and a mutant druglord terrorist, but will their deadliest enemies be Wisdom's long-lost allies? Featuring killer zombies, exploding buildings, and the dynamic Domino!... (more)

Indigo Vertigo

by Indigo Vertigo

The story explores the psychological breakdown and breakthrough of a single character through a sequence of hallucinatory scenes.

Transmetropolitan: Book 1

Back on the Street

by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson

DC's new editions of TRANSMETROPOLITAN begin here, with this volume collecting issues #1-6 of the acclaimed Vertigo series from writer Warren Ellis and artist Darick Robertson! After years of selfimposed exile from a civilization rife with degradation and indecency, cynical journalist Spider Jerusalem is forced to return to a job he hates and a city he loathes. Working as an investigative reporter for the... (more)

Doktor Sleepless Volume 1: Engines of Desire HC

Doktor Sleepless Volume 1: Engines of Desire HC

by Warren Ellis, Ivan Rodriguez

The revolutionary first eight issues of Warren Ellis' satirical-political science fiction novel are collected in this deluxe trade paperback! It all begins with a simple question: Where is the Future We Were Promised? But the man asking the question is not going to be content until he's taken apart the very city of Heavenside to find the answer. Doktor Sleepless and his sultry and murderous Nurse are broadcasting... (more)

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