They want me to entertain you bastards," Warren Ellis began his series of columns for the comic book Internet destination website Comic Book Resources. Part social commentary, part sitting at-the-feet-of-Socrates, part kick in the ass, COME IN ALONE was the column that would zig when you thought it would zag. This collection of all fifty-two columns includes Ellis' unique take on the comic book industry, features first-class interviews with top-flight comic book professionals, and even includes the legendary Old Bastard's Manifesto. Wrap this all up in an evocative and spooky cover by Brian Wood, and you've got a collection of commentary that midwifed the birth of the comic book industry into the 21st century.
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Come In Alone- Words To Live By,
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Warren Ellis (who writes comics such as Planetary and Transmetropolitan) is an intelligent and witty man. This collection of his "Come In Alone" web-columns enlighten and entertain, giving prolific and sometimes acidic insight into the comic book industry and pop culture in general. If you love science fiction, comics, politics, and wild discourses on the cultures and society which we live in... then check this book out. How one man can write so many funny and intelligent essays in one book is both frightening and inspiring. Warren Ellis is a writer who GET'S IT. So do yourself a favor and get this book.
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You need this.,
By Brian Domingos (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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Warren Ellis teams up with publisher/writer/all-around nice guy Larry Young to bind his Come In Alone columns and infect the world of books forever. It's thoughtful articles with personal insights into the comics medium, as well as some script samples, economic analysis and Instructions to make you a better person.All that and a pretty cover by Brian Wood. It's cheap, too. You need this.
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Picking where Scott McCloud left off...,
By Todd S. Erickson (Bear, DE United States) - See all my reviews
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Scott McCloud brought us "Understanding Comics" and "Reinventing Comics", which inform on images and the true nature of comics as a visual medium. Ellis picks up where those leave off with a book about the nature of comics itself, the industry, as it were. He tells it like it is about DC and Marvel comics, the independents, where comics have been, and where they could go. Almost guaranteed to offend most comic book fans with its direct attack of super-hero comics and the comic's Industry, this book has a lot to say about what needs to be done to save the medium.
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