Freakangels, Vol. 2 [Paperback]

Warren Ellis (Author), Paul Duffield (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 21, 2005

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 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 survive in is never a safe place, and never surrounded by friends. Night has only just fallen, but strangers already creep through Whitechapel with the worst of intentions and the

weapons to see them through. In FREAKANGELS: VOLUME TWO, we discover just how bad the situation in sunken England has gotten, and we meet the last of the eleven strange Freakangels. But the twelfth, sinister Mark, is still out there somewhere... Ellis' ongoing story of a flooded London is beautifully illustrated in jaw-dropping detail by Paul Duffield, and every page is as much a work of art as it is a compelling and multi-layered story.

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About the Author

Warren Ellis is the award-winning British author of comic books, novels, and television, most often recognized for his sociocultural commentary and ground-breaking work in the genre of science fiction. His most recognizable works include Transmetropolitan, Planetary, and The Authority. He maintains a consistent online presence which includes the weekly delivery of the FREAKANGELS web comic to millions of fans. Ellis has published over 25 different creator-owned projects through Avatar Press (including BLACK SUMMER, IGNITION CITY, and GRAVEL, the last of which is in development as a film through Legendary Pictures), with many more planned.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Avatar Press; 2 edition (April 21, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592910718
• ISBN-13: 978-1592910717
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #88 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Graphic Novels > Mystery

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5.0 out of 5 stars And off we go..., January 20, 2012

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William Zacariah Bubb "Mr_Dichotomies" (Snowmass Village, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Freakangels, Vol. 2 (Paperback)

Warren Ellis has created a post-apocalyptic England where the new and the old clash in perfect proportion. Imagine the children of Village of the Damned have grown up... The story, in inimitable Ellis style, features not just physical conflicts with enemy powers, but also the day-to-day conflicts of personalities trying to get along with each other while exploring amazing powers that even their owners can't fully understand. Top off the story with the gorgeous art of Paul Duffield and you have one of the best graphic novels of all time. These are the kinds of books that make me jealous of anyone getting to read them for the first time, because you never know what you are going to find when you turn the next page. Enjoy! (P.S. Buy the hardbacks; you will want to re-read these...)

4.0 out of 5 stars not as good as the first, but not bad enough to turn me off, April 4, 2011

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k. jeigh - See all my reviews

This review is from: Freakangels, Vol. 2 (Paperback)

volume 2 of this series was decidedly not as good as the first. i actually had to check it was the same artist as volume 1, 'cuz it was just less visually compelling (though still beautiful, and with a lovely color palette). it's prolly more like a 3.5 star, but i'll round up for keeping me interested enough to get the next one.
builds on previous story and you get to know the characters better, but there is no subtlety to the way things unfold... just BLAM, here's each character's deal. i hear they get better again- i hope so!

5.0 out of 5 stars A postapocalyptic breed of mutants, lovely and/or deadly, July 11, 2010

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Ventura Angelo (Brescia, Lombardia Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Freakangels, Vol. 2 (Paperback)

Like Whyndham's Midwich Kukoos, those violet-eyed mutants were hunted and chased for their powers. Their communal "LEAVE US ALONE" in an outburst of power was so powerful as to unwittingly bring about apocalypse. And now those twelve, in a flooded London. are to come to terms with the world they involuntarily create. They keep the Whitechapel survivors under their protection. Unlike the Midwich Cuckoos, each of them has a different personality, more than often clashing with the others: Connor the androgyne chronicler, the aggressively female engineer KK, the irritable watcher Kirk, the viperine outcast Luke,the spiritually inclined, sweet Arkady, the somewhat sexophobic gardener Karl who wears a tin helmet to avoid other's talk of sex, the scientist Caz, Miki the concerned doctor, Sirkka the group sex expert who keeps an harem of boys and girls, her somewhat estranged lover , the scavenger Jack, and and the paranoid "police officer" Kaitlin, who love "Quincy" And there was a sociopath Mak who was ouste from the group. The story of those persons is inserted in a postapocalypti scenario, marvelously depicted by Duffeld. A magnificent graphic novel!