"Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.: This is What They Want" is the first volume of collected Nextwave comics from savage funnybooks genius Warren Ellis. Ellis — creator of the seminal Transmetropolitan — is known for his scorching attacks on "underwear pervert" comics featuring caped crusaders with super-powers fighting the bad guys. — Read the rest

My God, but Warren Ellis makes Second Life sound like a place where you'd actually want to spend some time. Snip:

..it seems that the Filthy Avatar Sex will come with consequences, and your cybershagging will produce a screaming digital baby that probably poops singing metal bat heads.

Snip from the latest Second Life Sketch by Warren Ellis for Reuters. In this episode, Mr. Ellis discovers uninvited avatar-strangers having sex in property he's recently purchased:

In return for allowing her avatar to be animated into bump-and-grind moves around The General, she got paid Linden Dollars.

Oh, man, this is the coolest news ever. Reuters announces: "Writer Warren Ellis, author of comic books, graphic novels, and two forthcoming novels, is bringing his 'Second Life Sketches' to the Reuters Second Life News Center as a weekly column beginning next month." — Read the rest

I just finished the first collection of Warren "Transmetropolitan" Ellis's fantastic new comic, "Desolation Jones" (My new formula for graphic novel goodness: walk into LA's Secret Headquarters, buy any three books on the recommended new release table, go to funnybook heaven). — Read the rest

Famed graphic novel creator Warren Ellis will curate a free, mass webcomics site called "Rocket Pirates". He is now accepting submissions, and the criteria is "stuff Warren really likes." Link

A single chapter of Warren Ellis' graphic novel Transmetropilitan #8: Another Cold Morning has been scanned and posted online by a fan. On his blog, Mr. Ellis responds:

Since it’s one chapter out of sixty, and no-one’s trying to earn money off it, and I am lazy benign, I choose not to release the throatfucking hounds of hell upon the criminal Internets pirate responsible.

Newsarama is offering the first episode of the terrific, dark FELL from Warren Ellis and Ben Templesmith for absodanglutely free. You can buy the hard copy version (with extra content, in glorious inky hi-res) at comics stores for US$1.99. Warren tells Boing Boing, "It was hard to find for a while there anyway… we sold out of a couple of printings." — Read the rest

Flynn sez, "The unaired pilot for the tv show 'Global Frequency' was leaked on the net. Global Frequency [ed: from the brilliant Warren "Transmetropolitan" Ellis comic] is an active 'smartmob' consisting of 1001 people organized through advanced cellphones who respond to global emergencies and phenomena ranging from Heaven's Gate-esque cults to rogue military operations." — Read the rest

Attention, America: DESOLATION JONES #1 should be in your local comics store today.

Link to larger image, and reviews. Congrats, Warren!

Shown here, a sneak peek at the cover for Warren Ellis' forthcoming serial comic Desolation Jones. Art by J.H. Williams. Out in April, solicited for ordering in February.

Link to more info, and link to full-size image.

A fresh source of free radio and fresh digital culture from Warren Ellis:

The telepathine playlist is donated music and performance by invited artists. It uses the radio.blog system to stream the audio as compressed Flash files. Most if not all of the telepathine artists have their featured works available as micropay or free downloads, accessed through their biography pages below.

BoingBoing reader Don Whiteside says,

Today, author Warren Ellis' blog has what he calls a "One-day DPH rent-party" looking for donations to cover bandwidth costs. It's a little essay that any fan of his Transmetropolitan will recognize as being written by his alter-ego, Spider Jerusalem.

Gizmodo's done another of their "What's in your gadget-bag" features, this time with Warren Ellis, whose Transmetropolitan is the best science fictional comic I've ever read.

You just caught me. I'm off to Atlanta in 36 hours or so; jumping from British Summer Time to Eastern Daylight Time for something called Dragon*Con, where I'm a special guest (and also cultivating the Freak Vote in prep for my first prose novel, published next summer).

Warren Ellis is blogging from the set of GLOBAL FREQUENCY. This graphic novel of Warren's is becoming a WB TV series; shooting is under way in Canada and the end result is slated to air in March, 2005. From time to time, he lifts his head out of that trough of cold Red Bull long enough to futurephone a blog entry about how bizarre the whole experience is. — Read the rest

Warren Ellis is doing a stunt on his blog today called "Fast Fiction Friday" — he asked a bunch of people (including me) to bang out a very short story on Wednesday, and today, he's publishing them. Here's a bit of mine:

The other super-heroes put Spidey up to it, going to Geneva to wheedle the WIPO delegates about their trademark rights.

A short dose of delicious new prose from Warren Ellis:

Lavinia sits on the bench outside the local Starbs and swallows her antifutureshock meds with a soy chai latte. After a few minutes, she feels able to switch her shades from obstacle-imaging to full vision.

It's Wednesday, which means the new funnybooks are out. I'm using The Beguiling as my interim comix shop while working on the next novel in Toronto, and tonight, they had a very nice surprise for me: a perfect bound omnibus edition of two of Warren Ellis's short-series stories: Mek and Reload. — Read the rest

"Warren Ellis Portable" — Thirteen ultrashort stories in permanent installation, from author/blogger/geek-mentor Warren Ellis, "For those long train/bus trips, extended visits to the toilet, whatever."

Orkut, the recently-launched, Google-affiliated FOAF (Cory critiques them — and the bigger FOAF picture — here), is offline for a while. Before the temporary beta outage, Warren Ellis logged on, sniffed around, then said:

Right now, it looks pretty much like an iteration of the Tribe.net — Read the rest