What I’m Reading: Freak Angels
Wizard Con LA had a number of interesting panels featuring the publishers and distributors in attendance. Unfortunately I could only break away from the friends I was escorting to see one I’ve already written about.
Though I missed the AVATAR Press panel I did manage the next best thing. I had a pleasant conversation with Marketing Director David Marks about the heavy weight talent the represent like Allen Moore, Frank Miller and Jamie Delano just to name a few. I have read a number of their titles with Warren Ellis’ Crecy being the one I’d most recently read. David let me know that Warren Ellis had a special project under way for AVATAR; FREAKANGELS
FREAKANGELS is a free, weekly, ongoing comic written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Paul Duffield there are five installments which chronicle the lives of young hip psychics who live in the Whitechapel district of London after the end of the world. Seemingly indefferant to the state of the world they’ve carved out fiefdom for themselves.
This group of tragically beautiful pettygods who can’t help but bicker among themselves wake one day to find their bohemian psyocracy is being threatened by a shotgun toting Manc slag out to avenge her brothers. The problem isn’t the girl, it’s what she represents. Some time ago one of the group of twelve left on poor terms and has hatched a plot to send brainwashed drones to eliminate his former compatriots.
The story is just starting to take form. We’ve been introduced to five of the twelve, one an installment so far. Each has their own quirks so it will be interesting how Ellis will develop twelve individual characters that are similar in looks but different in personality.
What I must give kudos to is the practical use of a tinfoil hat in a comic. Read it and you’ll see what I mean.
-CJ
