Warren Ellis: “The (Jack) Kirby tradition is to create a new comic.”

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For “thermobaric,” read “fuel-air bomb,” basically. The fuels in question are often highly toxic. They’re vacuum weapons — it’s the structure of the blast itself that destroys so effectively. And also turns human beings inside out.

British soldiers in Afghanistan are being supplied with a new “super weapon” to attack Taliban fighters more effectively…

The “enhanced blast” weapon is based on thermobaric technology used in the powerful bombs dropped by the Russians to obliterate Grozny, the Chechen capital, and in US “bunker busters”. Defence officials insisted yesterday that the British bombs were different. “They are optimised to create blast [rather than heat]“, one said, adding that it would be misleading to call them “thermobaric”.

So-called thermobaric weapons have been used by the US against suspected al-Qaida and Taliban underground bases. Combined heat and pressure kill people over a wide area by sucking the air out of lungs and destroying internal organs.

Defence officials described the new weapon as a shoulder-launched “light anti-structure munition”.

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WARREN ELLIS

Just found  this out: if you order the Sub Press limited edition
of CROOKED LITTLE VEIN  by the end of Tuesday, they'll
knock $15 off the cover  price.

http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/2007/08/27/announcing-crooked-little-ve

in-by-warren-ellis/

--  W  

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Vitka, you bastard. I didn’t need this in my head this evening. So now you must all suffer.

Jenkem is, essentially, fermented shit. Jenkem abuse had formerly been restricted to Zambia.

“It lasts about an hour,” says one user, 16-year-old Luke Mpande, who prefers Jenkem to other substances.

“With glue, I just hear voices in my head. But with Jenkem, I see visions. I see my mother who is dead and I forget about the problems in my life.”

Today, America rides to the rescue.

Well today I finally did it. I became probably the first person in America to huff his own shit gas.

After breathing it in I immediately felt that I was passing out. I did not even have time to spit before I became unconscious…

Traveller/photographer Gareth Jelley is selling prints of his excellent work, as regularly featured here.

Here are some prints I’m planning on selling before I leave for China. There is an unlimited number of each available, but the timeframe is quite short, as I fly out later this week.

1. Cigarette
2. Gaze
3. They Will Break Your Heart, Every Time
4. We Can Only Imagine
5. Petrified Forest Aesthetic
6. Space Station Aesthetic

Each photograph will be printed at 12 x 8, will be signed and numbered, and will be sent out well packaged via Korean post.

One print, to the USA or the UK, will be 30 USD, inclusive of postage, but I’m willing to negotiate if you want more than one. And sending to most destinations shouldn’t be a problem. And if I can find a way to make printing them significantly cheaper, I’ll throw in a second.

If you’re interested, please email me at gjelley@gmail.com.

The more of these I can sell, the longer I can travel; the longer I can travel, the more of these I can take.

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WARREN ELLIS

Someone’s just unearthed a post I wrote on, I think, MySpace, possibly
a year ago. And I don’t remember writing it. Which doesn’t bode well,
really. It may have been one of those “hey someone else is looking
after my daughter I can drink the entire whisky cabinet” weekends.
The post reads:

“I have decided that the next stage of my Conquering of the world
requires that I take a flock, or perhaps coven, of Internet Wives.

“For the men reading this, I believe I also require an army of
Eunuch Guards to attend them.

“It’s a horrible fate for you all, I know, but you can’t stand in
the way of the Future.”

What’s worse: I am completely sober (if hopped up on Turkish coffee),
and I’m wondering if there isn’t some kind of web badge or merch
I could get out of this. If people are freaky enough to wear the HOLY
SLUT ARMY t that Donna Desborough knocked out, then maybe
an INTERNET WIFE t….

…no. I need more coffee. And possibly a slap.

– W

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing a senior administration official.

“They Made Frogs Smoke ‘Til They Exploded” – Mum.

Finally, a new piece by an old favourite that doesn’t disappoint. Found a copy on Seeqpod, not the best quality, but it gives you a taste:

(Barricade)

(“Wild goats at the Hag’s Head, the Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare. These goat herds became wild between medieval times and the early 20th century – the species are not native to Ireland.”)

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WARREN ELLIS

Subterranean  Press are to produce a special limited edition of
CROOKED LITTLE VEIN, with a  new cover by my old friend
Clayton Cubitt, better known to the world of  pervert photography
as Siege ( http://www.claytoncubitt.com/ ).

All  editions will be signed by myself and Siege.  Siege, of
course, might  just wipe his cock on the signature sheets.
Hell, so might I.

All  details live at the following  link:

http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/2007/08/27/announcing-crooked-little-ve

in-by-warren-ellis/

I  would ask you to remember: I'm not the publisher, nor am I the
vendor,  distributor, postman or any other bloody thing, and cannot
answer any  questions that may surface like gristly lumps in the
sewage treatment plant  of your mind.

-- W  

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(“I’ve finally begun to find the Korean graffiti and stencils that i Knew had to exist in Busan!”)

Jekyll or Hyde? II

Originally uploaded by Cassandra M..

(David Wahl)

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WARREN ELLIS

National holiday, here in the mother
country.  But not for me.  Too
much to do.  Hit a slowdown point
on two jobs, where I can't quite see
where to go next.  Mike Moorcock
had a formula for that, when he
was writing fast: descend into a
minor character.  But that doesn't
always work when you're writing
in 22-page units.  Not getting
enough bloody sleep is the problem,
but deadlines don't move.

Reviews continue to come in on the
novel.  Mostly positive, amazingly:
I've had two or three beatings, but,
to my great amusement, one of
them seemed not to have read the
book -- "quoting" things that aren't
actually in the book is always a red
flag -- and the others seemed to
have had their sense of humour
surgically removed.  On the whole,
I seem to have gotten away with it.
Which was the absolute best I could
hope for.  Though if I ever meet the
Entertainment Weekly reviewer
who called what I do for a living
"picture books"....

And last week I wrote a couple of
hundred words on BATTLESTAR
GALACTICA for a Rolling Stone
feature on the autumn US tv
season.  I'm presuming that'll be
out sometime next month.

Back to work.

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Warren Ellis: watching rugby with daughter = ++good. Wales being stomped by France is also ++good.

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WARREN ELLIS

A drunk and  bad-tempered little thing, it  is:

http://suicidegirls.com/news/politics/22173/

I crawl away  now.

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Warren Ellis: 2/2 , bombs