At my internet hovel today:

* The SUPERGOD #3 Thread – for discuss release of glorious comicybook

* CHINESE WHISPERS UCHRONAL COVER REMODEL: Young Romance #1 – they hate me for this one

* T-shirt Of The Week #015: STOP

* PHONOGRAM 2: The Singles Club - the collection is released today

* NAWLZ is back for Season 2

* DOC IMMORTALIS – Gentleman Science Adventurer – New Weekly Webcomic

Out today in the USA:

Mark Millar does love playing the publicity game. There’s a level of promotion that I just can’t face, but that Mark embraces like a Scotsman on a freshly-deepfried Mars bar. That said, I have to admit, I wish I’d thought of and could afford his latest stunt:

That is indeed Mark and Steve McNiven’s new comics serial NEMESIS on a billboard in Times Square.

I dunno that I would have chosen Times Square, and you could nitpick about the tagline if you felt like it… but that is a fine stunt, and it makes me smile.

EDITED TO ADD: yes, I know it’s a pshop job. Couldn’t help but play along.

Good morning, scumbubbles. This is warren ellis dot com. And Brandon Graham has posted one of his huge lovely blog entries overnight. So go and read that instead.

"She Just Likes To Fight" is currently my favourite piece off the new Four Tet album, THERE IS LOVE IN YOU, which Domino Records were kind enough to provide me. Funny thing is, I was about to buy the CD anyway. It’s a beautiful album, but this is the one that’s going to obsess me for a few days, I think…

David Garcia Studio releases the second of their MAP publications, pamphlets that unfold into an A1 infoviz poster. Details on how to find a copy at the link. Me, I’ll have to try and get to the Architecture Association bookshop sometime soon.

MAP 002 QUARANTINE investigates the concept of containment and it’s spatial implications through research, projects, and the realm of architectural ideas. Four projects are treated on this issue: A Domestic Isolation Unit, an Instantly Quarantinable Farm, a Zoo of Infectious Species, and a Quarantined Library on a cargo ship…

Someone called Gaspard Winckler on Twitter pointed me at this page, which has a download link: Delia Derbyshire creating electronic music as backdrop to recordings of people talking about their dreams, broadcast on BBC radio circa 1964.

This programme of sounds and voices is an attempt to re-create in five movements some sensations of dreaming – running away, falling, landscape, underwater and colour. All the voices were recorded from life (by Barry Bermange) and arranged in a setting of pure electronic sounds… Delia’s editing and repetition, together with her dissonant, often terrifying musique concrete soundbeds, make this distinctly uneasy bedtime listening….Her collaborations with the poet and dramatist Barry Bermange for the Third Programme showed her at her elegant best…

Six pages of SUPERGOD #3, which is out tomorrow in North America and Thursday in the UK and elsewhere. There is much talk about drugs, God and time.

I am failing at recording all the stuff that’s coming into the office. Which is bad, because my office is a dump and stuff gets lost or forgotten or possibly reproduces in the corners.

As noted a couple of days ago, I’m on a Delia Derbyshire kick again. The TOMORROW PEOPLE CD there contains a bunch of Derbyshire stuff under the name Li De La Russe (she was still under contract to the BBC at the time, and TOMORROW PEOPLE was an ITV show). The red CD is "classic" Radiophonic Workshop, and the bottom one is a broader spectrum, 1958 to 1997.

I’m writing a sequence on Project Drill today which my co-writer indicates as including "the machine that goes ping." Therefore I am playing some of the greatest Machine That Goes Ping music that Britain ever produced.

Jon Brooks, of the hauntological unit The Advisory Circle, is podcasting. Am downloading the first podcast now. I have a great and well-documented fondness for all the creatures of Ghost Box Records, of which The Advisory Circle is one.

On Type Recordings:

"Using a handful of dusty Wagner pieces (no doubt scored from one of Portland, Oregon’s many thrift stores), he has stretched and distorted the hallowed tones into something indescribably dark and beautiful. Like David Lynch’s peerless Eraserhead soundtrack before it, this is music that sounds as if you are being dragged through rusted pipes and hearing the distant swell of broken gramophones playing in unison. Maherr has created music that is at all times exquisite but deeply disturbing. Like Leyland Kirby or even William Basinski, there is a sense of harmony, nostalgia and restraint in the layers of hiss, grit and noise."

• UN report: World’s biggest cities merging into ‘mega-regions’
  "The world's mega-cities are merging to form vast "mega-regions" which may stretch hundreds of kilometres across countries and be home to more than 100 million people, according to a major new UN report." MEGA-CITY ONE!
  (tags:cities culture )

I got a package of these the other day from Marvel, which I guess means it was published sometime in February. It collects all 12 issues of NEXTWAVE, which were previously released in two 6-issue collections, THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT and I KICK YOUR FACE. Sadly, I wasn’t consulted about the title of this "Ultimate Collection." Otherwise I might have called it KICK SPLODE or WE KILL BEARS FOR YOU or something. Anyway. I presume this is the dominant collection now, as the other two were released a good two or three years ago.

This book won awards, and was singled out for praise as a book for young adults by an American library association. God only knows why.

It seems that in late April, IRON MAN: EXTREMIS is being reissued with a "movie cover." Which makes sense, as EXTREMIS artist Adi Granov was visual consultant to both IRON MAN films.

I think these are out in late June. As ever, the book is released in three different formats.

The paperback:

The hardback:

And the limited-edition signed hardback, wherein you can find a thick black squiggle that is labeled as my signature even though it might have just been a mark made by a squid having a seizure:

TOTW is basically a joke that Ariana and I pull each week in our joint guise as the International Electrophonic Unit. Basically, we take some of the stupider things I’ve said on Twitter and elsewhere, often in a state of extreme alcoholic refreshment or severe sleep deprivation, and put them on a t-shirt. Ariana set up a Cafe Press store (because this is a joke and engaging with a serious maker of t-shirts would be less funny to us), and… well, once a week, here we are.

Through this website and this Cafe Press store, we’re going to release one t-shirt a week. It’ll go live on Monday… and it’ll die Sunday night — midnight UK time, more often than not. Each one lives for a week, and then it’s replaced by the next week’s shirt. Until I either run out of dumb ideas or Ariana’s brain explodes.

So, every Monday, I’ll post the new shirt here, and you can peer at it more at http://www.cafepress.com/electrophonic.

Anyway. I present to you T-Shirt Of The Week #015: STOP IMAGINING ME NAKED:

ALSO: back for one week, since it’s the week for it:

We also offer several perennial items. Mostly because people wanted these:

(Also a MAN COOK MEAT WITH FIRE "splatter-shield", because Ariana’s crazy)

Thank you for your kind attention.

Templesmith took this photo at Atomic Comics in Phoenix AZ.

Good morning. This is warrenellisdotcom. That’s me on the door, minus my protective brain shielding. Obviously the primitive yet enlightened staff of Atomic Comics worship at this makeshift shrine.

It’s the toilet door, isn’t it?

LEVERAGE writer/producer John Rogers, on how he works:

I write to the sound of weeping children. Warren Ellis gave me an MP3 of weeping children.

Delia Derbyshire:

And, yes, I DID already know who Delia Derbyshire was. Sometimes when I post things on here, people have a habit of thinking it’s the first time I’ve heard of whatever I’ve posted. Whereas, sometimes, I’ve been reminded of something, or need to gather material for consideration, and want to collect it all in one place.

Fairly sure I’m going to be writing something involving Derbyshire and her work in the near future.