Warren Ellis's Blog, page 367

Second edition of new column, concerning things that rot.

I’ve been meaning to write something about SHADOW UNIT for absolutely ages — about SHADOW UNIT itself, but also about the attitude expressed in the following comment found in a BoingBoing thread about SHADOW UNIT:

Instead of reading/watching something awesome and fanning over it, we see the fandom first. The fandom then defines and expresses the original material it’s about–the show that doesn’t actually exist.

The origin of SHADOW UNIT is in Elizabeth Bear encouraging a few friends to produce

1. A Boy and his Claude, 2. 060609, 3. Emmymau for Lastwear I, 4. Red, 5. Poof, 6. Rose paste-up

The popular comics (and TV) writer Christos Gage will be answering questions and generally shooting the shit on this thread at Whitechapel until Friday, in support of his new comics series ABSOLUTION.

Available in better comics stores from Wednesday. Here’s a page from it:

And here’s one of the covers (there are three, because people keep ordered variant covers, which means I can’t talk Avatar out of making them):

And you can find lots more preview pages at the bottom of this Flickr set.

Ian Pattinson says: "I didn’t vote for him, and I want people to know that." Get this image on clothes and mugs at Cafe Press.

Get angry. Stay angry.

Channel 4 to put back catalogue online for free | Media | The Guardian
"From July, more than 4,000 hours of the channel's archived content ? about 10,000 programme titles ? will be added to the 4oD catchup service."
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Normal bloggery will be resumed sometime Monday or Tuesday.

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Bird From The Abyss
"Ritual music from Finland's deep primeval forests, according to ancient Gods long forgotten. "I", this one-man anti-band's debut release, mp3 available for free and limited CD-r at low price"
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