Author Warren Ellis is speaking at MIT today.
Starting.... now.
live stream here:
media.mit.edu
Warren Ellis at MIT
Connor Carter
William Diaz
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Anthony Sullivan
He's got three prose novels out too.
Mason Johnson
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Elijah Perez
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Ryder Rodriguez
spamming is against the rules. reported.
Gabriel Scott
Yes. An author doing a talk at one of America's top colleges is not to be posted. Sounds about right.
Jaxon Morales
Only read Transmet, which had its charms but overall felt a bit too dumb, yet too smug in its dumbness to qualify as pulpy fun. Are any of his prose (or other comic) works worth my time?
Kayden Martinez
You're essentially avatarfagging while spamming this retard. Again, go to /co/.
Justin Phillips
Never read his prose, his comics can be hit and miss, and that tone you disliked is somewhat prevalent, Authority and Planetary are good tough
Hunter Allen
>too smug
Well he is British.
Joseph Rogers
I got Normal signed at a shop across the river in Boston he stopped at.
The whole "thinking about the end of all day" driving you insane seems too familiar to me this past year.
Jack Rivera
Will keep in mind, thanks
See, it's not smugness per se I dislike. Moore is one of my favorites and he's a quintessentially smug Brit. The difference is that Moore has the wits to justify it, whereas Ellis (at least in Transmet) really didn't.
Austin Thompson
Hmm. Maybe that kind of smugness was cranked up to 11 because of the character of Spider and his personality.
Benjamin Cruz
Talking about how Ellis predicted the digital liveposting of journalism with Transmet, though also how he was just cribbing from Hunter's gonzo journalism that prefigured how in the moment journalism today is. (Though I'd say the thoroughly fucked corpse of journalism.)
Lincoln White
"You mustn't think comics functions the way a business filled with adults would." - Warren Ellis
Jonathan Richardson
Someone in the audience just shouted "Pepe!"
Adam Ramirez
heh. The interviewer mentioned anonymous in relation to Global Frequency.
Evan King
user is the closest thing we're getting to the Global Frequency.
Heaven help us.
Christopher Rogers
That's certainly part of it, but I also took issue with how nearly every villain was a blatant strawman, and how Spider comes in to beat up and humiliate them. Reads like a pathetic power fantasy honestly, like Warren Ellis was giving form to his adolescent priest-punching fantasies because mom and dad forced him to attend Sunday mass while he'd rather be reading comics.
Levi Powell
>a new religion being generated every six hours