- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Wildstorm (Feb 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1401202748
- ISBN-13: 978-1401202743
- Product Dimensions: 24.9 x 1.1 x 17.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 614,865 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Paperback
To me that's the question that this bok answers.
See, there are 1,001 people on the Global Frequency. You may not know who hey are, they may even be as close to you as possible without you even suspecting it.
Then one day, they receive a call and they may end up being mankind's last hope against something so big, secret or fast that there's no other conventional mean of intervention.
A worldwide cadre of super-experts, from sportsmen to physicists, from soldiers to magicians, from astronauts to historians.
There for us when we need them.
Broght together by the mysterious Miranda Zero and coordinated by young genius Aleph, they face suicide cults, ghosts, terrorists, aliens, government plans gone wrong, dangerous cold war sleeping threats.
Warren Ellis took a relatively simple idea (but so was Columbus' legendary egg, after all) and stretches it over 12 self-contained issues, drawn by 12 different artists, detailing 12 different Global Frequency adventures - the first 6 of which are collected here for your reading pleasure.
No wonder this has twice been optoned as a TV series and you should do yourself a favor and hunt down the beautiful leaked pilot of the first, while you're at it.
The stories are mostly fast paced and sometimes really skinned down to the action, but overall you have little atom bombs of information that takes along time to properly sink and digest and thoroughly enjoy. There's really so much here for you to drool over and ponder!
For comic freaks, there is also the unparelleled joy of having some very rare and very beautiful Glenn Fabry pen-and-ink work, Steve Dillon's very clean art and unmatched storytelling in service of Ellis' very tight scripts, Miracleman's Garry Leach turning in some fantastic pages, The Wicked's incredibly underrated artist Roy Martinez back to work for US comics, Jon J Muth's ink work (as beatiful and crafty as the painted workhe's most famous for), and V For Vendetta's David Lloyd proving he can do some mean action sequences too.
This is an absolutely great pacakge, ot to be missed!
See, there are 1,001 people on the Global Frequency. You may not know who hey are, they may even be as close to you as possible without you even suspecting it.
Then one day, they receive a call and they may end up being mankind's last hope against something so big, secret or fast that there's no other conventional mean of intervention.
A worldwide cadre of super-experts, from sportsmen to physicists, from soldiers to magicians, from astronauts to historians.
There for us when we need them.
Broght together by the mysterious Miranda Zero and coordinated by young genius Aleph, they face suicide cults, ghosts, terrorists, aliens, government plans gone wrong, dangerous cold war sleeping threats.
Warren Ellis took a relatively simple idea (but so was Columbus' legendary egg, after all) and stretches it over 12 self-contained issues, drawn by 12 different artists, detailing 12 different Global Frequency adventures - the first 6 of which are collected here for your reading pleasure.
No wonder this has twice been optoned as a TV series and you should do yourself a favor and hunt down the beautiful leaked pilot of the first, while you're at it.
The stories are mostly fast paced and sometimes really skinned down to the action, but overall you have little atom bombs of information that takes along time to properly sink and digest and thoroughly enjoy. There's really so much here for you to drool over and ponder!
For comic freaks, there is also the unparelleled joy of having some very rare and very beautiful Glenn Fabry pen-and-ink work, Steve Dillon's very clean art and unmatched storytelling in service of Ellis' very tight scripts, Miracleman's Garry Leach turning in some fantastic pages, The Wicked's incredibly underrated artist Roy Martinez back to work for US comics, Jon J Muth's ink work (as beatiful and crafty as the painted workhe's most famous for), and V For Vendetta's David Lloyd proving he can do some mean action sequences too.
This is an absolutely great pacakge, ot to be missed!
Format:Paperback
I've read several Warren Ellis books and while some can be a bit of a challenge they are usually engaging.
I have to confess this proved too difficult to keep up with or care about and so I never put in the time to finish it, finding other comics more attractive.
So not for me, then.
I have to confess this proved too difficult to keep up with or care about and so I never put in the time to finish it, finding other comics more attractive.
So not for me, then.
Format:Paperback
Warren Ellis has made a good name for himself by writing hard edged, witty satires on the superhero genre while at the same time delivering more thrills than the 'real thing'. In fact he has been so successful at this (often subverting from wihin via X-Men spin offs etc) that 'the real thing' has started to look like something from the mind of Warren Ellis.
In this book, WE uses the device of an 'international rescue' organisation made up of extra-ordinary people but not spandex clad superheroes. These operatives are called upon to deal with weird and dangerous situations (virus bombs, dealing with an escaped bionic man, alien invasions that sort of thing) in creative and normally quite violent ways.
The dialogue is generally sharp and the character sketches are amusingly observed. This is a series not a serial and each episode focusses on different central characters so unlike The Authority or Planetary, there is no character continuity or development. This is an observation rather than a complaint because as far as this book goes, it works fine.
This book contains 6 stories, each illustrated by a different artist, all of whom are top notch. Some like Gary Leach don't publish very often but are worth their weight in gold when they do. Its also interesting to see some Jon J Muth pen and ink work again after such a long time (he is more famous for his painted works eg moon shadow). Also special mention for one of my favourite artists Steve Dillon. Probably most famous for his work with Garth Ennis on Preacher, but my fondest memories are of Laser Eraser and Pressbutton from the Warrior days. Total class.
In this book, WE uses the device of an 'international rescue' organisation made up of extra-ordinary people but not spandex clad superheroes. These operatives are called upon to deal with weird and dangerous situations (virus bombs, dealing with an escaped bionic man, alien invasions that sort of thing) in creative and normally quite violent ways.
The dialogue is generally sharp and the character sketches are amusingly observed. This is a series not a serial and each episode focusses on different central characters so unlike The Authority or Planetary, there is no character continuity or development. This is an observation rather than a complaint because as far as this book goes, it works fine.
This book contains 6 stories, each illustrated by a different artist, all of whom are top notch. Some like Gary Leach don't publish very often but are worth their weight in gold when they do. Its also interesting to see some Jon J Muth pen and ink work again after such a long time (he is more famous for his painted works eg moon shadow). Also special mention for one of my favourite artists Steve Dillon. Probably most famous for his work with Garth Ennis on Preacher, but my fondest memories are of Laser Eraser and Pressbutton from the Warrior days. Total class.
Anyway, back to this package.
It is rather violent so not suitable for youngsters but otherwise it is;
Well written, has great art and is at a good price.
Buy it.
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