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Freakangels Complete Box Set
The complete six-volume box set of Warren Ellis’ enormously popular web comic, a tale of twelve psychic Londoners whose combined powers flooded the world!
Twenty-three years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. Six years ago, they used their psychic powers in unison and accidentally flooded the world. Today, they live in and defend Whitechapel, perhaps the last real settlement in soggy London, from the evil machinations of one of their own – a “Freakangel” gone rogue. But when Mark, the bad seed, returns and forces his old friends to expand their consciousness beyond all concepts of space and time, they discover there’s something coming… something dark and terrible beyond the borders of Whitechapel, closing in for the kill. Writer Warren Ellis and artist Paul Duffield proudly present the 2010 Eagle Award-winning adventures of the Freakangels in this gorgeous box set collection of all six volumes! Packaged in a sturdy slipcase featuring striking original art, never-before-seen!
Twenty-three years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. Six years ago, they used their psychic powers in unison and accidentally flooded the world. Today, they live in and defend Whitechapel, perhaps the last real settlement in soggy London, from the evil machinations of one of their own – a “Freakangel” gone rogue. But when Mark, the bad seed, returns and forces his old friends to expand their consciousness beyond all concepts of space and time, they discover there’s something coming… something dark and terrible beyond the borders of Whitechapel, closing in for the kill. Writer Warren Ellis and artist Paul Duffield proudly present the 2010 Eagle Award-winning adventures of the Freakangels in this gorgeous box set collection of all six volumes! Packaged in a sturdy slipcase featuring striking original art, never-before-seen!
864 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Warren Ellis
1,971 books5,765 followersWarren Ellis is the award-winning writer of graphic novels like TRANSMETROPOLITAN, FELL, MINISTRY OF SPACE and PLANETARY, and the author of the NYT-bestselling GUN MACHINE and the “underground classic” novel CROOKED LITTLE VEIN, as well as the digital short-story single DEAD PIG COLLECTOR. His newest book is the novella NORMAL, from FSG Originals, listed as one of Amazon’s Best 100 Books Of 2016.
The movie RED is based on his graphic novel of the same name, its sequel having been released in summer 2013. IRON MAN 3 is based on his Marvel Comics graphic novel IRON MAN: EXTREMIS. He is currently developing his graphic novel sequence with Jason Howard, TREES, for television, in concert with HardySonBaker and NBCU, and continues to work as a screenwriter and producer in film and television, represented by Angela Cheng Caplan and Cheng Caplan Company. He is the creator, writer and co-producer of the Netflix series CASTLEVANIA, recently renewed for its third season, and of the recently-announced Netflix series HEAVEN’S FOREST.
He’s written extensively for VICE, WIRED UK and Reuters on technological and cultural matters, and given keynote speeches and lectures at events like dConstruct, ThingsCon, Improving Reality, SxSW, How The Light Gets In, Haunted Machines and Cognitive Cities.
Warren Ellis has recently developed and curated the revival of the Wildstorm creative library for DC Entertainment with the series THE WILD STORM, and is currently working on the serialising of new graphic novel works TREES: THREE FATES and INJECTION at Image Comics, and the serialised graphic novel THE BATMAN’S GRAVE for DC Comics, while working as a Consulting Producer on another television series.
A documentary about his work, CAPTURED GHOSTS, was released in 2012.
Recognitions include the NUIG Literary and Debating Society’s President’s Medal for service to freedom of speech, the EAGLE AWARDS Roll Of Honour for lifetime achievement in the field of comics & graphic novels, the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire 2010, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History and the International Horror Guild Award for illustrated narrative. He is a Patron of Humanists UK. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex.
Warren Ellis lives outside London, on the south-east coast of England, in case he needs to make a quick getaway.
The movie RED is based on his graphic novel of the same name, its sequel having been released in summer 2013. IRON MAN 3 is based on his Marvel Comics graphic novel IRON MAN: EXTREMIS. He is currently developing his graphic novel sequence with Jason Howard, TREES, for television, in concert with HardySonBaker and NBCU, and continues to work as a screenwriter and producer in film and television, represented by Angela Cheng Caplan and Cheng Caplan Company. He is the creator, writer and co-producer of the Netflix series CASTLEVANIA, recently renewed for its third season, and of the recently-announced Netflix series HEAVEN’S FOREST.
He’s written extensively for VICE, WIRED UK and Reuters on technological and cultural matters, and given keynote speeches and lectures at events like dConstruct, ThingsCon, Improving Reality, SxSW, How The Light Gets In, Haunted Machines and Cognitive Cities.
Warren Ellis has recently developed and curated the revival of the Wildstorm creative library for DC Entertainment with the series THE WILD STORM, and is currently working on the serialising of new graphic novel works TREES: THREE FATES and INJECTION at Image Comics, and the serialised graphic novel THE BATMAN’S GRAVE for DC Comics, while working as a Consulting Producer on another television series.
A documentary about his work, CAPTURED GHOSTS, was released in 2012.
Recognitions include the NUIG Literary and Debating Society’s President’s Medal for service to freedom of speech, the EAGLE AWARDS Roll Of Honour for lifetime achievement in the field of comics & graphic novels, the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire 2010, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History and the International Horror Guild Award for illustrated narrative. He is a Patron of Humanists UK. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex.
Warren Ellis lives outside London, on the south-east coast of England, in case he needs to make a quick getaway.
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March 21, 2015
Warren Goddamn Ellis. How does he do it? Science Fiction written really well, while half the writing is just swear words, really.
I like stories that involve dystopian futures and wibbily wobbly timey wimey stuff. Especially if they involve Doctor Who references. So, naturally, Freakangels was a fantastic read - Not least because of these things, but more because the characters evoke so many visceral reactions within you, while the story takes turns that are hard to digest, because the characters do things that are difficult to relate to sometimes, because your moral compass is setting itself on fire from all the spinning. This stuff makes you push the envelope, but in all the right ways, because it pushes you to be more compassionate.
Credit to Paul Duffield as well for not giving two hoots about boundaries when the story needed some larger-than-life feel going on for it, or when we needed to picture something as the foreground without letting the background blur. Not that I can even so much as spell "art" without checking to see if I got it right fifty times, but this is my very personal and naive opinion of what the illustrations made me feel like.
Transmetropolitan was always my favourite comic series. I'm glad that I read Freakangels too, so now I don't have to feel bad about the former being the only Warren Ellis work I've read.
I like stories that involve dystopian futures and wibbily wobbly timey wimey stuff. Especially if they involve Doctor Who references. So, naturally, Freakangels was a fantastic read - Not least because of these things, but more because the characters evoke so many visceral reactions within you, while the story takes turns that are hard to digest, because the characters do things that are difficult to relate to sometimes, because your moral compass is setting itself on fire from all the spinning. This stuff makes you push the envelope, but in all the right ways, because it pushes you to be more compassionate.
Credit to Paul Duffield as well for not giving two hoots about boundaries when the story needed some larger-than-life feel going on for it, or when we needed to picture something as the foreground without letting the background blur. Not that I can even so much as spell "art" without checking to see if I got it right fifty times, but this is my very personal and naive opinion of what the illustrations made me feel like.
Transmetropolitan was always my favourite comic series. I'm glad that I read Freakangels too, so now I don't have to feel bad about the former being the only Warren Ellis work I've read.
November 2, 2016
You ever finish reading something and you're just crying, you don't even know why, but you're just that emotionally wrung out? I started reading this webcomic years ago when it was maybe 80% done. Today I sat down and read the whole story, start to finish. What an epic journey. I wish it had given more at the end, but at the same time I can't imagine what more there could have been. Beautiful story.
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December 31, 2021I read this in 2010, during my sabbatical-year.
I recall being glad that I had unlimited free time, to read through all the available episodes.
(I guess I liked disaster-fiction, British fantasy, even back then!)
Wikipedia news says an animated series is coming in 2022.
I recall being glad that I had unlimited free time, to read through all the available episodes.
(I guess I liked disaster-fiction, British fantasy, even back then!)
Wikipedia news says an animated series is coming in 2022.
June 6, 2018
I just realized I never tracked like, any of the webcomics I read. This was one of my favs, though I haven't reread it since 2011.
April 20, 2022
These books are totally addictive.
June 23, 2025
sh*t is going down! read in one sitting this series is amazing
April 27, 2018
Definitely a different take on superheroes. Although it didn't feel like much of an ending, it was a good ride.
September 18, 2012
I read the entire series online over the course of a day (available free and legally at http://www.freakangels.com/?p=23), and will be buying the graphic novels when I've got the funds. This is a fantastic comic, excellently written by Warren Ellis and amazingly drawn and colored by Paul Duffield et al. More than anything it's a story about people growing up, taking responsibility for their actions, and trying to make good. And having super powers. And living after the end of the world.
It's a bit like a more cohesive Rising Stars, with the awesome (but toned-down) dialogue of Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street and the consistent, realistic art of Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned. And now I want to read all four of them over again.
It's a bit like a more cohesive Rising Stars, with the awesome (but toned-down) dialogue of Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street and the consistent, realistic art of Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned. And now I want to read all four of them over again.
February 3, 2016
freakangels is a finished (and free) post-apocalyptic webcomic written by warren ellis and drawn by paul duffeld. i remember following it in 2010 or so and wandering away between updates; now it's been finished and i've had a lot of fun reading it to the end. it's pretty self-contained and very nicely paced, there's a cool premise (basically, what if midwich cuckoos grew up?) and an interesting plot and character development to follow up on me, and even a half-decent attempt at diversity.
i won't recommend it wholesale, i think - there's this lol edgy take on characters' sex lifes and lack thereof that i mostly found embarrassing, and there's rape used as narrative device that should've just... not been used as narrative device, and so on. but it still was worth an afternoon read, i think.
i won't recommend it wholesale, i think - there's this lol edgy take on characters' sex lifes and lack thereof that i mostly found embarrassing, and there's rape used as narrative device that should've just... not been used as narrative device, and so on. but it still was worth an afternoon read, i think.
February 16, 2014
I first read this back when it was coming out in weekly webcomic installments. The experience of reading it all in one go is quite different. I don't know what the pantsing-to-plotting ratio was, but seeing it all laid out in one volume shows how structurally sound this story was, despite coming out 6 pages at a time in its original format. Highly recommended. Incidentally, the entire series remains available for free at www.freakangels.com.
September 13, 2012
Thirteen principle characters seems unwieldy, but Ellis manages to give them all unique voices and important roles in the story.
His depiction of life in post-apocalyptic flooded London is fun and steampunky.
The pacing is optimal for Webcomics. There were moments where I paused and imagined not having the next issue for a week. It was excruciating. I loved it.
His depiction of life in post-apocalyptic flooded London is fun and steampunky.
The pacing is optimal for Webcomics. There were moments where I paused and imagined not having the next issue for a week. It was excruciating. I loved it.
November 26, 2015
Just as good as when I first read it online. I love this story, and the characters, and the beautiful art and KK's goddamn bike and Karl's garden and Kirk's attitude.
And it's COMPLETE, you know. Which is rare, and awesome.
And it's COMPLETE, you know. Which is rare, and awesome.
June 5, 2017
FreakAngels. Post-apocalyptic fiction webcomicbook series created in 2008 by writer Warren Ellis and artist Paul Duffield and published in book format by Avatar Press.
January 8, 2013
I read this online, and couldn't, um, put it down. The storyline is gripping, the characters engaging, and the art is magnificent. Excellent!
January 17, 2013
Read the entire series online and loved it.
May 7, 2015
All around excellent series with some unforgettable teen characters.
October 16, 2015
Simply the best comic/graphic novel I have ever read. Period. Great story and beautiful graphics. Wonderful characters.
January 3, 2016
Post-apocalyptic society rebuilding with superpowers and interpersonal drama, all deftly told in just six volumes. What's not to like?
June 30, 2022
One of the best things to which I have ever applied my eyeballs
April 15, 2017
so punk , no future !!!!
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