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WARREN ELLIS

The sky's gone the colour of death.
Big storm coming. I'm going to be
trapped in the pub. Very bad.

You retailers who are having success
with FELL and DESOLATION JONES
should be made aware that Image
still have stock of the LAZARUS
CHURCHYARD, CITY OF SILENCE and
MINISTRY OF SPACE collections.
There's a happy little display for
you. You could probably sell LAZ
and CITY to anyone who's ever
bought TRANSMET from you anyway.
And SCARS from Avatar would go
particularly well next to FELL.

There. I am the fucking Xmas elf now.

Spent the last half-hour on
newuniversal notes. Still haven't
decided on the particular techniques
and tools for the book, but the plot
development is stitching itself
together absurdly easily. They had
one single story here, and for
whatever reason they just couldn't
see it. Of course, I've been fiddle-
farting around with some of the
central concepts, but it was all
laying there. My only issue is trying
not to replicate elements of other
"ground-level" sf-oriented treatments
of superhumanity. There was one
that proved a bit unavoidable, but
I'm working my way around it. It's
a tough book, in terms of the craft
and discipline challenge.

Luckily, I'm always doing my own
stuff too, and can let rip on things
like BLACKGAS -- because when
you've been working a commission,
there's nothing better to recover
with than, you know, zombies,
black drool and brain-eating. Part
one, in line with the American
horror-movie style I'm using, is a
slow burn, but you still get your
zombies at the end of the issue.
And then it's beatings and braaaains.

My filthy assistants on the Engine
break into the admin system every
night and change my user name.
Today I am ZOMBYS LUV PANCAK.

This is possibly because I said
yesterday that I was going to have
them all spayed for Xmas.

Because I am the Xmas elf. Yes.


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probably in the pub