[Abyss]

It's a predictable ending that i'm fearing... FAs stretch themselves fixing England, dicth their physical bodies, build an engine to help maintain coherence and go live as the shiny energy beings we've seen during the upgrade flashes the end.

And i don't mind a slow boil, but for the last five eps or so we've had more panels of water retreating than anything else.

[Ribald]

Apparently Freakangels will be ending on issue 144. http://www.youtube.c...feature=related at 1.50 something.

[Aptorian]

Okay, this episode was pretty fucking creepy.

[Abyss]

Slightly, but still looks to be going in the 'and they all turned into cuddly balls of energy and disappeared' territory.

[Tapper]

Abyss, on 10 July 2011 - 04:58 PM, said:

Slightly, but still looks to be going in the 'and they all turned into cuddly balls of energy and disappeared' territory.

Yeah. interesting that Arkady could do this, already, though.

[Puck]

Yeah, well, lots of light this week.. And nothing happening.

[amphibian]

Puck, on 15 July 2011 - 11:25 AM, said:

Yeah, well, lots of light this week.. And nothing happening.

Other than Transmetropolitan, has Warren Ellis ended anything gracefully? I think he's spread himself so thin creatively that when he gets bored with the initial concept, he staggers along until it's put out of its misery.

Transmetropolitan is also something I'm not entirely crediting to him, as Hunter had made it quite clear how he would go out when he went out (which was three years after Trans ended).

[Abyss]

the top of the light sort of looked like a space station.
otherwise yah, shiny shiny not much else.

[polishgenius]

amphibian, on 15 July 2011 - 01:14 PM, said:

Puck, on 15 July 2011 - 11:25 AM, said:

Yeah, well, lots of light this week.. And nothing happening.

Other than Transmetropolitan, has Warren Ellis ended anything gracefully? I think he's spread himself so thin creatively that when he gets bored with the initial concept, he staggers along until it's put out of its misery.

Transmetropolitan is also something I'm not entirely crediting to him, as Hunter had made it quite clear how he would go out when he went out (which was three years after Trans ended).

Planetary ended quite well, and the flaws in it were down to the timing issues between him and Cassaday rather than Ellis getting bored. And his run on Stormwatch to reboot it into the Authority ended well imo.

He clearly gets bored quick though, which is why so much of his work is one or two volumes.

I'm not sure what you mean by the Transmet comment though, because

Spoiler

Spider Jerusalem didn't kill himself.

[amphibian]

polishgenius, on 15 July 2011 - 02:16 PM, said:

Planetary ended quite well, and the flaws in it were down to the timing issues between him and Cassaday rather than Ellis getting bored. And his run on Stormwatch to reboot it into the Authority ended well imo.

He clearly gets bored quick though, which is why so much of his work is one or two volumes.

I'm not sure what you mean by the Transmet comment though, because

Spoiler

Spider Jerusalem didn't kill himself.

Planetary was rushed throughout its entire arc for whatever reasons, but it was a decent ending and much better than what we're getting with Freakangels.

As for Transmet:

Spoiler

It's left ambiguous whether Spider's decline into insanity/dementia/Alzheimer's has been arrested/reversed/unchanged. The offing himself in the garden is his potential out - which is the exact same out that Hunter S. Thompson had in place for many years. Just because Spider didn't kill himself in the final scene of Transmet doesn't mean he wouldn't in the future. It's a bit hopeful, but what he's facing is very grim. It's a great ending, but one based on real life and not invented out of whole cloth like Planetary's or Freakangels'.

[Abyss]

Planetary had a solid ending, possibly exactly the right one for that series.

Global Frequency didn't really have a start or an end but as a body of work it's pretty awesome.

And Ellis' original 12 issue run of The Authority is pretty much a perfect big ka-boom comics run.

All or which is to say, i expected more from the FA ending but so far it's not delivering.

[polishgenius]

amphibian, on 15 July 2011 - 02:34 PM, said:

Spoiler

It's left ambiguous whether Spider's decline into insanity/dementia/Alzheimer's has been arrested/reversed/unchanged. The offing himself in the garden is his potential out - which is the exact same out that Hunter S. Thompson had in place for many years. Just because Spider didn't kill himself in the final scene of Transmet doesn't mean he wouldn't in the future. It's a bit hopeful, but what he's facing is very grim. It's a great ending, but one based on real life and not invented out of whole cloth like Planetary's or Freakangels'.

Again with the Transmet spoiler:

Spoiler

Really? I didn't think it was ambiguous in any way. After everyone's disappeared, the "gun" is revealed to be a lighter, which he uses to spark up his ciggie despite telling Royce he was no longer capable of doing so, spins it round his finger which should definitely be out if he was still ill, and dissolves into cackling laughter while shrieking "ONE PERCENT!"

[amphibian]

polishgenius, on 15 July 2011 - 05:18 PM, said:

Again with the Transmet spoiler:

Spoiler

Really? I didn't think it was ambiguous in any way. After everyone's disappeared, the "gun" is revealed to be a lighter, which he uses to spark up his ciggie despite telling Royce he was no longer capable of doing so, spins it round his finger which should definitely be out if he was still ill, and dissolves into cackling laughter while shrieking "ONE PERCENT!"

One grin does not mean everything is ok. Think about it in terms of Hunter.

[Aptorian]

Those fucking strawberries. Every time. I don't know why but it's the most god damn endearing thing. I don't know how but the artist manages to catch complete bliss in one picture.

[Abyss]

Say what one will about the story, i cannot fault the art.

[Morgoth]

I fault the storye

[Sinisdar Toste]

Morgoth, on 03 August 2011 - 11:00 PM, said:

I fault the storye

I fault your spelling. And the lacklustre ending.

[Aptorian]

The story ended up not really going anywhere. Shame. I wanted "scanners" type of combat with the American army.

[Aptorian]

Okay, just read the very last entry. Yeah, I don't really know how the final chapter could have sucked more.

[amphibian]

Nyapt Cat, on 05 August 2011 - 02:45 PM, said:

Okay, just read the very last entry. Yeah, I don't really know how the final chapter could have sucked more.

When I think of it, the essential story was about the Freakangels coming to terms with their powers, reuniting and fixing their mistake. That's a decent story, but the ending is terrible in its pacing and hits the wrong notes for me.

Yow.