Warren Ellis - TSW: Epilogue - P. A. Nolte

1/ Zoe Flynn saluting.  Immediately following the events of her secondment, she has been called home and granted an audience with the President and select officials for debrief regarding the machinations of Tokyo Storm.  She is in full dress.

Cap: 24 Hours Later.

Zoe: Sir.

2/ As Zoe passes through the door, the men silently watch her exit.

3/ Only the President voices any concern.

President: Well, shit.  What do we do now?

4/ An advisor speaks up.

Advisor: If I may, sir, I suggest we continue the program uninhibited.  The finances and manpower already invested have led to some staggering results, and with the Japanese out of the picture, America is primed to become the leading power in the field.

Advisor: It's only a matter of time before the Russians or Chinese are able to implement a viable exo-suit of their own, but with our head start, we can still launch ten to their one.

5/ The President considers this thoughtfully.

6/ The White House as seen through the patrolled fence.

President (Cap): Make it happen.

Warren Ellis--Fell--David Press

PAGE ONE.

1.1: We’re looking down at a pile of white snow with streaks of black gun powder, a Red Bull can, and some wiring that sits charred at the end.

            NO DIALOGUE.

1.2: Same size shot, but this time we’re looking at the exploded end of a SNOWMOBILE.

            NO DIALOGUE.      

1.3: Now we’re looking at a lower torso wearing nothing but entrails and snowpants. The snow is weird mixture of gunpowder and blood. The villain of this story is using home made bombs accessorized by Red Bull cans to ward off Snowmobilers from riding around his property.

            1. FELL [O.P]: I mean, I know people hate these folks, but…

1.4: Profile shot of Fell as he looks down at the body.

            2. FELL [O.P]: …Damn.

1.5: SCARLY, a leather jacket wearing, black haired and pale-skinned Russian CSI looks over at Fell.

            3. SCARLY: Never thought anyone would be able to jury-rig landmines to scare off snowmobilers.

1.6: From behind their heads we can see a large panel of the YARD fixed with a house in the center with a red door. 

            4. SCARLY: You have to admit it is kind of genius.

1.7: Black on white lettering title credits, stretching across the bottom tier:

            4. DISPLAY LETT: Fell in “Death to Snow-Mobilers”

            5. DISPLAY LETT: Creator credits.

Warren Ellis – From the Mind of Warren Ellis – MK Stangeland Jr.

(I may have taken Ray’s original phrasing for the week a touch too literally, but oh well.)

(6 Panels)

Panel 1: WARREN ELLIS is sitting in a high-tech looking chair, reaching up to something that’s off-panel. The room should have an unnerving edge to it.

Panel 2: WARREN ELLIS has put on a high-tech helmet that’s attached to the ceiling by high-tech wires, the whole thing should have a comic-book like atmosphere to it. This includes a pair of rods that look like they’ve phased through his head into his brain by some kind of BS Scientific means the likes of which probably shouldn’t actually work.

Panel 3: WARREN ELLIS sits in the chair. His face is a mix of one-part hard at work concentrating, one part relaxing and letting whatever process is occurring just happen.

Panel 4: We see past WARREN ELLIS and his chair to a high-tech terminal nearby, where a digital display looks like it’s forging pages out of thin air in a matter that’s far more complicated and impressive-looking than it needs to be.

Panel 5: Sitting on the display are now piles of pages – they look rather very much like a script of some kind. WARREN ELLIS has gotten out of his chair – he’s no longer wearing the helmet, either – and approaches the pages.

Panel 6: WARREN ELLIS is reading through one of the collections of pages. He looks quite pleased with himself.

WARREN ELLIS (1): Looks like another work of genius.

WARREN ELLIS (2): I pity Grant Morrison and his silly mystical mumbo-jumbo.

(END PAGE)

Warren Ellis's Trees - The Tree of Green Gables - Grant McLaughlin

1 - Establishing shot. The parking lot / entrance of an amusement park set up around a large Tree that rears into the sky. The sign out front reads Charlottetown Tree Park. There's plenty of cars in the lot, people queuing to go inside.

CAPTION: Prince Edward Island, Canada

MIKEY (tailless): Why do people keep coming?

2 - Two young men, Mikey and Ian, working as janitors in the park, are cleaning up litter and the like. Mikey is just out of high school, the kind of kid who is malcontent with the world, but not always clear with what he's malcontent about. Ian is a few years older, a bit gothy, and is clearly a figure that Mikey looks up to. Mikey and Ian look at each other in conversation, The Tree looms in the background.

MIKEY: You can see it from anywhere on the island.

IAN: People want to be a part of something bigger than themselves.

3 - From the Tree's perspective, looking down towards Mikey and Ian. Ian gestures towards the Tree. There are visitors all around them, but unlike Mikey or Ian, they are all looking up at the Tree.

IAN: But seeing as that's so hard to find, most people will mistake being in the presence of something physically immense as one and the same.

4 - Long shot of the shore of Prince Edward Island / Charlottetown. The Tree looms large in the distance, standing out from everything around it.

IAN (tailless): Sad really.

Warren Ellis's GRAVEL - Turn the Page, Part 5 - Ray Wonsowski

See last episode for links to the first 4 parts to the story...

Previously...CLEA, antique dealer AUGUST TURN, and private eye JESSICA JONES had been pulled into the Dark Dimension via a portal hidden in an armoire. Sensing the mystical imbalance impending, LADY SATAN has dispatched to their aid the mysterious gunslinger, the ACE OF SPADES, and a certain WILLIAM GRAVEL...

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Panel 1- CLEA, her hands in the throes of magick gesticulation, strains to reinforce her protective spell, a large translucent angelic aura embossed with the glyphs of Heaven. AUGUST and JESSICA hide behind her as a cadre of MINDLESS ONES batter the aura.

CLEA: Shield of the Seraphim!!

AUGUST: What are these things?!?

CLEA: Minions of my uncle. Mindless Ones - their only drive is to destroy all that lies before them.

JESSICA: We need help!!

Panel 2- same as above, except, as if on cue, mystic bullets curve and weave through the MINDLESS ONES, causing them to shatter, just as CLEA's shield cracks.

(Off-panel): Right.

Panel 3- POV change, Dutch angle, two silhouettes, one a bulky male, the other a slender female, both holstering pistols, walking toward us through a cloud of floating pebbles.

GRAVEL: This isn't just a stroll through the Body Orchard. This is the first salvo in what could be an interdimensional war.

Panel 4- same as above, but the pebble cloud has parted like curtains, revealing WILLIAM GRAVEL, dressed in military fatigues, and the ACE OF SPADES, minus the cowboy hat, hair tied back, in purple silk pants and blouse tied at the navel (note: her revolvers are holstered handles outward, as if she draws cross-armed). The ACE points her thumb at GRAVEL, while he waves her off with his palm.

ACE OF SPADES: Mister Melodrama here, everything is so "worst case scenario"...

GRAVEL: 'cuz everything IS worst-case. 

GRAVEL: I'm Bill Gravel, S.A.S. Combat magician. This is the ACE, immortal gunslinger.

ACE: We're the cavalry.

...to be continued...

Why Warren Ellis?

Because everyone has heroes, lists, and favorites.

Thank you, Mr. Ellis.

Ask me which sports star is my favorite, without a doubt it's football (still can't bring myself to call it soccer anymore) wunderkind Lionel Messi. Drummer? Carl Palmer. Top three guitarists? Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, Sammy Hagar. But when it comes to writers, the name at the top of the list is Warren Ellis. And instead of writing his resume, just check the images of some of his work:

Lazarus Churchyard

Excalibur, X-Force, X-Man, and Astonishing X-Men

Stormwatch/Authority

Spider Jerusalem in Transmet

Planetary

Ocean and Orbiter...

Doktor Sleepless, Anna Mercury, and Bad Signal

William Gravel and Richard Fell

Nextwave, greatest Superhero comic ever...

FreakAngels and Ignition City

No Hero, Black Summer, and Supergod

And that's just to name a few! So, this week's challenge: pick your favorite Warren Ellis as your inspiration, and give us a page. You can play at home, too; just leave us a page of script in the Comment section below.

And Warren, if you're out there...Thank you. Thank you very much.