Freak Angels: A web comic from the mind of Warren Ellis. By Patrick Oliver May 9, 2008 - 2:59:07 PM Avatar Press Writer(s): Warren Ellis Penciller(s): Paul Duffield

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English writer Warren Ellis (Planetary, Gravel) is many things.
He is prolific. He is funny. He is thought provoking. He is without a doubt a  powerhouse of ideas. Freak Angels is his and Paul Duffield’s adult science fiction web comic for Avatar Press, it is updated every Friday. And it definitely contains most of the above! It is a wonderful on-going story about twelve strange, violet eyed, young adults, and what happened after the the end of the world.

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Paul Duffield's artwork fits well with the narrative and the ideas. It looks simple, but is actually quite detailed and unfussy. Although a relative newcomer to the web comic medium, his mixture of frames and angles and colour is highly accomplished.
I like the way that he mixes the number of panels on the page to suit the narrative, sometimes switching between one through to four panels per page.

The pages are presenting in portrait rather than landscape and are virtually full-sized, highlighting the current diversity in web comics. Some web comics are are the size of the strips that you would see in a newspaper, others are full-sized. Yet others still, have no border - they can be as big as your screen and as far as your curser will take you.

A collected edition of the story (thus far) will be available in both trade paperback and hardcover formats toward the end of the year, no publication date is currently known.

Either way, add Freak Angels to your web comic bookmarks. You won't regret it.

To read the web comic and find more more information, go here: http://www.freakangels.com/?p=23

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