As Winter once again brings snowy doom of the East Coast, John E. O. Stevens, Fred Kiesche and Jeff Patterson huddle within a makeshift shelter made of long boxes to discuss the Science Fiction works of comic book writer Warren Ellis.

Since the 90s Ellis has been producing singularly recognizable work, including superhero titles for DC, Marvel, and Image. He has dabbled in horror, crime fiction, and dark comedy. But he has also written many standalone Science Fiction tales encompassing pulp, cyberpunk, space opera, and alternate history. Some are speculative ruminations on the future or technology, some are absurdist eye-candy, others are adventurous romps. His significant body of SF work delivers modern genre sensibilities to the sometimes myopic landscape of comics.

The Hoarsemen also discuss reading comics digitally, their opinions on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as what they have read recently.

Fred Kiesche, John E.O. Stevens and Jeff Patterson

Anna Mercury Volume 1: The Cutter, by Warren Ellis

Ignition City, Volume 1, by Warren Ellis

Ocean, by Warren Ellis

Ministry of Space, by Warren Ellis

Red: Tokyo Storm Warning, by Warren Ellis

Orbiter, by Warren Ellis

Global Frequency, by Warren Ellis

Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. Ultimate Collection, by Warren Ellis

Transmetropolitan: Volume 1: Back on the Street, by Warren Ellis

Black Summer, by Warren Ellis

Warren Ellis’ Apparat Volume 1, by Warren Ellis

Warren Ellis’ Frankenstein’s Womb, by Warren Ellis

Additional Show Notes:

2014: The Year in Books

2014: The Year in Shorts

Bibliography for Warren Ellis

Warren Ellis Dot Com

Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts

Everything You Need to Know About Digital comics

The Top Ways to Read Digital Comic Books

The Elivs M.O.D.O.K.s!

Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem (the 2011 translation)

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America, by Annie Jacobsen

The Complete Father Brown Stories, by G.K. Chesterton

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, by Arthur Conan Doyle

Total Party Kill (The Incomparable)

The Naruto Books

Top Ten Book 1, by Alan Moore

Top Ten Book 2, by Alan Moore

Skirmishes, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The Carrion Anthem, by David Annandale