<![CDATA[io9: freakangels]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: freakangels]]> http://io9.com/tag/freakangels http://io9.com/tag/freakangels <![CDATA[ Get Your Steampunk Freak On With New Webcomic ]]> If you've been hankering for a beautifully-illustrated, free steampunk webcomic, then today's launch of FreakAngels may be just the thing you're looking for. The six page launch episode of the weekly strip by Warren Ellis and new artist Paul Duffield may currently be full of familiar Ellis-isms, but is worth your time for the art alone. But don't expect the plot to move quickly, Ellis warns. More preview art below the fold.

Expect future episodes of FreakAngels to feel as interestingly insubstantial as the first. Ellis talked about choosing the webcomic format because,

I realised that if I did it as a web project, I could let it find its own shape, like a novel, and that if anyone complained that they weren't getting six plot points in a single chapter — well, I'm not charging them for it, am I? I'm figuring that, in a free model, enough people will just come along for the ride...

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Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:30:23 PST Graeme McMillan http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=356971&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Warren Ellis' New Cyber-Hangout ]]> whitechapel.jpgIn preparation for the February launch of his new webcomic Freakangels, comic writer and self-styled "internet Jesus" Warren Ellis has started a new online community to support it. Whitechapel is, according to Ellis:
not a comics-centric place, though there's plenty of space for that. But I've also created space for Second Lifers, the steampunk/retropunk crowd, the people who like following the mad science and signs of the apocalypse, music and art etc.
Of course, this being a Warren Ellis board, expect to have to wade through camgirls and sycophants to get to the good stuff. [Whitechapel]

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Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:15:53 PST grae http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=327779&view=rss&microfeed=true