a while back i talked about comics, specifically transmetropolitan by warren ellis. it turns out that he is an imminent web presence. i just have to admit that this guy is amazing. everything he has written that i've read, i've enjoyed. it has a cool, slick, sexy sound to it in my head and his settings/scenarios are quite fresh. here's a tidbit (from his frequently asked questions section regarding his creative process:
I still get asked with appalling regularity “where my ideas come from.”
Here’s the deal. I flood my poor ageing head with information. Any information. Lots of it. And I let it all slosh around in the back of my brain, in the part normal people use for remembering bills, thinking about sex and making appointments to wash the dishes.
Eventually, you get a critical mass of information. Datum 1 plugs into Datum 3 which connects to Datum 3 and Data 4 and 5 stick to it and you’ve got a chain reaction. A bunch of stuff knits together and lights up and you’ve got what’s called “an idea".
And for that brief moment where it’s all flaring and welding together, you are Holy. You can’t be touched. Something impossible and brilliant has happened and suddenly you understand what it would be like if Einstein’s brain was placed into the body of a young tyrannosaur, stuffed full of amphetamines and suffused with Sex Radiation.
That is what has happened to me tonight. I am beaming Sex Rays across the world and my brain is all lit up with Holy Fire. If I felt like it, I could shag a million nuns and destroy their faith in Christ.
if you can dig that, you can dig anything he writes. it has that same ring to it when you're reading. out.
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