Check out Warren Ellis' Ocean (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401208495/002-1861607-0647260?v=glance&n=283155) series, now collected in graphic novel format. As I was reading it, I kept thinking, this has that spunky character focus contrasted with a larger dilemma. The glib one-liners, it's all there. Reads like a PTA campaign play log.
Don't tell anyone, especially Warren, but I don't think I've ever read anything of his. Didn't he write a story that they based a Don Johnson movie on? I saw that once.
Massive geek coronary.
Harlan Ellison: notable pop-culture author and commentator; especially famous for organizing the Dangerous Visions collections in the 1960s and early 1970s. His short story "A Boy and His Dog" (available in the collection titled "The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World") was adapted to a movie version in the early 1970s, starring Don Johnson.
Warren Ellis: comics writer and pundit, author of many things but especially (for Forgies) a collection of essays called "Come In Alone." Extremely active on-line, currently engaged in a variety of experimental comics projects.
Not the same guy.
Best,
Ron
P.S. Boy, I hate geek-on displays of "I'm so fringe-culture savvy" ... but this, oh my God, this I could not let stand.
QuoteP.S. Boy, I hate geek-on displays of "I'm so fringe-culture savvy" ... but this, oh my God, this I could not let stand.
That's okay, Ron. I forgive your act of brain damage.
I've long suspected that Warren Ellis is in fact somebody rp-ing Harlan Ellison. Of course, these days Harlan is rp-ing being Harlan.