He’s written extensively for VICE, WIRED UK and Reuters on technological and cultural matters, and given keynote speeches and lectures at events like dConstruct, ThingsCon, Improving Reality, SxSW, How The Light Gets In, Haunted Machines and Cognitive Cities. He is the creator, writer and co-producer of the Netflix series CASTLEVANIA, recently renewed for its third season, and of the recently-announced Netflix series HEAVEN’S FOREST. He is currently developing his graphic novel sequence with Jason Howard, TREES, for television, in concert with HardySonBaker and NBCU, and continues to work as a screenwriter and producer in film and television, represented by Angela Cheng Caplan and Cheng Caplan Company. IRON MAN 3 is based on his Marvel Comics graphic novel IRON MAN: EXTREMIS. The movie RED is based on his graphic novel of the same name, its sequel having been released in summer 2013. His newest book is the novella NORMAL, from FSG Originals, listed as one of Amazon’s Best 100 Books Of 2016. Despite this, the story never stops jumping genres and the series never stays put.Warren Ellis is the award-winning writer of graphic novels like TRANSMETROPOLITAN, FELL, MINISTRY OF SPACE and PLANETARY, and the author of the NYT-bestselling GUN MACHINE and the “underground classic” novel CROOKED LITTLE VEIN, as well as the digital short-story single DEAD PIG COLLECTOR. With a few revelations that still come across as startling today, the series pivots into a more serialized direction as Planetary suddenly finds themselves with an enemy and a purpose beyond archeology.

The comic is designed to feel episodic at first, but those loose threads quickly come together as the comic progresses to form a structure as intricate as a snowflake. In Planetary’s first six issues alone, the comic covers pulp heroes of the '30s, giant monster movies, '90s Hong Kong action films, crazy reinterpretations of Golden Age superheroes and the most evil take on the Fantastic Four in comics. RELATED: Batman Debuts His Most Brutal (and Effective) Bat-Gadget Yet As Alan Moore said in his intro to the first trade paperback, “It is at once concerned with everything that comics were and everything that comics could be.”

With Planetary, Ellis and crew sought to record all that came before which they cherished. The series started it's run as the 20th century was ending, as the world and the comic industry were on the cusp of impending change. There's a metacontextual aspect to Planetary as well.

Planetary, Volume 4 by Warren Ellis