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WARREN ELLIS
Working up IGNITION CITY. The old
space heroes never died: they got
deported. A 13-episode first
season, like an HBO series. Finding
the language is a struggle: it needs
to be filthy, and it needs to dance
like DEADWOOD's, but not to *sound*
like DEADWOOD, if you see what I
mean. I can't just ape it. It needs to
have its own pattern. There's a
certain joy, probably childish, in
having Flash Gordon say "f***,"
and in recasting Yuri Gagarin as a
town drunk. People pulling ageing
ray guns in the street. Dr Zarkov
as a miserable Tesla in his room
of lightning, forbidden from building
spaceships. Space heroes with
nowhere left to go, living in the
barren center of Earth's only
spaceport... Buck Rogers back from
the future, trying to drink away
all the history-to-come that he
remembers from his time in the 25th
Century... It's all a bit meta, and I
feel like I'm channelling Alan Moore
a bit, but I've never tried that Big
Post-Modern Graphic Novel before
(Rian Hughes calls me The Last
Modernist), and I feel like giving it
a go, if only to say I've done it...
Also, it's a big ensemble piece, with
a large lead "cast", which is
something I've never really done
before -- I've always been more
comfortable with single leads. I'm
terrified that I'm going to end up
plotting character "arcs" on a big
sheet of paper...
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