#warren Ellis

[arsnof]

ArsCo Presents the Inaugural Arsnof's Great American Yard Sard Comics and Sundry Sale 2024!

Hello there! I'm Arsnof. You may remember me from content such as "Canadian Illustrator", "Dungeon Mentat", or even "Transformers Meme". I'm here today to host a celebration of buying things, thinking they're so super cool, and then putting them away and never looking at them again. Comics, books, toys, anime, manga, CCGs, rare webcomic goodies, tiny figurines of yokai, a Little Golden Book adaptation of Gremlins that ends before midnight, Chuck Norris's Karate Kommandos, can you read Japanese because I can't, official Soul Coughing stickers, a hoard of well read Wizards and Toyfares, Funko Pops, feet pics (you can get off, but only if you can correctly diagnose what's wrong first), Transformers...

I could go on forever, but I got it, you want it, we can make a deal (no tongue).

Why is this happening? I'm shit broke and getting shitter. Going down like a Trump Casino. Guy paying his bills on time? I haven't heard that name in forever.

I've been taking care of my ailing father (tried to die on us three times so far this year) and the rest of my family (I don't owe you an explanation, cop) and then someone just up and decided to make my automobile a notomobile.

They didn't have insurance, but that's okay because we have full cov-*hand to ear*-what? We don't? Only comprehensive? Since when? FUCKING shit... Okay, but we still have uninsured motorist, so-four thousand? Four thousand. Dollars. $4,000. To replace an entire ass truck.

We are in desperate need of a car. I've got a lifetime of memories. You, on average, have some change sitting around. Can I have some? I'll trade you stuff.

I'm starting with my comics because they're easiest to catalogue. See something you like? HMU, as the kids say (please God don't let that be a sex thing) and I'll see what I can do. I'm giving the comic shop at which I used to work a vague preference, but I can be swayed.

Next up will be the trades and manga, DVDs of varied origin, toys, and so on.

Criminitly.

If life can stop kicking us in the gender neutral pain zone for five fucking minutes, @paulyollyoxxenfree and I will get back to handicrafts. They're getting back into the amiguroove and I'm going to hit the pad - finish and print Kitty, start Dr. Doctor. Stickers and stuff. I'm not shaving for a while to put me in mall Santa shape by Thanksgiving.

But what if you've got too much money and you're sick of it, but you hate being given things? I take donations. If you put a special request in the memo, I won't even give you the thanks. I'll just spit. I take requests.

Papal

Cache

Fuck, I don't know, antelope? My email - arsnof@gmail.com

I might make one of those kofi things.

Oh and, heheh, one more thing...

Launching in the fourth quarter 2024, ArsCo is proud to announce Alone With Arsnof, the happening new app that gives you the power to have some one-on-one time *gunshot* wit- *sudden fade to red-tinted black, gunshot echo. Sirens fade in. HE'S DOWN! OVER THERE! THE ROOF? A high-pitched whine. Bright light. The late afternoon sky comes into focus. Fireballs? The sun is so bright. Automatic gunfire. No, jets. Falling. Screams. Recognizable screams. Unrecognizable screams? Inhuman? The sun blinks*

[weathermanone]

Art from the never published Travis Charest version of WildCATS vs X-MEN: The Dark Age 1 (1998) by Warren Ellis

[amatesura]

[xenonmoon]

This run sure has some badass one-liners

[artbyblastweave]

So in order to comprehensively respond to a couple different asks on the topic, I recently blew through the original 29 issue Ellis/Millar/Peyer stint on The Authority. For my own edification I've also been plowing through Ultimate Spider-Man. What's extremely visible with both works is how their innovative stylistic decisions- decompression, realistic diction, "widescreen" page layouts, realpolitik-infused plots- would later expand to consume the entire superhero genre. A major difference is that The Authority is getting slapped upside the head much more strongly with the Seinfeld effect, in that its stylistic innovations were adapted so thoroughly by the rest of the genre that the standout elements in retrospect are the parts that aged poorly- Kaizen Gamorra, the firehose deployment of sexual violence with wildly varying levels of gravity and intent, etc. Whereas Ultimate Spider-Man is in fact still running circles around a lot of its subsequent imitators and successors, due to being good instead of bad

[vertigoartgore]

1995's Thor Vol.1 #494 cover by artist Mike Deodato Jr.

[comicarthistory]

Page from Excalibur #84. 1994. Art by Daerick Gross and Bill Anderson.

[meetmeinthesandbox]

[filmreveries]

“And someone’s gotta sing the blood, and someone’s gotta sing the pain.”

One More Time with Feeling (2016) dir. Andrew Dominik

[towritecomicsonherarms]

The Batman's Grave #7

[androidsghost]

"it a strange world. lets keep it that way"

respect, Mr. Cassaday

[data-demon]

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Long Dark Night

[xenonmoon]

I will NEVER get tired of the flying tissue panels

Woooshhhhh here he comes

every time I see these panels Fireworks by Katy Perry plays in my mind

[vertigoartgore]

2003's Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth cover by John Cassaday and David Baron.

[yojimbot13]

[lospaziobianco]

Venom