A major new series by Warren Ellis, the writer who reinvented science fiction in comics, in the alternate-world style of the award-winning MINISTRY OF SPACE and AETHERIC MECHANICS—a retro-punk "future of the past" where spaceships still belched smoke and arguments were still settled with laser pistols. 1956. Personal space flight is becoming illegal all over the world. Grounded space pilot Mary Raven has to journey to Earth's last spaceport, the island of Ignition City, to recover her dead father's effects -- and discovers, there in the lawless interzone of the ramshackle settlement raised inside the ring of launch pads, that her father died on the wrong end of a ray-gun. She's not going to leave until she finds out who killed Rock Raven, but there's a lot of people who'd rather feed her to the recycling chipper first... Ignition City is an on-going color epic told in five issue series featuring the art of Aetheric Mechanics’ Gianluca Pagliarani.
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Warren Ellis » IGNITION CITY: The Graphic Novel
18 Responses to “IGNITION CITY: The Graphic Novel”. Stefan Jones- February 17th, 2010 at 11:03 am. Holy CRAP. You gotta warn us before you post art like that. Happy Homemaker hint: Pipe cleaners are great for cleaning drool from the ...
Posted on 17 February 2010 | 9:45 am
Warren Ellis » IGNITION CITY TPB 2010
5 Responses to “IGNITION CITY TPB 2010”. Sydney- November 24th, 2009 at 10:19 am. Wow! I'm impressed. Stefan Jones- November 24th, 2009 at 2:42 pm. Cripes, that's lovely. And because issues 3 – 5 are off the shelves of my FLCBS, ...
Posted on 24 November 2009 | 9:01 am
Warren Ellis » IGNITION CITY #4: The Bit Everyone's Mentioning
Roman- July 31st, 2009 at 6:18 pm. The image taken out of context would seem to imply that the sex toy industry took a very kinky turn somewhere in the history of the Ignition City universe. Joshua- July 31st, 2009 at 6:21 pm ...
Posted on 31 July 2009 | 4:36 pm
please buy this comic or i will die of consumption
due to the weirdness of the comics market and the continued attentions of collectors (and if people didn't buy these, you can be sure they'd go away overnight), ignition city #1 has three covers. the first is the "regular" cover, ...
Posted on 7 April 2009 | 4:45 pm
Warren Ellis » The IGNITION CITY Coupon
13 Responses to “The IGNITION CITY Coupon”. Joe Izenman- January 30th, 2009 at 8:18 pm. You know, I think this would be a worthwhile contract for my local shop to institute for all subscriptions, so they wouldn't have to keep sending ...
Posted on 30 January 2009 | 11:21 am
Warren Ellis » IGNITION CITY #1: The Covers
21 Responses to “IGNITION CITY #1: The Covers”. jorge f. muñoz- January 30th, 2009 at 3:31 am. that second cover is pure WIN. Jude- January 30th, 2009 at 3:49 am. Wow! All three look great. Really looking forward to this. ...
Posted on 29 January 2009 | 6:21 pm
Warren Ellis » IGNITION CITY: On Its Way
11 Responses to “IGNITION CITY: On Its Way”. Val A Lindsay II- January 21st, 2009 at 11:16 pm. I'm looking forward to this. Ministry of Space is the model for comic books I look for, so how can this one be a disappointment? ...
Posted on 21 January 2009 | 2:44 pm
Warren Ellis » IGNITION CITY: The Guns
We're now staging IGNITION CITY for release in the first half of 2009, and artist Gianluca is providing various reference materials to Massafera for production of a variant-cover sequence. Hence, this turned up in email yesterday, ...
Posted on 2 November 2008 | 12:00 am
Warren Ellis » IGNITION CITY Workblog: October 2
IGNITION CITY Workblog: October 2. October 2nd, 2006 | Work. PAGE FOURTEEN. Pic 1. CUT TO: in a small room with one small porthole in its curving steel wall, we discover LIGHTNING BOWMAN sitting on a chamberpot, wearing only a ...
Posted on 1 October 2006 | 6:47 pm
Warren Ellis » IGNITION CITY Workblog: July 15
The only thing about it that worked was the setting — Ignition City, earth's spaceport, a circular island on the equator, fringed by launchpads. It was hot and dry during the day due to all the space launches — Ray Bradbury's “Rocket ...
Posted on 15 July 2006 | 1:57 pm
Comments on Whitechapel
I was talking to the store owner, Jim, about your comments that Ignition City was under ordered and he told me that he bought the same amount of copies for Ignition City as he did for X-Men Legacy. He has one copy of Ignition City left ...
Posted on 8 April 2009 | 5:31 pm
OBEY: The IGNITION CITY Coupon
@curb My LCS (Page 45, Nottm) likewise, but they'll be stashing me a copy of ignition city anyway, if they know what's good for them. If the last issues of gravel and anna mercury are anything to go by this isn't going to be on the ...
Posted on 31 January 2009 | 1:20 am
IGNITION CITY: Portents And Strange Rumbly Noises
pdf version of the Ignition City coupon for higher res printing.
Posted on 30 January 2009 | 10:30 am
IGNITION CITY: Portents And Strange Rumbly Noises
So this arc of Ignition City is 5 issues, in 2010 you can expect another 5 issue arc, etc. So all of Warren's mad plans for issue 15 won't go to waste, it will just take a bit longer to get there.
Posted on 22 January 2009 | 7:58 am
IGNITION CITY: Portents And Strange Rumbly Noises
@Grif: Heck, Ignition City could make for an interesting licensed RPG setting.
Posted on 15 November 2008 | 10:28 pm
IGNITION CITY: Portents And Strange Rumbly Noises
Man, Fallout 3 and right on its heels Ignition City. I'm not going to be lacking for retro-futurist ray guns + black humor anytime soon!
Posted on 15 November 2008 | 8:53 pm
IGNITION CITY: Portents And Strange Rumbly Noises
Perhaps I'm slow, but I just realised that the "spaceship burial ground" in Astonishing is basically a wee version of Ignition City, yes? Not so much, no.
Posted on 14 November 2008 | 12:24 pm
IGNITION CITY: Portents And Strange Rumbly Noises
That cover is five kinds of awesome. Makes me nostalgic for Planetary, for some reason. Perhaps I'm slow, but I just realised that the "spaceship burial ground" in Astonishing is basically a wee version of Ignition City, yes?
Posted on 14 November 2008 | 12:22 pm
So this is how many series running simultaneously now? Oh, IGNITION CITY's written.
Posted on 2 November 2008 | 6:25 am
