Celebrate Warren Ellis’ Return to Monthly Marvel Comics With a Tribute to His Amazing Beard!


Warren Ellis is making his return to superhero comics… again.  Ellis is joining Kelly Sue DeConnick as co-writer of Avengers Assemble issues 22 through 25.  This is exciting news for many fans because Ellis is one of comics’ most popular writers to love.  In fact, if you do not admit to loving Ellis, you may end up having your geek card revoked.  You definitely do not want to have your geek care revoked because that means that even the nerds hate you.  When nerds hate you then your life truly sucks.

Seriously, why do all fans love Warren Ellis?  What makes him so dang great?  Fans love his work on titles such as The Authority (except Superman. Superman hated that series), Transmetropolitan, Nextwave and a whole lot of other stuff.  He comes and goes from mainstream comics every few years- writing for a bit then running back to the indies.  His first work back at Marvel is the already announced original graphic novel Avengers: Endless Wartime, set to drop in October.

When I was a kid I hated his work on Excalibur.  From my teenage years until today, I have stereotyped him as a boring crazy Brit.  I have tried to read some of his other work and each time I hated it; although, I admit, I read it with bias.  I would love it if you wonderful readers would help me understand good reasons why I should hate his work.  I know some other geeks hate his writing.  Why do you despise it?  Help me with an argument so the next time I write an article slandering his name I can hold a better debate than just stating “he sucks”.

Newsarama is reporting that Marvel will be making an announcement related to either future work by Ellis or the future of the Avengers Assemble series.  Are you guys and gals excited about his return to Marvel?

Even though I don’t like the dude, I must pay respect where it is due- the man has a beautiful beard.  For real for real, it is a wondrous creation that must be worshiped.  I will end this article with a tribute to the amazingness that is Warren Ellis’ beard!

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Jay Deitcher, LMSW(@mrdeitcher) is an educator on comic history and runs successful Free Comic Book Day events yearly.  You can see a listing of his incredible articles at JayDeitcher.com.