Warren Ellis

British comic-book writer, novelist, screenwriter and essayist, known for works such as Transmetropolitan, Planetary and The Authority; noted for speculative, cyberpunk-tinged and satirical themes.

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  1. 1. Crooked Little Vein

    A burnt-out private investigator is hired by a mysterious government operative to track down a bizarre lost artifact — supposedly the nation’s original constitution printed on a pornographic tissue — and his cross-country search becomes a hallucinatory, often grotesque road trip through the margins of American life, exposing seedy subcultures, grotesque violence, absurdist encounters, and darkly comic distortions of politics, sex, and media; the journey serves as a fiercely satiric, transgressive meditation on modern America’s hypocrisies and decay.

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  2. 2. Ruins

    A cynical reporter journeys through an alternate, dystopian world where scientific breakthroughs meant to create heroes instead spawn grotesque mutations, mass death, and institutional corruption; cataloguing ruined versions of familiar figures and failed experiments, he paints a relentlessly bleak, darkly sardonic portrait that dismantles superhero myths and reveals the terrifying human cost of hubris and failed promises.