Yuki 7 cosplay, comic book cover (link roundup)

Kevin Dart has posted a Yuki 7 cosplay gallery and a Yuki 7 fan art gallery. The comic book cover is by Joscha Van Deijk.

And a few more links:

1. Warren Ellis: "I'm just heading into the intensive part of the Marvel Anime job, which involves writing detailed outlines for each of 48 total anime episodes."

2. kozyndan has an Etsy shop with original (expensive) art for sale.

3. Creepy story about the first day of kindergarten.

*Previously: Yuki 7 paper toy.

*Buy vintage spy tech at eBay.

Watch the G.I. Joe Resolute finale

You can watch the first 10 episodes here and here. And here's the rather lackluster finale, episode 11:



*At Toycutter: Custom G.I. Joe toys.

*Buy G.I. Joe toys at eBay.

Watch G.I. Joe Resolute episodes seven eight, nine, and ten

You can watch the first six episodes of G.I. Joe Resolute here. Below are episodes seven, eight, nine, and ten. If they're taken down, watch the episodes as they're posted at Adult Swim. But it appears the purpose of this project is to create awareness and enthusiasm for G.I. Joe, not maximizing something fairly irrelevant, like page views at the Adult Swim website.









Warren Ellis' recent comments about the project include that so few characters speak because there simply wasn't a big enough budget for more speaking parts. Also, he chose the name "Dial Tone" from various choices offered to him.

*Buy G.I. Joe toys at eBay.

Watch the first three episodes of G.I. Joe Resolute

Here's the first three episodes of G.I. Joe Resolute. If they're taken down, watch the episodes as they're posted at Adult Swim.







Warren Ellis says, "Right now, it's looking like, on average, about 90% of what I wrote is making it to the finished articles."

*Previously: Gabrielle Del'Otto paints G.I. Joe.

*Buy G.I. Joe toys at eBay.

Source of The Four's power discovered by the Chandra Observatory

The villains of Warren Ellis' and John Cassaday's Planetary are evil versions of the Fantastic Four. In issue #25, we learn that the Four gained their powers not simply due to an accidental encounter with cosmic rays, but through a deal (Reed Richards) made with (Darkseid) - - in return for a promise they would help him conquer Earth, Darkseid promised to allow the Four to utilize a mechanism orbiting around (Apokalips) that would give them all super powers. In these panels you can see the Four in their space capsule enter the mechanism, portrayed as a giant, grasping hand:



The mechanism has been found by the Chandra Observatory, which managed to take a photo of what's been designated a "young pulsar":



*Previously: NASA consultants draft a primer on how Earthmen should resist an alien invasion.

*Buy Planetary at Amazon.

Papercraft Spider Jerusalem

Download the Spider Jerusalem paper toy (from Transmetropolitan) here.

*Previously: A short story by Warren Ellis.

*Buy Transmetropolitan at Amazon.

Warning Sign: Modern Sexuality Ahead

Warning: Modern Sexuality Ahead. It's the cover to Warren Ellis' Doktor Sleepless #11, art by Ivan Rodriguez.

*Previously: "Branded by the Sheriff."

*Buy "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Erotic Romance" at Amazon.

Cool temporary tattoo to be given away at next weekend’s Chicago comics convention

Via Warren Ellis, of course.

John Cassaday has started drawing Planetary #27!

Easily my favorite comic. (Info via Warren Ellis' email list.)

"FuTube" - - Short story by Warren Ellis

Today Warren Ellis sent this short story to everyone on his email list:

FuTube

"Happy birthday to me oh fuck I want to die," Dave muttered to himself as he unlocked his flat door. 22, and the first day at the job he'd always wanted hadn't gone so well. If you're working at the Breakthrough Physics Institute, he told himself, you ought to be able to operate a coffee maker without setting anything or anyone on fire.

He was afraid to check email until he was good and drunk, in case they'd fired him during his walk home. Nothing there but a mail from YouTube, telling him he'd been sent a new video. He clicked through automatically, ran the video, and sat there looking at himself. "Happy Birthday!" he said to himself. "I'm drunk too!"

Dave peered at the screen. "I look like shit," he said.

The drunk in the video said, "That's because I'm thirty-seven, you bastard. I'm thirty-seven, I'm drunk, and I've cracked back-barrier QT!"

"How did you know I said that? This isn't live cam."

"I know you said I looked like shit because I said it, you drunken fuck. Listen. I am sending this from fifteen years in your future. Fifteen years of working on time travel -- the work you started today after you set the coffeemaker alight. I'm telling them in the morning. But I wanted to prove it first. See, when I send this back in time, into the upload software on YouTube, it'll turn up in their archive straight away up here, and I'll know it worked. So, listen, what do I want you to know... I can't give you stock tips or anything... yes! You're not too drunk to call Paula! Call Paula! Yes, I know she dumped you, but it turned out she just wanted to do some weird stuff in bed and you kept dropping your bottle. If you call her up now and say, I'm sorry, I'm an idiot, do anything you want with me, you'll probably stay with her forever. Go on! Call her now! And in fifteen years you'll invent a way to move information back and forward in time and be happy!"

Dave sat there for ten minutes. And then called Paula.

When he got home three days later, covered in red marks and stupidly happy, he went to watch the video again. But it was missing from his archive, as if it'd never been sent.