Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} RedTokyo Warning by ⓘ Red (WildStorm) Red is a three-issue comic book mini-series published by WildStorm imprint Homage Comics, both owned by DC Comics. It was created by writer Warren Ellis and artist Cully Hamner. 1. Plot. Paul Moses is a retired agent of the CIA, formerly working in "foreign acquisitions". Living in a secluded area, his human contacts are limited to pleasant phone calls to his handler who desires what she believes to have been Moses type of work and letters to a niece who lives in England. Michael Beesley, the newly appointed Director of Central Intelligence D.C.I., is taken to Room R as part of his orientation by Deputy Director Operations Adrian Kane, where he learns of Moses existence and the full extent of his activities. Disgusted by what he has seen and fearing public reaction should any of those secrets leak out, Beesley orders the assassination of Moses. A three-man hit-team is sent to Moses residence, but he kills them, recognizing the pattern of the attack and realizing his death has been sanctioned. He calls his handler, only to learn that she has been transferred. He informs the Agency that his status has changed from "Green" to "Red" before leaving his house and going on the hunt. Moses telephones CIA Headquarters and is put through to Kane. Beesley breaks into the conversation and calls Moses a monster. Moses calmly replies that whatever he is, he became at the behest of his country. He says that he has now learned the identities of the men who ordered his death and hangs up. Moses breaks through the cordon of agents surrounding his county and makes his way to Langley, Virginia, where he breaks into the apartment of his former handler, Sally, and forces her to give up the access codes allowing him to enter CIA Headquarters. Normally he would kill her but, instead, apologizes and says he genuinely enjoyed talking with her on the phone, before leaving. Though Langley is surrounded by an army of security guards and soldiers, Moses breaks in anyway, killing several. When he calls Beesleys office, Beesley demands that Moses surrender or hell have Mosess niece in England murdered. While Beesley is making this threat, Moses enters the office, disables Kane with a bullet to the hand, and informs Beesley that hes already visited Beesleys home and murdered his wife and children "I dont make threats. I carry them out". Beesley collapses in shock, while Kane explains the events that led to Mosess attempted assassination: that it has become customary to appoint a civilian like Beesley as D.C.I. and that protocol required Beesley to be shown Mosess file. With no background in espionage or the military, he was unprepared for its contents and overreacted. Kane apologizes for the turn of events but says things have progressed too far to go back. Moses tells Beesley that he lied, that Beesleys family is alive and well, then kills him. Moses plans to use Kane as a hostage to escape the building, but Kane refuses to cooperate and offers an alternative: with Beesley dead, Kane is acting Director and has to reinstate Moses to active duty, and thus retroactively sanction all of his previous actions. Kane carefully explains that Moses has no other choice; that the foregoing debacle proves that Moses is unfit to live in the outside world. Moses sadly replies, "I never wanted to. I just wanted to be left alone," and kills Kane, too. Moses steps outside the office, where an army of guards are pointing their weapons at him. Raising his gun, Moses says, "Im the monster. Do your best." 2. Collected editions. In June 2009, DC Comics released a collection of the series that includes the script to issue #1 and never-before-seen developmental art and a new cover by Hamner. The series was previously collected into a trade paperback with another Ellis-written mini-series, Tokyo Storm Warning: Red/Tokyo Storm Warning. 3. Film. On June 12, 2008, it was reported that Summit Entertainment had optioned Red as a feature film. Whiteout screenwriters Erich and Jon Hoeber wrote the adaptation, directed by Robert Schwentke of The Time Travelers Wife and Flightplan and produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian of Transformers. Principal photography began in January 2010 in Toronto and Louisiana with stars Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman. The film was more of a comedy as opposed to the more serious tone of the series, and several new characters were introduced. Ellis has stated that "yes, RED the film is very different. Not least because it needed to generate more material than the book itself actually constituted". 4. Comics prequel. In the summer of 2010 and in light of the release of the film version of Red, it was announced that Cully Hamner would return to both write and illustrate the Frank Moses character for a 40-page prequel called Red: Eyes Only. Ellis gave his blessing to the project, but chose not to participate. In addition, four prequels were produced featuring characters created for the movie and written by the screenwriters: Victoria, Joe, Marvin, Frank. Red/Tokyo Storm Warning TPB (2004 Flipbook) comic books. 1st printing. Collects Red (2003) #1-3 and Tokyo Storm Warning (2003) #1-3. Written by Warren Ellis. Art and covers by Cully Hamner, James Raiz and Carlos D'Anda. The series of Warren Ellis flip-book trade paperbacks continues in this volume, reprinting the explosive espionage-thriller RED and the action-packed giant-robot adventure of TOKYO STORM WARNING! In RED, Ellis and artist Cully Hamner (BATMAN: TENSES) bring us a stark tale of revenge, as retired CIA killer Paul Moses finds himself forced back into the game to gain revenge on the agency that trained him! In TOKYO STORM WARNING, Ellis joins James Raiz (Transformers) for a tale of giant robots taking on atomic monsters in Japan's capital city in a desperate clash for survival and supremacy! Softcover, 144 pages, full color. MATURE READERS Cover price $14.95. Customer Testimonials Our customers have some nice things to say about us: Customer Testimonials Mailing List Join our Mailing List for news and sales. We’ve been selling comics since 1961 (our first sale: Fantastic Four #1 at $0.25, see one of our first ads) and on the web since 1996. Copyright © 1996 - 2021 Lone Star Comics Inc. Character images copyright © their respective owners. Search AbeBooks. We're sorry; the page you requested could not be found. 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Agent— (Literary) Lydia Wills, Paradigm Talent Agency, 10100 Santa Monica Blvd., Ste. 2500, Los Angeles, CA, 90067; (film and television) Angela Cheng Caplan, Writers & Artists, 8383 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 550, Beverly Hills, CA 90211. E- mail— [email protected] CAREER: Writer; author of graphic novels, short fiction, novels, television shows, and films. Author of comic books and graphic novels for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Vertigo, Wildstorm, Avatar Press, Image Comics, Cliffhanger, and Homage Comics. Cofounder and consultant to graphic novel site Artbomb.net; consultant to the culture site OPi8.com. Former jobs include running a pub and a bookstore, working in a record shop, and working in the bankruptcy field. AWARDS, HONORS: Don Thompson Award, 1998, for best writer; International Horror Guild Award, 1999, for best graphic narrative. WRITINGS: NOVELS. , William Morrow (New York, NY), 2007. COMIC BOOKS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS. (With Scott Lobdell and James Robinson) Wild C.A.T.S, X-Men, Image Comics (Fullerton, CA), 1998. From the Desk of Warren Ellis, Volumes 1-2, Avatar Press (Rantoul, IL), 2000. Vampirella Lives, art by Amanda Conner and others, Harris Publications (New York, NY), 2001. Gen13: London, New York, Hell, art by Steve Dillon and others, WildStorm (La Jolla, CA), 2001. DV8: Neighborhood Threat, art by Humberto Ramos and others, Wildstorm (La Jolla, CA), 2002. : Haunted, art by John Higgins and others, DC Comics (New York, NY), 2003. , art by Colleen Doran and Dave Stewart, DC Comics (New York, NY), 2003. Reload/, Wildstorm (La Jolla, CA), 2004. Red/Tokyo Storm Warning, art by Cully Hamner and others, WildStorm (La Jolla, CA), 2004. : Planet Ablaze, WildStorm (La Jolla, CA), 2004. Global Frequency: Detonation Radio, WildStorm (La Jolla, CA), 2004. Ultimate Fantastic Four: Doom, Issues 7-12, Marvel Comics (New York, NY), 2004. Desolation Jones: Made in England, art by J.H. Williams III, WildStorm (La Jolla, CA), 2005. , art by Chris Sprouse and Karl Story, WildStorm (La Jolla, CA), 2005. Apparat: The Singles Collection, Volume 1, art by Jacen Burrows, Juan Jose Ryp, Laurenn McCubbin, and Carla Speed McNeil, Avatar Press (Rantoul, IL), 2005. Ultimate Fantastic Four: N-Zone, Issues 13-18, Marvel Comics (New York, NY), 2005. , art by Stuart Immonen, Marvel Comics (New York, NY), 2006. : , art by Adi Granov, Marvel Comics (New York, NY), 2007. "" SERIES; GRAPHIC NOVELS. Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street, art by Darick Robertson and others, Vertigo (New York, NY), 1998. Transmetropolitan: Lust for Life, art by Darick Robertson and others, Vertigo (New York, NY), 1998. Transmetropolitan: Year of the Bastard, art by Darick Robertson and others, Vertigo (New York, NY), 1999. Transmetropolitan: The New Scum, art by Darick Robertson and others, Vertigo (New York, NY), 2000. Transmetropolitan: I Hate It Here, art by Darick Robertson and others, Vertigo (New York, NY), 2000. Transmetropolitan: Filth of the City, art by Nathan Eyring and others, Vertigo (New York, NY), 2001. Transmetropolitan: Lonely City, art by Darick Robertson and others, Vertigo (New York, NY), 2001. Transmetropolitan: Gouge Away, art by Darick Robertson and others, Vertigo (New York, NY), 2002. Transmetropolitan: Spider's Thrash, art by Darick Robertson and others, Vertigo (New York, NY), 2002. Transmetropolitan: Dirge, art by Darick Robertson and others, Vertigo (New York, NY), 2003. Transmetropolitan: The Cure, art by Darick Robertson and others, Vertigo (New York, NY), 2003. Transmetropolitan: One More Time, art by Darick Robertson and others, Vertigo (New York, NY), 2004. Transmetropolitan: Tales of Human Waste, art by Darick Robertson and others, Vertigo (New York, NY), 2004. "" SERIES; GRAPHIC NOVELS. StormWatch: A Finer World, Wildstorm (La Jolla, CA), 1999. StormWatch: Change or Die, Wildstorm (La Jolla, CA), 1999. StormWatch: Force of Nature, art by Tom Raney and others, Wildstorm (La Jolla, CA), 1999. StormWatch: Lightning Strikes, art by Tom Raney and others, Wildstorm (La Jolla, CA), 2000. StormWatch: Final Orbit, art by Tom Raney and others, Wildstorm (La Jolla, CA), 2001. "THE AUTHORITY" SERIES; GRAPHIC NOVELS. The Authority: Relentless, art by Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary, WildStorm (La Jolla, CA), 2000. The Authority: Under New Management, art by Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary, Wildstorm (La Jolla, CA), 2000. (With others) The Authority: Earth Inferno and Other Stories, Wildstorm (La Jolla, CA), art by Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary, 2002. Absolute Authority, Volume 1, art by Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary, Wildstorm (La Jolla, CA), 2002. "" SERIES; GRAPHIC NOVEL COLLECTIONS. Planetary: All over the World and Other Stories, art by John Cassaday and Laura DePuy, WildStorm (La Jolla, CA), 2000. Planetary: The Fourth Man, art by John Cassaday and Laura DePuy, WildStorm (La Jolla, CA), 2001. Planetary: Leaving the Twentieth Century, art by John Cassaday and Laura DePuy, WildStorm (La Jolla, CA), 2004. Planetary: Crossing Worlds, art by John Cassaday and Laura DePuy, WildStorm (La Jolla, CA), 2004. Absolute Planetary, art by John Cassaday and Laura DePuy, WildStorm (La Jolla, CA), 2005. Creator and author of numerous comic book series, including DV8, 1997, Gen13, 1997, Transmetropolitan, 1997—, , 2000, Planetary, 2000—, , 2001, , 2001, Pulp Volume 5, 2001, Stranger Kisses, 2001, Strange Killings, 2002, Bad Signal, Volumes 1-2, 2003; Global Frequency, 2002-2003, Mek, 2003, Red, 2003, Reload, 2003, Scars, 2003, Tokyo Storm Warning, 2003, Two-Step, 2003—, and Vertigo Horizon, 2003. Contributor to other comics, including Warrior, Deadline, Doctor Who Magazine, Speakeasy, Judge Dredd Magazine, Blast Magazine, A1, Lazarus Churchyard, Ammo Armageddon, Sugarvirus, Doom 2099, , Ghost Rider, Heavy Metal, Hellstorm, 2099 Unlimited, Akira, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Druid, Excalibur, , Star Jammers, , Ultraforce, What If …, X- Caliber, Batman, Calibrations, , Celestine, Negative Burn, Pryde & Wisdom, Storm, Stormwatch, The Sussex Vampire, Sword of Damocles, Vampirella, Wildstorm Universe, Ghost Rider, Starship Troopers, Tales of the Witchblade, , No Justice, No Piece, Hellblazer, Generation X, Strange Kiss, Poppy, Powers, Threshold, X-Force, X-Man, JLA Classified, and Ultimate Fantastic Four. Also staff writer for Comic Book Resources Web site; author of Available Light, a collection of short stories and photography, and Wolverine: Not Dead Yet; contributor to animated shows, including Unlimited; author of computer games, including Hostile Waters and Antaeus Rising; adapted the novel Mindbridge as a PC game; also created the role-playing game White Wolf's Adventure! ADAPTATIONS: A television adaptation of Global Frequency was produced for the WB network; Planetary has also been optioned for a television production. SIDELIGHTS: A prolific author of comics and graphic novels for adult audiences, Warren Ellis has gained a huge fan following since the 1990s for his dark social commentaries, especially in series stories such as "Transmetropolitan," "Stormwatch," and "Planetary." Beginning his career around 1990 with contributions to existing series, such as "Doctor Who" and "Judge Dredd," Ellis has created characters in the traditional superhero vein, such as in his "The Authority" comics, as well as flawed antiheroes, most famously in his journalist character Spider Jerusalem from "Transmetropolitan." Known for his distaste for superhero comics, Ellis produced superhero stories for Marvel and DC Comics to make a living. His series such as "The Authority" and the near-future "Transmetropolitan" are much more along the lines of what he wants to accomplish in the genre. "My ultimate goal is to find a new, interesting and hopefully revelatory perspective on the contemporary world," he told Melanie McBride on Mindjack.com. "I strongly believe in science fiction in its Wellsean frame as a social fiction, using the future as a tool with which to examine the present." The "Transmetropolitan" stories feature Spider Jerusalem, a famous journalist and author who is both a sarcastic cynic, out to find fame by getting a great story by any means necessary, and a compassionate and emotional commentator on society. Although some critics have found the crowded and messy future city setting as a type of dystopian vision, Ellis disagrees with that assessment. "I really don't see the City of Transmet as dystopian," he told Michael Oliveri on the Really Scary Web site. "It's just like where we live now. There are horrible … things and there are things of sublime beauty, and they all live in the same place." In Transmetropolitan: The Cure, a 2003 collection, Jerusalem "crosses every possible journalistic ethic to get his story," noted a contributor in Publishers Weekly. The work concerns the renegade reporter's efforts to find a prostitute who has been targeted by government assassins. "A dark palette and heavy use of black suits the bleak, violent story line," the Publishers Weekly critic added. In "The Authority" series, Ellis and illustrators Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary present a super-powered United Nations crisis team, first introduced in his "Stormwatch" series. "The Authority" "was primarily written for a generation that had grown up with superheroes and knew all the clichés and twists the genre had up its sleeve but had enough sensibilities to target the non-superhero crowd as well," observed Rizal Solomon in the Malay Mail. "Knowing full well their audience knew what to expect, the team quickly went about subverting the whole genre." Solomon continued: "The good guys were out to save and make the world a better place, and they would pull no punches in making it happen." Headquartered in a sentient mothership that transcends time and space, the members of The Authority include its electrified leader, , winged warrior Swift, and the cyborg Engineer. "Unshackled by any constraints of reality, Ellis' mind goes spinning off into new ideas at the drop of a hat," noted Matt Springer in a review of The Authority: Relentless on the Pop-Culture-Corn Web site. Springer also commented that Ellis and his team of illustrators "continue to push the envelope of superhero comics by substituting a fierce and original creative spirit for any of the pretensions of grim reality that plagued superhero books in the late eighties and early nineties." A trio of superhuman archaeologists who travel the globe investigating the secret history of the twentieth century are the focus of Ellis's acclaimed "Planetary" series. "To say that Planetary is compelling is an understatement," wrote January Magazine online contributor Claude Lalumière in a review of Planetary: All over the World and Other Stories. Lalumière added: "Every detail is important. All the pieces fit into some kind of multidimensional puzzle whose scope readers are compelled to imagine but yet unable to grasp. Every time a piece falls into place it unveils a new intricacy: yes, a form is glimpsed, but also the overall shape is revealed to be much more complex than previously believed." Woody Evans, reviewing Planetary: Leaving the Twentieth Century in Rain Taxi, believed that the strength of the series is the complex relationship between the protagonists. "The ‘mystery archaeology’ that forms the core of Planetary 's plot may certainly draw readers to the books," Evans wrote, "but the sustained and complex varieties of love and hate between the characters gives them a reason to stay." Ellis has also published the graphic novels Orbiter, about a long-lost space shuttle that Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction reviewer Charles De Lint called "easily one of the more thoughtful sf stories I've read in some time, in any format," and Desolation Jones: Made in England, about a shattered and scarred former British spy. "Jones' outlook is thoroughly cynical, the dialogue hard-boiled, and the ending noirishly bleak," remarked Booklist critic Gordon Flagg. BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES: PERIODICALS. America's Intelligence Wire, February 6, 2003, Patrick Rollens, "Comic Has Straightforward Appeal," review of Global Frequency. Asia Africa Intelligence Wire, September 24, 2003, Rizal Solomon, "Return of Planetary," review of Planetary, Issue 16; July 14, 2004, Rizal Solomon, "Simply Marvellous," review of Ultimate Fantastic Four: Doom, Issue 7; March 31, 2004, Rizal Solomon, "When Worlds Collide," review of Planetary: Crossing Worlds; December 1, 2004, Rizal Solomon, "Man in the Iron Mask," review of Iron Man: Extremis. Booklist, January 1, 2006, Gordon Flagg, review of Ocean, p. 74; November 15, 2006, Gordon Flagg, review of Desolation Jones: Made in England, p. 39. Colorado Springs Gazette, January 26, 2006, Bill Radford, "‘Nextwave’ Series Plays with Marvel's Lesser Heroes." Entertainment Weekly, March 24, 2000, Jeff Jensen, review of Global Frequency, p. 96; November 22, 2002, Marc Bernardin, review of Global Frequency, p. 82; February 21, 2003, Jeff Jensen, "Q & A: … With Warren Ellis, Writer of the Sci-Fi Media Satire Transmetropolitan and the Space-Program-in-Peril Comic Orbiter, " p. 157; June 3, 2005, Jeff Jensen, "Comic Books 101," review of Desolation Jones, p. 89. Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 1998, review of Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street, p. 689. Kliatt, May, 2004, Heather Lisowski, review of Global Frequency: Planet Ablaze, p. 28. Library Journal, September 1, 2003, Steve Raiteri, review of Orbiter, p. 140; July, 2004, Steve Raiteri, review of Global Frequency: Planet Ablaze, p. 61. Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October-November, 2003, Charles De Lint, review of Orbiter, p. 49. Malay Mail, December 19, 2001, Rizal Solomon, "Back to the Cutting Edge," review of "The Authority" series. News Herald (Panama City, FL), July 8, 2005, " Global Frequency: The Best TV Show You Can't Watch." Publishers Weekly, December 18, 2000, Meredith Yayanos, "Transmetropolitan's Warren Ellis," p. 36; June 17, 2002, September 15, 2003, review of Orbiter, p. 46; February 16, 2004, review of Transmetropolitan: The Cure, p. 153; June 21, 2004, review of Red/Tokyo Storm Warning, p. 45; October 31, 2005, review of Apparat, Volume 1, p. 39. Rain Taxi, fall, 2005, Woody Evans, review of Planetary: Leaving the Twentieth Century. Red Vol 1 2. Hello. My name is Paul Moses. The pair of you ordered my death. Thank you for your names. Whatever I am, I became at the behest of this country and the CIA. If I am a monster -- and I was a very quiet, loyal monster -- then I am quite definitely your monster. All I asked for, when I retired, was to be left alone, to try and find a way to live with myself. I promised my silence and my retirement, and you promised me peace. You have decided to break your promise, for reasons I neither know nor care about. Therefore, I am making you a new promise. I promise you that everyone at the CIA who knows my name is going to die. -- Paul Moses. Appearing in "Red" Edit. Featured Characters: Supporting Characters: Adversaries: Other Characters: (Final appearance) Synopsis for "Red" Edit. Paul Moses is back in action, and he's taking the CIA operatives who have been sent to eliminate him. After brutally murdering all of the agents who have come to his estate one by one, he gets in their car and drives off. Despite the best efforts of Michael Beesley and Adrian Kane to contain the situation, he lives up to his reputation every bit as an unstoppable killing machine. On his path, he kills several more enemy agents at a police barricade. Once he obtains a phone, Moses calls the two agency directors and calmly announces his intentions. He neither knows nor cares why they have chosen to betray him when he was so obedient, but he knows their names, and he is coming to kill them, along with everybody else working for them who has even heard of his name. He goes to visit his former retirement handler Sally, the only person he's had regular contact with for the past several years. She explains that he has already been reported dead, and he reveals his sordid past to her. Sally is shocked to find out what a monster her friend is, but he insists that he needs access to her computer because it's connected to the CIA. Before leaving, he apologizes and thanks her for being so kind to him throughout their relationship, then leaves. He almost kills her purely out of instinct, but stops himself, and tears run down her face while he walks out the door. There is further discussion in CIA headquarters about the nature of the incident. Kane provides further backstory, and explains the full ramifications of reawakening this man, who is the best killer on Earth. It is clear that he is leading a direct assault on their location, one of the most heavily fortified areas in the country, and it is entirely possible that despite being a single old man, he is going to slaughter them all.