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Warren Ellis Returns to the Future with Doktor Sleepless
Doktor Sleepless #1
May 16th, 2007 - Someone stole your future. Don't you ever wonder who? Doktor Sleepless is here to tell us in Avatar's first ongoing series from Warren Ellis. DOKTOR SLEEPLESS will be Ellis' first long form science fiction work since his ground breaking title Transmetropolitan. This all new series will be tied in with an online wiki at DoktorSleepless.com, which will contain a wealth of background and related material. Created by Warren Ellis with art by Ivan Rodriguez, DOKTOR SLEEPLESS #1 debuts this July in full color from Avatar Press.
No-one has their flying car. Everyone feels cheated. What America needs now is a Mad Scientist. A city with a secret is shocked out of its apathy by the return of a young technological genius who has reinvented himself as Doktor Sleepless. But perhaps he never left and perhaps his planned new future doesn't include the city.
"I needed five years after Transmet to return to the subject of the future in any broad, sustained way," says Warren Ellis. "...Needed the world to roll on a bit and see what novelties were coalescing. Now's the time. The next big assaults on privacy, for instance, are here. In fact, the current teen generation is busy becoming post-privacy humans, leaving Twitter-tracks behind them everywhere they go." Doktor Sleepless is the latest sci-fi epic to explore the dark underbelly of the modern world through Ellis' futuristic reality. The series will appeal to all fans of Ellis, sci-fi buffs, and readers searching for the best in creator-owned comics.
Doktor Sleepless will be published monthly, and is Avatar's first ongoing series from Ellis. "I'm avoiding the structure of arcs and stand-alones for Doktor Sleepless. It all runs together, becoming denser and more complex as it goes. We're getting a little too used to neatly parcelled comics, and it's taking us away from more organic, novelistic shapes. There is an endpoint. I know how it ends. But I don't know when. I'm letting the book find its own shape, and its own way to the end."
Supported by a wiki, Doktor Sleepless will surpass the normal boundaries of Internet forums and rumors, and become a fully-interactive online work. "So DoktorSleepless.com becomes the book's shadow, containing the information that would distort the shape of the book," notes Ellis. "There's a complete backdrop and mythology to DOKTOR SLEEPLESS, and the wiki will allow people to make connections between it all. It's networked extra information on the book, and an intellectual game for those who want to play." DOKTOR SLEEPLESS #1 is only one of Avatar's high-profile releases for Summer 2007. Ellis will be at the San Diego Comic Con this July as a guest of Avatar Press to support the releases of Black Summer, Crecy, and Doktor Sleepless, and he will be featured at some of Comic Con's most talked about panels and events. Avatar Press will also be promoting the release of 2001 Maniacs with Robert Englund, and the Fall release of Garth Ennis' Streets of Glory, among many other upcoming titles with guests to support them.
The Mad Scientists of old will make their prophesied and feared return this July in Warren Ellis' all new sci-fi series DOKTOR SLEEPLESS. Fans of Ellis and Transmetropolitan, and those looking to get in on the next BIG series at the ground floor must check out this Avatar Press title drawn by Ivan Rodriguez, with variant covers by artist Raulo Caceres. Priced at $3.99 an issue, this ongoing series will be accompanied by an unheard-of amount of information on the web supplied the creator himself, and it will be a major release supported by Warren Ellis and Avatar Press at the biggest convention of the year.
Avatar Press is a comic book publisher that continues to push the boundaries between mainstream and independent with current and upcoming work from creators such as Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Brian Pulido, George A. Romero, George R.R. Martin, Joe R. Lansdale, John Russo, Mike Wolfer, Juan Jose Ryp, Jacen Burrows, and numerous others. The company has published a wide range of comic books including creator-owned titles like Garth Ennis' 303 and Brian Pulido's Lady Death, company-owned comics such as Pandora and The Ravening, licensed hits like Frank Miller's Robocop and George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, and numerous other titles. A publisher that has established itself as one of the cornerstones of the American indy comic book scene over the past decade, Avatar has published some 500 comic books since 1997.
For more information visit the Avatar Press website.