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We are.
The WEF is a wonderful support group if you happen to be a twenty/thirty-something comic geek who tries to offset that image by being a chain-smoking, alcoholic manic depressive asshole. Extra credit if you happen to be a lesbian. Users there have as easily been elevated to Ellis' elite (how alliterative) for mediocre mimicry of his tone as they are stomped into the ground for refusing to be his accessories. Yes, some very good things have come out of the WEF, but I don't see many of them surviving past the forum's demise, not because of Ellis' absence but that the energy, even if it's negative, will be dispersed. In the end equation, good riddance.
As for his comics work, I will not claim not to have been a collector of several of his series, be they PLANETARY or the TRANSMET TPBs, and enjoyed them immensely. But I have a real problem with the man and how callously he treats those who look up to him. I don't think he wants to be admired, so let's grant his wish. As a friend made the comparison recently, "Regard Ellis as I regard Woody Allen: as a person, I think he's the biggest scumbucket on the face of the Earth, but anything he puts onto film and releases into the theaters, I'll go see, because they're hysterical."
He's probably right. But I haven't bought anything by Ellis, as little as there is, in at least a year, and I've yet to regret it.
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