# Which Warren Ellis? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 7, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-warren-ellis/512959 "2009-10-07T17:52:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-warren-ellis/512959/1 "2009-10-07T17:52:50Z")
It doesn’t seem like it would be that common of a name, so it’s always tickled me that there are two of them. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-warren-ellis/512959/2 "2009-10-07T18:02:35Z")
The writer. Though I am vaguely aware that the musician exists, I couldn’t tell you what he plays/what genre he works in. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-warren-ellis/512959/3 "2009-10-07T18:14:28Z")
Musician Warren Ellis is known for Dirty Three, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Grinderman. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-warren-ellis/512959/4 "2009-10-07T19:37:48Z")
I always think of the Bad Seeds when I see his name, just because he’s such a wild man and such an awesome violinist. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-warren-ellis/512959/5 "2009-10-07T20:24:13Z")
In order of exposure for me, it was Bad Seeds Ellis --\> \*Transmetropolitan \*Ellis (and on to pretty much everything else of his) --\> Dirty Three Ellis, but I always think of writer Ellis first, then musician Ellis, and I often forget about the Bad Seeds stuff for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-warren-ellis/512959/6 "2009-10-07T21:40:24Z")
rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks. He posted in there, which delighted me to no end, and I was interested in his run on Excalibur when it came out. Then I followed The Authority for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-warren-ellis/512959/7 "2009-10-07T21:54:25Z")
Oh yeah, it probably helps that writer-Ellis and I got into an image fight on Livejournal once. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-warren-ellis/512959/8 "2009-10-07T21:56:01Z")
What, no “Internet Jesus?” I interacted with him a few times on the old Scans Daily Livejournal board. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-warren-ellis/512959/9 "2009-10-07T22:05:39Z")
I’m mostly a pre-_Murder Ballads_ Bad Seeds fan, and also a huge _Freak Angels_ fan, so while I know both, it’s comics Warren that I think of first. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-warren-ellis/512959/10 "2009-10-07T22:09:54Z")
> [@drfidelius](#): > > what, no “internet jesus?” > > i interacted with him a few times on the old scans daily livejournal board. anal skrulls! ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-warren-ellis/512959/11 "2009-10-07T22:37:27Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > I always think of the Bad Seeds when I see his name, just because he’s such a wild man and such an awesome violinist. _The Bad Seeds_ were my first Warren Ellis exposure, from which I went on to _Dirty Three_, and right now, I’m loving the collection of soundtracks by him and Nick Cave that recently came out, _White Lunar_. But I still haven’t kicked _Freak Angels_ from my weekly comics go round either, and round these here parts, I’d probably rather expect the writer Ellis to pop up, so I’m a bit conflicted on the answer – went with option four in the end, but it’s context dependent really. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-warren-ellis/512959/12 "2009-10-08T03:57:02Z")
I hadn’t heard of the musician before, but I’ve tended to get Warren Ellis mixed up with Garth Ennis, and now it’s probably going to be worse because I think Nick Cave’s music would go well with Preacher. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-warren-ellis/512959/13 "2009-10-08T11:42:22Z")
Writer, for me. Transmetropolitan is one of the only graphic novel I might put up past Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-warren-ellis/512959/14 "2009-10-08T11:44:27Z")
I think I went to school with a Warren Ellis. No, not really. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-warren-ellis/512959/15 "2009-10-08T11:47:12Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > anal skrulls! Yeah, that’s the one. But I tended more towards the “Breasts don’t work that way” threads.