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Global Frequency: Planet Ablaze Paperback – February 1, 2004

by Warren Ellis (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
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    144 pages
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    English
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    WildStorm
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    February 1, 2004
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    9.79 x 0.44 x 6.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1401202748
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1401202743
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Acclaimed comics writer Ellis (The Authority; Transmetropolitan) here creates a Mission: Impossible–style force for the 21st century. The Global Frequency is a worldwide organization comprising 1,001 members, each with a specialized talent, which combats unconventional threats to public safety. Some of these menaces are the stuff of science fiction, like a cyborg warrior gone mad. Others are potentially quite real, such as an attempt to release lethal viruses in London. This first volume collects the first six issues, each illustrated by a different artist: Leach, Fabry, Steve Dillon, Roy A. Martinez, Jon J Muth and David Lloyd. Although each artist has a different style, they all impart a grimly realistic look to Ellis's world. The Global Frequency bills itself as a rescue operation, but in practice, violence is their stock-in-trade, and it's sometimes graphically explicit. Ellis occasionally makes political and even satirical points, but for the most part these tales are dismayingly superficial. Characterizations are minimal or nonexistent. For example, the most prominent character, Miranda Zero, the Frequency's head, comes off as little more than severely businesslike. The protagonists don't seem to be conflicted over their lives of violence and danger, and the antagonists don't have multidimensional personalities. Nor is there much suspense, since few of the plot twists and turns that one expects from the genre are present. Ellis and his collaborators achieve little here, and the endings are merely unsurprising, foregone conclusions.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ WildStorm (February 1, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1401202748
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1401202743
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.79 x 0.44 x 6.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

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Warren Ellis is the author of the Amazon Top 100 2016 book NORMAL and the New York Times- bestselling GUN MACHINE, the writer of award-winning graphic novels like TRANSMETROPOLITAN, PLANETARY and FELL, and is the creator and writer of global top ten streaming hit show CASTLEVANIA on Netflix.

The movie RED is based on his graphic novel of the same name, its sequel having been released in summer 2013. His GRAVEL books are in development for film at Legendary Pictures. IRON MAN 3 is based on his Marvel Comics graphic novel IRON MAN: EXTREMIS. He's also written extensively for VICE, WIRED UK and Reuters on technological and cultural matters.

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Warren Ellis lives outside London, on the south-east coast of England, in case he needs to make a quick getaway.

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Global Frequency is ablaze with the wit of Ellis!
Warren Ellis creates plausible, isolated geniuses who obsessively save mankind from itself, like Sherlock Holmes without the cocaine, and in GLOBAL FREQUENCY that genius is Miranda Zero! Miranda wears a tie, she is heavily armed, she's not here to make your day. Miranda is in charge of Global Frequency, which is 1000 agents who are tasked with keeping us alive from threats both domestic and foreign. Each chapter is drawn by a different artist, so let's focus on "Invasive", drawn by the late, great Steve Dillon. An alien virus has infected a town into uncontrollable homicidal tribalism and only a computer expert named Lana can cure it. As nifty an idea as this comic is, it is Ellis and his sardonic wit that keeps it all so entertaining :D
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  • Brad Barnes
    5.0 out of 5 stars Global Frequency is ablaze with the wit of Ellis!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2018
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    Warren Ellis creates plausible, isolated geniuses who obsessively save mankind from itself, like Sherlock Holmes without the cocaine, and in GLOBAL FREQUENCY that genius is Miranda Zero! Miranda wears a tie, she is heavily armed, she's not here to make your day. Miranda is in charge of Global Frequency, which is 1000 agents who are tasked with keeping us alive from threats both domestic and foreign. Each chapter is drawn by a different artist, so let's focus on "Invasive", drawn by the late, great Steve Dillon. An alien virus has infected a town into uncontrollable homicidal tribalism and only a computer expert named Lana can cure it. As nifty an idea as this comic is, it is Ellis and his sardonic wit that keeps it all so entertaining :D
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    Global Frequency is ablaze with the wit of Ellis!

    Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2018
    Warren Ellis creates plausible, isolated geniuses who obsessively save mankind from itself, like Sherlock Holmes without the cocaine, and in GLOBAL FREQUENCY that genius is Miranda Zero! Miranda wears a tie, she is heavily armed, she's not here to make your day. Miranda is in charge of Global Frequency, which is 1000 agents who are tasked with keeping us alive from threats both domestic and foreign. Each chapter is drawn by a different artist, so let's focus on "Invasive", drawn by the late, great Steve Dillon. An alien virus has infected a town into uncontrollable homicidal tribalism and only a computer expert named Lana can cure it. As nifty an idea as this comic is, it is Ellis and his sardonic wit that keeps it all so entertaining :D
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  • Joshua Koppel
    4.0 out of 5 stars Blatantly Secret
    Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2004
    The Global Frequency is an organization of one-thousand specialists headed by Miranda Zero. Their task is to handle threats that conventional forces are unequipped to handle. At first we get the impression that the Frequency is secret when a character remarks that they do exist (like the M&Ms in the Santa commercial). But members of the Frequency can leave their jobs at a moments notice by saying they are on the Frequency as if everyone knows about them.

    Specialists are contacted by a special portable phone. They also seem to all have a "special case" that is never explained (although one character is asked if he got weapons from his case). Members are top in their field, whatever it happens to be.

    I felt the Frequency was not grounded well enough, like the author wanted to tell the story before working out the details. One-thousand unique agents doesn't seem like it could be terribly effective but it seems that the right agent is always close at hand. There is very little repetition of character (mostly just Miranda Zero and Aleph) but you may spot a cameo or two. Each story is also drawn by a different artist thus weakening the feeling of continuity.

    The threats in this volume include a man who is a walking nuclear bomb, a rogue bionic man, a memetic invasion, a cult hostage situation, a town that may have seen an angel, and bioterrorists using ebola. Very interesting stories but I am not sure why the Frequency was needed for the hostage story.
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  • TheReviewer
    3.0 out of 5 stars Back to Planetary (7/10)
    Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2006
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    Another worldwide secret organization that specializes in obscure events. Why doesn't he just go back to planetary and give the series the attention it deserves.......
    I always get so excited everytime I see a new Warren Ellis novel, but I have to say, few and far between are worth it in my opinion. Not consistent.

    Re-readability: 7/10

    *I always put re-readability in my reviews for people who like to keep their TPB to re-read. Something can be awesome, but not something I am going to frequenty re-read (Maus), or it can be horrible, but I might still re-read it (Global Frequency).*
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  • Ruben Satana
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great
    Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2022
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    Warren ellis is a great writer and this story show why that ture great read
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  • Hadourien68
    5.0 out of 5 stars Have you ever prayed that someone's watching over you?
    Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2010
    To me that's the question that this bok answers.
    See, there are 1,001 people on the Global Frequency. You may not know who hey are, they may even be as close to you as possible without you even suspecting it.
    Then one day, they receive a call and they may end up being mankind's last hope against something so big, secret or fast that there's no other conventional mean of intervention.
    A worldwide cadre of super-experts, from sportsmen to physicists, from soldiers to magicians, from astronauts to historians.
    There for us when we need them.
    Broght together by the mysterious Miranda Zero and coordinated by young genius Aleph, they face suicide cults, ghosts, terrorists, aliens, government plans gone wrong, dangerous cold war sleeping threats.
    Warren Ellis took a relatively simple idea (but so was Columbus' legendary egg, after all) and stretches it over 12 self-contained issues, drawn by 12 different artists, detailing 12 different Global Frequency adventures - the first 6 of which are collected here for your reading pleasure.
    No wonder this has twice been optoned as a TV series and you should do yourself a favor and hunt down the beautiful leaked pilot of the first, while you're at it.
    The stories are mostly fast paced and sometimes really skinned down to the action, but overall you have little atom bombs of information that takes along time to properly sink and digest and thoroughly enjoy. There's really so much here for you to drool over and ponder!
    For comic freaks, there is also the unparelleled joy of having some very rare and very beautiful Glenn Fabry pen-and-ink work, Steve Dillon's very clean art and unmatched storytelling in service of Ellis' very tight scripts, Miracleman's Garry Leach turning in some fantastic pages, The Wicked's incredibly underrated artist Roy Martinez back to work for US comics, Jon J Muth's ink work (as beatiful and crafty as the painted workhe's most famous for), and V For Vendetta's David Lloyd proving he can do some mean action sequences too.
    This is an absolutely great pacakge, ot to be missed!
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  • wiredweird
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good series start
    Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2005
    This is an enjoyable action comic with a premise that will keep it from getting stale. 'Global Frequency' is a shadowy, wordwide group of trouble-shooters. When some problem comes up too fast, in too sensitive a way, or in some manner that the normal forces can't handle, GF activates one or more of its 1001 agents. No superheroes in tights here, but good action based on unusual premises and people.

    This book collects the first few issues of the comic. Each of the original comics seemed to be a self-contained story with separate characters and situations. Although the writing is consistent, the artists also changed book by book. The artwork is always good, but won't have collectors stampedin any time soon.

    This is the start of a readable, interesting action comic series. It's off to a very good start. I'll read more in the future, but this hasn't turned me into an instant fan. There are lots of other good ones to read, too.

    //wiredweird
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  • Richard Kelly
    5.0 out of 5 stars Are you on the Global Frequency?
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2004
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    What you get in this book is 6 stories about a rescue organisation called Global Frequency. This agency consists of 1001 agents specialising in areas as simple as combat and upto any area of scientific research you care to think about. This organisation is run by the mysterious Miranada Zero who recruits all the agents herself and goes on the missions with her chosen operatives.
    The stories here are as simple as destroying a human cyborg for the US Military when it goes mad, solving the mystery of why a town went mad after seeing an angel descend from heaven and stopping the ebola virus being released in London. And that is just 3 of them.
    Each story is drawn by a different artist which lends them all a different look and feel, my personal favourite is Big Sky set in Norway and discusses the nature of magic (not stage magic, but real magic) to solve the reason for the angel...
    As stated in the previous review there is a pilot being made in the states for a Global Frequency TV show and you can see why. Each of the stories here would make compulsive viewing for and hour - they even have Warren Ellis on board as Executive consultant (which means he gets to smoke and drink in the states whilst it's being made, based on his e-mails and web site).
    Overall this is good quality comic fiction and my only gripe is that each story does feel exactly like a TV episode...
    Overall I'm giving it 9/10 and rounding that up to 5 stars.
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