Ignition City

Ignition City
Publication information
Publisher Avatar Press
Schedule Monthly
Format Limited series
Genre
Publication date April – October 2009
Number of issues 5
Creative team
Writer(s) Warren Ellis
Penciller(s) Gianluca Pagliarani
Inker(s) Chris Drier
Colorist(s) Digikore Studios
Creator(s) Warren Ellis
Gianluca Pagliarani
Editor(s) William A. Christensen
Collected editions
Ignition City ISBN 1-59291-087-4

Ignition City is a five-issue science fiction comic book limited series, written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Gianluca Pagliarani. It was published in 2009 by American company Avatar Press.

Publication history

Ellis initially conceived the plot in 2005. After some brief initial work in 2006, the series was not mentioned again until after the release of his Aetheric Mechanics in 2008.[1] Inspirations included the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials, the show Deadwood, the artist Magdalene Veen,[2] the film Metropolis, the Berlin Tegel Airport, Ray Bradbury's short story "Rocket Summer", Alan Moore's comic The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and his own Ministry of Space comic (which was in turn inspired by Dan Dare).[3][4]

Plot

Ignition City is set in an atompunk/dieselpunk alternate history in the year 1956; in this timeline, World War II was interrupted by a Martian invasion. As a result, space travel became commonplace. Ignition City itself is a circular island spaceport, the interior of which is populated by former spacemen. The story follows Mary Raven, a young woman who travels to Ignition City after her father, a formerly famous spaceman named Rock Raven, is killed there.[5]

Characters

Collected editions

The series has been collected into a trade paperback:

Notes

References

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