Celebrated comics author Warren Ellis is nobody's sweetheart. Although a number of his books, including Transmetropolitan, Planetary, Hellblazer, and The Authority, have been widely praised, he's also...well, the polite term is "opinionated". He haunts the internet, an irascible insomniac akin to his own creation Doktor Sleepless, holing forth his views on everything from politics to culture to sex. He recently came under fire for some rather intemperate comments he made the night of Heath Ledger's death, having what many people have called a "John Byrne moment" (in reference to another famous comic book creator prone to loudmouthed blabbing) and earning him the enmity of Ledger fans who had theretofore never even heard of the man.
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