The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end." That's how much better it is.

He also has five other current series with Avatar: Anna MercuryNo Hero along with two long series Doktor Sleepless and Gravel. 2 with artist Bryan Hitch. On June 12 2008 the front page of The Hollywood Reporter announced that Summit Entertainment had optioned Red (2003) Ellis's thriller with artist Cully Hamner as a feature film.

Warren Girard Ellis (born February 16 1968) is an English author of comics novels and television who is well known for sociocultural commentary both through his online presence and through his writing which covers transhumanist themes (most notably nanotechnology cryonics mind transfer and human enhancement).