Global Frequency

[andrewducker]

Warren Ellis produced a nice little comic called Global Frequency.  12 issues, each with a different artist, around the idea of thousands of on-call specialists available to deal with some of humanities least tractable problems around the world.

It got picked up to be made into a TV series, and then canned after the pilot was made (see the producer's comments here - well worth a read).

You can now get the pilot on BitTorrent.  I plan to watch it this weekend, because everyone I know who's seen it loves it.

Ya never know - with enough publicity, it might even make it to the screen...

Comments

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that; interesting post. When he said he had 'almost the entire writing staff of Angel' ready to work on the show, I ground my teeth in frustration for what never was all over again. :)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Also: what counts as 'broadcast' for the purposes of Hugo nominations ... ? [g]

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind seeing that..

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

When he said he had 'almost the entire writing staff of Angel' ready to work on the show,

Thank god it wasn't made.

They did change the central thing I liked about the comic and make it a clone (a very shiny and good and better clone, but a clone nonetheless) of every post X-files show, however.

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

Can you provide the link to that?

[andrewducker]

http://torrentspy.com/search.asp?mode=torrentdetails&id=330381&query=global%20frequency

Sorry - took a while for me to track one down...

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

Dammit, Andy... I don't know if I'll be able to afford the trip, and you taunt me with this?

Swimming the Atlantic is hard work, you know...

[grahamb.livejournal.com]

It's very nicely done and the concessions for TV don't get in the way too much. Sad though it is I'm physically restraining myself from sampling the GF ringtone to use on my mobile.

[gerardkeating.livejournal.com]

If the restraining does not work, can you give me a copy of the ringtone ...

[mirukux.livejournal.com]

number 13 when googling for '"Global Frequency" bittorrent' and the only one that could help me ;)

[andrewducker]

How did it help you? Does that Torrentspy link still work???

[mirukux.livejournal.com]

aye. googling for those terms gives pages full of news articles about the topic. i didn't think to go to an actual torrent site and search there first >_<