Captured Ghosts

Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts - Official Full Film

".....I was a righteous 2000A.D. addict --

I would get up at 7:00 in the morning 

to walk to the local newsagent 

to get 2000A.D. fresh off 

the morning delivery --

Oh I love comics  --

.....always Thought visually; 

I probably drew my own little 

rough & ready comics 

and stapled them --

Having visual Thinking 

is a big part of being 

a comics writer --

My Grandfather had died and
My Mother was trying
to explain it to Me --

"Grandpa isn't coming back...?" 

"No," she said, "not ever again --"
and I remember saying 

"...hold everything, 

right f**king there -- 

You went to all The Trouble of conceiving me and 

giving birth to me, and raising 

me and clothing me, and all —

And you make me cry and things hurt so much and 

disappointments crush my heart every day 

and I can't do half the things I want to do 

and sometimes I just want to scream

and what I've got to look forward to 

is my body breaking and 

something flipping off
The Switch in my head -- 

I go through all this and 

then there's Death --

What is the fucking deal here?
I wasn't having this, 

this was not fair --

My Mother was what you'd call 

a very lazy Christian in that 

she never went to church, 

appeared to have no 

Faith whatsoever 

but 'believed' in God 

and got very very angry 

if you didn't --

I decided for a fairly early age, 

my early teens that it was 

all A Shell Game --