Set in and around London, this series is based on a classic story (see below) in which a group of paranormally-gifted chlldren are born around the same time, in the same area. This version explores the idea of what would happen if they were allowed to grow to adulthood. The result is, well… the collapse of England!
The premise is roughly taken from the excellent sci-fi work The Midwich Cuckoos. Author Warren Ellis is perhaps best-known for his popular Transmetropolitan cyberpunk series.
As the story progresses, eleven of the FreakAngels are introduced and their role in the community is expanded. For the most part cooperatively they have created a small community of roughly three hundred people with fresh water, watch towers, markets, home-grown vegetables and a medical clinic. --WP
Their society is threatened, however, externally from refugee attacks and internally from personal conflicts and crime.
This series is raw, intense, and features quality dialogue, even as the characters are more or less constantly fussing & fighting, even as they’re meanwhile growing in ability. I thought the female leads were especially well-written and convincing. My main quibble with this series is that the day-to-day depiction of the setting, internal logistics and minor characters are so underdeveloped as to be almost nonexistent. This really is *ALL about* the relationships between the main characters and how their special abilities impact them.
Still, this was otherwise an excellently-developed work, and overall probably the best post-apoc story of paranormal variety I’ve ever read. Note: this was originally an online comic, later issued in GN form. I'll be adding it to the webcomix list, soon. --Johnny
READ IT ONLINE:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150905052833/http://www.freakangels.com/?p=23
Unfortunately, that's not what I'm talking about, either.
What I'm talking about is something like a sufficient, critical mass needed to help .ee (and any other place) survive in the long run. Two years ago I thought there was a real opportunity and possibility based on what the Reddit execs were publicly doing... how many users it both pissed off and motivated. That in turn brought about a burst of user energy, directly reflected by the significant migration to FV, which of course included participation, and at best, valuable content-creation, curation, useful posts & comments, and responsible moderation. That was a significant, known movement, and IMO a positive one, even if it wasn't going to last indefinitely.
As a personal example of a 'motivated user,' I saw the need for a certain community which was nowhere-else present across the FV, and decided to create it. Over the past two years I've populated it with 400+ posts, most of them in the form of mini-articles. Other people also chipped in here and there, and there have been healthy comments and subscribers to sort of flesh the whole thing out over time.
For the most part it's been a fun (if sometimes extremely frustrating) little hobby, but it's still basically a one-man show, despite almost 2yrs and 1,210 subscribed accts. Point is-- at the end of the day it's been a small project that I thought worth maintaining as both a thank you to .ee and a tribute to the FV as a whole. Lemm.ee didn't necessarily need that kind of contribution from more than a handful of users, but as said above, it needed a certain critical mass to make it work across the server as a whole, and a minimum of posters contributing vile content or simply being disruptive assholes.
At one time I thought community spirit (for what that's worth) would kind of tilt things in a long-term sustainable direction. But it seems I was mistaken, and thus we have the announcement today. IMO I'm not pointing fingers; I'm observing.