Heads-up, WildStorm fans: Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Sleeper and Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner’s Red will be featured on today’s episode of Attack of the Show, over on G4. Check out the showtimes here.

The WildStorm and DC Comics offices are closed on Friday for the holiday, so no Bleed tomorrow - enjoy the weekend

I remember the first time I read PLANETARY, as a fresh-out-of-college newly minted assistant editor at Dark Horse Comics. There was a short preview in the back of another WildStorm book I’d purchased, and it blew me away—a fun, short story with some dynamite art.

At that point, my only introduction to Warren Ellis had been his terrific STORMWATCH work. With John Cassaday, I’d seen his unique and exciting DESPERADOES. But you could tell these guys were going to be huge. And with PLANETARY, you had the focus of two extraordinary creators with one singular story to tell…and boy, has it been one helluva journey! I would never have thought, all those years ago reading that short story, that someday I would be a senior editor at WildStorm Productions overseeing the final issue of this incredible, defining work. It’s taken some time to put all the pieces together, but I think it’s going to be a satisfying conclusion for all the fans who’ve patiently (and some impatiently!) waited all this time.

And I was right—Warren and John have definitely made names for themselves in the biz.

We’ve got another bonus this month for Warren Ellis fans—a reprinting of the killer RED series he did with the incomparable Cully Hamner (which is being developed into a movie, too, by Summit Entertainment!). It’s a special treat for fans of the story, as it reprints the miniseries AND has a ton of special “bonus” extras in the back (and it’s a solo reprinting, unlike the original version that had it as a flipbook with another series). Since I worked on the original mini, I thought it might be cool to have a peek at a couple elements that not even this exhaustive reprinting could show off. Enjoy!