Schedule Monthly Publication date April – October 2009 Penciller(s) Gianluca Pagliarani Writer Warren Ellis Publisher Avatar Press | Format Limited series Number of issues 5 Inker(s) Chris Drier Genre Alternate history | |
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Ignition City is a five-issue science fiction comic book limited series, written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Gianluca Pagliarani. It was published in 2009 by American company Avatar Press.
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Publication history
Ellis initially conceived the plot in 2005. After some brief initial work in 2006, the series was not mentioned again until after the release of his Aetheric Mechanics in 2008. Inspirations included the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials, the show Deadwood, the artist Magdalene Veen, the film Metropolis, the Berlin Tegel Airport, Ray Bradbury's short story "Rocket Summer", Alan Moore's comic The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and his own Ministry of Space comic (which was in turn inspired by Dan Dare).
Plot
Ignition City is set in an atompunk/dieselpunk alternate history in the year 1956; in this timeline, World War II was interrupted by a Martian invasion. As a result, space travel became commonplace. Ignition City itself is a circular island spaceport, the interior of which is populated by former spacemen. The story follows Mary Raven, a young woman who travels to Ignition City after her father, a formerly famous spaceman named Rock Raven, is killed there.
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Collected editions
The series has been collected into a trade paperback: