I'm not sure how this hasn't got past the development stage of a TV series. The first 12 episodes have already been written even. They could be lifted as is from the graphic novel. That's how good this series is. This is Warren Ellis at his best.The premise of the series is simple. 1,001 experts in their fields have committed to be on-call when disaster strikes. They fight alien technology, terrorists, government experiments gone wrong, etc.

Special Ops team that operates on a global scale to save the world from threats. Not a believable story. I couldn't get into it.

I am a Warren Ellis fan, or at least I thought I was until I started reading that book. I mean Trees was frustrating with its slow pace but this!!!!I even joined goodreads specially to write this review. I have never been so frustrated with a graphic novel as much as I have with Global Frequency. The story lines and the dialogues are so cheesy! They might appeal to a middle school kid. Stories are fast-paced, dumb, unconvincing, and have no substance. I am giving it a (very generous) two-star re...

AWESOME!

Global Frequency is an international, independent organisation founded by the mysterious and secretive Miranda Zero. It's made up from 1001 agents all over the world and deals with occurrences and situations too big, strange or dangerous to be handled by conventional means, such as eco-terrorism, mass hysteria, or secret government cyborgs out of control. The agents range from law enforcement representatives, both active and retired, professors, scientists, tech savvy teenagers, intelligence ope...

You can find my review on my blog by clicking here.Every second count. Isn’t that what they always say? Whether you’re drowning in the middle of a river or being held at gunpoint by a psychopathic serial killer, it’s within those precious seconds that everything can change and that means you either suffer a terrible death or live to see another day. But what if state-issued protection (police, army, etc.) wasn’t enough? What if the answer lied in a whole different system that didn’t abide by the...

Some of these punchy serials were pretty interesting, others were just blah. Almost all of them felt just a little too short, probably due to the same format constraints that keep me from reading any comic series issue by issue.

Warren Ellis mentioned in an interview that he wrote this book in response to 9/11. Not that attack of 9/11 but the response of people to it, and how some would say "I wish Superman(or whoever) were real to stop things like this." His response in this book is that it can be everyday people like us to stop these things. Each issue is a single issue about a single event, and a group of people (brought together by the Global Frequency) to stop a bombing, a virus release, etc. Each issue has a diffe...

Too superficial plotlines; way too much violence. I'm beginning to suspect that all those simultaneous projects are wearing the author thin. If he could focus on fewer, I bet they'd be really good (again). (Awesome art by Lee Bermejo again in one episode. I really like his style.)

I loved this one. It reminded me a lot of Planetary, just with less superheroics.Global Frequency is a global team of 1,001 agents all with specialized skills. Each issue features a new cast (some show up every issue, but the core team changes) dealing with some new weirdness in places all over the world. Think X-Files or Fringe type happenings.Each issue is also drawn by a different top notch artist, which plays right into the different agents being used for each mission.I think some people fou...

Man, I wish I could say I loved this book. It’s got action, sharp writing, cool technology, and resplendent artwork. And yet it’s fundamentally unsatisfying because of what it is: a series of twelve well-crafted, self-contained, consequence-free action scenes.For me, the episodic nature of this series is its undoing. You know going in that the Global Frequency agents are going to get the bad guys, so the book is devoid of any genuine sense of danger. Drama flies out the damn window, and you’re l...

Loved this, sad to see it had such a short run, excellent pace and the various artists on the issues where all top notch. This could and should have ran for longer so more background on the operatives could have been established. The mission impossible/man from uncle vibe i enjoyed and the fact that it was a rescue organisation was also very cool. Its a shame the proposed t.v. series never got past the pilot episode stage. I think toady this series would have gone further. Mr Ellis rocks again.

This volume collects all 12 issues of Global Frequency. As such, it tells 12 different stories that come to life through the art of 12 different artists. I will not pretend to know the different artists. I must also admit that some of the art was not too good in my opinion (3 stars max) while other artists blew it out of the water.I will not go into details of all the 12 standalone stories. Suffice it to say that they offer a glimpse into what the Global Frequency is. Miranda Zero started the re...

Warren Ellis is a master of the single issue comic. He consistently crafts 22-page stories that are compelling, succinct, and powerful, short stories you can pick up and enjoy without knowing anything. Whenever I read an Ellis comic, his reverence for the single issue comic as an art form shines through. Global Frequency, then, is a perfect showcase for Ellis’ single issue prowess. The series consists of 12 stories – each drawn by a different artist – about an intelligence organization that thwa...

This is a good test for comics that rely so much on technology: read them 10, 12 years later. Global Frequency was published from 2002 to 2004 and it's fresh in 2015. It serves as a counterpoint to Transmetropolitan.And it actually began when Transmetropolitan ended, in 2002. That other series was an anti-system delirium, centered around a single character, distilling heavy doses of hatred, scepticism, lucidity, humanism, sometimes all those at once. The leading character, a journalist, incarnat...

What?I don't get it. I mean, normally when something opens up in the middle of the action with little to no explanation as to what's happening or why, it's a good idea to sit back and wait.Because eventually the backstories and reasons behind the story will be explained. But if you think that's what will happen here, you'll be sorely disappointed. <--I know I was. Everything you're going to find out about the mysterious Global Frequency is in the blurb. Everything.The stories themselves are jus...

Global Frequency was surprisingly good. This volume collects all the single issues into one.The Global Frequency is a group of thousands of individuals who are all connected to this private frequency. They are all sorts of people- from intel agents to computer hackers, artists to parkour athletes...in the event of an emergency (generally a rescue operation of some sort) the Global Frequency jumps into action. Due to the huge disparity in the jobs and roles of the members they can sometimes respo...

I read this book a couple of years ago and commented that I wish there was more of a thread to tie this book together. Rereading it now, I realize that this was a monthly comic that has been collected in trade, and not a graphic novel/ one story. And for a year of comic books, it’s pretty great. Yes, there is not much of a thread from issue to issue, but if I was reading this month to month I would have dug it.

Fantastic. People have been after me to read this for ages, and I'm so glad I finally took their advice. Warren Ellis writes some of the best single issues in comics—I came to Global Frequency expecting a long, slow build, like in Planetary, but found instead these chiseled, expansive issues, closer to his run on Moon Knight, but with Planetary's political edge. I'll be returning to this one in the near future.

3.5I'm torn with this series. The action is awesome, it runs all the way through with minimal stops for explanation. The situations are fantastic because the writing creates a whole world with such a limited experience. It's just 12 issues, all centered around action pieces and out of this world scenarios. That's great and all, but there isn't any character development. Each issue is a new cast (save for two). Whenever shit hits the fan (because there are instances where things go smoothly) ther...