FreakAngels, Vol 2

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews FreakAngels, Vol. 2 [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield, part of the FreakAngels series

Ellis Duffield Freakangels Vol 2

This second volume of FreakAngels charts a turn from mere survival of the Whitechapel clan and their local peasantry, to a more ambitious rebuilding project in the ruins of London. Some new psychic powers are demonstrated, and it turns out that the mutants use the eight-circuit psychological model of Timothy Leary in describing their paranormal interactions with other minds. 

I first noticed in this volume — though it was surely true in the previous one — that each of the FreakAngels has the letter K in his or her name.

The title continues to impress and engage me, and I’m enjoying the leisurely pace of narrative development. I already have the next volume on hand, but I’ll take a little breather before reading it.

Consider also:

  1. Light
  2. “Fear is not freedom. Fear is not liberty. Fear is control.”
  3. In Nomine Babalon, CXXXIX
  4. The People of the Black Circle
  5. “Ille argues that art should express spiritual truths, not worldly observations. Rhetoricians and sentimentalists, according to him, cannot be artists, because the artist is always an outsider, a holy hermit living, as Yeats says in Per Arnica, ‘on the threshold of the sacred house'”