Celebrating the premiere of the Bruce Willis film, Surrogates publisher Top Shelf is having a THREE DOLLAR graphic novel web sale starting today through the Surrogates premiere September 25.

There is more though! Via Press Release, Top Shelf PR guru Chris Staros says you can download a Surrogates app for the iPhone which includes the first two issues of the ground breaking series for 99 cents, and the rest of the issues for the same price.

Staros says this web sale deal is good for retailers as well, but to email in regards to it.  Below is a list of $3 sales and slashed prices on some books completely worth your time like Lost Girls, Jeff Lemire’s Essex County and Blankets.

– $3 Books: The Barefoot Serpent, The Country Nurse, Sulk,
After the Snooter, That Salty Air, and more!
– $3 Books: Please Release, Tales of Woodsman Pete,
Less Than Heroes, Fox Bunny Funny, The King, and more!
– $3 Books: Regards from Serbia, Comic Book Artist,
Hutch Owen, Delayed Replays, Micrographica, and more!

– Slashed Prices: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,
Lost Girls, From Hell, Blankets, Carnet De Voyage, and more!
– Slashed Prices: The Surrogates, Essex County,
Swallow Me Whole, Clumsy, Veeps, and more!
– Slashed Prices: Far Arden, Super Spy, Owly, Korgi,
Johnny Boo, and more!

Details on the sale can be found at the Top Shelf website.

Happy shopping!

I’m writing a film treatment for Hollywood Gang, who co-produced Frank Miller’s 300. Hollywood Gang have previously optioned my graphic novel (with Chris Sprouse) OCEAN.

On my desk, the treatment is called Untitled Arthurian Project.

On their desk, the project is called EXCALIBUR.

And yes, it has absolutely nothing to do with his run on the X-Men spinoff book in the early 90s. Its been a long time since I’ve read anything of Ellis’s since the end of “Nextwave” and “Fell” hasn’t seen an issue in at least a year, but I did really like his short graphic novella “Crecy”. The book is about the battle of Crecy, France in 1346.  It had to be one of the most thoroughly researched, and meticulously written historical graphic novels I can remember.  So, given how much I liked that book, I must say this treatment could be something I’m very much looking forward to Ellis’s take on the Arthurian legends.

Internet Jesus is working with Hollywood Gang, the same people who optioned his and Chris Sprouse’s “Ocean” and produced “300.”

In other Warren Ellis movie news, the adaptation of his and Cully Hamner’s “Red” is moving along nicely.  MTV’s Splash Page reports that Robert Schwentke, the director of the sci-fi romance “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, may be taking the helm of the film.  Hamner, on Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman staring in the film, said:

“I have to point out that, to my knowledge, neither actor is a done deal,” he said. “And even if I’m wrong and they are, it doesn’t mean the movie will even get made.”

Regardless, I think the state of the comic book cinema landscape could use a little bit of Ellis to shake things up.