FreakAngels

Crunchyroll adapted the webcomic into an animated series in January 2022.

• Title — FreakAngels • Author — Warren Ellis (writer) Paul Duffield (artist) • Url — www.freakangels.com • Status — Ended • First — 15 February 2008 • Last — 5 August 2011 • Publisher — Avatar Press • Genre — steampunk

Warren Ellis announced the project at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con with the statement: "I've written two hundred pages and I still have no idea what it's about… it's retro-punk, it's near future steampunk" It was launched on 15 February 2008. New installments were released in six full-colour page episodes every week, a schedule that allows the story the chance to grow naturally. The story grew out of Ellis' question as to what would have happened if the Midwich Cuckoos had survived and grown to "disaffected and confused twenty-one-year-olds." The story builds on the legacy of John Wyndham's style of disaster fiction. The series ran for 144 episodes, completing on Friday 5 August 2011. Duffield eventually moved on to his own webcomic project, The Firelight Isle.

Ellis' synopsis of the plot involves characters "living in a post-flood London that they might possibly have had something to do with." The so-called FreakAngels, who possess telepathy and many other "special" abilities, such as space-time manipulation/distortion, and pyrokinesis, live in Whitechapel. As the story progresses, eleven of the FreakAngels are introduced and their role in the community is expanded. For the most part cooperatively they have created a small community of roughly three hundred people with fresh water, watch towers, markets, home-grown vegetables and a medical clinic. Their society is threatened, however, externally from refugee attacks and internally from personal conflicts and crime.

Crunchyroll Studios produced a 9-episode animated series based on the webcomic which was released on January 27, 2022.