Tokyo Storm Warning

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Written by Warren Ellis and drawn by James Raiz and Andrew Currie, Tokyo Storm Warning (named after an Elvis Costello song) was a three-part miniseries published by Wildstorm comics. It followed the exploits of the pilots of the ARCangels - gigantic robotic constructs used by the Japanese government to battle fantastic creatures hell-bent on penetrating the defences of a secret installation in the heart of modern Tokyo. Criticised for its depiction of the Japanese, and a first issue that was little more than an English-language comic version of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Tokyo Storm Warning is mostly dismissive of the 'giant robot' genre as seen by the west, despite using it as its main selling point. Several of the creatures depicted also bear a resemblance to famous movie monsters, such as the Americanised Godzilla, and King Ghidorah, while the ARCangels have several surface details similar to robots from the Gundam franchise. The book was written during a lean period of Ellis' output, in which he mostly produced books in three-issue bursts for independent publishers, such as Red and Reload.

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