Le Parkour: it's not Tony Jaa, but it's close

Lets talk about Warren Ellis, shall we? He's known for his hard edged comics dealing with science fiction. There's also usually a bastard in them. This bastard smokes a lot, says witty things and is moody. The bastard usually wears black. A couple of years ago, Warren Ellis did something weird in his comics, he broke convention. Check back to your back issues of the Global Frequency, the one illustrated by David Lloyd, the guy that did V for Vendetta. See it. Notice something different? Yeah, there's an angry chain smoking bastard in it that exchanges self aware witicisms in it, but the trust of the plot isn't powered by science fiction. Gasp! Instead, it's about an extreme sport straight outta France called Le Parkour. The unfortunate thing about comics is that they don't capture motion nearly as well as film does, and, as a result, the issue was pretty underwhelming. Lloyd's art being weirdly inked and coloured doesn't help that much either. Thankfully, through the powers of the internet, you can see what >le Parkour looks like in real life. Remember the bit in Ong Bak where Tony Jaa is chased through the slums? It's sorta like that, but done by Russian kids. There's also less curry and no side kick whose real life nick name is dirty balls. But we can pretend.
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