Desolation Jones

To review the script for Desolation Jones, I've had to read it twice. The first time through I was expecting something more along the lines of a film script or a detailed story board, but was surprised by the script's lack of specification (which is not to say the script is visually lacking, its not, it reads very fluently, less like a set of step by step instructions on how the comic should be created and more like a story.)
An array in the level of detail in the script illustrated key events, as Warren Ellis takes time to describe environments and characters to set up the tone at certain moments:

(Page 1)Pic 2
Cut to: a middle-aged WOMAN, sitting in a big chair, reading from a cardboard folder. Again, the distortion, the chair seeming massive, her hands ballooned by the weird focus into immense talons.

While more frequently omitting specification at others:
"Pic 4;
Jones on the phone, still trying to wake up."

I feel that the difference in these moments has left an impression different than that that may have been picked up reading the comic, which I still have not read. It'll be interesting to see if the flow of the story is effected by the affinity created by having details drawn out. Diminishing the contrast between: "Still trying to wake up" and "the chair seeming massive, her hands ballooned by the weird focus into immense talons."

Ellis gives a lot of freedom to J.H. Williams III to choose how to cover a majority of the stories action. Although at other moments Ellis describes the method he wants Williams III to illustrate in (the angle he should shade from, etc.)
I wonder how many images were sent back and forth between the William III and Ellis, whether or not this script should be treated like a script that is being pitched for story or for production. From the perspective of our class, I've been treating it like production, which may be why it seems so odd to me, although this is the only comic script I've read.

Reading it simply as a script, a very powerful element of is Ellis's creation of a space and character:
"A light source from above bounces off her little glasses, so that we cannot see her eyes."
There is a logic to how the practicality of the space effects the tone of the piece,
which made the script so enjoyable to read. And the characters are drawn very clearly.

The link to the script can be found on Warren Ellis's site at:
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7954