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Avatar To Go Digital In September And A New Sci-Fi Line Coming – The Avatar Panel In Bullet Point

I cannot explain it but the Bleeding Cool panel was on at the same time as the Avatar panel. Thankfully Eric Rezsnyak was on hand to make the ultimate sacrifice and left to check out what Avatar was up to. Here it is, in bullet point…

-"Uber" getting special hardcover edition in October limited to 5000 copies. Will include all 176 pages of issues 0-5, PLUS

-"Uber" is currently planned for 60 issues, and the original creative team has signed on for a five-year run.

-In October a new webcomic will launch with "Disenchanted" by Si Spurrier. Six new pages weekly. Totally free. The first issue will be published in print, for free, in time for Halloween.

-The new George R.R. Martin series "Skin Trade" is four issues. Another new George R.R. Martin series at Avatar next year.

-There will be another new long-form Avatar series from Gillen next year

-More Si Spurrier next year

-Adding new writers to "Crossed" arcs, including David Hine, Daniel Way, and (as you reported this morning) Justin Jordan.

-Garth Ennis himself will return to "Crossed" starting with issue 50 next year, for a seven-part arc called "Patient Zero" that will go back to the beginning and "telling the story everyone wants to see," per publisher William Christensen

-Warren Ellis's "Gravel" will return in "Gravel: Combat Magician" (written by Mike Wolfer)

-Avatar is set to go digital in September, rolling out the publisher's back catalogue, as well as day-and-date new issues going forward. Through Comixology.

-Spoke briefly about Christos Gage's "Absolution" and the new arc "Rubicon," which was compared to Moore's "Miracleman."

-Max Brooks' "Extinction Parade" is bimonthly, has been grown to 12 issues, might go longer, and Brooks and the artist have signed on for the entire process

-Teased a possible sci-fi line coming next year

-Said to expect a lot more announcements at New York Comic-Con.

Avatar has been a hold out for digital comics versions of their print comics. Looks like the deal with ComiXology must have been a very attractive one.

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