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Altered States: The Shadow writer's commentary by David Avallone Art by Ivan Rodriguez My second "Altered States" book is The Shadow I've always loved the Shadow I love the Shadow so much I took a job as an extra on that kinda awful Alec Baldwin movie I'm the guy in the glasses standing next to Margo Lane[...]

Mark Rahner, writer of Twilight Zone: Shadow and Substance #3, talks with writer David Avallone about Altered States: The Shadow one shot, both on sale now Cover art by Billy Tan. MARK RAHNER: What's the elevator concept for Altered States and how The Shadow fits in. DAVID AVALLONE: The elevator concept for Altered States is essentially "Dynamite's[...]

We have an exclusive first look into the pages of Altered States: The Shadow from Dynamite Entertainment The new one-shot takes the classic pulp hero and puts him into another dimension The book is written by David Avallone and drawn by Ivan Rodriguez with color by Dinei Ribeiro. Welcome to Altered States… Dynamite Entertainment's parallel reality in[...]

With their recent launch of their Altered States books, Dynamite has created a new vehicle for "Elseworlds" type stories with their library of classic and iconic characters They started off with Vampirella on another planet, Red Sonja in modern day that then gets turn into the Hyborian world, Doc Savage turned into a primitive savage[...]

We got the writer commentary from David Avallone for the recently released Altered States: Doc Savage Normally we run them in one piece but because of the detail and the number of pages we have to show, we are going to do it in two parts this time Here is the second part. I haven't mentioned[...]

We got the writer commentary from David Avallone for the recently released Altered States: Doc Savage Normally we run them in one piece but because of the detail and the number of pages we have to show, we are going to do it in two parts this time Enjoy. Last fall I got an email from[...]

Nancy Collins, writer of Red Sonja: Vulture's Circle #3, talks with writer David Avallone about the Altered States: Doc Savage one-shot, both on sale now Cover by Billy Tan.  NANCY COLLINS: What makes your version of Doc Savage an Altered State? DAVID AVALLONE: For this one, I took the assignment maybe too literally and the set-up is[...]

Dynamite's new line of Altered States comics continues with a new take on the classic pulp character Doc Savage This one shot is written by David Avallone, drawn by Dave Acosta and features a cover by Billy Tan This is the third Altered States book from the publisher with new takes on Vampirella and Red Sonja[...]

Like a director's commentary track you'd get on a Blu-Ray, here is the writer's commentary track for Dynamite's new Elseworld-like title Altered States: Red Sonja by Brandon Jerway The art here is by Juanan Ramirez. PAGES 1-2 This "some says she died" riff has actually been bouncing around in my head since I wrote the multi-chapter[...]

Dynamite's new Elseworld style series Altered States continues with a Red Sonja one-shot Nancy Collins, writer of Vampirella #10, talks with Brandon Jerwa about the Altered States: Red Sonja one-shot, both on sale now Cover art by Billy Tan, interior art by Juanan Ramirez.  NANCY COLLINS: Brandon, with the Altered States stories this month we're being[...]

Dynamite has sent us some exclusive first look pages for their upcoming Altered States: Doc Savage comic written by David Avallone and drawn by Dave Acosta.Altered States is Dynamite's Elesworlds or What If? comics and takes familiar characters and puts them in very different worlds. Doc's research into the criminal inside all men backfires… and his own experiment[...]

Dynamite has sent us some exclusive first look pages for their upcoming Altered States: Red Sonja comic written by Brandon Jerwa and drawn by Juanan Ramirez.Altered States is Dynamite's Elesworlds or What If? comics and takes familiar characters and puts them in very different worlds. Sonja Majeure is a young woman with a great job, procuring reliquary items[...]

Dynamite has sent us some exclusive first look pages for their upcoming Altered States: Vampirella comic written by Nancy A Collins and drawn by Francesco Manna Altered States is Dynamite's Elesworlds or What If? comics and takes familiar characters and puts them in very different worlds. Ella Normandy is one of three space explorers sent on[...]

Part of Dynamite's new line of Altered States titles will be a one-shot starring Doc Savage by David Avallone Byron Brewer caught up with Avallone to talk about this alternate reality version of the Man of Bronze. BYRON BREWER: David, there are a lot of stories taking place in alternate realities these days How do you[...]

Part of Dynamite's new "elseworld-style" comics called Altered States is a variant take on the classic vilgilante The Shadow Heading up the one-shot is writer David Avallone and he talked with Byron Brewer about the new project. BYRON BREWER: David, are you a fan of The Shadow, certainly one of the most iconic characters in Dynamite's[...]

Dynamite is firing up their new line of alternate reality series called Altered States and they are kicking things off with Vampirella, The Shadow, Doc Savage and Red Sonja Writer of the on-going Vampirella series Nancy A Collins is taking on the variant tale of the iconic female vampire and Byron Brewer talked to her about it. BYRON[...]

DC has its Elseworlds and Marvel has its What If?… now Dynamite is jumping into the fray and offering up Altered States, a new line of stories taking familiar characters and putting them in parallel realities They have announced four titles to kick off this new line. Altered States: Red Sonja by Brandon Jerwa and Juanan[...]