In addition to TV series based on those two titles, comics written by Ennis have helped inspire the 2005 film Constantine (Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits), 2008's Punisher: War Zone (Punisher MAX), and Netflix's Daredevil Season 2 (Punisher MAX #7-12). Now comes word that Ennis has written a screenplay based on his original 2008-2010 Crossed series, which was published by Avatar Press[...]
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But The Goon properly debuted in Avatar Illustrated in 1998 published by Avatar Press and then an ongoing The Goon series However, Powell was unhappy with the results and moved into self-publishing in 2002 with Albatross Exploding Funny Books This was followed in 2003 with Dark Horse Comics picking it up, including a Goon graphic[...]
After a very long wait, Avatar Press, the owners of Bleeding Cool, have told us that finally, finally, they have both the Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows collections of the comic book series Neonomicon and its prequel/sequel Providence is back in print The two books reincorporate, rework and reappraise the horror work of H.P[...]
What would we look like through their eyes? What would seem to them to be fruitless, pointless, extravagant, useless, destructive, from the point of view of where they happen to be?" The series attempts to answer those questions, and there's a Crossed + One Hundred #0-6 CGC-Graded Numbered Group of 7 (Avatar Press, 2014-15) CGC[...]
God Is Dead is a comic book series created by Jonathan Hickman and written by Mike Costa (and friends) and published by Avatar Press It deals with ancient gods and goddesses from mythologies around the world coming to Earth to lay claim to the world of man, while a group of people named the Collective[...]
Providence is a twelve-issue comic book limited series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Jacen Burrows, published by Bleeding Cool's own publisher, Avatar Press from 2015 to 2017 Dubbed the "Watchmen Of Horror", it took the works of HP Lovecraft and recombined and recontextualised them into one extended narrative, working as both a prequel[...]
Bleeding Cool is published by Avatar Press But I never actually know what's going on at the publisher until I read about it in Previews And next week's Previews will include a listing for Nightmares Of Providence, the artwork companion book to Alan Moore and Jacen Burrow's HP Lovecraft reworking, Providence – itself a perfect[...]
Published by Avatar Press, who also publish Bleeding Cool, includes a level for signed volumes which, unless you live in Northampton, England, are pretty much hard to come by now.
Moore has designed every cover, every single page, and every nuance of this work to create his most fully-realized vision to date. There are no ads,[...]
Avatar Press owns Bleeding Cool, and as they launched a Kickstarter to publish the single collection of Alan Moore's Providence, I was asked to review Providence now that time has passed since its initial publication since so few reviews were ever published I didn't need an excuse to read it again, but it's always fun[...]
Published by Avatar Press, who also publish Bleeding Cool, includes a level for signed volumes which, unless you live in Northampton, England, are pretty much hard to come by now.
Dubbed "the Watchmen of horror", Providence finds a new way to play the horrific out on the comic book page, insanely well-referenced volume and bringing the[...]
But are taking orders now.
Alan Moore's Complete Providence Compendium – Order Now
Avatar Press, who also publish Bleeding Cool, have confirmed details of what they call their "most demanded product in our history" The complete 480 page Providence Compendium collection, will be accompanied by the release of the Nightmares of Providence art book.
Alan Moore's Complete Providence[...]
The Goon #1 by Eric Powell was published by Bleeding Cool's own publisher, Avatar Press, back in 1999 It has just sold at Heritage Auction in CGC 9.9 condition for $28,800, which is being described as a record-setting amount for a modern comic book, after some frenzied bidding from 43 people by the end of[...]
On Saturday evening, I pointed out that today was the FOC date for the Cinema Purgatorio box set from Bleeding Cool's publisher Avatar Press All eighteen issues of the Alan Moore/Kevin O'Neill curated comic book anthology with a cover price of $40 As well as the title comic by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, completely[...]
Cinema Purgatorio was a comic book anthology curated by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, featuring five ongoing features, published by Bleeding Cool's own publisher, Avatar Press Cinema Purgatorio ran for eighteen issues, finishing each story, None of the series have been collected, and certain individual issues can go for a pretty penny But going to[...]
With a new Netflix series based on the comic airing now, Avatar Press is collecting their recent Warrior Nun comic reboot into a graphic novel The Kickstarter campaign to fund the book has more than quadrupled the initial goal and continues to rise With one day left, here is a final look at the series, Warrior[...]
From Pat Shand and Daniel Gete, Warrior Nun: Dora published by Bleeding Cool's own publisher Avatar Press, is a not-quite-mature-readers-only post-satanic panic nineties-set remake of a nineties character, but drenched in teen goth/grunge culture of the just-pre-internet age It's a period piece that's far more reflective of that age than the original comic book.
And keeping[...]
16 years since Ben Dunn first created her for Antarctic Press, she is now published by Avatar Press, (who are also the publishers of Bleeding Cool) And, right now, she is also getting a graphic novel series, to be published alongside the release of the new Netflix series Oh yes, she's getting a Netflix series,[...]
So Bleeding Cool is owned by Avatar Press Do you see a lot of Avatar promotional stuff on this site? Not really no because, despite Avatar Press owning their own media site, they are shockingly bad at actually using it for any promotional purposes And I end up finding out what they are publishing through[...]
Bleeding Cool's publishers, Avatar Press, bought Warrior Nun Areala some time ago from its creator, Ben Dunn and Antarctic Press Now sold to Netflix, they are relaunching the Warrior Nun franchise beginning with Warrior Nun Dora by Pat Shand and Daniel Gete, to be published this August And maybe a little Good Omens feel as well…
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Netflix has announced three new series, two based on comic books, one of them on the upcoming Avatar Press Warrior Nun Avatar Press are the owners of Bleeding Cool.
Warrior Nun is an upcoming unannounced comic from Avatar Press that revolves around a 19-year-old woman who wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life[...]
Every Sunday Warren Ellis sends out Orbital Operations, his weekly newsletter where he talks about his current projects, thoughts, commentary on culture and recommendations for music, books, movies, television and whatever else took his fancy in the past week.
Warren Ellis at SDCC, Photo by Gage Skidmore
This week, he talks about the latest Marvel movie rolling over[...]
You know what one of the perks of being owned by a comic book publisher is? Well, that they constantly forget to tell us what they are up to, leading us to having to search the internet.
Such as their retail side Comics Cavalcade having Avatar Press's solicits for July 2018 Without, like, telling us It[...]
Alan Moore has done a lot of work with Avatar Press, Bleeding Cool's parent company They are reprinting a number of his works, including Another Suburban Romance and Light of Thy Countenance. Cinema Purgatorio continues, another Moore project, and Crossed Plus 100 Mimic rolls on All of this is coming out in June[...]
That is usually the case, because there are plenty of great comics and comic creators out there, both in and outside of the Big Two.
In any case, check out the offerings below:
Uber: Invasion #12
Full disclosure: this is an Avatar Press comic, and Avatar Press is the parent company of Bleeding Cool However, it's worth mentioning[...]
Gage, Patrick Shand, Emiliano Urdinola, Raulo Caceres, and Gabriel Andrade and Uber Invasion by Kieron Gillen and Daniel Gete are coming out this May courtesy of Avatar Press, our parent company More details below.
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Avatar Press, Bleeding Cool's parent company, is publishing work from talents such as Kieron Gillen, Alan Moore, and Jacen Burrows These come through, Uber Invasion, Cinema Purgatorio, and Dreadful Beauty Art of Providence, the last of which is an artbook celebrating the work of Jacen Burrows More details are available below[...]
In January, Avatar Press, the publisher of Bleeding Cool has its mind on war – just like the rest of us And with a new collection of Uber from Kieron Gillen and Daniel Gete, and a new War Stories from Garth Ennis and Tomas Aria, they're going to hammer that home a tad.
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Avatar Press owns Bleeding Cool Lock stock and two smoking barrels But even if they didn't, I'd be running this anyway Because Avatar Press is running a 75% OFF EVERYTHING ComiXology sale right now, including work by some of the greatest comic book creators working today.
Just use the code avatar17 at checkout, and there's 75%[...]
Now, first I have to point out that Avatar Press is the parent company of Bleeding Cool, so yes I work for them… and that the reason I initially read the series was because was asked to write a back-up story for the last eight issues of the series But this is about the first[...]
TL;DR: Go get these insanely great and limited Providence Century Sets, while supplies last. If you haven't read Providence by Alan Moore and Jacen