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Garth Ennis' War Stories Moves From DC Comics To Avatar Press
Dynamite published a number of similar stories under the Battlefields name which Dynamite have recently finished collecting. But now Garth Ennis is to write a number of new wartime dramatic stories under the War Stories banner again, this time from Bleeding Cool's owner, Avatar Press, with artist Matt Martin. Launching in October, the first book is soliited[...]
When Joan Rivers Browsed Issues Of Crossed At Calgary Comic Con
Courtesy of Bleeding Cool owners Avatar Press at Calgary Comic Con this past weekend, Joan Rivers browsing episodes of the ongoing horror series, Crossed, created by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows. It's a big show It attracts all sorts. You know, I'm sure they'd be a role for her in the Crossed webisodes being filmed if she[...]
Caliban, Uber, Extinction Parade And God Is Dead Variants For Calgary Comic Con
Bleeding Cool's publisher Avatar Press had a bunch of exclusive variant covers for next week's Calgary Comic Con… and Max Brooks, Kieron Gillen and Mike Costa on hand to sell them! Caliban #1 Final Frontier – $4 –  Limited to 1500 copies. Kieron Gillen Signables Uber Special #1 Grim Reaper – $10 – Limited to 500 copies. Uber #10[...]
Max Brooks, Kieron Gillen And Mike Costa Go To Calgary Next Weekend
But Bleeding Cool publisher Avatar Press And publisher William Christensen is bringing a few star names along with him. I mean, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan will be there too But have they ever written a comic book? Max Brooks, who will have the biggest queues, brought out by World War Z, to sign his new series[...]
Preview: Dark Horse's Free Comic Book Day's Offerings For 2014
First Saturday of May, remember! I think I'll be bringing a bevy of children to London's stores with me… Avatar/Hellboy/Juice Squeezers By Gene Luen Yang, Faith Erin Hicks and more. In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Sokka follows Suki as she gives a lesson in manners and encourages a young girl's strength Itty Bitty Hellboy has fun toying with[...]
Avatar's Press Day Is Underway…
Beneath the Diamond Retailer Day, at the Aloft Hotel in the London Docklands, Avatar Press, owners of Bleeding Cool are having their Press Day I spied Bleeding Cool's own Tom Huxley talking visually to Kieron Gillen, while others commandeered Max Brooks and Si Spurrier, while the svengali figure that is William Christensen looked on… all[...]
Thirty-Eight Thoughts About Thirty-Eight Comics – Superior Spider-Man, Saga, Knights Of Pendragon, Uncanny Avengers, Dark Knight, Saviors, Super Dinosaur, Earth 2, Batman And Robin, TMNT, Godzilla, Ghostbusters, Aquaman, Flash, Catwoman, Sledgehammer 44, Inhumanity, Furious, Transformers, Serenity, Invincible, Bounce, Black Science, Conan, Neverending, Bravest Warriors, Siegfried,  Artifacts, Aphrodite IX, Age Of Darkness, Star Trek, Thief Of Thieves, Revival, Uber, Crossed, L'il Sonja, Adventure Time And Other Dead
Heisenberg? Yes, we have new Superior Spider-Man #26, including a look at whatever Peter Parker is up to, as Dock Ock's world begins to unravel around
Faeries Are Just Really Racist Aren't They?
Welcome back to Disenchanted, Si Spurrier and German Erramouspe's grown-up fairytale comics, a free webcomic from Bleeding Cool's publisher Avatar The new issue just went up. The first collection is out in print later this year, but is all still available free from the website. How does that make you feel? Exactly.   Welcome back to Disenchanted, Si Spurrier[...]
Sam Worthington And Zoe Saldana Will Return For All Three Avatar Sequels
Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana will reprise their roles for all three Avatar sequels, 20th Century Fox announced today Production begins on the back to back to back films later this year. Worthington played the human soldier Jake Sully, who donned an Avatar of a Na'vi and ultimately fell for Saldana's Neytiri, turning his back on[...]
These Are The Nominations For The Annual Diamond Gem Awards 2013 (UPDATE)
Retailers have until January 17th to vote – and get entered for a $100 worth of backlist for doing so, or 500 free bags… UPDATE: Now with all the categories 2013 Comic Book Publisher of the Year – Over 4% Dark Horse Comics DC Entertainment IDW Publishing Image Comics Marvel Comics 2013 Comic Book Publisher of the Year – Under 4% Archie Comics Avatar Press BOOM![...]
In One Week, In Two Weeks – The Final Locke & Key And A Comic-Deprived Christmas
Next week sees issue ones for previous issue zeroes Ghost and Harley Quinn, the launch of Teen Titans Go and the Illegitimates, 8Bit Zombies from Antarctic, Midas Flesh from Boom! and the final Locke & Key. The week after that? Not so much… DARK HORSE COMICS BLOODHOUND CROWBAR MEDICINE #3 $3.99 BPRD HELL ON EARTH #114 $3.50 BUZZKILL #4 $3.99 CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT #6 $2.99 CONAN THE[...]
Hellboy Day Vs C-Day In March 2014
John Byrne will be at home watching Star Trek reruns. And then on Wednesday, March 26th, Avatar Press will be launching C-Day, for the release of Crossed: Badlands #50 as Garth Ennis returns to the book he created to tell the story of the very first Crossed patient, in Patient Zero More free stuff, more events,[...]
Forty-One Thoughts About Forty Comics – Uber, Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine & The X-Men, Satellite Sam, Sinister Dexter, Skin Trade, Three, Chew, Manifest Destiny, Wasteland, Batman, Batgirl, Wolverine, Deathmatch, 3 Guns, Nova, Thunderbolts, Adventure Time, Krampus, Protocol Orphans, Drumhellar, GI Joe, Justice League #3000, Superboy, Unity, Harbinger, A Boy And A Girl, Warlock, Doc Savage, GI Joe Special Missions, Indestructible, Alex + Ada, Lazarus, Memory Collectors, Dead Body Road, Powerpuff Girls, Star Trek, Wraith And X-Files
A quick flick through a few of this week's comics, in the most popular regular column on Bleeding Cool, X Thoughts About X Comics. Get in touch if you
Rover Red Charlie – Less Pride Of Baghdad, More The Far Side
The fight is on to see if they can save themselves. Rover Red Charlie #1 is published today by Avatar Press, the owners of Bleeding Cool. Pride Of Baghdad, as the multiple layered title suggested, was about pride Creatures, keeping their own respect, strength and fortitude as the world fell apart around them The characters were[...]
Absolution, Uber And God Is Dead Delayed In The UK
Bleeding Cool's owners Avatar Press have just let me know that they have just discovered that Absolution Rubicon #5, God Is Dead #3 and Uber #7 have been significantly delayed in the UK, but that all three will be shipping to UK stores this week. Naturally, Diamond Comic Distributors regrets the error. But at least you'll get[...]
Mike Costa Comes Back Home To Detroit
I recently am working with Avatar as well, and William Christensen is also a really great guy to work for Avatar has been a real pleasant surprise at how hands on being available to talent William is really good at that. So, you plan on continue working for all of them? Absolutely, and the book I am[...]
Swipe File: The Royals: Masters Of War And Über
The series begins at the Battle of Berlin, with each subsequent issue set at the site of a significant event during the conflict: Pearl Harbor, The Battle Of Midway, Stalingrad, D-Day and the Fall of Berlin. Published in February, alongside the tenth issue of ongoing series Über by Kieron Gillen and Canaan White, published by Bleeding[...]
Si Spurrier's Disenchantment Gets A Second Episode…
Disenchanted the free webcomic/multi-media extravaganza Disenchanted by Simon Spurrier and German Erramouspe, published by Bleeding Cool's owner Avatar Press has had its second chapter go live. Naturally it maintains it's sophisticated charm, its debonair wit and a sense of good taste at all – – – Please yourself For those already mourning the upcoming absence of Fables,[...]
Disenchantment, The Anti-Fables But With Even More Maps
Today sees the beginning of Disenchanted, the new weekly webcomic from Bleeding Cool publisher Avatar Press, written by Si Spurrier, with full art by German Erramouspe. Welcome to Vermintown: a vast and vile city of a million inch-tall malcontents Sprawling through an abandoned subway station deep beneath London, here myth has given way to sleaze, drugs,[...]
Remarqued Uber Collection Sells Out Fast
I thought I saw Kieron Gillen with a spring in his step as he walked down the Thor: The Dark World red carpet at tonight's premiere, cheek by jowl with Jamie McKelvie. Well, we's got a lot to be pleased about, with Diamond Comic Distributors selling out of his and and Caanan White's remarqued enhanced Uber[...]
Avatar Relaunches Gravel Combat Magician
Created by Warren Ellis and given new life by Mike Wolfer, Bleeding Cool owners Avatar Press are relaunching Gravel Combat Magician in January with a new extra sized 0 issue, written by Wolfer and drawn by Gabriel Rearte. Gravel returns with a super-size launch issue and an all-new monthly series!  Mike Wolfer has worked on every issue[...]