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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 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[...]

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![...]

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[...]

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,[...]

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

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[...]

The French press get a rather bloody PR pack for the launch of the Crossed Deluxe collection... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRzntxACmR0

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[...]

So what has Bleeding Cool owner Avatar Press have in mind for February 2014? More Garth Ennis and his dogs of the last days, more Uber, twice as much God Is Dead, as well as the extended editions, the launch of a new Gravel: Combat Magician series and a smattering of Exctinction Parade… GOD IS DEAD[...]

This is the French press kit for their new deluxe volume of Crossed, combining the first two series in one hardcover. And delivered to journalists and

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[...]

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[...]

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,[...]

Elizabeth Heyman write from NYCC for Bleeding Cool; Gravel is not at all a new item among the Avatar Press catalog but it is getting a bit of a facelift in the coming year Though the title still remains in the same creative hands it always has, those hands are shifting their grasp and their position[...]

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,[...]

Avatar is the publisher and owner of Bleeding Cool. At NYCC, I managed to pin down Kieron Gillen for a catch up on his work and how well his series Uber is doing, as well as getting a ton of new information on his upcoming Avatar project, Mercury Heat!  Obviously, Uber is doing really well and you[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Q9KRvYjyk Thank you Patrick. And thank you Kieron!

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[...]

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[...]

Spinning out of the Avatar panel, with Hannah Means-Shannon reporting from NYCC — Mike Costa will take the reins and continue the God is Dead series beyond the original 6-issue arc which was written by  Jonathan Hickman, and Costa, with art by Di Amorim. God is Dead has been a huge hit for Avatar them, "too good to stop",[...]

In December, Bleeding Cool publisher Avatar Press is launching a new six-issue series written by Garth Ennis and drawn by Michael Dipascale, Rover Red Charlie About three dogs trying to survive together in New York City, during the end of the world The end of the human world, that is.   ROVER RED CHARLIE #1 (OF[...]

From the new August figures; PUBLISHER MARKET SHARES RETAIL MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE MARVEL COMICS 33.70% DC COMICS 30.16% IMAGE COMICS 7.86% IDW PUBLISHING 5.70% DARK HORSE COMICS 5.47% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 3.01% BOOM! STUDIOS 2.05% EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS LTD 1.34% AVATAR PRESS INC 0.95% ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC 0.94% OTHER NON-TOP 10 8.83% UNIT MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE MARVEL COMICS 36.30% DC COMICS 33.14% IMAGE COMICS 8.51% IDW PUBLISHING 4.98% DARK HORSE COMICS 4.80% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 2.93% BOOM! STUDIOS 2.07% ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC 1.03% VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC 0.97% ASPEN MLT INC 0.65% OTHER NON-TOP 10 So that's the marketshare, divided into Units, the amount of titles sold and[...]

There was a notice that Moore would only sign Avatar titles, but a few Lost Girls and From Hells sneaked in there But nothing that might upset the very genial mood. It was as if Alan was taking a small throne in the store as Waterstones' staff ran the event with military precision They even gave[...]

Alasdair Stuart writes for Bleeding Cool. I thought Avatar was beautiful, technically brilliant and almost entirely toothless At the time it struck me as odd because Cameron is a director – and scriptwriter – whose previous work all sits* very high on my list of all time greats He's very smart, technically brilliant and he doesn't deliver[...]

Oh, plus my big series launching next Easter with… :) — Mark Millar (@mrmarkmillar) August 16, 2013 But there's one that's still missed off. The Unfunnies, by Mark Millar and Anthony Williams, published by Avatar, Bleeding Cool's owners A particularly nasty comic about cartoon archetypes undergoing extreme life crises, masterminded by a real life paedophile. I emailed publisher William[...]

Could it all have been his fault? Everything else was… The last pages also give previews of the creative team for the next year of Crossed: Badlands. The first is in solicitations now, David Hine and German Erramouspe. But we also get the announcement of Daniel Way, better known for his work on Deadpool and Punisher, working with[...]

I think it's what Amy Chu and Steve Morris are expecting from me. Avatar are publishing a number of exclusive cover variants for Toronto Fan Expo this week And they are truly shameful, representing the very worst of humanity So let's all have a look at them, just in case you need any more persuasion about[...]

Heidi MacDonald on The Beat, posted a piece criticising Avatar's covers for the series Crossed, after fellow Beat writers Amy Chu and Steve Morris called me out for bias asking why I wasn't calling out Avatar over Crossed covers such as this. Why are peeps all over @mrmarkmillar and no one's calling out stuff like this[...]

By Hannah Means-Shannon The Avatar Press comic Skin Trade is an adaptation of George R R Martin's 1989 Fantasy Award-winning novella by the same name, and one that he's been involved in discussing and promoting rather than taking a more remote stance Maybe that's because Martin is a lifelong comics fan, but it's also because he's[...]