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First proper issue of Kieron Gillen's Uber, plenty of Crossed, Stitched, Dan The Unharmable, Fashion Beast, Night Of The Living Dead and Lady Death, courtesy of Avatar and Boundess in May… currently the only publisher to have new books by Alan Moore, Garth Ennis, David Lapham and Gillen. CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE VOL 02[...]

AVATAR COME TO TOWN Avatar Comics, owners of Bleeding Cool, are the latest US comics publisher to confirm they're attending the London Super Comic Con… PRIME POSTER POSITION Okay, who wants a Rodimus Prime poster on their walls? DOWN OVER Following its European premiere at the 40th Angoulême International Comics Festival,  documentary Graphic Novels! Melbourne gets its UK premiere in[...]

With the return of Garth Ennis to Crossed with Crossed: Badlands #25, Avatar Press decided to emphasize the return with additional covers And one very cool box set. If you have been following the fans reaction the last 12 days on Avatar's Facebook Page, you have seen how fans have been reacting to the various covers[...]

A retailer promotion for the Crossed franchise from Avatar, set for March 13th Garth Ennis comes back to Crossed with a new story, a plan for a character to survive beyond it, and a look to the future with a Patient Zero story to come. But more than that, as the first four pages from Crossed[...]

The launch of Uber, the conclusion of Garth Ennis' new Crossed arc "The Fatal Englishman", and more Ferals, Caligula, Stitched, Night Of The Living Dead,

This is what Kieron Gillen's World War 2 superhero comic Uber for Avatar looked like in 2008. On a fridge The issue being laid out here will be published in April Kieron Gillen talks about it more here. As I said, I've tried to purge the majority of the tropes of the genre This is a book[...]

We've already talked about Kieron Gillen's Heat, a planned six-issue sci-fi mini-series for Avatar, about the policing of Mercury, that has yet to see print But I also heard Kieron talk about what he referred to as Avatar Project Two. Well this appears to be that, getting out of the gates first. Drawn by Canaan White, Uber[...]

Four companies! Okay, five if you count Avatar and Boundless separately But all with a single mission! To get in the front of Previews Here's how their March 2013 offerings are looking… CROSSED: BADLANDS #25 Retail Price: $3.99 US Writer: Garth Ennis Cover and Art: Raulo Caceres MR,[...]

Back in June, a South Carolina library pulled their copy of Neonomicon from the adultbookshelves, after a 14 year old girl withdrew it using her mother's

In March, it's one year since the first C-Day, to promote the Crossed series from Avatar. So we're getting another one The Crossed C-Day 2013 retailer promo kit consists of; 25 each of Crossed temporary tattoos, buttons, postcards, stickers and 15 new Crossed masks! Retailers will also get a special Crossed 2013 Annual Retailer Bonus Edition comic[...]

Avatar, Boom, Dynamite and IDW, publishers with a similar bent… from Simon Spurrier's new Crossed Badlands Annual to Boom's serialisation of Fairy Quest, to Dynamite's launch of Garth Ennis' Red Team, to IDW's second My Little Pony comic, it's all go in February! And a third issue of Bleeding Cool Magazine. You know the first one[...]

Avatar, Boom, Dynamite and Valiant busting to get into the front of Previews… well let's give them a little tickle by binding them fast together… Avatar Press DAN THE UNHARMABLE VOL 1 TPB Retail Price: $19.99 US Cover & Art: Rafael Ortiz Writers: David Lapham MR, Color, 160 pages Whether you're looking for a detective, hired muscle, a blackmailer, or bedroom entertainment[...]

Avatar and Ennis made it clear they are not trying to pull a New 52 with Crossed but present it in a form that has yet to be explored Ennis also expressed his intention to eventually turn Crossed into a feature film The web series and the film would be rated R and the DVDs[...]

Skip Harvey writes; If you are reading this and haven't seen The Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender, then do yourself a service and watch it RIGHT NOW Lock your doors, hunker down and marathon it. Not only is Avatar the single greatest children's show ever made, but it's in fact, one of the single greatest TV[...]

Avatar Press will be at the NYCC in full force – with multiple guests and several panels for comic fans to attend So, mark your con agenda and get your questions ready! What will be Garth Ennis' huge announcement? I guarantee you won't be expecting this! GARTH ENNIS: Top Secret New Project Revealed! Sat 10/13/12 4:00 – 5:00 PM Location:[...]

Right there, on the Avatar website All of it Free Still. But if you, like me, would prefer to have all of  Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield's Freakangels in print, in a box set and on your shelf, then now is the time Amazon have dropped the price from $100 to $58, ahead of it's sale[...]

Fashion Beast #2 is published today, the second issue that adapts Alan More's screenplay that he wrote in 1985. That he wrote it concurrently with

Avatar Press will be exhibiting at Booth #812, featuring such guests as Garth Ennis, David Hine, Jacen Burrows, Si Spurrier, Mike Wolfer and more! In addition to meeting special guests and getting autographs, Avatar Press will have on hand a full library of comics, graphic novels, prints and rare exclusives for you to add to your[...]

comic book convention yesterday, Alan Moore announced his new comic book for Avatar Press, Providence, a follow-up to Neonomicon where he explores the inspiration behind the Lovecraftian mythos. A ten part series, which Moore described three times as there to pay his tax bill, it will be set in 1919 and star the author HP Lovecraft[...]

Time to have a look at a few publishers that have a certain demographic in common, Avatar, Boom, Dynamite and IDW, and what they have new for us in December 2012. Avatar hasa new Caligula series and the second issue of Bleeding Cool Magazine, Boom has Deathmatch – and a whole load of retailer exclusive Adventure[...]

Out from Avatar today. I say new Obviously it's twenty-seven years old Or at least, that's when it was written, at the same time as Watchmen As a screenplay with Sex Pistols manager and fashionista Malcolm McLaren And now, finally, it's been adapted as a comic Music, fashion and something very very nasty. This is how[...]

And a rack full of very similar looking comics. Image put out the second issue of Black Kiss II… though it won't get past Her Majesty the Queen. And Avatar Press publish the first issue of the new Alan Moore comic, Fashion Beast. Then next week, Avengers Vs X-Men comes closer to its inevitable conclusion. In one week… DARK HORSE[...]

Classic Millar! Hero Worship is a great new Avatar book with a great hook: how pathetic would superhero fanboys be if the hero actually existed? Yes, plz Real life super heroes has been done Uber-fans that would rather chase their hero around town than have sex is something new Prophet is a crazy unique concept[...]

From Avatar's Freakangels Slipcase collection to the new Supurbia series from Boom (with a BC quote in the solicits) to the end of The Boys from Dynamite to the beginning of Judge Dredd and My Little Pony at IDW – and a new Locke & Key series as well… Avatar and Boundless STITCHED VOL 1[...]

This is not a Kickstarter for Bleeding Cool Magazine #1. But maybe you could treat it as one. There are incentives! Look! Pledge $4.99 or more A copy of

This week's episode of the free webcomic Crossed: Wish You Were Here does not feature a single member of the Crossed. It's far worse than that. It's time

Deadpool Vs The Marvel Universe sees the psycopathic assassin losing his funnybone all over the X-Men as he slices, dices and jellies his way through

Seriously, they could bring down the industry… Bleeding Cool Magazine #0 was Diamond's best selling magazine in June, it had around 26,000 total copies ordered with a large enough overprint that saw Avatar able to keep selling it through convention season and to fill all the reorders that came in. Issue 1 is three times the size[...]

There we go folks. The first full-sized issue of Bleeding Cool Magazine, solicited for October. Including my listing and profile of the One Hundred Most

There'a a new wepisode of Crossed: Wish You Were Here up by Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erkine hitting the interwebs. And slightly less of the