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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

  In Wolverine & X-Men, the artwork seems slightly off in places, Whilce Portacio anatomy put through a smoother filter, which doesn't quite work

 More SWAG is a must for a brand that should own this show. I hit my two major tour stops at Zenescope and Avatar  I don't know why, but I feel I'm kid at a candy store with these two publishers and it's all you can eat or stuff some in your pockets. They really treat me like a[...]

Crossed's weekly webcomic Wish You Were Here returns with a new chapter this week, after a brief interim. And there is one thing on our author's mind...

As an employee of Avatar Press, you might expect I'd get advance word on a story or two Not a bit of it All this was news to me, straiught from the Avatar panel at San Diego Comic Con David Hine is to write Night Of The Living Dead: Aftermath, a major new series launching in[...]

Ramona Flowers protects the colour Scott Pilgrim hardcovers until tomorrow… David Marks, the recognised male model of Avatar Press, displays a copy of Bleeding Cool Magazine. While Axatar's Keith Davidsen goes for a Karl Pilkington look.   Dark Horse show off their heroes. And Abstract and Cartoon Studios show everyone how it's don Nice and simple.  While IDW have[...]

That dazzling animated display shows off the five Single Day Covers of Lady Death #17 available at San Diego Comic Con this year from the Avatar Booth #2701 , one available, each day, and one from the VIP offering. Here are all the San Diego exclusive variant covers available from Crossed, Ferals and Hero Worship as[...]

Here's a scene from Hero Worship, published by Avatar Press today, featuring an iconic superhero, Zenith And here… is another iconic superhero By Alex Ross. All he needs now is a cape.   In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or[...]

The balance that, say, The Big Bang Theory repeatedly fails to tread. This is also a new look for Avatar Press There's one scene of semi gore, and a photorealistic painted look from Michael DiPascale throughout that tries to ground the book in reality It mostly succeeds, but some facial poses look unnatural, frozen in time, rather[...]

Boom Avatar have Fashion Beast, a new series adapted from an unproduced screenplay by Alan Moore and Malcolm McLaren Dynamite start Damsels and Peter Cannon Thunderbolt Boom have a new series, Freelancers, Legendary resolicit The Tower Chronicles and Valiant bring Ninjak into X-O Manowar.. but what will you be buying? FASHION BEAST #1 (W) Alan[...]

Another Thursday, a new Crossed: Wish You Were Here by Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine. And the moral centre of the comic begins to shift and

But that's not a bad start is it? 26,000 preorders for a new comics magazine without a Todd McFarlane cover? Plus you know Avatar will be selling it long and hard through the convention season, on top of that. That represents a combined figure of both Diamond Comic Distributor orders and direct-from-publisher orders, I'm told. There should[...]

Thank you to Diamond Comics for sending me all these Free Comic Book Day comics in advance. I now no longer need to take my children to Free Comic Book

Tick, tick, tick... This is the last day you can order Bleeding Cool Magazine and actually be sure to get it. It costs $1.49 for the Preview #0 issue.

There's a new Crossed: Wish You Were Here webcomic from Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine out right now. You know, around this time last year,

Tomorrow is new comics day. Yay! While you are picking up your copies of Avengers Versus X-Men, Aquaman or the final issue of The Twelve, as you pass by

Thursday is the last day retailers can order the preview issue of Bleeding Cool Magazine issue zero, coming out at the end of May/beginning of June. It's

Longtime fans might remember that Ennis wrote a series called 303, published a few years back by Avatar Press and featuring a pre-Crossed collaboration with Jacen Burrows In Stitched #4, the 303 once again makes an appearance, with Barclay conversing to his British SAS soldiers about the value of the weapon It's nice when a[...]

  Wow... even the colour schemes match... In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages,

Consider this a solicitation team up! For Avatar, Boom, Dynamite and Valiant, together, to make as much as an impact as those Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse and IDW solicitations Will it work? Avatar has Zack Penn's new book, Hero Worship, Boom have the new Hypernaturals from Abnett And Lanning, Dynamite have a new Lone Ranger[...]