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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

  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