David Avallone Archives

Today we're giving you the discussion between Genevieve Valentine, writer of Xena: Warrior Princess and David Avallone, the writer of Twilight Zone: The Shadow Here we have Genevieve asking the questions, tomorrow it will be David's turn Art for this article is by Francesco Francavilla (cover) and Dave Acosta (interiors). GENEVIEVE VALENTINE: This issue is structured halfway[...]

A Writer's Commentary: David Avallone talks Twilight Zone: The Shadow #1, on sale now from Dynamite. Cover is by Francesco Francavilla Interiors are by Dave Acosta. Dynamite's Executive Editor Joseph Rybandt dropped me an email and asked if I could come up with a four-issue series combining The Shadow and The Twilight Zone He always likes to[...]

David Avallone talks Twilight Zone: The Shadow #3 (of 4), on sale in June from Dynamite Cover is by Francesco Francavilla. BYRON BREWER: David, we are arriving in June at the penultimate issue of this mini, #3 Have you told the story you set out to tell, and is there anything with #4 approaching that you[...]

Writer David Avallone talks about Twilight Zone: The Shadow #2 (of 4), on sale in May from Dynamite. Cover is by Francesco Francavilla. BYRON BREWER: David, adapting one imaginative franchise (especially from another media) is tough enough How did you handle the challenge of THIS mashup with the Shadow? DAVID AVALLONE: It's a tricky one The Shadow is[...]

If you picked up last week's The Precinct from Dynamite Entertainment, then you might want to take a look at the Legenderry: Vampirella trade by David Avallone and David T Cabrera Both series are set in the Legenderry universe created by Bill Willingham using the various characters from Dynamite's publishing line Where The Precinct focuses[...]

Writer's commentary by David Avallone for Legenderry: Vampirella #5 Legenderry: Vampirella was my first series as a comic book writer, and I have to thank Allison Baker, Chris Roberson, Bill Willingham and Joseph Rybandt for pushing me to do it, recommending me for it, and having the faith that I could pull it off I hope[...]

Keith Davidsen, writer of Reanimator #3, talks with writer David Avallone about Legenderry Vampirella #5, both on sale now Cover art by Sergio Davila. KEITH DAVIDSEN: With the five-issue LEGENDERRY: VAMPIRELLA series now complete, when you look back at its development — what was your original vision, and did the end result fulfill that vision, or evolve[...]

From the story written by David Avallone we have a couple pages of process art by David T Cabrera with colors by Robby Bevard. Vampirella Vs Everybody, Round Five She fights the Black Bat, the Council, a great big Zeppelin and her own conflicted feelings Plus, Black Mass returns, truths are revealed, and election results are[...]

Altered States: The Shadow writer's commentary by David Avallone Art by Ivan Rodriguez My second "Altered States" book is The Shadow I've always loved the Shadow I love the Shadow so much I took a job as an extra on that kinda awful Alec Baldwin movie I'm the guy in the glasses standing next to Margo Lane[...]

Mark Rahner, writer of Twilight Zone: Shadow and Substance #3, talks with writer David Avallone about Altered States: The Shadow one shot, both on sale now Cover art by Billy Tan. MARK RAHNER: What's the elevator concept for Altered States and how The Shadow fits in. DAVID AVALLONE: The elevator concept for Altered States is essentially "Dynamite's[...]

The book is written by David Avallone and drawn by Ivan Rodriguez with color by Dinei Ribeiro. Welcome to Altered States… Dynamite Entertainment's parallel reality in the vein of DC's Elseworlds and Marvel's What If! The Shadow's living soul is ripped out of time and space and transported to a violent dimension where his powers and abilities[...]

We got the writer commentary from David Avallone for the recently released Altered States: Doc Savage Normally we run them in one piece but because of the detail and the number of pages we have to show, we are going to do it in two parts this time Here is the second part. I haven't mentioned[...]

We got the writer commentary from David Avallone for the recently released Altered States: Doc Savage Normally we run them in one piece but because of the detail and the number of pages we have to show, we are going to do it in two parts this time Enjoy. Last fall I got an email from[...]

Nancy Collins, writer of Red Sonja: Vulture's Circle #3, talks with writer David Avallone about the Altered States: Doc Savage one-shot, both on sale now Cover by Billy Tan.  NANCY COLLINS: What makes your version of Doc Savage an Altered State? DAVID AVALLONE: For this one, I took the assignment maybe too literally and the set-up is[...]

This one shot is written by David Avallone, drawn by Dave Acosta and features a cover by Billy Tan This is the third Altered States book from the publisher with new takes on Vampirella and Red Sonja preceding it. For more on Altered States: Doc Savage, click here. Dynamite's new line of Altered States[...]

This miniseries is being written by David Avallone. For more information on Legenderry: Vampirella, click here. We have an exclusive first look at some of the interior pages for Legenderry: Vampirella #2 by artist David Cabrera The series is a spinoff of last years hit Dynamite series Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure created by Bill Willingham[...]

The five-issue Dynamite series Legenderry: Vampirella is in comic shops now and Byron Brewer caught up with series writer David Avallone to talk about taking the iconic character and putting her in a whole new world… and the important question of "Why is everyone wearing swimming goggles?" Cover art by Sergio Davila. BYRON BREWER: Just from[...]

David Avallone is the writer on Dynamite's new series Legenderry: Vampirella We show the artistic process all the time how a penciller goes from thumbnails to finished work and so on Well, here we have something really unique It seems that Avallone sometimes likes to sketch out his own thumbnails for a page he has[...]

The new Dynamite series Legenderry: Vampirella has kicked off and Byron Brewer sat down with writer David Avallone to talk about working with the iconic vampire in such a different setting and about bringing in the most famous of vampire hunters.  BYRON BREWER: David, there is a lot going on in this steampunk Vampi saga[...]

Dynamite has sent us some exclusive first look pages for their upcoming Altered States: Doc Savage comic written by David Avallone and drawn by Dave Acosta.Altered States is Dynamite's Elesworlds or What If? comics and takes familiar characters and puts them in very different worlds. Doc's research into the criminal inside all men backfires… and his own experiment[...]

Heading up the one-shot is writer David Avallone and he talked with Byron Brewer about the new project. BYRON BREWER: David, are you a fan of The Shadow, certainly one of the most iconic characters in Dynamite's catalogue? DAVID AVALLONE: I love The Shadow: of the old pulp crew from the 1930s he's always been my favorite[...]

The four-part miniseries is being done by David Avallone and David Cabrera and hits comic shelves in February Here are the first three pages from the book. As part of Dynamite's new spinoff series from the Bill Willingham creation, Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure, we get this first look at some of the[...]