Donny Cates Archives

As someone who actually owns every issue of Ghost Fleet, by Donny Cates and Daniel Warren Johnson, Resurrectionists, by Fred Van Lente and Maurizio Rosenzweig, and Sundowners by Tim Seely and Jim Terry (yep, I have ALL of them), I'm a little stunned by the news that all three series will not continue their print[...]

Comics writer Eliot Rahal  is the  co-conspirator on the Buzzkill sequel Paybacks from Dark Horse with Donny Cates and with art by Geoff Shaw.  He's also been published in Dark Horse Presents and in the pages of Archer & Armstrong for Valiant. Now he's definitely got something new up his sleeve while continuing to be the[...]

I'd like to thank those who engaged in interviews this year on Bleeding Cool again for sharing their perspective and wisdom with us, and with our readers. Here are some of the highlights from the interviews of 2014 from myself, Rich Johnston, Dan Wickline, Adi Tantimedh, Alex Wilson, Nikolai Fomich, and Jeremy Konrad: With Fred Van Lente:[...]

Hosts Randy Young and Chris Hunter say: Thanks for pressing play! Godhead and Axis dominate the storylines this week as both Sinestro and Green Lantern have to deal with working with enemies and and getting to the New Gods. Axis gives us a zen Deadpool, mutants with a nuclear football, Kitty Pryde robbing a bank, and Medusa changing[...]

This artwork by Gerardo Zaffino, Jorge Zaffino's son is from a new comic book written by Donny Cates Title, unknown, Publisher, unknown Concept, unknown. Red Neck Excalibur? Anyone?   This artwork by Gerardo Zaffino, Jorge Zaffino's son is from a new comic book written by Donny Cates Title, unknown, Publisher, unknown Concept, unknown. Red Neck Excalibur? Anyone?   [...]

Your guess is as good at ours… Donny Cates is the co-creator of the likes of Buzzkill, Ghost Fleet and The Paybacks for Dark Horse Comics Could this, by any chance, be the next project he has in mind? Also for Dark Horse, or for someone else? It looks a bit… space-y….   [...]

Aub Driver, beloved to all journalistas and swag hunters at cons, moderated the panel featuring Donny Cates and Eliot Rahal of Buzzkill and The Paybacks(2015), Brian Wood of The Massive, Fred Van Lente of Action Philosophers, Brain Boy, and The Resurrectionists, Gail Simone who needs no introduction,  Jim Calafiore, Raphael Albuquerque and more. Calafiore was[...]

The insider secret is that  Ghost Fleet writer Donny Cates is going to be prowling around the con with Ghost Fleet beer kozies, and if he glimpses someone with a Ghost Fleet tattoo, they're going home with a kozie of their own Cates will be live tweeting his location periodically throughout the con to give[...]

As soon as the series reached its shocking finale fans were asking for more but writers Donny Cates and Eliot Rahal were vague about it It would no doubt take away from the gravitas of the original (albeit hilarious) series to simply reprise it But the alternative makes a whole lot of sense (until you[...]

Donny Cates, the writer behind Buzzkill has a new series from Dark Horse coming out called Ghost Fleet on November 5th The story revolves around a trucker myth that there are government truck drivers who aren't aware of the cargo they're carrying and can't be pulled over by law enforcement I sat down with Cates to[...]

Donny Cates, an ex-Bleeding Cool writer, is a rising star in the comic book scene right now, with Dark Horse having published his recent superhero series Buzzkill, and with trucker conspiracy Ghost Fleet to come. And so now, since he's moved on from Bleeding Cool, we get to gossip about him. I've heard a rumour regarding two[...]

  We were a big fan of Buzzkill written by Donny Cates, published by Dark Horse Comics last year Well, at C2E2, Dark Horse has been revealing his next comic, out in November. Ghost Fleet, a twelve-issue series blending big rigs and conspiracies, written by Cates, with art by Daniel Warren Johnson and colors by Lauren Affe. For the world's[...]

Yes/no/maybe in the sense, well…you'll see below in this interview with co-writer on Buzzkill Donny Cates by seasoned comic storyteller Mark Waid. Mark Waid was originally quoted on the cover of the first issue of Buzzkill as saying "God, I wish I'd thought of this" in terms of the series' concept, so here we get to[...]

Before Christmas, Valiant Comics made the very generous offer on Twitter. That's right @richjohnston we love @Doncates & @DarkHorseComics Buzzkill so much we're offering a money back guarentee of #5 to our fans! — ValiantComics (@ValiantComics) December 21, 2013 Quite a move… until you realise that Buzzkill by Donny Cates, Mark Reznicek and Geoff Shaw was just a[...]

Is this totally from the goodness of their heart in this festive time? Could  co-writer Donny Cates be working for Valiant soon? You know @ValiantComics if we keep on like this people are going to start talking… ;) — BUZZKILLED (@Doncates) December 21, 2013 We are! And if so is this a relatively cheap way to build a[...]

As per my predilections, there's a lot of Image and Dark Horse catching my attention. Buzzkill comes to a rip-roaring conclusion in its first mini-series arc this week from Dark Horse, written by Donny Cates and Mark Reznicek , and with virtuoso art by Geoff Shaw It's been one of the most interesting series of the[...]

Today, Frank Barbiere, writer on Image's Five Ghosts and IRL friend Donny Cates, co-writer on Dark Horse's Buzzkill were taunting each other about the pirate plots of the new Five Ghosts storyline "Lost Coastlines" Barbiere asserted that Cates is this salty-language prone pirate (drawn by Five Ghosts series artist Chris Mooneyham). But wait, just kidding, or[...]

Softer flashbacks fill us in on Georgina's ambiguous role in Prince's life, and so the character development continues alongside a high-octane conclusion to the series first mini-arc. Buzzkill is back, one of my favorite series this autumn, from Dark Horse, written by the fairly gonzo writer Donny Cates with Mark Reznicek, and art by the rising[...]

It's a world of carnivalesque villains, where strange and even stranger things happen, but the book's leaps of imagination are curiously grounded in the rock-bottom state that Ruben experiences again and again. Written by Donny Cates and Toadies drummer Mark Reznicek, drawn by Geoff Shaw, and colored by Lauren Affe, it's a book with something to[...]

This may be the most significant issue of Batman '66 so far as the book moves away from the already attractive spectacle possible in every issue toward the combination of ongoing conflict with visual fireworks now that the Joker's rampage looks to set up a longer storyline. Dark Horse publishes Buzzkill #1 this week, written by[...]