Donny Cates Archives

Donny Cates is the current writer of the Thor comic book, drawn by Nic Klein and published by Marvel Comics It has been rather successful with the second issue recently going to its sixth printing With plenty of speculators jumping onto sold out early issues, and other comic books that Cates has tied the storyline[...]

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The identity of this has led to much speculation – including that this may be Franklin Richards – but comic book investors have settled on The Sentry. Art from Web Of Venom: Wraith. Especially since King In Black and Venom artist Ryan Stegman posted a sketch to Twitter featuring The Sentryin deep space, with the words "You[...]

And in December? Marvel Comics is describing the story, drawn by Nic Klein as "perhaps Donny Cates' darkest story yet" as Thor has to deal with whatever it is Donald Blake is now after all those years… Should we start calling him Donny Darko? I think we should, yes. Donny Cates Darkest Comic Yet? Thor #10[...]

Remender's got a deep backlist of sales beasts that retailers have long depended on – Deadly Class, Black Science, Seven To Eternity – and after a relatively quiet year, seeing Remender resurface with another dependable launch should be an easy win for these folks. The year's not over in October though, we still have Image's upcoming[...]

Credit: Marvel Comics From Ian Melton: Thor Thor by Donny Cates has been my favorite new launch of 2020, despite only being 5 issues in.  I've found myself coming back, again and again, to issue #1 looking for hints and foreshadowing Donny loves to do, and the horror/cosmic vibe he has brought to Thor has given me[...]

Donny Cates has written a comic book set within the pages of that issue of Thor, but also take place on the Fortnite islands, and is currently being digitally serialised by the Fortnite app. You can read the new two pages below and the first four pages below those… as well as where it all fits[...]

The current run of Donny Cates and Nic Klein's Thor from Marvel Comics has become a major hot property for the publisher, going through multiple printings (issue 2 is currently going to its fifth) and it seems that even more attention may be drawn upon it. Posted a couple of hours ago to the Fortnite Twitter[...]

Yesterday, Donny Cates took to the ReedPOP Retailer Event to plug his upcoming Image Comics series Crossover with Geoff Shaw and Dee Cunniffe, telling the assembled retailers that it took three years to organise to get all the various creators to sign on regarding their own intellectual properties And about a comic shop owner who dares to[...]

December sees Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman launch The King In Black, the big Venom event from Marvel Comics for the weekend But before that, in November, Peter David and Greg Land are going to create a prequel story, set in the time when Peter Parker still wore the Venom symbiote, as part of Peter[...]

For those speculators who believed this would have a final form for The Black Winter – well if it does, it won't be one you'll be happening about. Thor #6 by Donny Cates and Nic Klein. But what Thor #6 does have is a vision, of the future, granted by The Black Winter of Thor's death –[...]

During the Mainframe Comic Con held over the weekend, Donny Cates talked to Chuck Lindsay about his comic book career, and a lot of his work at Marvel Comics But he also reminded folk that he has plans at DC Comics Including a five year plan for Batman for which he says "some of it[...]

A reminder that Donny Cates' Absolute Carnage at Marvel last year still took second to Image's Spawn – perhaps he'll get in at #1 this time around with Image Comics backing him. While we wait to find out more… I'm told Image Comics' The Department Of Truth from James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds' series is[...]

That continues quite a big year for Boom EiC Matt Gagnon, who's seen the company rise as high as the #4 publisher in comics – and, after personally overseeing Once & Future, is heavily involved in another gigantic hit series for the company in Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR. That means the next big creator-owned comics showdown comes[...]

Did someone at Marvel see the Tom Taylor Injustice Year Zero leak and say 'hold my cappuccino'? Because it appears that the upcoming Web Of Venom: The Wraith one-shot was published digitally over the weekend over a month early, before being pulled off – but not before a number of folk head read it, a[...]

Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, and JP Mayer build on the upcoming Venom story in their segment, while Jed MacKay and Patrick Gleason deliver a one-off Spidey / Black Cat versus the Vulture story that hints at things to come in the Black Cat series Together, do these two shorts make a satisfying comic? Spider-Man FCBD has[...]

Venom #25, Venom #26 and Thor #6, all written by Donny Cates top the Advance Reorder charts The return of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird return to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles together for The Last Ronin also make it into the charts, as do a number of Power Rangers comics Outside of the Diamond stats,[...]

As Bleeding Cool just reported, the new Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw creator-owned offering from Image Comics will be Crossover, the epic story of a mainstream comics event bleeding into the real world Joining Shaw and Cates, who has himself been a major architect of Marvel Comics events recently, is editor Mark Waid, colorist Dee Cunniffe, and[...]

Before Image Comics changed the description of the Comic-Con@Home panel currently playing out, it read as thus: Bestselling creative powerhouse team Donny Cates (God Country, Redneck), Geoff Shaw (God Country), Dee Cunniffe (Redneck), and John J Hill (Nailbiter) come together to announce what will be the biggest series launch of the year–Crossover[...]

We know a big Knull-related event is coming from Donny Cates in the Marvel Universe, a sequel to last year's Absolute Carnage, with Ryan Stegman And this looks like the next step towards it The King In Black #1 by Cates and Stegman for December, and everyone wants in. Knull is coming, and when he[...]

Donny Cates, author of Absolute Carnage, Venom, Cosmic Ghost Rider, Thanos and Venom, and co-creator of God Country, Redneck, Interceptor, Babyteeth and more, has been heavily linked to the new Image Comics event title Crossover But it appears that a number of Image Comics creators have already filmed a panel to be shown in two[...]

Here's how the upcoming solicitations are looking. THOR #6 MARVEL COMICS MAR201009 (W) Donny Cates (A) Nic Klein (CA) Olivier Coipel THE DEATH OF KING THOR! The Black Winter has the power to reveal the means of any person's demise – and if the vision is true, Asgard is going to need a new Odinson to take the throne! But Thor[...]

Has anyone spotted any more out there? Image Comics creators of note who have liked the message on Twitter include Donny Cates and his friends… and I also reported in March  "I have also heard rumours that we may see a more immediate independent comic book crossover including Donny Cates, other A-list creators, and a bunch of[...]

Last week, Bleeding Cool ran some gossip about upcoming plans from Marvel Comics for 2020/2021.  We mentioned that some comic book creative teams had not chosen to be part of the Empyre event, as many were "keeping their powder dry for the Big Knull Super Event, the cosmic sequel to Absolute Carnage led by Donny Cates and Jason Aaron for 2021[...]

Nic Klein, Matt Wilson, and Joe Sabino present a simply magnificent show of power and divine glory, and that's well worth seeing. The cover of Thor #5 published by Marvel Comics with the creative team of Donny Cates, Nic Klein, Matt Wilson, and Joe Sabino. Sadly, the story behind it is much less impressive While Thor technically[...]

We can often learn things from comic book writer Donny Cates on Twitter Such as his love of Buffy The Vampire Slayer over its rival Supernatural – for which he couldn't get past the pilot However yesterday we get a big new glimpse at his new series with regular collaborator Geoff Shaw and colourist Dee[...]

If there's something we know that Donny Cates likes, it's a big magic sword Such as that wielded in God Country, an enchanted sword that keeps an elderly man from slipping into dementia Or the truth behind All-Black the necrosword in Venom and Thor, formed out of symbiote stuff and wielded as the godkiller that[...]

The tip jar for the podcast this week would go to BINC, alongside #Comics4Creators. They talked up Donny Cates, who has made Bleeding Cool for paying off the pull lists of his comic book stores in Austin, Texas Cates challenged other creators to do the same and inspired by the moment, Kevin Smith decided that he[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran the story that Donny Cates had been paying off the pull lists of customers at Austin Books And Comics in Texas (With permission from Donny Cates, okay, Reddit? Seriously now.) But it looks like it wasn't just one store and their customers who were the beneficiary of his generosity Dragon's Lair[...]

Most, if not all, of you know of the comic writer Donny Cates In an amazing show of support for not only the store but for you as well, has decided to pay for your pull lists If you still had a pull list in the store as of yesterday, it's now paid up He[...]