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When Garth Ennis sits down to write a new series, we should probably brace ourselves When he takes on science fiction, we should be well aware that all hell could break loose as he takes classic elements and makes them suddenly unfamiliar and generally more disturbing than we bargained for In Caliban, coming in April[...]

Here is what Avatar Press is offering for the month of April including books by Kieron Gillen, Christos Gage, Max Brooks, Mike Costa, Mike Wolfer and a ton of stuff from Garth Ennis including the new sci-fi series Caliban. UBER VOL 1 TPB Retail Price: $19.99 US Writer: Kieron Gillen Cover & Art: Caanan White MR, Color, 176 pages PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:[...]

The big news for April in the comic book, film and television magazine world is that Bleeding Cool Magazine is doing its Sci-Fi Spectacular issue. BLEEDING COOL MAGAZINE #10 (Diamond C:  0-1-2) Retail Price: $4.99 US Full Color, 104 pages PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:  Bleeding Cool Magazine's Science Fiction Spectacular issue returns with a look at the best in Sci-fi in comics,[...]

"I am very excited that we represent their titles once again to our book market customers and we look forward to helping Avatar grow their business." For 2014, Avatar will release a variety of new series from top industry creators, including Garth Ennis, Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, George R.R Martin, and Max Brooks. Distribution of Avatar's titles[...]

John Byrne will be at home watching Star Trek reruns. And then on Wednesday, March 26th, Avatar Press will be launching C-Day, for the release of Crossed: Badlands #50 as Garth Ennis returns to the book he created to tell the story of the very first Crossed patient, in Patient Zero More free stuff, more events,[...]

Garth Ennis returns to tell the story of Patient Zero in Crossed: Badlands #50 Simon Spurrier takes us to the English countryside in the oversized Crossed: Badlands 2014 Annual And the 8th Crossed trade and a new Crossed T-shirt come along to help with the 50th celebration Kieron Gillen turns everything upside as the second[...]

"Metropolitan" is developing into a potentially iconic arc that's going to give us new windows on the Iron Man character and world, and that's keeping me reading. Rover Red Charlie debuts this week from Avatar Press (owners of Bleeding Cool), written by Garth Ennis, with art by Michael DiPascale The cover is outright disturbing with intentional[...]

The characters were fierce, independent and solid. In Garth Ennis' Rover Red Charlie, not so much Rather than fierce beasts of the Savannah, given what purports to be freedom after so long, in Rover Red Charlie, we get an end of the world that's closer to The Far Side The repeated barking of "I'm a dog![...]

Bleeding Cool even got the CCO of AMC confirming it. But now, confirming some rumors and exploding some others, Bleeding Cool has learned exclusively that a development order for a television pilot based upon Garth Ennis' and Steve Dillon's ballbustingly blasphemous comic series from the nineties, Preacher, has been given by Sony Pictures Television studio[...]

That AMC is developing the Garth Ennis/Steve Dillon DC/Vertigo comic Preacher as an ongoing TV series BadAssDigest seemed to get the ball roilling yesterday These tweets probably helped it along, Looks like about seven of years of hard work are about to pay off I may get to bring one of my favourite stories ever to[...]

Garth Ennis has been on the cutting edge of comics for most of his career Pushing the envelope in surprising new directions with books like The Boys, Preacher and his run on the Punisher Jai Nitz chatted with the writer about his Dynamite Entertainment title Red Team. JAI NITZ: I want to start with a big[...]

Rover Red Charlie is the new mini-series from Garth Ennis and Michael Dipascale It tells the an apocalyptical tale from a trio with wagging tails Order for the first issue in this very unique series from Avatar Press are due in by Thursday 10/24. I got a chance to speak with both Ennis and Dipascale about[...]

But tampering with the very stuff of gods is a dangerous game and the end result is nothing short of staggering… Join JONATHAN HICKMAN for the end of the world as God Is Dead rolls toward an unbelievable climax! Available with a Regular cover by Jonathan Hickman, End of Days cover, a premium Iconic card[...]

Avatar Press, publisher of Garth Ennis' groundbreaking horror series, Crossed, announced an exclusive digital distribution agreement with comiXology, the revolutionary cloud-based digital comics platform with more than 40,000 comics and graphic novels that have seen over 200 million downloads to date The multi-year exclusive agreement covers Avatar Press' English Language single-issue catalog. To mark the release,[...]

Garth Ennis shows the world is going to the dogs, David Hine ends Gore Angels story but Crossed gets a new Daniel Way and a seventh trade, Christos Gage finds a Happy Kitty, Jonathan Hickman rolls out the End of Days, Max Brooks' parade goes to all out war, Kieron Gillen ups the arms race, and[...]

And they are getting Milo Manara… ORBITING LAST WEEK'S COMICS [audio:http://www.orbitalcomics.com/podpress_trac/web/9454/0/orbital-podcast126.mp3] Recorded at 1am, and with the consumption of many alcoholic beverages, this week, we get colour blind with Batman: Black & White #1, become bad to the bone with Forever Evil #1, the time stream gets slippery with Battle of the Atom #1 & All New X-Men[...]

In December, Bleeding Cool publisher Avatar Press is launching a new six-issue series written by Garth Ennis and drawn by Michael Dipascale, Rover Red Charlie About three dogs trying to survive together in New York City, during the end of the world The end of the human world, that is.   ROVER RED CHARLIE #1 (OF[...]

So let's all have a look at them, just in case you need any more persuasion about how awful they are. First there's the Crossed: Badlands Patient Zero Ashcan for $3.00 which gives an advance look at Garth Ennis and Christian Zanier's new Crossed arc that begins in Crossed: Badlands #50, looking at the very beginnings[...]

Writer Julian Simpson is at it again. From yesterday's episode of New Tricks on BBC1. Maybe not as obviously as before. But we have a new character,

Avatar Press will be set up at the show and bringing in a great list of creators to meet the fans: writer Max Brooks (World War Z and Extinction Parade), writer Garth Ennis (Crossed and Punisher) and artist Jacen Burrows (Crossed and Neonomicon). On Friday at 4:15 pm in room #719 will be the Avatar Press[...]

With Red Team out from Dynamite, a new Punisher mini-series scheduled for next year and Crossed growing into quite the franchise, Garth Ennis is headlining this year's NICE convention near to Northampton in the UK from the 7th to the 8th of September. Here's who else is turning up… Emanuela Lupacchino Guillem March (UK convention debut) Alan Davis Carlos Pacheco Dave[...]

Garth Ennis and Rob Steen (Flanimals) kickstarted the kids book ERF last year, where it was sold directly to donors. Now the publisher of Ennis' comic The Boys, Dynamite, is going to publish the book for comic stores and the general book market. Here's the bumf; Set at the dawn of time, ERF introduces its titular character[...]

Martin series at Avatar next year. -There will be another new long-form Avatar series from Gillen next year -More Si Spurrier next year -Adding new writers to "Crossed" arcs, including David Hine, Daniel Way, and (as you reported this morning) Justin Jordan. -Garth Ennis himself will return to "Crossed" starting with issue 50 next year, for a seven-part arc[...]

Continuing series from writers  Jonathan Hickman, Kieron Gillen, Max Brooks, Garth Ennis, Christos Gage, George RR Martin and David Lapham! And, yes, Avatar Press owns Bleeding Cool Which is handy…. UBER VOL 1 ENHANCED Hardcover Price: $34.99 US Writers: Kieron Gillen Cover & Artist: Caanan White MR, Color, 336 pages Uber Vol 1 debuts in monstrously huge fashion, with a collection[...]

From Dynamite, tomorrow… GARTH ENNIS' RED TEAM #3 Garth Ennis (w) Craig Cermak (a) Howard Chaykin (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Mature At Eddie's insistence, the Red Team expands its area of operations to cover a certain unexpected target, but they may have made a fatal misstep Meanwhile, another of Eddie's initiatives causes Trudy no small amount of[...]

But can she trust him? Or is he simply the next charming prince in line to betray her? FANS, ASK YOUR RETAILER FOR THE Jay Anacleto B/W art  retailer incentive cover Paul Renaud B/W art  retailer incentive cover RED SONJA: ANNUAL #4 Scott Beatty (w) Edu Menna (a) Jose Malaga (c) FC • 40 pages • $4.99[...]

Retailers are putting their final orders in for the March Previews today and we asked Simon Spurrier if he could provide a couple reasons why fans and

Here's the word from Avatar's William Christensen on an ambitious new live action film, webcomic, and print comic project from Garth Ennis called Crossed: Dead Or Alive: An open letter to Crossed fans from William Christensen, publisher of Avatar Press: Crossed: Dead or Alive is the title of the upcoming live action filmed webisodes that will be[...]

I think Crossed Badlands #25 may actually be the most Garth Ennisy comic book ever published And for once it's written by Garth Ennis. It begins with the history of the British Empire, wars being fought within Britain, taking it out to the world, with a litany of action, both good and bad, with all manner[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by James Kuhoric In 2008, Garth Ennis changed the face of horror comics with the debut of Crossed Having redefined the face of mature readers comics with his Punisher work at Marvel and Preacher series at Vertigo, fans were expecting something groundbreaking And what they got was nothing short of a work[...]