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Avatar Plug of the Week – Crossed: Wish You Were Here Graphic Novel
Avatar Press heard your requests for a printed collected edition, to add to your bookshelf of spine-chilling graphic novels; Crossed Volume One, Crossed Volume Two: Family Values and Crossed Volume Three: Psychopath. Crossed: Wish You Were Here is available in Trade Paperback and Hard Cover, featuring covers by Jacen Burrows! FC, 160pg., TRADE PAPERBACK Price: $19.99 Diamond: JUN120842 ISBN: 9781592911707 FC, 160pg., HARD COVER Price: $27.99 Diamond: JUN120843 ISBN: 9781592911714                   [...]
Avatar Plug of the Week – Crossed: Badlands #10
Get ready for a pairing that every Crossed fan has been dying to see: David Lapham, whose brutal horror stories have graced Crossed: Family Values, Crossed 3D, and Crossed: Psychopath, is teaming up with Jacen Burrows, whose artwork has defined the series from its very conception! Crossed: Badlands #10 begins a story arc of particular savagery[...]
Avatar Plug of June Previews – Crossed: Wish You Were Here Volume One GN
It's available in three cover editions: Softcover, Hardcover, and a special Signed Hardcover with autographs from Spurrier and cover artist Jacen Burrows (of Crossed: Badlands and Neonomicon fame) See below for the cover artwork, plus a sampling of interior pages! Fans, don't forget to place your pre-orders with your local comic shop no later than this[...]
The CBLDF Goes To Bat For Neonomicon
Moore and artist Jacen Burrows use the visual nature of the graphic novel medium to more fully examine the subject matter found in Lovecraft's original work, achieving a commentary both on Lovecraft and on the horror genre itself The authors deliberately disturbing depictions of sexual violence are included as a critical comment on how such[...]
Announcing the Winners of the Crossed C-Day Retailer Contest
BleedingCool.com reported a fair bit on the new Garth Ennis / Jacen Burrows storyline which launched the ongoing bi-weekly series, and hundreds of retailers promoted the series heavily in their stores with freebies like Crossed face masks, tattoos, buttons, and the sampler Get Infected comics. As C-Day approached, we announced the Crossed C-Day Retailer Contest[...]
Neonomicon Graphic Novel Pulled From South Carolina Library
The Avatar comic Neonomicon by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows, published by Bleeding Cool owner Avatar Press, has caused a little trouble at a local library when it was taken out by a fourteen year old girl, one Jennifer Gaske, believing it to be… something other than it was. Neonomicon is, basically, The X-Files Meets HP[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week: Caligula Volume 1 Graphic Novel
The title that debuts today in graphic novel format is Caligula, his supernatural horror title chronicling the depravity of Rome's most notorious emperor. The Caligula graphic novel is gorgeously painted by artist German Nobile, and is available in three different cover formats (softcover, hardcover, and special autographed hardcover), all signed by Jacen Burrows (Crossed: Badlands, Neonomicon).   CALIGULA[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week – Crossed: Badlands #6
Meanwhile, the jailbait twins Ashley and Ashlynn continue on their collision course with Steve and Greg, two groups of damaged survivors whose outlook on survival will turn the dark waters of the swamp blood red. Crossed: Badlands #6 is illustrated by the talented Leandro Rizzo, and is available in three different variant covers by Jacen Burrows[...]
BC Mag #0: Crossed: The Survivors
Are you a retailer who would like to be included? Contact us. Reply to this article in the forum. Further Reading: CROSSED, JACEN BURROWS, DAVID LAPHAM     Bleeding Cool Magazine Article By Keith Davidsen In Crossed, Garth Ennis created the ultimate apocalyptic scenario: a disease that tears through human civilization in an instant, turning its infected victims into sadistic[...]
"C-Day" Event Contestants – A Global Outbreak of Crossed Parties
The Avatar Press celebration of all things Crossed, known for short as "C-Day," is only two days away! March 14th sees the in-store release of Crossed: Badlands #1 by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, as well as the third volume in the Crossed graphic novel series: Psychopath, by David Lapham and Raulo Caceres Extending beyond[...]
An Unkillable Emperor And An Unharmable Dan – Avatar In May
The latest edition of Previews is just around the bend, and we're giving you a head start at looking at the March 2012 solicitation artwork for Avatar Press (corresponding to items shipping in May). Caligula Volume 1 Softcover Edition (Cover by Jacen Burrows) David Lapham and German Nobile's tale of the infamous Roman emperor.  To mock one[...]
Avatar In April – Crossed And Ferals Cover Gallery
Unveiled for all the world to see, we present to you the cover images for all new Avatar Press items in Diamond Comics' February Previews catalog. Crossed: Badlands #3 Regular Edition (Cover by Jacen Burrows) The dangers of coming down from the Scottish Highlands to get supplies during a Crossed outbreak. Crossed: Badlands #3 Torture Edition (Cover by[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week: Crossed: Psychopath #7
Now, in issue #7, it's a final battle of wits between Harold and Amanda, the beautiful and strong survivor whom our resident maniac has been obsessing over throughout his time with the group. Here's a preview to whet your whistle! Crossed: Psychopath #7 hits stores today with three standard cover variants to choose from: a Regular edition[...]
All Bets Are Off: Jacen Burrows Talks CROSSED: BADLANDS
Staff Writer Keith Davidsen writes for Bleeding Cool. Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows are kicking off the new ongoing Crossed: Badlands series in March with a bi-weekly three-part storyline, to be followed by story arcs written by Jamie Delano and David Lapham I had an opportunity to pick Burrows' brain (much like one of the Crossed[...]
Merry CROSSEDmas: Jacen Burrows Talks Crossed With Preview Of Crossed: Badlands #1
Avatar Press has designated March 12, 2012 as C-Day: that day will mark the premiere of Crossed: Badlands #1 by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows in comic shops worldwide, along with in-store promotions and C-Day Survival Kits for retailers, devised to celebrate this very special day in a style befitting the Crossed. The first arc of the[...]
Garth Ennis And Jacen Burrows Bring You Crossed Twice A Month – And Launch C-Day!
The post-not-quite-a-zombie apocalypse story that has taken the very worst things that humans do to each other, and made it the norm. And from the original creators of the Avatar series, Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, comes Crossed: Badlands Telling stories of Crossed all over the world, and starting with the story of a young Englishman,[...]
Neonomicon Not Cancelled In The UK
This week, UK retailers received the news that Diamond UK had cancelled the Neonomicon TPB and hardcover, collecting the series by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows, as well as the Courtyard adaptation by Moore, Burrows and Antony Johnston. Was it censorship? Her Majesty's Custom & Excise objecting to fish penis rape? It wouldn't be the first[...]
Avatar's Other Plug Of The Week: Neonomicon HC and TPB by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows
Alan Moore's Neonomicon by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows is published by Avatar today for $19.99 Hardcover for $27.99 As well as the series, it also contains the original Courtyard adaptation by Anthoiny Johnston and Jacen Burrows years before Neonomicon was published. Brears and Lamper, two young and cocky FBI agents, investigate a fresh series of[...]
NYCC Debut: Neonomicon TPB by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows
Title: Neonomicon TPB Creators: Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows Publisher: Avatar Comics Available: Booth #1930 High concept: What if the horrorific fantasies of HP Lovecraft were far more than that, and reflective of another reality – and one that FBI agents find themselves both investigating, and being investigated by A horror story worthy of the name, and from a[...]