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Marvel Relaunches Star Wars as A New Legacy in January
With new stories by Star Wars writers through that decade, Charles Soule, Jason Aaron, and Kieron Gillen, spotlighting characters such as that first appeared in Marvel comics, including Doctor Aphra, Sana Starros,  0-0-0, BT-1 and Krrsantan. "From Darth Vader to Grand Moff Tarkin, the Empire's most powerful gather on Alderaan to honor Emperor Palpatine in a thrilling[...]
Kieron Gillen's Power Fantasy About Political Assassination (Spoilers)
Power Fantasy #1 by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard is published today, when distributed by Lunar and next week through Diamond Welcome to the way things are now I think Forbidden Planet in London got some direct in time for today's London signing though, kicking off right about now An alternate history of a handful[...]
Big Comics Signings In London Today For Power Fantasy & Silk Cotton
And new comics signing day today, with two high profile signings ongoing on simultaneously in London's West End, at both Forbidden Planet and Gosh Comics. Forbidden Planet on Shaftesbury Avenue on the corner of Covent Garden has Dr Kieron Gillen, Casper Wijngaard and Rian Hughes signing The Power Fantasy #1, from 6pm to 7pm. "Superpowered You have[...]
Two Surprise Covers For Tomorrow's Power Fantasy #1
Tomorrow sees the release of Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard 's The Power Fantasy #1 from Image Comics They are going to do a signing at Forbidden Planet in London and everything That's while they still have copies, it has already sold out at a distributor level What copies are in the store, that's it,[...]
The Power Fantasy Doesn't Want To Be "Watchmen Meets Succession"
Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard have been pushing their new Image Comics series, The Power Fantasy, launching in August, ahead of its Final Order Cut Off (FOC) date this weekend This means plenty of think pieces,  newsletters, teaser images, variant reveals, cover quotes, and character reveals from Image and the creators Kieron Gillen doing a[...]
Yes, Yes, Kieron Gillen, I Am Doing Your Kickstarter Thing Now
The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie was published by Image Comics, the first issue ten years ago The series ran for 45 main issues with a few spinoffs along the way, telling the story of teenage girl, Laura, and a Pantheon of twelve reincarnate gods, who reincarnate in the young[...]
Al Ewing Joins A New Writers Room... What Could It Be?
And Kieron Gillen adds on Buttondown, "I'll save any commentary for down the line I know folks will be asking me about it in interviews soon enough, but I think the fanbase have to metabolise things without having my finger on the scales It's certainly been frustrating with people assuming they knew how the story ended[...]
Image Comics Full August 2024 Solicits & Solicitations
The Power Fantasy by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard, a new series launching in Image Comics' August 2024 solicits and solicitations, and indeed on the front cover. And here's a preview of the comic to share with everyone… a superhero comic book about superpeople, six of whom have the destructive capability of the USA nuclear arsenal[...]
Image Comics Full August 2024 Solicits & Solicitations
Image Comics' August 2024 solicits and solicitations have dropped in catalogue form on Bleeding Cool, including launches for C.O.W.L 1964 #1 from Kyle Higgins, Alec Siegel, and Rod Reis, Convert #1 by John Arcudi and Savannah Finley, The Power Fantasy #1 by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard, Standstill #1 by Lee Loughridge, Universal Monsters: Frankenstein[...]
Nightcrawler's Mommy Issues With Destiny (X-Men Forever #4 Spoilers)
X-Men Forever #4, the final issue by Kieron Gillen and Luca Maresca, is published on Wednesday from Marvel Comics. X-MEN FOREVER #4 MARVEL COMICS MAR240750 (W) Kieron Gillen (A) Luca Maresca (CA) Mark Brooks …AND FOREVER! Our secrets, sinister or otherwise, are over X-MEN FOREVER ends with a question – after everything, do we have Hope or not? From between[...]
Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans' Graphic Novel, We Called Them Giants
Amazon has a listing for a new original graphic novel, We Called Them Giants, by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans, the team behind Die,  to be published by Image Comics in hardcover for the 12th of November, 2024 Though what's the betting they'll have copies out for Thought Bubble the week before? "We Called Them Giants is[...]
KIeron Gillen And Caspar Wijngaard Have a Power Fantasy They Would Like To Share
And so trust TWATD co-creator Kieron Gillen to go and put it right on the nose with his new Image Comics series with Caspar Wijngaard being announced at ECCC The Power Fantasy, from Image Comics in August 2024, about a world in which superpowered beings have the destructive capabilities of America's nuclear arsenal. The Hollywood Reporter[...]
Fall & Rise Of The House & Powers Of X Marvel Solicits For April 2024
As the fight between the mutants and Orchis reaches a deadly pitch in FALL OF THE HOUSE OF X #4, a startling revelation rocks the X-Men to their core. RISE OF THE POWERS OF X #4 (OF 5) Written by KIERON GILLEN Art and Cover by R.B SILVA On Sale 4/25 WHO IS TRAITOR X? In the aftermath of the[...]
Space Claws V Sexy Ladies- Red Dwarf meets Jurassic Park & Barbarella
Kieron Gillen took to the stage at Thought Bubble to run his comic book industry-themed edition of his role-playing game Die, with Michael W Conrad, Becky Cloonan, Al Ewing and Ram V All playing participants in an indie comic that never finished, and who had now gathered on a San Diego Comic-Con panel to play[...]
Kieron Gillen & Luca Maresca Burn Krakoa To The Ground in X-Men Forever
A new X-Men Forever from Kieron Gillen and Luca Maresca may provide something similar, albeit more immediate In which "Kieron Gillen and Luca Maresca unravel the final mysteries of the Krakoa Era in X-Men: Forever!" tying in with the Fall of The House Of X and Rise Of The Powers Of X series. Kieron Gillen &[...]
Loki Season Two
Co-creator of Kang. Doug Braithwaite drew the revived Journey Into Mystery series that established the young Loki. Loki's Journey  from Marvel Comics #1000 Mark Brooks, co-creator of Sylvie, in whom Enchantress hid in Dark ReignL Young Avengers John Buscema, co-creator of The Time Keepers in Thor #243. Sal Buscema, co-creator of the Time Variance Authority for Thor #372, drew early[...]
Things To Do In London In October 2023 If You Like Comics
COMPLETE FINISHED COMIC: By the end of the course each student will produce their own complete 8 – 12 page comic strip. Comic Making Mayhem, Wembley Library, Wembley Park, 11.30am-1pm, Free Want to be the superhero of your own comic? Join us for lots of comic making fun at this autumn workshop. Tuesday, 24th of October Fortismere October Half[...]
Auto Draft
Written by Gerry Duggan and Kieron Gillen, drawn by Lucas Werneck and RB Silva, for January 2024, with details being spilled at the Marvel: Next Big Thing Panel on Saturday, the 14th of October at New York Comic Con And dubbed the "beginning of the end of Krakoa" I suspect a Gillen input into that,[...]
Michael Lomon Wins £2500 Caliburn Prize As Unpublished Comics Creator
"I'm genuinely not exaggerating when I say there was only a handful of points between all entries, and no obvious leader until the last two judges results came in." Judges on the panel included Kieron Gillen, David Leach, Rachael Smith, Oriana Leckert, James Wills, Harry Markos and me. Here's a look at the Caliburn Prize winning entry[...]
9 Days For New UK Comics Creators To Claim £2500 Prize & Hotel Room
The judges will be Kieron Gillen, David Leach, Oriana Leckert, Rachael Smith, James Wills, Harry Markos, Tony Lee and… me Blimey Honoured to be asked And I'm going to make sure it happens By waving the following in front of people Five handfuls of these. /The Bank Of England CC BY-ND 2.0 And maybe one of these[...]
Marvel Comics
Kieron Gillen loves a good pun He has pun, will travel, handing out punishment on a pundamental level Entire comic books, comic book series, have been created in service of wordplay Immaterial Girl was a good one And his social media game has usually been in favour of telling a very bad joke Remember his[...]
Marvel X-Men Krakoa
But Kieron Gillen does the same with Cyclops to create very effective cannon fodder.  And with the Sinisterised Hope Summers playing Dungeon Master for a game of intergalactic warfare, which previous X-Men comic books had done a pretty good job of setting up… …might thise bigger guns have to come from Sinister? The original Powers Of X[...]
Marvel May 2023 Solicits For Fall Of X
And Steve Orlando joining the Sins Of Sinister writing team of Al Ewing, Si Spurrier and Kieron Gillen. X-MEN: BEFORE THE FALL – SONS OF X #1 Written by SI SPURRIER Art and Cover by PHIL NOTO On Sale 5/3 Witness a battle between two titans of the X-Universe. A man of innumerable personalities and powers vs[...]
Sins Of Sinister
Kieron Gillen is sitting around laughing or despairing at the various conspiracy theories regarding the coronavirus vaccines How they are engineered by Bill Gates to microchip the world population to turn everyone into mindless zombies following global corporate dictat As if that were even necessary But painting Bill Gates as some kind of Mister Sinister…[...]
British Comics' Best Kept Secret, Mark Stafford, Has Something For You
Whatever 2023 brings in terms of doom and despondency, bringing Mark Stafford's Salmonella Smorgasbordinto the world may make up for a lot of it. #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ People aside from me who have backed the campaign include Gene[...]
Immortal X-Men Using The Past To Divine The Future (XSpoilers)
Man, these Victorian pulp writers, they really didn't have an original idea in their head, did they? To a man, it seems they were all copying from Kieron Gillen and Michele Bandini. ….as well as a League Of Extraordinary Charleses. Immortal X-Men #8 Obviously, Professor X joins the crew And these days, everyone knows that Ada Lovelace was the[...]
Sins Of Sinister
But it did give me the opportunity to get a little of the X-Men panel in front of your eyes tonight. Kieron Gillen, Si Spurrier and Al Ewing led the Professing X: An X-Men Panel, the writers of Immortal X-Men, Legion Of X, and X-Men Red, hosted by Elizabeth Sandifer at Thought Bubble In which they[...]
Cover image for BALLAD OF HALO JONES OMNIBUS HC
Rebellion has released their January 2023 solicits and solicitations, though mostly for books shipping in February 2023 and beyond, including a new complete collection of The Ballad Of Halo Jones  by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson, with a new introduction by Kieron Gillen, #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid[...]
The Page Of Immortal X-Men #7 Kieron Gillen "Executed" By Himself
In his newsletter, Kieron Gillen talks about some of the nine Judgment Day tie-ins published today, specifically the three that he wrote And pointing out that you probably shouldn't have read AXE: Starfox #1 from last week as it is set to happen after all of them "A lot of AXE, before the final issue[...]
Tom Brevoort States That AXE One-Shots Are Really Judgment Day #5A, #5B & #5C
Here are those solicitations… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ AXE AVENGERS #1 MARVEL COMICS JUL220766 (W) Kieron Gillen (A) Federico Vicentini (CA) Nic Klein THE FIRST OF THREE STORY-ESSENTIAL JUDGMENT DAY ONE-SHOTS! Tony Stark has spent his life building suits to protect him[...]