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With the order deadline fast approaching, Fan's of Kieron Gillen and Caanan White's Uber will want to take note here Avatar Press has a retailer incentive cover that ties into Bleeding Cool Magazine #7 For every 10 copies of the magazine purchased, a retailer can then purchase one of the Uber #6 Faces Of Evil[...]

With the first story arc having completed and the Uber Volume One Extended Hardcover coming out, I got a chance to talk with creators Kieron Gillen and Caanan White I'll run White's answers tomorrow With Gillen I wanted to look back at what his initial goals were for the series and how things ended up[...]

As an Edinburgh Book Fair exclusive, as part of the Stripped festival, the UK edition of the first volume of the new Young Avengers comics from Marvel, Style>Substance (featuring an exclusive introduction by writer Kieron Gillen), will be available well before its official release date in the UK and its release in the US. You know,[...]

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Wolverine: Origin II was one of Marvel's biggest reveals at Comic Con this year, pairing Kieron Gillen and Adam Kubert on a sequel to the Origin blockbuster of over a decade ago now  Here's the cover and a few pr blurbs, with much more to come on this one I'm quite sure: A few years after[...]

Well be hearing more of this over the next couple of days. But here they are first, from the Diamond Retailer Lunch at San Diego Comic Con. Origin II, a

The question is, which of these will be underordered the most? Special congratulations to Kieron Gillen for including for the first time a historical consultant in the solicited credits for a monthly comic. PRETTY DEADLY #1 story KELLY SUE DECONNICK art EMMA RÍOS & JORDIE BELLAIRE cover EMMA RÍOS OCTOBER 23 32 PAGES / FC / M $3.50 KELLY SUE DECONNICK (Avengers Assemble, Captain[...]

Wired reports that, as Marvel launches the Wolverine: Japan's Most Wanted digital comic by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour, they have also announced a new Infinite Comic with Kieron Gillen, Al Ewing and Lan Medina. Iron Man: Fatal Frontier appears to have a little Russian/Latverian action going on. Gillen said the future of the medium likely lies[...]

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[...]

Uber #3, published by Bleeding Cool owners Avatar Press, is out today, by Kieron Gillen and Canaan White Here's Kieron talking about what to expect… [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpbSULSLTnE[/youtube]   Uber #3, published by Bleeding Cool owners Avatar Press, is out today, by Kieron Gillen and Canaan White Here's Kieron talking about what to expect… [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpbSULSLTnE[/youtube]   [...]

Chris Ware, Joe Sacco, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Paul Cornell and Posy Simmonds are taking are part in Stripped as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Other names include Denise Mina, Paul Gravett, Melinda Gebbie, Warren Pleece, Roger Gibson, Chris Riddell, Jon Naught,  Stephen Collins, Robin and Lorenzo Etherington, Robbie Morrison, Jim[...]

Jonathan Hickman, Kieron Gillen, Si Spurrier, David Hine, David Lapham… as monthly comic writer lineups go for a non-premier comics publisher, that's not bad at all is it? Welcome to Avatar in September, and the new Jonathan Hickman comic that no one will order enough of, God Is Dead…   GOD IS DEAD #1 $3.99 Cover: Jonathan Hickman Writer:[...]

Uber, by Kieron Gillen and Canaan White, telling the story about the final days of the Third Reich in Nazi Germany, and their last ditch attempt to create superheroes and turn round the war. And how it starts to work. It has been accused by some of being Nazi propoganda That Kieron Gillen and Canaan White are[...]

For a few years, retailers had pretty much worked out how to sell an Avatar comic. They knew the kind of demand for an Alan Moore comic, a Warren Ellis

Avatar Press, the owners of Bleeding Cool, are flying me, Kieron Gillen and Si Spurrier out to Arizona for the Phoenix Comic Con. If you see me, please say hi, and if you want to drop off a message, samples, anything you want me to take a look at (please no faeces in a box, send[...]

All rather Big Numbers… and I think it's for Avatar. I'm sharing flights with Si Spurrier this week, as well as Kieron Gillen, flying out from Heathrow to Phoenix for the Phoenix Comic Con See what else I can find out… Si Spurrier has posted about a new comic book project He writes; See, there's this comicbook[...]

As a regular reader of Bleeding Cool, you're probably aware that I believe that Kieron Gillen, Doug Braithwaite and friends' run on Journey Into Mystery is a real highlight of Marvel Comics from the last few years At its heart, it's about a boy and his dog, but it's also a boy and a girl,[...]

I was chatting with Über writer Kieron Gillen, and it he let it slip that when originally writing Über, he saw it as the anti-All Star Superman. I don't know, I can still see some similarities… Über #1 is out today. I was chatting with Über writer Kieron Gillen, and it he let it slip that when[...]

Some of them talk a lot on a motorbike. Some behind a desk. Some on a bridge. Kieron Gillen is a real master of dialogue on the comic book page now, and this comic shows it off better than his recent Marvel work. Of course two thirds in, everything changes, things start kicking and exploding, in quite horrible and[...]

Avatar Press are publishing Uber #1 by Kieron Gillen and Canaan White tomorrow Sold out from the distributor before going on sale at shops, this is what it's going to be like when those shop doors open… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g78WsyCzcT0[/youtube] Okay, it;s actually a motion comic test created for Avatar[...]

Looks like they had a knock on effect on Uber #1… This comic about the Nazi creation of superheroes at the end of World War II and the changing world as a result, by Kieron Gillen and Canaan White, did cause a bit of a splash when issue #0 was published Midtown Comics had to ration[...]

Kieron Gillen's Uber #0 met with excitement and sell outs at its debut in comic shops one week ago  Within hours of its release, the hard to find covers and variants were commanding a premium price online and the general call for a reprint was universally heard  Avatar Press responded with the Uber #0 Enhanced[...]

We talked to both Kieron Gillen and Caanan White about their new series Uber from Avatar Press, now here's a preview of the 48-page #0 issue. Out next month at a comic retailer near you. We talked to both Kieron Gillen and Caanan White about their new series Uber from Avatar Press, now here's a preview[...]

It was clear from our recent talk with writer Kieron Gillen that he has developed a very specific, detailed, and intense vision for his new monthly series Uber, which begins with issue #0 in April from Avatar Press On developing and writing the series, Gillen told us: It's hard work, both in terms of research and[...]

Phonogram, Uncanny X-Men, Journey into Mystery, Iron Man, Young Avengers… Kieron Gillen has written quite a range of comics in recent years  And in April, Avatar Press will launch Uber by Gillen and artist Canaan White, described in the solicit blurb for issue #0 with: Germany is in ruins The war in the west can only[...]

I am seeing Kieron in the pub tomorrow. I know better than to ask him about any of this, because he'll just do his doleful eyes look, tilt his head

But there is some fun stuff along the way… Young Avengers #1 gives us the first art of a short film starring Kieron Gillen in his Loki get up. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZJaEl_dVZM[/youtube] While, on another continent, Kieron is enslaved in his editor's office. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WScqd01hASs[/youtube] Mark Waid talks Leinil Yu on Indestructable Hulk [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWMaBi6OF3c[/youtube] Mike Allred talks Old John Storm on FF [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9NDxTYrleI[/youtube] A + X and[...]

For the last few weeks, Kieron Gillen has been writing about the cast of his new comic with Jamie McKelvie and friends, Young Avengers, commentary and soundtracks It comes out tomorrow So here are a few snippets from each with links to the main events. Marvel Boy Noh-Varr has two saving graces Firstly, he hasn't collapsed completely[...]

As this is the Ultimate universe, the visuals must be more grounded in reality, I like it a lot, the concept of the Black Knight is inspiring. He also talked about warming up his creative muscles in the Marvel Universe on a ten page story which must by the strip with Kieron Gillen in A+X #6,[...]

Kieron Gillen gives an interview about Young Avengers to Buzzfeed Where he talks about comics as pop music, and eighteen year olds as superheroes and, Be My Baby a lot and seriously, is there a Kieron Gillen Generator somewhere? It wouldn't be hard to do It's possibly he'll be in the pub tomorrow night, if[...]