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Kieron Gillen has stated his short story in April's Batman: Black and White #5 with Jamie McKelvie is "My first time writing a story for a DCU character This is a short story, and is one of the densest, most formalist things we've ever done It's also funny And brutal I hope folks like it." Considering how[...]

Today sees the long-awaited launch of the slightly-renamed Eternals series by Kieron Gillen and Esad Ribic It's a gorgeous., beautiful page-turner of a comic which is handy because it's double the usual size As the Eternals awake, again, beginning a cycle that does seem a teensy bit reminiscent of The Wicked + The Divine and,[...]

What is Female-Centric Revenge Saga? Well, Thought Bubble over the weekend saw the release of a two-and-a-half-hour video of Kieron Gillen, Marguerite Bennett, Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky and Emma Vieceli playing a role-playing game based on Die, Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans' comic book about role-playing gamers playing a game based on Dungeons[...]

Bors is also mentioned in the Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvillain series from Boom Studios, Once & Future. The comic has played out British myths of a variety of descriptions from a variety of cultures, interpreted in many ways through history, from Arthur to Beowulf and beyond, manifesting themselves in the countryside of England[...]

As we reported last month, Boom Studios' Once & Future by Doctor Kieron Gillen and Not-A-Doctor Dan Mora has been heating back up with back-to-back repeat sell-outs and second printings on issues #8 and #9 Well, we're expecting additional disruption to sales patterns as the series goes into its third arc with issue #13. Once &[...]

When Marvel Comics solicited Eternals #1 by Kieron Gillen and Esad Ribic, it was a) meant to come out in early November and b) was still called The Eternals Then the movie dropped the definitive article from its title and slipped to its current schedule of November 2021 Well the comic book has;t slipped that[...]

RATING: MEH. Ludocrats #5 (of 5) By Kieron Gillen, Jeff Stokely, Jim Rossignol,Tamra Bonvillain LUDOCRATS ends as it began, with the release of a 32-page comic pamphlet We leave you with fond memories and longing Forevermore, LUDOCRATS will be the comic whose name you accidentally moan when having sex with other lesser comics. Hh Well, Ludocrats #5 is the[...]

Willow Wilson, Duncan Fegredo, Kieron Gillen, Ben Oliver, David LaFuente, Alex Norris, Andy Belanger, Lee Garbett, Shelly Bond, Erika Price, Ram V and the premiere of a new documentary on UK comics icon Ian Kennedy, produced and directed by Phillip Vaughan. The weekend will also host exclusive events and content including from ComiXology, Jonathan Cape Graphic Novels,[...]

As well as the title comic by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, completely told in the series, the others including supernatural paramedical drama Code Pru, by Garth Ennis and Raulo Cacares, the Mad Max-meets-Pokemon of Modded by Kieron Gillen and Ignacio Caleres, Kaiju-procedural The Vast by Christos Gage and Gabriel Andrade, and the giant-ant-American-Revolution period drama A More Perfect Union by Max Brooks and Michael Dipascale. Well, it seems that my urging[...]

It belongs on every film student's bookshelf alongside Understanding Comics. The others including supernatural paramedical drama, Garth Ennis and Raulo Cacares continue their Code Pru, the Mad Max-meets-Pokemon of Modded by Kieron Gillen and Ignacio Caleres, The Vast by Christos Gage and Gabriel Andrade, A More Perfect Union by Max Brooks and Michael Dipascale CINEMA PURGATORIO COMP STORY BOX SET AVATAR PRESS INC SEP191549 Get the complete story for a song!  This set has all EIGHTEEN issues of[...]

Kieron Gillen, amongst a number of comic creators, publishes a newsletter Everyone should read it Not everyone does Like a number of creators (Warren Ellis started this one) he talks about projects he can't yet talk about, with codenames When the project is revealed, he reveals the codename, which allows one to trawl back through[...]

The Eternals #1 is coming from Kieron Gillen and Esad Ribic in December from Marvel Comics Here's a look ahead at what one might expect No words, just pictures, that'll do for now, folks… First Preview Of Esad Ribic's Art In The Eternals #1 For November First Preview Of Esad Ribic's Art In The Eternals #1 For[...]

That's an enormously tricky narrative feat to pull off, and the script from Jim Rossignol and Kieron Gillen make it look effortless. Then there's this literal bombardment of wonderful, ridiculous, and interesting ideas, Gatling gunned at the reader without pause or context, all expanding the mad scope of this wonderful continuity This preposterous parade of possibility[...]

Not a bit of it, Marvel is launching a new Eternals series by A-Listers Kieron Gillen and Esad Ribic. And they have given up waiting on the schedule of the movie, currently in February. Kieron is well known for co-creating The Wicked + The Divine, Star Wars' Doctor Aphra, Phonogram, Die, recently returning to Marvel Comics for[...]

RATING: HONORABLE MENTION. Die #12 By Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans 'THE GREAT GAME,' Part Two-Designer Sid Meier described games as a series of interesting decisions 'May you live in interesting times' is a curse Both things are true, and both are true here. From its inception, Die #12 has played fast and loose with the pop culture strings of[...]

Yes, my mistake." The writing from Kieron Gillen and Jim Rossignol is a delicate balance of madness and clarity, and it cannot be stressed enough that it's never an easy thing to do Add to that the literal building busting visuals, the clever quips, the mad metaplot, there's really only one word for a book like[...]

Kieron Gillen has been talking (lots) about picking up the Warhammer… hammer at Marvel Comics, a new comic book line based on the RPG from Games Workshop, of which he has talked a lot in the pub and occasionally brought along painted figures On his newsletter, he revealed it was the real name for his[...]

If you have no idea what's going on and have never read this work, you're gonna be completely lost and have no idea what in the name of Gary Gygax is going on here. The cover of DIE #11 published by Image Comics with the creative team of Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans, and Clayton Cowles. From the[...]

Last September the news came that Marvel had the comic book license, secured we later learnt by Marvel publisher John Nee, formerly of WildStorm, Warners, Cryptozoic and with most excellent contacts. A year later, the first book will be published, Warhammer 40K: Marneus Calgar in October, from tabletop and RPG gaming obsessive Kieron Gillen, writer of[...]

Kieron Gillen, Tamra Bonvillain … names you've seen a lot. The rest of the team aren't exactly slouches and this … well … Baron Otto Von Subertan is quite a figure — his Volstagg-ian proportions are only dwarfed by his deep devotion to being a Ludocrat, someone who rules but is never boring To say he is[...]

Where to begin? Well, this is less a script from talented scribe Kieron Gillen and more of a felonious assault on the collective psyche with a fully automatic dictionary Words are wielded like waves by a tsunami: for example, the elegant evil of Voldigan the Perdifous would make Starscream swoon with jealousy He's not even[...]

But months later, Doctor Kieron Gillen & Dan Mora's Once & Future #1 debuted, setting a company record for it's biggest creator-owned launch and joining its prestigious 50K club. Netflix Speculators Pay $200 for Gillen and Mora's Once & Future #1 Art from Boom Studios. Even with full returnability and retailers ordering at record-breaking numbers for a[...]

I was in the pub last night with Kieron Gillen and friends He said something very funny about his upcoming series from Image Comics, Ludocrats, but I can't remember what it was Anyway, it's inspired me to run this Brief History Of Kieron Gillen, what with Ludocrats #1 being FOC'ed this weekend. A Brief History Of[...]

Not every site is so circumspect, especially when it comes to announcing deaths. That's where comic book writer and bon vivant, Dr Kieron Gillen found himself last week He has posted a slide from his Guardian Masterclass on comic book writing, pointing out the very real dichotomy between writer and artist in comics, and realising what[...]

Tomorrow, Kieron Gillen will be holding a Guardian masterclass at Amnesty International's London HQ, talking about creating comic books But you don't have to pay out so much money to get the benefit of his tutorship Because last month, creators Kieron Gillen and Declan Shalvely had an idea Something to demonstrate the importance and impact of[...]

Once & Future #1 by Doctor Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora has just made a jump – to an eighth printing Which has to be a modern-day record I mean, it has a long way to go to beat Johnny The Homicidal Maniac #1 at at least a 26th printing, but for current single comics,[...]

The Ludocrats by Kieron Gillen, Jim Rossignol, Jeff Stokely and Tamra Bonvillain was originally announced at Image Expo in 2015 Then it was with just Kieron Gillen, David LaFuente, Jim Rossignol, and Ricardo Venancio And now it's on the cover of next week's Diamond Previews It's been a while. While one of the Diamond Gems for[...]

Fair enough. Kieron Gillen (#33 on the power list), writer of The Wicked + The Divine, Die and Once & Future is running a comic book writing masterclass for the Guardian newspaper Formerly held at the Guardian headquarters with a capacity of 100, demand has seen it switch to Amnesty International's UK headquarters, with a capacity of[...]

Basically right now he gets to do what he wants (as long as it still doesn't include showing off Harley Quinn's nipples.) Kieron Gillen (Up) Kieron is arguably one of 2019's biggest original hitmakers In addition to winding down The Wicked + The Divine, he gave us Die and Once & Future which were two of[...]

(Image Comics, creative team: Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans, Clayton Cowles) The basic premise of a group of childhood friends sucked back into the magical and often deadly activities of their childhood is well-bolstered here by a story of struggle between two of their number Working together for a singular plan, everything hinges on the ability of[...]