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More folk were focused on the disappearance of Iron Man, with Kieron Gillen saying, I've had a bunch of people asking about the absence of Iron Man from the new solicitations. Basically, the situation is this An enormous opportunity turned up. We looked at my schedule We realised that it just wasn't going to work[...]

By David Dissanayake Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson, and Clayton Cowles are following their run on Young Avengers with a new Image book, The Wicked + The Divine.  You may have heard of it. There's really not much more that needs to be said These guys are one of the greatest bands in comics, right up[...]

From Twitter, in 2011. Maybe the market *is* ready for my The Fascist Man Alive: Nazi Flash! — Kieron Gillen (@kierongillen) September 16, 2011 From Iron Man #25, out today…   Well done, Kieron Gillen, you finally got there But did Tony Isabella beat you to it, if not in print? From a post last year detailing a Seven Soldiers[...]

@gregpak @McKelvie The first pitch I sent to Marvel actually was a Dazzler mini, fearfully. — Kieron Gillen (@kierongillen) May 6, 2014 Kieron Gillen just posted it on Tumblr, (as well as a most entertaining preamble) DAZZLER: BIG IN ATTILAN (In a paragraph, as you're busy, like.) Her career in the doldrums and critically savaged, Alison Blaire gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity[...]

Huxley recently sat down with writer Kieron Gillen to discuss his ongoing Avatar series, Uber with Caanan White, for a forthcoming feature in Bleeding Cool Magazine Here's a sneak peek as we talk through the ramifications of last week's huge turning point and this week's new arc in issue twelve out today Spoiler goggles at the[...]

But have they ever written a comic book? Max Brooks, who will have the biggest queues, brought out by World War Z, to sign his new series Extinction Parade and graphic novel Harlem Hellfighters. Kieron Gillen (who sounds quite a bit like Karen Gillan) will have the queue most dominated by female Loki cosplayers, signing Uber (but you[...]

Iron Man" series that ties into "Original Sin." While Mark [Waid] and Kieron [Gillen] know how that story ends, and know what they're teeing up for the future, we spent a bit of time going over the possibilities with the rest of the guys in the room. Emphasis on guys? Based on Twitter, it appears much of the[...]

From the GLAAD Awards in Los Angeles, this weekend, reflecting the portraying of gay characters and gay themes in pop culture, Marvel scored a win. Outstanding Comic Book:  Young Avengers, written by Kieron Gillen (Marvel Comics) It was also drawn by Jamie McKelvie and Mike Norton with colorist Matthew Wilson and Clayton Cowles and a whole bunch of other folk for the[...]

The difference between the Marvel and the DC Summits? The Marvel ones let participants tweet about it. My arrival at the Marvel retreat: http://t.co/dLl2RBmCYe — Kieron Gillen (@kierongillen) April 7, 2014 He does this in the pub as well, folks. .@skottieyoung got me like pic.twitter.com/h53eqA8gzu — BUTT STUFF WEREWOLF (@mattfraction) April 7, 2014 The spitting image. @eugewarrock In a Marvel Retreat today[...]

But like the more recent Kieron Gillen run on the Iron Man comics, the Captain is frequently seen in the older comics (as collected by Dark Horse in their second volume) to go in rockets into space, using his pilot skills to handle outer-lunar travel as easily as he might take a light aircraft jaunt[...]

It didn't feature anything from the film at all, but it set the tone so perfectly. Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie did something similar for Phonogram: The Singles Club as well, an original one page strip that advertised the comic so very effectively One of the better ads for comics I've seen. And now they're doing it[...]

I have to say, it's a pretty good deal. The Iron Man out today, #23.NOW kicks off a new story that may well revive The Mandarin (as seen in Iron Man 3 and

Straight from yesterday's Diamond Retailer Day in London, the day before today's London Super Comic Con… Avatar Press' presentation to retailers, including Si Spurrier, Kieron Gillen and Max Brooks talking about Disenchantment, Crossed, Uber and Extinction Parade. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQloRzx2sJk[/youtube] Sorry for blinding Si Spurrier. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOmkr0lCK0s[/youtube] And sorry about the angle on Max… it does make him look a little Messiah[...]

He's also writing, from Bleeding Cool publishers Avatar Press the Borrowers-meets-Benefit Street webcomic Disenchanted with German Erramouspe. And from Kieron Gillen? The first issue of his comic book Three, from Image Comics, free in all sorts of formats     It's possible I may see them both in the pub tonight So I'd better get on their[...]

Add in Kieron Gillen's Uber and Warren Ellis' Gravel and you have a lot of good reading listed hear. GOD IS DEAD VOL 01 TPB Retail Price: $19.99 US Cover: Jonathan Hickman Writers: Jonathan Hickman and Mike Costa Art: Di Amorim MR, Color, 160 pages PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:Like a thunderbolt from heaven, the epic first volume of JONATHAN HICKMAN's God is Dead is[...]

Avatar Press will be holding court at The London Super Comic Con Convention (otherwise known in parlance as the London SuperCon) on March 15th and 16th and making quite an event of their presence.  Their full guest list pulls out all the stops, including Max Brooks, Jacen Burrows, William Christensen, Kieron Gillen, and Simon Spurrier. But[...]

Um. Um. Just, take it away, Kieron. As established in his original mini, Noh-Varr has a bunch of cockroach genes worked into his system. That leads to the

I rather enjoy the Marvel AR additions, when I can get them to work (All New X-Men #21 I'm looking at you) or when they don't forget to include them (Amazing X-Men #3, ahem…) and I especially like the asides from the creators talking about their work. Such as the three in the compiled video below,[...]

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,[...]

Tumblr is in tears, critics are applauding, and fans all over kinda wish it wasn't so. The critically acclaimed and fan-favourite run on Young Avengers by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie et al is finished, with a wonderful, heartfelt and fun farewell to a team they've been working on for just around a year now[...]

– Kieron Gillen Through its focus on importance of each event, however seemingly miniscule or unimportant, ALEC helped me understand how to measure and value time — not just in comics, but in all aspects of my life – Ales Kot Do you need me to tell you how good Eddie Campbell is? Or that ALEC is probably the[...]

Uber, written by Kieron Gillen (Young Avengers, Journey into Mystery, Iron Man), with art by Caanan White (Ptolus),  is a fan favorite among new series of 2013, and is a World War II epic featuring an alternative timeline where Hitler develops "Ubermensch" that threaten to turn  the course of the war The Allies are counting[...]

Young Avengers by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie (and a few friends) comes to an end today, and it also concludes Gillen's Loki story, even more that Journey Into Mystery did The new Loki story picks up in All New Marvel Now Point One today. But before that, we get a revelation. After one or three examples,[...]

Young Avengers Volume 1: Style > Substance, from Marvel Comics, written by Kieron Gillen, with art by Jamie McKelvie and Mike Norton, colors by Matthew Wilson, and letters by VC's Clayton Cowles Young Avengers made waves, as a series, from its first issue, and here in one sitting you can appreciate more fully the planning and[...]

Aaron Haaland mentioned that Mr Sinister wasn't in Origin II, even though he was on the cover. Wasn't he? He may have. Just not as you know him. You may

Craig Russell's art on issue #50 The first collected edition of Young Avengers by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie I hate to admit that I haven't read it yet (though I've been collecting them and not reading them yet to avoid spoilers), but now I can rectify that. A Timelord t-shirt, Whovian of course, with Smith's Doctor[...]

Welcome to the final Ten Thoughts of Matt Smith's run as Doctor Who. We'll try not to spoil, or if we do only minor ones. But be safe, wait until you've

Kieron Gillen turns everything upside as the second story arc ends in Uber #11 and then dives into the origins of the Ubers in the Special Edition Mike Costa continues the war of the divine in the bi-weekly God Is Dead Ennis continues the tale of three dogs during the apocalypse as they find it[...]

Spencer Ellsworth writes; If you love Kieron Gillen (if you don't, shame on you), you may have noticed his fondness for the Robots in Disguise, specifically the UK comic of the 1980s In Iron Man and S.W.O.R.D Gillen has brought back Death's Head, the freelance peacekeeping agent (don't call him a bounty hunter) that debuted in[...]