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In shops this week from Avatar Press is the fourth volume trade of God is Dead by Mike Costa, Emiliano Urdinola and Juan Frigeri and features Jesus vs The Dragon Also out on Wednesday is War Stories #6 by Garth Ennis and Tomas Aira that wraps up the Children of Israel story with an invasion[...]

Nerdist has the PR puffery on Spider-Verse being a Battleworld reality in Secret Wars with its own spinoff series. SPIDER-VERSE #1 MIKE COSTA (w) • ANDRE ARUAJO (a) Cover by NICK BRADSHAW "Spinning out of the SPIDER-VERSE event, a team of Spiders finds themselves face-to-face with Battleworld! Starring SPIDER-GWEN, SPIDER-MAN NOIR, SPIDER-MAN: INDIA, MAYDAY PARKER, SPIDER-UK and SPIDER-HAM!" Sadly Spider-Ham appears to have[...]

Next year, Marvel will launch a new Infinite digital comic called Avengers: Millennium, by Mike Costa and French artists Geoffo and Mast before later collecting it in hardcover. And it's another trip into time, through Marvel's past, including World War II Catain America, Bucky and the Invaders. At a secret Hydra installation hidden away in rural Japan, the Avengers[...]

March's solicitations for Avatar Press show the latest in Alan Moore's first monthly comic in ages, Crossed +100, and plenty more from some very familiar talents… GOD IS DEAD VOL 04 TPB $19.99 Cover: Jacen Burrows Writer: Mike Costa Art: Juan Frigeri, Emiliano Urdinola MR, Color, 144 pages Everything Mike Costa has written has been building to this epic fourth volume! With the[...]

Written by Mike Costa and drawn by Paolo Villanelli, the series starts off Snake Eyes busting Destro out of prison and leads to him going up against a team of Joes lead by Scarlett. "Snake Eyes has been gone from the pages of IDW's G.I JOE books for almost two years, so his return alone would[...]

William Christensen introduced this panel of stellar talent talking about their books at Avatar Press including Max Brooks, Justin Jordan, Simon Spurrier, Mike Costa, and Kieron Gillen. Jordan spoke about his work on Crossed where he wanted to explore the reaction of a person with hope and faith facing a Crossed world And in a short,[...]

Avatar Press are making a splash this year with an all-star line-up of signings at their booth, #1920, some ticketed, so make a note of that, including Max Brooks, Mike Costa, Garth Ennis, Kieron Gillen, Justin Jordan, and Simon Spurrier, with a host of exclusives including the new "Taste Test" teaser for Alan Moore and[...]

Don't miss out. There's also some astonishing stuff for Max Brook's Extinction Parade, Mike Costa's God is Dead, Garth Ennis' Caliban,  and Kieron Gillen's Uber to spice up your con collecting list For the Moore lovers, also note the God is Dead: Book of Acts Alpha leather edition set and other iterations of "Alpha" that also[...]

David Lapham returns to Crossed: Badlands with #62, Mike Costa starts bringing the Gods back to life in God Is Dead #21 and Kieron Gillen kicks off a new chapter with Uber #18. Crossed: Badlands #62 David Lapham returns to the brutal world of Crossed with a crime story told both before and after the Crossed outbreak! [...]

Two issues by regular series writer Mike Costa, and two "Book Of Acts" specials titled "Alpha" and "Omega" with rather splendid guest stars: Alan Moore, Kieron Gillen, Si Spurrier and Justin Jordan, all regular Avatarites. All who have created remarkably different takes. Mike Costa takes God's rival, now supposedly free, dealing with the limits of that freedom[...]

Metterton in the Jimmy's End films saw him representing both a version of God and a retired stand up comedian turned working men's club owner in the same character.  As the writer of the films, he was simply playing himself, and in this respect he was God, able to affect all that happened with a[...]

Joe: Cobra with co-writer Mike Costa, where he was the first draft guy and I did that [what Nicky does] It's an interesting process for me I've always felt like on the writing team you don't want two people who do the exact same thing You want people whose skills compliment each other and Nicky[...]

The series is by Mike Costa, who is of course well known for his work on the Avatar series God is Dead, and Paco Diaz  Coming in November. Then there's Spider-Verse Team-Up, a three-issue mini written by Christos Gage with art by Dave Williams, with back-up stories by other creators Also coming in November. [...]

The second arc of God is Dead, entitled Book of Acts, takes the form of a 2 part all-star team up under the guidance of series writer Mike Costa In "Alpha", he's joined by Rafael Ortiz on the artwork for his own story, but also by Alan Moore with Facundo Percio and Simon Spurrier with[...]

First we announced Alan Moore scripting himself into a story of the snake puppet god Glycon returning, full of the strangeness and humor that must entail, then we brought you Mike Costa giving his thoughts on using an underdog "Ifrit" fire spirit as an identification character in what's shaping up to be quite a detective[...]

So far, Bleeding Cool has brought you the announcement that Alan Moore has written a Glycon-based story for God is Dead: Book of Acts 'Alpha', alongside an interview with Mike Costa about his masterplan for the two-parter 'Alpha' and 'Omega', and a virally-funny interview with Simon Spurrier about his story 'Pitter Patter', also in 'Alpha'. [...]

What more could you bring to a book that already has Mike Costa's guiding hand deciding to turn a whole mythological epic into a detective story and one that has Alan Moore ACTUALLY writing himself into a story as a reluctant priest of a returned largely unknown god, Glycon? Well, who could you bring to[...]

One of the most engaging things about this series is the realistic touches in human behavior and reaction that speaks to life in the 21st century so clearly while using equal realism to depict how life would actually be walking among terrifyingly powerful god-like beings with their own agendas. The first two issues of the new[...]

Phoenix Comic Con is only a little over a week away (June 5th-8th), and Avatar Press is going to have a strong presence at the convention, supported by guests Mike Costa of God is Dead, and Michael Dipascale, the artist on Rover Red Charlie and cover-artist on Uber But Avatar Press are also rolling out[...]

God is Dead launched in 2013 with Jonathan Hickman and Mike Costa as writers, later taken on fully by Costa, and drawn by German Erramouspe, currently in its thirteenth issue this week. In August, a two-part significant addition to the story will include "Alpha" and "Omega" containing multiple stories of gods returned to earth, and encapsulated[...]

Plus you get to be first in-line to meet God Is Dead writer Mike Costa and Rover Red Charlie artist Michael Dipascale But this deal is limited to only 50 so you'd want to grab it fast Grab it here. Avatar Graphic Novel Library – 16 Avatar graphic novels!  These collections have never before been offered in[...]

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[...]

We all love Optimus, but Robots In Disguise has been an up-and-down series, ranging from brilliant to confusingly bad, and TF fans were generally enjoying the lack of Earth and lack of puny humans in recent stories, after Mike Costa's disappointing Earth-centric run in 2009-2011. This series, right now, is the most likely to disappoint[...]

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:[...]

God is Dead launched from Avatar Press (the owners of Bleeding Cool) back in September, co-written by Jonathan Hickman (Fantastic Four, The Ultimates, Pax Romana) and Mike Costa (The Secret History of The Authority, Transformers, Blackhawks) , with art by Rafa Ortiz (Dan the Unharmable, Crossed) The premises behind the book were bracing, unpeeling some[...]

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 no better outside of the city in Red Rover Charlie #4 and Mike Wolfer has William Gravel return to military service and checks out a subway turned[...]

Tommy Zimmer writes: Mike Costa was seated in the Great Lakes Ballroom at the Adoba Hotel in Dearborn, MI He sat prepared for the onslaught of people that were bound to come to his table At the same time, he prepared for a panel he had coming up Even with the convention craziness as he was[...]

Also with the issue Hickman's co-writer for the first six issues Mike Costa will be going it alone on the writing duties. When asked about the project and taking over the series, Costa had this to say: Jonathan Hickman is one of the biggest names in comics right now, and his creator-owned work in particular is probably[...]

But that's it. Publisher Avatar Press, also the owner of Bleeding Cool have also done a deal with God Is Dead co-writer, Mike Costa, to make the book ongoing And, like Crossed Badlands, for it to be bi-weekly, at least for the second arc, entitled "Armageddon" as the world enters its end times. From Uber to Extinction[...]

Spinning out of the Avatar panel, with Hannah Means-Shannon reporting from NYCC — Mike Costa will take the reins and continue the God is Dead series beyond the original 6-issue arc which was written by  Jonathan Hickman, and Costa, with art by Di Amorim. God is Dead has been a huge hit for Avatar them, "too good to stop",[...]