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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[...]

So I'd better get on their good sides in case I can get them to buy me a pint (or a glass of Kieron's bottle of wine). Si Spurrier has a new free horror webcomic with Chris Mitten, just published, online now, called in fetu. And yeah, it freaks you out He's also writing, from Bleeding Cool[...]

Welcome back to Disenchanted, Si Spurrier and German Erramouspe's grown-up fairytale comics, a free webcomic from Bleeding Cool's publisher Avatar The new issue just went up. The first collection is out in print later this year, but is all still available free from the website. How does that make you feel? Exactly.   Welcome back to Disenchanted, Si Spurrier[...]

Wednesday 15th January Orbital Comics: Miracleman #1 signing with artist/co-writer Garry Leach, from 5pm. And from 6pm… Si Spurrier signing Numbercruncher at Forbidden Planet. Thursday 16th Creating a Graphic Novel (six week course run by Simone Lia) begins 57 Arts, 57 Loampit Hill London SE13 7SZ. This practical and informal course is for anyone who would like to explore their[...]

Marvel Editor-In-Chief Axel Alonso revealed the makeup of last week's Marvel Retreat to CBR, made of up writers "Brian Bendis, Dan Slott, Jason Aaron, Matt Fraction, Jonathan Hickman, Mark Waid, Rick Remender, Kieron Gillen, Sam Humphries and, making his debut, Skottie Young." So naturally people are wondering what Skottie might be writing for the Marvel Universe. I'm[...]

I think it very well may be. Rock-He Kim is a Korean storyboard artist, who painted those rather funky Ultron covers for Age Of Ultron, and puts out

WHAT TO DO IN LONDON TONIGHT COMICA PR: WHAT IS A SUPERHERO? with Kieron Gillen, Si Spurrier, Will Brooker, Richard Reynolds & Alex Fitch Tickets: £6.00 from WeGotTickets Where: Foyles Bookshop, 3rd Floor Gallery, London, WC2H 0EB A SECOND DARKNESS Christopher Mitten draws the cover for the second print of Ash And The Army Of Darkness #1. YOUR COMICS ARE WORTH NOTHING Yahoo[...]

Earlier this year, Titan Comics publisher the series Numbercruncher, by Si Spurrier and PJ Holden It sunk It didn't help that it was a really, really bad format to publish the comic in Serialised did not do it any favours As a complete story, it relies on you remembering clearly previous scenes as new scenes[...]

Today sees the beginning of Disenchanted, the new weekly webcomic from Bleeding Cool publisher Avatar Press, written by Si Spurrier, with full art by German Erramouspe. Welcome to Vermintown: a vast and vile city of a million inch-tall malcontents Sprawling through an abandoned subway station deep beneath London, here myth has given way to sleaze, drugs,[...]

So, the original X-Men Legacy comic (the then-retitled X-Men/New X-Men comic) ended with issue 275. The new X-Men Legacy comic written by Si Spurrier ends soon, with issue 23 and 24 solicited with the line "One thing's for sure: as this groundbreaking series races to its conclusion, anything is possible!" Add them together, that's a cool 299. Could[...]

Elizabeth Heyman talked to Si Spurrier at NYCC about Disenchanted, a comic published by Bleeding Cool's owner, Avatar Press. It had been a huge weekend for Disenchanted writer Simon Spurrier by the time I sat down to talk with him at this year's New York Comic Con Not only was the comic's online premiere date only[...]

Pete Rogers writes for Bleeding Cool: My first-ever comic script was called Darwin, it was about a murderous talking chimp and Andy Diggle was right, it was terrible.  I made the classic mistake of showing my work too early, not taking on board the notes I was given and missing a golden opportunity when Andy agreed[...]

The challenge (as set by Spurrierminion#1 Oldhat.) You have been hired to be the art side of a reimagining of LITTLE BOY BLUE AND THE BLUE BOYS, a comic

We've assembled a lineup that is about twice the size of last year's event, and includes Kieron Gillen, Si Spurrier, Dylan Teague, Simon Furman, Emma Vieceli, Rob Williams, Ben Oliver, Lee Townsend, Mike Collins, Kate Brown and Paul Duffield. As ever, people can get stuff signed or get personalised sketches from the artists, provided you get[...]

Si Spurrier reminds us that there's a 2000AD-esque signing at Forbidden Planet and London today, 6-7pm Rob Williams, Al Ewing and Si Spurrier, celebrating the release of the big unholy Dredd-world crossover thing, Trifecta. Wordburglar lets us know that on Saturday, the 3rd Annual Nerd Noise Night will be taking place at Fan Expo Toronto, where[...]

It's getting ugly. Over in X-Men Legacy however, as well as some rather useful uses of the comic book format to tell stories from Si Spurrier and Tan Eng Huat, a number of them rather new, we also get this A Public Service Announcement That's basically called Britain's Better With Mutants, echoing the seventies slogan Britain's[...]

Instructions from Spurrier-appointed vicetyrant @OldHat: "Restored to life through Dr. Slade's vita-ray, Mystico, a seer of ancient Egypt, has placed his

But this is Si Spurrier's presentation of his new series from Titan Comics, Numbercruncher, out last week, from the Diamond Retailer Lunch. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni3czITwERY[/youtube] Isn't it mysterious? Okay, the visuals and sound aren't the greatest But this is Si Spurrier's presentation of his new series from Titan Comics, Numbercruncher, out last week, from the Diamond Retailer Lunch. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni3czITwERY[/youtube] Isn't it[...]

Bleeding Cool is about to tell you about the missing October solicitations, for both DC Comics and more, after asking the questions yesterday. It's all part of the Hallowe'en Comic Fest promotion from Diamond Comic Distribution, expanding the October version of Free Comic Book Day by encouraging prominent publishers to debut new comics for free. We start[...]

Coming in October... Oh look, I happen to be in the same pub with the author. He expresses the wish that you return your country to the Queen, in the

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:[...]

Two launches from two companies today. Both involving various post apocalyptic scenarios, and both heavy on the media satire. Six Gun Gorilla reminds me

That joy is certainly there, but this is a Si Spurrier book so it's got a lot more going on besides 'Look! A gorilla with a gun!' Inspired by 1930s pulp, this particular pistol-packing primate has plenty of shots left in the chamber, and here are six of them; 1.The Tomb of The Unknown Creator The dedication[...]

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[...]

Si Spurrier has posted about a new comic book project He writes; See, there's this comicbook project which I've been working-on secretly for 3 years It's epic and it's dark and it's deconstructive and it's gorgeous and it's mythic and it's sleazy and it's brutal and it's at one and the same time the most high-concept and the[...]

But it's mostly Si Spurrier Talking about his upcoming Six Gun Gorilla comic from Boom! And it's really important that you listen to him. If Warren Ellis was in his late twenties now, these are the kind of videos he'd be making. Six-Gun Gorilla: deranged comicbook from Boom! Studios by Si Spurrier & Jeff Stokely – 1st[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Simon Spurrier & Mike Carey Most people would be interested to hear what Mike Carey and Simon Spurrier, two fantastic

If it's Thursday morning, you know it's time for Crossed. A new chapter of Crossed: Wish You Were Here, Avatar's NSFW webcomic featuring the

A new chapter of Crossed: Wish You Were Here, Avatar's adults-only web comic written by Si Spurrier's (X-Men Legacy, Extermination, 2000AD), is now live If you haven't tried Crossed yet – the over-the-top outbreak story created by Garth Ennis (Preacher, The Boys, Chronicles of Wormwood) – you can read a free 8-page chapter from Avatar Press every Thursday. You can currently find the first 22[...]

  A new chapter of Crossed: Wish You Were Here, Avatar's adults-only web comic written by Si Spurrier's (X-Men Legacy, Extermination, 2000AD), is now live If you haven't tried Crossed yet – the over-the-top outbreak story created by Garth Ennis (Preacher, The Boys, Chronicles of Wormwood) – you can read a free 8-page chapter from Avatar Press every Thursday. You can currently find the first 22[...]