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Another Thursday, another weekly chapter of Crossed: Wish You Were Here by Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine. Or rather another interlude Slow on the narrative, more notes from The Writer on those sharing the island with him And waiting for their inevitable demise… Not one look at a Crossed But plenty, plenty dread… [...]

Si Spurrier instructs; THE GODDAM COUTURE BATMAN Let's do something pure and redesigny. 2012 Bruce Wayne realises his relentless crusade against the superstitious and cowardly criminal classes has left him totally bankrupt Luckily he's spent 30 years creating outrageously fetishy costumes for his own use, and has hence accidentally become the world's foremost sartorial designer. Once upon a time[...]

  We get a new webcomic episode of Crossed: Wish You Were Here by Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine today Watch those crows in the bottom left corner, I pegged them right away… Also, in Spurrier-related comicness… "Why Are The Weavers?" Anyone got an idea? Busy boy.   We get a new webcomic episode of Crossed: Wish[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine Article By Rich Johnston From humble beginnings to winning “Best Publisher Under 4%” for a few years as voted by comic book

Crossed is such extreme horror that sometimes it does nasty things to your eye sockets, but it's not all butchery and bloodlust, as today's latest online chapter in Si Spurrier and Javier Barreno's Crossed: Wish You Were Here webcomic can attest Even under duress, folks can still find humor in life's little absurd moments. Gotta[...]

Si Spurrier's instructions: You know the score, of course In the Byronic tradition: blood-supping aristocratic wronguns, scantily-clad virgins, power-over-mortals, etc Switch in the odd cloud-of-smoke, an occasional kapoosh-now-it's-a-bat, maybe lose the aristocratic bit, add a quiff, give him an iPad, blah blah blah It's still an inefficient leechpredator who creates his own foodchain competition, has a[...]

There's a new Crossed: Wish You Were Here webcomic from Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine out right now. You know, around this time last year, I was getting Gary Erskine to draw the royal wedding biography of Prince William It's funny how a year can change things… There's a new Crossed: Wish You Were[...]

Extermination is the new Boom! Studios comic from Si Spurrier and Jeffrey Edwards About superheroes creating a resistance movement against a successful alien invasion and decimation. Here's a first look about how it's going down. Extermination is the new Boom! Studios comic from Si Spurrier and Jeffrey Edwards About superheroes creating a resistance movement[...]

The new chapter of the Crossed webcomic Wish You Were Here by Simon Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine is now out, after last week's smaller

I'm not even sure I made that last one up. And then there's Si Spurrier's new comic from Boom! Extermination, amongst the remaining superheroes after a successful alien invasion, trying to mount a strike back – if they can even work out what that would be Here's a little look at the covers to the first[...]

As well as Crossed: Badlands from Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, Crossed: Wish You Were Here, is a free weekly Crossed webcomic also launched, by Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine. Well, Si Spurrier popped by Orbital Comics in London yesterday, and found some makeup waiting for him A quick session with an artist later,[...]

Quest New R/R thread starts on Sunday! Si Spurrier's new Crossed webcomic went live today... Si's Instructions: I want you to imagine you're stuck in Beverly Hills during the first 48 hours of the Crossed outbreak I want you to draw me the Crossed actor, musician, or worthless celebrity skinwaste of your choice I want to see Charlie[...]

Si Spurrier, writer of the Crossed Wish You Were Here webcomic, also launching today, popped by to pose…     And this is my three-year old daughter (four tomorrow) She thought everyone looked very silly. Today, Avatar have launched C-Day at hundreds of comic stores across Northern America and the UK Free Crossed comics, a[...]

The launch date for Avatar's new twice-monthly Crossed series Badlands, but also the second Avatar webcomic, Crossed: Wish You Were Here, for free, one chapter every week, by Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine. Which has just gone live Now, as we know, every new Crossed has to start off with something you may not[...]

The launch of Crossed Badlands #1, a new twice-monthly Crossed comic from Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, and the webcomic Crossed: Wish You Were Here by Si Spurrier and Javier Bareno Badlands takes another group of stragglers, with a difference One of them claims to be Prince Harry, though his face is rather mutilated. And we[...]

Extending beyond print, C-Day also sees the launch of Si Spurrier and Javier Barreno's brand new Crossed weekly webcomic, Wish You Were Here, which can be found at CrossedComic.com All in all, it's a big day, with hundreds of comic shops worldwide celebrating the launch in a variety of different ways. A few weeks ago, Bleeding[...]

Si Spurrier instructions: SAVE US, 80's CARTOONS, YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE It has been noted that today's world has taken a peculiar lurch toward 80sdom Uberconservatism in politics, racism in the news, trouble in the Falklands, riots on the streets, assaults upon the welfare state, godawful haircuts, an overzealous deployment of secondary colours in fashion, yuppiescum wiping[...]

The weekly Crossed: Wish You Were Here ongoing webcomic has been discussed for some time, and it's finally here. Coinciding with the worldwide "C-Day"

Today, at the London Super Comic Convention, on the How To Write A Comic Script panel, Si Spurrier gave up his seat in favour of a female panellist. He did this in support of Paul Cornell's stance that unless there is gender parity on a comic convention panel – fifty percent, or as near as,[...]

New picks for the recent Remake/Remodel. Instructions as follows: CAPTAIN FUTURE. This from JESS NEVINS’ Pulp Encyclopaedia: "Captain Future's adventures

Maybe you know him from his recent X Club work. Or from his 2000AD and Judge Dredd comics. Maybe from his Bleeding Cool column or his Remake/Remodel

Si Spurrier's instructions: We're going to do something a bit different here Rather than taking an idea or golden-age character and reinventing them as a Modern! Day! Super! Hero!, we're going to take an ages-old superhero, throw away 90% of the background, and get Conceptual This is important, pay attention: "Namor the Sub-Mariner: the child of a[...]

Si Spurrier's instructions: "Dredd is an American law enforcement officer in Mega City One: a violent city of the future where uniformed Judges combine the powers of police, judge, jury and executioner Dredd and his fellow Judges are empowered to arrest, sentence and even execute criminals on the spot He was created by writer John Wagner[...]

Si Spurrier (who has a new comic out today, The X-Club #1 from Marvel) gave his Remake/Remodel instructions out last week: LORNA DRAKE Bunty was a British comics anthology for girls published by D C Thomson & Co from 1958 to 2001 It consisted of a collection of many small strips, typically the stories themselves being three[...]

Si Spurrier writes; This episode's crop of Remake/Remodel favourites Instructions went as follows: "Fantomah is a mysterious godlike being who protects the jungles of Africa She has vast magical power, to the point of being practically omnipotent, and can transform herself into a frightening blue phantom/skeleton creature as well as a floating skull with blonde hair…[...]

Si Spurrier's instructions: Six-Gun Gorilla was the star of several short Wild West stories in Wizard during the late 30's Let's hear from that inestimable Prince of Pulp Jess Nevins for more, as nicked from his forthcoming Encyclopaedia of Pulp Heroes: "Six-Gun Gorilla is O'Neil, a gorilla In Colorado he is sold to Bart Masters, a prospector…[...]

Si Spurrier's instructions: LITTLE NEMO Little Nemo was quite simply one of the Best Things Ever Quite apart from being an early explorer of the narrative medium, the amount of sheer invention, humour and creepiness pumped into it by Winsor McCay means it's still a rollicking read today And it's fucking beautiful to look at[...]

This week's challenge from Si Spurrier; "Jenny Greenteeth is a figure in English folklore A river hag, she would pull children or the elderly into the water and drown them She was often described as green-skinned, with long hair, and sharp teeth. She is likely to have been an invention to frighten children from dangerous waters similar[...]

This week's challenge from Si Spurrier; This week's Paragon Of Class is a swashbuckling space adventurer from the pages of Planet Comics whose name, believe it or not, is the least mind-boggling of the Naughty Nuances which accompanied his improbable adventures. Ingredients: a space-jockey (fnar!) in a tight skirt (hyuk!) carrying a bulbous weapon (quak!), shooting (yuk-yuk!)[...]