avatar Archives

As revealed in the news about Free Comic Book Day 2011 earlier, it looks like Dark Horse will be publishing comics based on Avatar: The Last Airbender – based on the anime over the movie, it appears from this cover. Of course the owners of Bleeding Cool own the tardemark for Avatar in comics I'm sure[...]

And because this is Avatar, you have a stack of covers to choose from… More in February, Night Of The Living Dead #5 by Mike Wolfer, John Russo, the original movie screenwriter, and Tomas Aira, with a Paul Duffield cover and from Boundless, the second issue of Lady Death by Brian Pulido, Mike Wolfer and[...]

Laura Hadland has created a Na'Vi mosaic made up of 4,000 Blu-ray discs for her film fanatic husband, and with a little helping hand from the PR people for the the release of Avatar Collector's Edition on DVD and Blu Ray. There's a Michel Gondry music video waiting to happen. At the London Film[...]

Hastings continue their roll out of comic stores across certain parts of the country, and have now established the largest direct market comic chain in

I came across a print out of The-Gutters at NYCC this year, And began kicking myself for not coming across these guys before. Writer Ryan Sohmer and a

Deftly.  The last chapters are tough. But — more specifically — the Struggle is down to Reverse Inertia.  As the end looms into sight this nervous scrivener realises that all the momentum — which sustained his narrative through those claggy conversational chapters in the middle, and kept the ball rolling through every unforeseen plot-hole — has[...]

Manga artists now repeat images of fallen glory and gutted gods." Cheer up folks, it might never happen! (^_^)   LicenseWatch: Olympic champion Nastia Liukin is selling a new "Supergirl by Nastia" line at JCPenney, officially licensed from DC Entertainment. CrossedWatch: David Lapham talks about Crossed: Family Values as well as his other upcoming work. I have a book of[...]

Oh and Avatar has exclusive Toronto Comic Con variants on Captain Swing and Gravel. So there If you're going, let me know how it's all panning out Ditto anyone going to Hi-Ex tomorrow… Today starts the Wizard World Toronto Comic Con And look, they've got a new logo. This is quite a radical departure, it was only[...]

So now you understand the concept of questioning who these heroes are. …it looks like Rob Cordry wants to be in it. FreeComicsWatch: Si Spurrier and Christopher Mitten's short story In Fetu from upcoming Dark Horse Presents on Myspace is run in full, for free, here. GameWatch: The Kick-Ass game trailer has very poor voice-acting... FreeComicsWatch2: Newsarama run Haunt[...]

The third issue of the Avatar series SuperGod by Warren Ellis and Garrie Gastonny ships this Wednesday in the US and Thursday in the UK Here is a preview of the mad superhero barmyness coming your way. The third issue of the Avatar series SuperGod by Warren Ellis and Garrie Gastonny ships this Wednesday in[...]

Quote Of The Day: I am seriously pondering a career in burlesque – Jann Jones. AvatarWatch: The Avatar Rap by Dominic Frisby "It also stars that bloke called Sigourney Weaver" – Aaaaaiiiii…. QueueWatch: The Kick-Ass signing, with Team Comicana in attendance, has begun its queue in earnest I may pop by in a couple[...]

Fakt. You doubt me.  That's your prerogative.  But you just wait, fleshy one.  Give it a couple of years and the next tedious nonevent healthterror will rumble round to the Newsdesk — Sardines Cause Diarrhoetic Decompression! or Sheep: Secret Source Of A.I.D.S.! or PenguinPox Claims Four Billion In Unpronouncable Foreign Shithole — and before you know[...]

There's a list of all sorts of comics from various publishers, with info boes on each, but I can't access any of them…Image, Dark Horse, Top Shelf Avatar and… wait… DC Comics? Longbox have signed a deal to distribute DC Comics work digitally? Okay, that's news What's there… The Collected Preacher, Flash: Rebirth and Faces[...]

Welcome to another week of Lying In The Gutters. Let's kick off, shall we? Top Ten Posts Of The Week There was one big story this week. The same one that

Who would be a Diamond Book Distributor representative right now? Currently, Amazon won't allow customers to directly order product distributed to them by Diamond Book Distributors – which includes Marvel, Dark Horse, Image, IDW, Avatar and many more prominent comic book publishers While booksellers registered with Amazon Marketplace can sell copies of the disputed comics, Amazon's[...]

Urinal Soap Cakes are the only material known to modern science which telepathically advertise the sensation of their Taste And Texture (chalky, gritty, vaguely lemony, with a lingering bitterness and complex Chlorine Tones on the palette) without you ever having touched, let alone bitten, one.  NASA continues to investigate. BrainFart: Here is my amazing and World-Changing Business[...]

You probably took a synopsis of Pocahontas into the cinema to see Avatar so that you could tick boxes The Banana Splits song used in the fight scene starring Hit Girl (Chlow Moretz), a twelve year old master assassin mentored by her father the Batman-looking Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage), demonstrates this perfectly She performs these[...]

Look, he may be Australian, but he was born in the UK, okay? That makes him one of ours and perfectly eligible to play Britain's iconic military spacefarer, Dan Dare: Pilot Of The Future. Pajaba are reporting that Sam Worthington, star of Avatar and the upcoming Clash Of The Titans, will be taking the role in[...]

Yesterday, Amazon stopped selling directly almost all graphic novel distributed by Diamond Book Distributors, on the back of a price glitches expectations raised and dashed simultaneously. This included books published by Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, IDW, Avatar and Dynamite. Diamond sources inform me that they believe this is a precautionary measure on Amazon's part, while they dealt[...]

You can still buy copies of those books sold by people on Amazon Marketplace, but very little from Amazon's actual warehouses themselves. Also they aren't taking preorders for a large number of future-published titles too. As before companies affected include Marvel, Dark Horse, Image, IDW, Avatar, Dynamite and more, those who deal with bookstores and Amazon through[...]

Crossed #6 by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows is shipping from Avatar this week and in comic shops on Wednesday in the US and on Thursday in the UK. I'm happy to say that Crossed is one of my favourite books on the stands and I'd say that even if I wasnt' being paid to say[...]

It is published by owner of BleedingCool, Avatar Press Warren Ellis used to bemoan the grip the superhero comic book had on much of the commercial comic industry, comparing it to the hypothetical situation where 90% of all books sold in bookshops were nurse novels Oh, there would be some works of genius there,[...]

Absolution #0, the prologue issue to a new series by Christos Gage and Roberto Viacava is published in the US today by Avatar. Christos is a TV/film/comics writer with credits for Numb3rs, The Authority, Law And Order, Thunderbolts, Teenage Caveman and Union Jack amongst many others. About a superhuman self-justified serial killer, we're talking Green Lantern meets[...]

Okay people, time to pay the rent. From Anna Mercury Vol 2 #1 and from Absolution #0, both out this week. Now go out and justify the cost of BleedingCool!

Anna Mercury is a series published by BleedingCool's parent company Avatar Press Which is how I was able to get into the company's server and grab a look at the issue shipping next week. Anna Mercury has got one of those Doctor Who ideas, basically a high concept that means you can tell all sorts of[...]