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Today is Hellboy Day and I'm planning to pop by Gosh Comics in London today to see what's what. But it's only a precursor for this Wednesday's C-Day, the annual Crossed celebration that kicks off a Garth Ennis-penned Crossed Badlands arc And with issue 50, they are going to expose the story of Patient Zero, the[...]

March 26th we see the release of Crossed: Badlands #50 This special anniversary issue features the return of Garth Ennis and the introduction of the long anticipated Patient Zero  Joined by artist Christian Zanier, Ennis finally tells the story all Crossed fans have been waiting for… how it all began Was it an act of[...]

May is going to be a big Garth Ennis month for Avatar Press with Caliban, Rover Red Charlie and two issue of Crossed We also get the first trades from Jonathan Hickman's God Is Dead and Si Spurrier's Disenchanted Add in Kieron Gillen's Uber and Warren Ellis' Gravel and you have a lot of good[...]

Their bevvy of art prints will be: Extinction Parade: Stages of Death Art Prints Five all-new images from series artist Raulo Caceres, written by Max Brooks, and debuting exclusively in London, limited to 500 each at  £10 each or the whole set of 5 for £40.  Needless to say, this is a perfect opportunity to get them[...]

Any suggestions? Okay, thank you Crossed Badlands, now I need my eyes and ripped out Which, it seems, you'd be happy to do. That's right Adventure Time Winter Special, just what I was thinking Can anyone provide… a different tone? There you go, L'il Red Sonja, my favourite Has candle, will travel. You know, Other Dead #5, I remember[...]

Crossed Badlands... …and Axe Chick, internet meme. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox We trust you, the reader, to make that judgment yourself? If you are unable to do so, please return your eyes[...]

Crossed Badlands has, in recent weeks, been showing what happens when Crossed comes to Japan We have seen its impact in a Buddhist temple We have seen it spread across the country But until today we didn't see what happened when it landed on one of Japan's most ancient and loved customs that the West[...]

John Byrne will be at home watching Star Trek reruns. And then on Wednesday, March 26th, Avatar Press will be launching C-Day, for the release of Crossed: Badlands #50 as Garth Ennis returns to the book he created to tell the story of the very first Crossed patient, in Patient Zero More free stuff, more events,[...]

The French press get a rather bloody PR pack for the launch of the Crossed Deluxe collection… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRzntxACmR0[/youtube] The French press get a rather bloody PR pack for the launch of the Crossed Deluxe collection… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRzntxACmR0[/youtube] The French press get a rather bloody PR pack for the launch of the Crossed Deluxe collection… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRzntxACmR0[/youtube] [...]

This is the French press kit for their new deluxe volume of Crossed, combining the first two series in one hardcover And delivered to journalists and reviewers like a butcher slab of meat, complete with bloody knife. So, it may not longer be in mint.   This is the French press kit for their new deluxe volume[...]

It's almost… Oh, yes, Crossed Badlands takes on Japanese customs with far more sensitivity But I want to know more about the theatre! More theatre lessons from John Stewart in Green Lantern Corps, doing a Zero Year thing We're learning so much about theatre today! What else can we learn. I genuinely didn't know that about Roosevelt[...]

No offence, obviously. Crossed Badlands #40 comes to Japan for the day of the outbreak, which of course is carried out with extreme cultural sensitivity, with Buddhist monks getting blowjobs from decapitated heads Again, no offence. Sorry Batgirl-appearing-in-Nightwing Annual #2 I should be careful what I say, it's true for many people For example, if I called[...]

Christensen  also announced the re-launch of the Gravel series by Mike Wolfer. There are new Crossed arcs coming up, with Garth Ennis' return in March on 7 issues, which go back to the beginning of the story to "patient zero" Then there'll be  an arc from Justin Jordan ("no pressure", he quipped at this point)[...]

Avatar Press, publisher of Garth Ennis' groundbreaking horror series, Crossed, announced an exclusive digital distribution agreement with comiXology, the revolutionary cloud-based digital comics platform with more than 40,000 comics and graphic novels that have seen over 200 million downloads to date The multi-year exclusive agreement covers Avatar Press' English Language single-issue catalog. To mark the release,[...]

$5.99 Max Brooks' zombies vs vampires saga is one of the hottest comics out there.  And this special edition Chinatown variant is limited to just 1000 copies.   Crossed Special 2013 Volleyball set of 2 – Limited to 750 sets $20.00 It is beach volleyball, Crossed style!  A set of "before and after" if you will – this rare[...]

He started as a penciler for Valiant comics in 1990 and twenty years later he took over Crossed from Garth Ennis without missing a beat Since 2011 he has written for Avatar (Crossed, Psychopath, Caligula, Ferals, Dan The Unharmable), Radical (Damaged), Dark Horse (Kull, Creepy, Robert E Howard's Savage Sword, Guillermo del Toro and Chuck[...]

And they are getting Milo Manara… ORBITING LAST WEEK'S COMICS [audio:http://www.orbitalcomics.com/podpress_trac/web/9454/0/orbital-podcast126.mp3] Recorded at 1am, and with the consumption of many alcoholic beverages, this week, we get colour blind with Batman: Black & White #1, become bad to the bone with Forever Evil #1, the time stream gets slippery with Battle of the Atom #1 & All New X-Men[...]

Available right now at Toronto Fan Expo, is the Crossed: Badlands Patient Zero Ashcan, a preview of next year's return to the series from Garth Ennis, which tells the story of the very first person infected by the Crossed epidemic It also features Gordon Brown, as Prime Minister Could it all have been his fault?[...]

So let's all have a look at them, just in case you need any more persuasion about how awful they are. First there's the Crossed: Badlands Patient Zero Ashcan for $3.00 which gives an advance look at Garth Ennis and Christian Zanier's new Crossed arc that begins in Crossed: Badlands #50, looking at the very beginnings[...]

Heidi MacDonald on The Beat, posted a piece criticising Avatar's covers for the series Crossed, after fellow Beat writers Amy Chu and Steve Morris called me out for bias asking why I wasn't calling out Avatar over Crossed covers such as this. Why are peeps all over @mrmarkmillar and no one's calling out stuff like this[...]

Caligula: Heart Of Rome collected, new story arc for Uber, the conclusions of Absolution: Rubicon, Night Of The Living Dead: Aftermath and Skin Trade, God Is Dead continues and a double dose of Crossed: Badlands. ABSOLUTION: RUBICON #5 Retail Price: $3.99 US Writer: Christos Gage Cover & Art: Daniel Gete MR, Color, 32 pages, 5 of 5 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:  The final[...]

In the month of November Avatar Press will bring not one us, but two issues of the most bizarre and brutal horror comic on the shelf; Crossed: Badlands First we take a trip back to the beginning of the outbreak as a group of college kids try to survive at ground zero Then we find[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool broke the story that Justin Jordan had walked off the Superboy comic. Today, we have discovered that he'll be working on Bleeding Cool publisher Avatar Press horror title, Crossed. When we asked Justin Jordan about the second part of that, he told us; "You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment" As in; [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz8RjPAD2Jk[/youtube]     [...]

Here is the impressive list of exclusive San Diego Comic Con covers available this year from Avatar Press (Booth #2701).  Absolution: Rubicon #1 Catfight Wraparound  $10.00 Product Description – Alpha and Happy Kitty throw down on this edition limited to 500 copies.    Crossed #29 Reflection $10.00 Product Description – This dangerous new cover is limited to 500 copies.   Skin Trade #1 Iconic[...]

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

Mankind held sway over the world for thousands of years and their hubris over that time has made them powerful but when faced with the divine, can mortal weapons put an end to the second coming of the gods? Available with a Regular cover by Jonathan Hickman, End of Days cover by super-star Jacen Burrows,[...]

Then Uber came along and it all went out of the window, sellouts, second prints, having to limit sales to one per customer, and not selling the book digitally didn't help… so look forward to that all happening again tomorrow with the release of Uber #2. There's also a Christos Gage Crossed and an Alan Moore[...]

Beautifully illustrated by Facundo Percio (Anna Mercury) and meticulously adapted by Antony Johnston (Yuggoth Cultures), this is another must have entry in the graphic novel masterworks library by Alan Moore. ALAN MOORE: FASHION BEAST HC Retail Price: $32.99 US Writers: Alan Moore, Malcolm McLaren, Antony Johnston Cover & Artist: Facundo Percio A Direct Market Exclusive! [...]

Next week sees the launch of Half Past Danger from IDW, Bounce from Image, Akaneiro from Dark Horse, Green Team and a big expensive Green Lantern #20 from DC, Occupy Comics from Black Mask and Tank Girl from Titan. The week after that? Wake #1 and X-Men #1! DARK HORSE COMICS AKANEIRO #1 $3.99 DARK HORSE PRESENTS #24 (MR) $7.99 DEEP SEA[...]

Retailers are putting their final orders in for the March Previews today and we asked Simon Spurrier if he could provide a couple reasons why fans and shops should order Crossed: Wish You Were Here Vol 2 TPB. He gave us ten… #1- Because it's a ****ing award-winner, yo. #2 – Because nuns. #3 – Because Crossed is the[...]