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When Si Spurrier Joined The Legions Of The Crossed
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,[...]
Crossed Day At Collectors Cornered… And More!
Unscripted, reality CC. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCiBA7VBssE[/youtube] In this installment of Collectors Cornered we celebrate C-Day to coincide with the release of CROSSED : Badlands #1 We also participated in the retailer contest to determine a winning store that best promoted the comic & C-Day that Avatar Press was offering to further enhance the event. We gave away promotional Buttons, Tattoos,[...]
REmake/REmodel: Crossed
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 Sheen bludgeoning Ashton Kutcher to death with a crackpipe I want Crossed Oprah[...]
A Comic Show – "I Will Kill Myself If You Don't Like Saga"
Okay, this is the real A Comic Show today from Aaron and Tony of A Comic Shop in Florida, looking at what they are calling the best week in comics this year, with Saga, Thief Of Thieves, Saucer Country, Adventure Time, Avengers Assemble and Crossed Crossed Crossed Crossed Crossed… and why Avatar is racist. Get 25% off[...]
Orbital Comics Goes Crossed For C-Day
Free Crossed comics, a new Crossed series by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, masks, all sorts of giveaways… and a number of stores have transformed themselves into dens of gore to join in the celebration. This is Orbital Comics of London and their staff today Si Spurrier, writer of the Crossed Wish You Were Here webcomic, also[...]
The Joy Of Dolphins – Crossed: Wish You Were Here Goes Live
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[...]
"C-Day" Event Contestants – A Global Outbreak of Crossed Parties
The Avatar Press celebration of all things Crossed, known for short as "C-Day," is only two days away! March 14th sees the in-store release of Crossed: Badlands #1 by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, as well as the third volume in the Crossed graphic novel series: Psychopath, by David Lapham and Raulo Caceres Extending beyond[...]
Dealing Cool #2: A Retailer Perspective from Third Eye Comics
Scott Snyder's Batman run brings in more and more new fans to the New 52, and continues to rival Justice League as the top book of the relaunch.  Also, Adventure Time and Ralph Wiggum Comics have both shown huge legs as the kind of surprise cross-over hits that many retailers under-estimated, and end up becoming[...]
REmake/REmodel: Saturday Morning Eighties Cartoons
Just as the original versions of these splendid fictions saved us all in the 80's, you shall pick one, you shall modernise it, you shall reinvent it in ways hitherto unforeseen, and YOU WILL SSSSSSSAVE US ALLL. I've completely cheated and picked about a million entries to showcase, because the quality was so freakin' high: @ Herr[...]
Jack Of All Trades by Dave Wallace – Clash Of Titans
The character arc of Wee Hughie has also been really well-handled, and I'm really keen to see what comes of his increasing antagonism with The Butcher (which moves up to a whole new level in this volume). But it's the three-issue arc that comes in the middle of this TPB that's probably the best material in[...]
Deeply Personal: Si Spurrier Talks about the Weekly Crossed Webcomic
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" event for the debut of the bi-weekly Crossed: Badlands comic book series, the March 14th launch date of Wish You Were Here heralds Simon Spurrier's first foray into the Crossed universe[...]
No Holds Barred: David Lapham Talks About Dan the Unharmable
For the past two years, David Lapham has terrified horror fans with his work at Avatar Press, delivering taut, visceral tales of bloodshed and brutality with such titles as CROSSED: PSYCHOPATH, CALIGULA, and FERALS (to name just a few) Beginning in May, Lapham will return to the genre that started his career: crime noir (or[...]
Celebrate C-Day At Your Local Comic Store On 14th March
Consider this the Avatar plug of the year. Yesterday, chatting to William Christensen, he told me he was looking at artwork for Crossed Badlands #28 #28 Issue 1 isn't out yet. On 14th March, Avatar are running C-Day, to promote the launch of Crossed: Badlands #1, a biweekly ongoing Crossed series, the first issue of which[...]
Saturday Runaround – Stealing Wonder Woman's Car
And they really want Hot Stuff The Little Devil #1 from 1957… ConanWatch: Becky Cloonan will be signing at Paradise Comics in Toronto today, from 1.30pm-5.30pm CrossedWatch: The Sabotage Times discovers Crossed. The drawings by Jacen Burrows are viscerally and horrific but (and this is quite a trick) are never quite as graphic as the actions they are[...]
An Unkillable Emperor And An Unharmable Dan – Avatar In May
In the story, a peasant must join the emperor's court… and witness all its gut-wrenching horrors, just to wait for the opportunity to discover the secret behind the invincibility. Dan the Unharmable #1 Regular Edition (Cover by Rafael Ortiz) Speaking of someone who can't be killed… welcome to Eisner winner David Lapham's Dan the Unharmable. Dan the Unharmable[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week: Ferals #2
The sleepy village of Cypress is on its way to becoming a bonafide slaughterhouse, and Officer Dale Chesnutt is smack dab in the middle. We present for you some pages to peruse of the new horror masterpiece by Lapham (Stray Bullets, Crossed: Psychopath) and artist Gabriel Andrade (Lady Death) Enjoy! Ferals #2 will be available in a[...]
Avatar In April – Crossed And Ferals Cover Gallery
Unveiled for all the world to see, we present to you the cover images for all new Avatar Press items in Diamond Comics' February Previews catalog. Crossed: Badlands #3 Regular Edition (Cover by Jacen Burrows) The dangers of coming down from the Scottish Highlands to get supplies during a Crossed outbreak. Crossed: Badlands #3 Torture Edition (Cover by[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week: Crossed: Psychopath #7
Staff writer Keith Davidsen writes for Bleeding Cool. The final chapter of Crossed: Psychopath hits comic shops today with issue #7, written by David Lapham with artwork by Raulo Caceres It's a one-two punch on Lapham's part, since another of his Avatar horror series concludes today (see our coverage of Caligula #6 for more information). To start[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week: Caligula #6
When you pick up his work on Stray Bullets, or Young Liars, or Crossed: Psychopath, you never know where the next issue's going to take you, who will die or who will triumph This week's release of Caligula #6, the final issue of a spectacular horror miniseries, is the perfect example The twists and turns[...]
All Bets Are Off: Jacen Burrows Talks CROSSED: BADLANDS
Staff Writer Keith Davidsen writes for Bleeding Cool. Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows are kicking off the new ongoing Crossed: Badlands series in March with a bi-weekly three-part storyline, to be followed by story arcs written by Jamie Delano and David Lapham I had an opportunity to pick Burrows' brain (much like one of the Crossed[...]
Be Patriotic On C-Day With Crossed
As part of "C-Day" on March 14th, Avatar are reissuing Crossed #0 as Crossed C-Day edition entitled Crossed: Get Infected, to be given away or used in promotions by stores to promote the new twice-monthly Crossed: Badlands series And it's getting the terribly patriotic image above. They are also issuing "survival kits" for stores containing Crossed[...]
Garth Ennis On Crossed: Badlands
Bleeding Cool people are very excited about the new bi-weekly ongoing Crossed: Badlands series from Avatar, and that Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows are returning to the book So we talked to Garth about it all. Q:  CROSSED: BADLANDS will be published bi-weekly and ongoing.  The launch date will be celebrated as "C-Day" in comic shops[...]
Merry CROSSEDmas: Jacen Burrows Talks Crossed With Preview Of Crossed: Badlands #1
Avatar Press has designated March 12, 2012 as C-Day: that day will mark the premiere of Crossed: Badlands #1 by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows in comic shops worldwide, along with in-store promotions and C-Day Survival Kits for retailers, devised to celebrate this very special day in a style befitting the Crossed. The first arc of the[...]
Merry CROSSEDmas: Garth Ennis Talks Crossed
Keith Davidsen: It's been four years since you launched CROSSED, telling the fantastic first story before allowing others to play in your sandbox How did it feel to return to the CROSSED landscape for your BADLANDS story? Garth Ennis: It felt cold and bleak and bad and dark, which is exactly how I hoped it would[...]
Garth Ennis And Jacen Burrows Bring You Crossed Twice A Month – And Launch C-Day!
It's Crossed The post-not-quite-a-zombie apocalypse story that has taken the very worst things that humans do to each other, and made it the norm. And from the original creators of the Avatar series, Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, comes Crossed: Badlands Telling stories of Crossed all over the world, and starting with the story of a[...]
Crossed Psychopath #6 And Lady Death #12: Avatar/Boundless Plugs Of The Week
The penultimate issue of David Lapham and Raulo Caceres' Crossed: Psychopath is out today, issue seven That's it up above Here's the solicits and covers Yes, covers, this is an Avatar book. Harold Lorre has started showing his true colors and proven to be the most sadistic of predators But with two Crossed clans locked in[...]
Nine Page Preview Of David Lapham's Ferals, Plus Various Other Entrails
Ferals is the new big book from Avatar Press shipping in January and they are expecting, well, for it to be the next Crossed. Retailer orders close for the first issue next Thursday (a happy lycanthropic Thanksgiving to you all) so they are releasing this nine page preview, pitch by David Lapham and a bunch of[...]
Ferals And Other Monsters – Avatar Covers For February
Gore gore gore, serilously I've got a chicken jalfrezi here, this is too much… Okay, the remaining copies of the NYCC Night Of The Living Dead comic… The trade paperback with that all important buxom-woman-with-blood motif. Woodstock and Deliverance vs Snakes perhaps? Lady Death's guard dog could never be aught by surprise. Which is handy considering the way she sleeps. And[...]