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Sixteen Thoughts About Sixteen Comics – Epic Kill, Savage Dragon, Mara, Lost Vegas, Superman, Ami-Comi Girls, Earth 2, Fashion Beast, Stitched, Detective Comics, All New X-Men, A Plus X, Bedlam, Rorschach, Dan The Unharmable and Iron Man

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Rich Johnston

  MIND READING I do like it, as with Epic Kill, when the character says basically what I’ve been thinking for the last five pages. It suddenly feels weirdly interactive. Let’s see if I can get Savage Dragon to do …

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Avatar Plug of the Week – Alan Moore’s FASHION BEAST #5

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Rick Verbanas

Alan Moore and Facundo Percio’s Fashion Beast #5 arrives in stores today, half-way through this complex tale that was nearly lost to the sands of time!

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Avatar Plug of the Week – Alan Moore’s FASHION BEAST #5 Preview

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Rick Verbanas

  Alan Moore‘s long-lost story picks up steam at this half-way point, weaving a tale unlike any other in comics today! Here is a sneak preview of this Wednesday’s Fashion Beast #5…

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Avatar Plug of the Week – Alan Moore’s FASHION BEAST #4

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Rick Verbanas

Alan Moore’s Fashion Beast #4 arrives in stores today, delivering his long-lost tale after nearly thirty years!

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Twenty-One Thoughts About Twenty-One Comics – Detective Comics, Avengers, Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Action Comics, Kevin Keller, Wake The F*ck Up, Deadpool, Amazing Spider-Man, Hawkeye, Hellboy, Daredevil End Of Days, Avenging Spider-Man, Ultimates, Thunderbolts, All New X-Men, Fashion Beast, I Love Trouble, Great Pacific, Minutemen And Creator Owned Heroes

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Rich Johnston

  There are more aspects that tie into Death Of The Family in some of the non-tie books that with today’s die cut cover Detective Comics #15. At least on the surface. But this juxtaposition rather fits the themes in …

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Avatar Plug of the Week: Fashion Beast #4 Sneak Preview

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Rick Verbanas

4 out of 5 stars Comic Book Resources “…an inventive, tightly-written and enjoyable comic.” “…there’s a lot that can be praised…” 5 out of 5 stars The Examiner “… a great first issue…” “I definitely recommend picking this book up.” Grade: A- Weekly …

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Avatar Plug of the Week: Alan Moore’s Fashion Beast #3

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Rick Verbanas

Fashion Beast #3 arrives in shops today, bringing Alan Moore’s unearthed masterpiece into the limelight after nearly thirty years! Battered and bruised, Doll discovers that to defy Celestine is to look death in the eyes.  The world is on the …

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Twelve Thoughts About Twelve Comics – New Mutants, Fashion Beast, Justice League Dark, Aquaman, Revival, New Deadwardians, Happy, Fatale, Hit Girl, Swamp Thing, A Plus X and Invincible

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Rich Johnston

The New Mutants comes to the end of its run before the Marvel NOW! clear out. So what would you do? That’s right, have a party… everyone is invited from aliens to demons to demi-gods to, well, humans. Radical choice …

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Watchmen, Fashion Beast And A Shiver Down My Spine

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Fashion Beast #2 is published today, the second issue that adapts Alan More’s screenplay that he wrote in 1985. That he wrote it concurrently with Watchmen, was always going to give Fashion Beast an extra frisson of interest. And reading …

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Avatar Plug of the Week: Fashion Beast Reviews and Preview

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Rick Verbanas

Are you reading Fashion Beast? The reviews are coming in, and Fashion Beast #1 is wowing fans and critics alike. 4 out of 5 stars Comic Book Resources “…an inventive, tightly-written and enjoyable comic.” “…there’s a lot that can be …

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Advance Look: Covers December 2012

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Rick Verbanas

In this post of Advance Look, we take a sneak peek at Avatar Press covers for December 2012 – shown here before anywhere else! Covered here: CALIGULA: HEART OF ROME #1 (Regular, Wrap and Gore covers) – The sequel to …

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Fashion Beast – The Comic And The Screenplay

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Rich Johnston

In 1985, while writing Watchmen, Alan Moore also wrote a screenplay with Malcolm McLaren and Robert Boykin, entitled Fashion Beast. Twenty-seven years later, after a few false starts, Avatar are publishing a comic book adaptation from Antony Johnston and Facundo …

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First Look at Avatar Covers for November

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Keith Davidsen

Avatar Press reveals the issue covers to all its new releases slated to be on store shelves in November, and live for pre-orders from comic shop retailers as of Diamond’s September Previews catalog.     Stitched Volume 1 Graphic Novel …

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Fashion Beast: The Missing Piece of an Alan Moore Puzzle

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Keith Davidsen

No one redefined the comic book landscape quite like Alan Moore in the 1980s, and the year 1985 was one of the most creative of his career.  He’d taken Saga of the Swamp Thing to new levels of horror and …

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Antony Johnston Provides Insight Into Long-Lost Alan Moore Project, Fashion Beast

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Keith Davidsen

Earlier this month, Avatar Press announced its upcoming publication of Fashion Beast, the long-lost collaboration between Alan Moore and Malcolm McLaren (founder of the Sex Pistols). The debut issue of this 10-issue series hits stores in September. Fashion Beast was …

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Night Of The Living Dead Aftermath To Be Avatar’s Big Hallowe’en Event

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Rich Johnston

As an employee of Avatar Press, you might expect I’d get advance word on a story or two. Not a bit of it. All this was news to me, straiught from the Avatar panel at San Diego Comic Con David …

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The Alan Moore Classic 25 Years in the Making: Fashion Beast Cover Debut

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Keith Davidsen

We broke the news way back in April 2010 about Fashion Beast, the classic 1985 Alan Moore masterwork that never was… until now. Here’s your first glimpse at the cover artwork to Fashion Beast #1. A concept commissioned by Sex …

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