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It's A Crossed C-Day Fest!  Kieron Gillen Talks Pre-History, Horror, And Megafauna
Today is C-Day for Avatar Press' series Crossed, and today Kieron Gillen's 75th issue of the series arrives with art by Rafa Ortiz, kicking off a new arc of Crossed: Badlands called Homo Tortor running for 6 issues. The first issue is described thus: Crossed C-Day 2015 is here!  And to celebrate the event, superstar writer Kieron Gillen[...]
The People Behind Darth Vader, Spider-Gwen And Princess Leia Comics At ECCC
Ian Melton went to ECCC for Bleeding Cool where he learnt a few things from a few comic book creators, mostly of a Marvel bent… Kieron Gillen would not let any spoilers loose for Darth Vader, but commented that creating hot new Star Wars character Doctor Aphra came from a source most expect.  "At the Star[...]
ECCC '15: Gamora Solo Comic Scheduled For After Secret Wars…
But is coming. Kieron Gillen also stated that he has a Secret Wars series yet to be announced that might be a little villain-centric But any chance, finally, of Dazzler? We were the first to tell you about a Gamora ongoing comic by screenplay writer Nicole Perlman last year But since the official announcement at New[...]
Avatar Press Solicitations For June 2015 – Si Spurrier Joins Crossed +100
And Kieron Gillen is writing more Crossed Badlands as well as Uber… here is the full July 2015 solicitation. DICKS VOL 3 TPB: END OF TIME Price: $19.99 Writer: Garth Ennis Cover &Art: John McCrea MR, Color, 144 pages In the long-awaited third collection of the bestselling, award-winning masterpiece Dicks, beloved heroes Dougie and Ivor find themselves with a chance to change history-[...]
Kieron Gillen Talks Watchmen. And Very Little Else.
Kieron Gillen, writer of The Wicked + The Darth Vader (or someting like that) once did a talk-thing about Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen. A couple of years ago, a good friend of mine asked what the big deal was about Watchmen That, via a lot of detours, led me to this speech where I[...]
Swipe File: The Wicked + The Divine + Doctor Who
From yesterday's The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, the immortal god who's always got a party in his head With a hilarious You Only Live Forever T-shirt, Will it be part of a The Wicked + The Divine spinoff line? Well, it may have some competition… Of course that's not entirely official[...]
The Spotlight Is On The Dark Side In Darth Vader #1
From Marvel, Darth Vader #1, written by Kieron Gillen, with art by Salvador Larroca, takes place around the same time Aaron's Star Wars series does, after A New Hope We get a familiar introduction with a large logo that awakens your imagination, and the action begins. It's interesting to have a comic focus solely on this[...]
Crossed Day Is Coming April 15th
Uber writer Kieron Gillen scripts Crossed: Badlands #75 which will be hitting stores that day. The new story arc "Homo Tortor" takes readers to a point in history where the human race nearly slipped into extinction and uncovers what role the vile plague played in that event.  Gillen is no stranger to apocalyptic horror as his[...]
Brian Bolland, Art Adams, Max Brooks And More Now Coming To London Super Comic Con In March…
The London Super Comic Con has released a bunch more comic attendees at the show… oh look, Max Brooks, Garth Ennis, Kieron Gillen… you can see that Bleeding Cool's publisher must be in attendance! The new names are Arthur Adams, Simone Bianchi, Brian Bolland, Max Brooks, Mark Buckingham, Joyce Chin, Garth Ennis, Kieron Gillen, Adi Granov, Tabitha Lyons, Ron Marz, Ireland Reid, Esad Ribic, David Roach, Laura Sindall, Rachel Stott, David Wachter and Jeremy[...]
Alan Moore, Justin Jordan, Kieron Gillen And More This Week From Avatar Press
In stores this week from Avatar Press – Alan Moore on Crossed +100 #2, David Lapham on Crossed: Badlands #70, Justin Jordan on Dark Gods #3, Mike Costa on God Is Dead #27 and Kieron Gillen on Uber #21 Crossed +100 #2 Alan Moore places his unique stamp upon the Crossed universe, as he and artist Gabriel[...]
Avatar Solicitations For April 2015 – Alan Moore To Garth Ennis To Max Brooks
Here are the books from Avatar Press shipping in April 2015… new Crossed Badlands and Extinction Parade collections, the continuing Crossed + 100 from Alan Moore and Gabriele Andrade, Kieron Gillen writes Crossed for C-Day, as well as more Uber, Dark Gods, War Stories and God Is Dead… CROSSED VOL 12 TPB $24.99 Cover: Gabriel Andrade Writer: David Lapham Art:[...]
Kieron Gillen's Crossed #75 For 2015's C-Day  In April – All The Covers
Every year in mid-April, Avatar Press hosts Crossed parties in comic book stores across the English speaking world, to coincide with the 25th, 50th and now 75th issue of Crossed Badlands. It's called C-Day and it's coming  on April 15th 2015. Written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Fernando Heinz, it features the Crossed outbreak that somehow we survived,[...]
Kieron Gillen And David LaFuente's The Ludocrats, Announced At Image Expo
Soon, oh so soon… Kieron Gillen addresses the people of Earth The Ludocrats Working with  Rossignol, with LaFuente, and Venancio "A series of fantastical adventures beyond time, space and mortal comprehension." Summer 2015. The Ludocracy can not be contained Must not be contained. Not Phonogram 3 yes Soon, oh so soon… Kieron Gillen addresses the people of Earth[...]
Avatar Solicitations For March 2014 From Alan Moore, Garth Ennis, Kieron Gillen, Justin Jordan, David Hine, Mike Costa And More
Available with Regular, Wraparound and Red Crossed Incentive covers by Fernando Heinz, a Fatal Fantasy cover by Michael DiPascale, and a Torture cover by Christian Zanier. CROSSED: BADLANDS #74 WRAPAROUND $3.99 Cover:Fernando Heinz Writer: David Hine Art: Nahuel Lopez MR, Color, 32 pages ***In Stores February 25, 2015 CROSSED: BADLANDS #74 TORTURE COVER $3.99 Cover: Christian Zanier Writer: David Hine Art: Nahuel Lopez MR, Color, 32 pages ***In Stores[...]
The Lick-Ed And The Divine, From Today's Sex Criminals
I promise yo, WoodRocket are considering making this real, as you read this. I did check in to see if The Wicked And The Divine creators, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie were aware of this, and was told that they had seen an image… But it is definitely evidence, if evidence were needed, that Image creators are[...]
Kieron Gillen Names His First Crossed Story 'Homo Tortor'
In the back pages of yesterday's Uber #20 written by Kieron Gillen, he talks about his new Crossed series for Crossed Badlands, and gives it the title Homo Tortor. Because, while Alan Moore is looking at the Crossed and humanity a hundred years into the future, Gillen will be going back, back, back… In the back[...]
The Image Writers At Thought Bubble #TBF14 – Where's The Beef?
He also talked about getting bored easy and wanting to create comics that were as different as possible from other comics. Scott Snyder and Kieron Gillen join the stage, giving the chance for Synder to talk about Wytches – and Severed And how the genre specialism of Image Comics is whatever the creator wants to do[...]
Pop Culture Hounding The Wicked + The Divine With Kieron Gillen And Jamie McKelvie At DICE
By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode105.mp3] Following on from last week's episode with the ever-popular and interesting Greg Ruth (which you can still listen to here), this week I'm back with the dynamic duo of Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie for the Wicked + Divine panel from the recent Dublin International Comic Expo (aka D.I.C.E.) We discuss the origins of[...]
NYCC: 3/4 Of The Kieron Gillen Panel
Jake Barlow writes for Bleeding Cool:  Lets do some maths. What do you get when you add a Bleeding Cool reporter, New York's famous Friday evening traffic