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Si Spurrier, Kieron Gillen And Max Brooks Talk Avatar Comics At Diamond Retailer Day (VIDEO)
Straight from yesterday's Diamond Retailer Day in London, the day before today's London Super Comic Con… Avatar Press' presentation to retailers, including Si Spurrier, Kieron Gillen and Max Brooks talking about Disenchantment, Crossed, Uber and Extinction Parade. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQloRzx2sJk[/youtube] Sorry for blinding Si Spurrier. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOmkr0lCK0s[/youtube] And sorry about the angle on Max… it does make him look a little Messiah[...]
Free Comics From Si Spurrier And Kieron Gillen
He's also writing, from Bleeding Cool publishers Avatar Press the Borrowers-meets-Benefit Street webcomic Disenchanted with German Erramouspe. And from Kieron Gillen? The first issue of his comic book Three, from Image Comics, free in all sorts of formats     It's possible I may see them both in the pub tonight So I'd better get on their[...]
Avatar Press Solicitations For May 2014 – Garth Ennis Times 4
Add in Kieron Gillen's Uber and Warren Ellis' Gravel and you have a lot of good reading listed hear. GOD IS DEAD VOL 01 TPB Retail Price: $19.99 US Cover: Jonathan Hickman Writers: Jonathan Hickman and Mike Costa Art: Di Amorim MR, Color, 160 pages PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:Like a thunderbolt from heaven, the epic first volume of JONATHAN HICKMAN's God is Dead is[...]
Sci-Fi Specatular Returns In Bleeding Cool Magazine #10
The big news for April in the comic book, film and television magazine world is that Bleeding Cool Magazine is doing its Sci-Fi Spectacular issue. BLEEDING COOL MAGAZINE #10 (Diamond C:  0-1-2) Retail Price: $4.99 US Full Color, 104 pages PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:  Bleeding Cool Magazine's Science Fiction Spectacular issue returns with a look at the best in Sci-fi in comics,[...]
Tales from the Four-Color Closet – LGBTQ Young Avengers
Tumblr is in tears, critics are applauding, and fans all over kinda wish it wasn't so. The critically acclaimed and fan-favourite run on Young Avengers by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie et al is finished, with a wonderful, heartfelt and fun farewell to a team they've been working on for just around a year now[...]
Unsung Masterpieces #2: Alec, with Eddie Campbell
– Kieron Gillen Through its focus on importance of each event, however seemingly miniscule or unimportant, ALEC helped me understand how to measure and value time — not just in comics, but in all aspects of my life – Ales Kot Do you need me to tell you how good Eddie Campbell is? Or that ALEC is probably the[...]
Is Young Avengers The First Mainstream All LGBT Superhero Team?
Young Avengers by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie (and a few friends) comes to an end today, and it also concludes Gillen's Loki story, even more that Journey Into Mystery did The new Loki story picks up in All New Marvel Now Point One today. But before that, we get a revelation. After one or three examples,[...]
Bleeding Cool's 11 Best Graphic Novels of 2013
Young Avengers Volume 1: Style > Substance, from Marvel Comics, written by Kieron Gillen, with art by Jamie McKelvie and Mike Norton, colors by Matthew Wilson, and letters by VC's Clayton Cowles Young Avengers made waves, as a series, from its first issue, and here in one sitting you can appreciate more fully the planning and[...]
Christmas Swag – From Sandman to Doctor Who
Craig Russell's art on issue #50 The first collected edition of Young Avengers by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie I hate to admit that I haven't read it yet (though I've been collecting them and not reading them yet to avoid spoilers), but now I can rectify that. A Timelord t-shirt, Whovian of course, with Smith's Doctor[...]
How Can We Get Kieron Gillen To Write Transformers?
Spencer Ellsworth writes; If you love Kieron Gillen (if you don't, shame on you), you may have noticed his fondness for the Robots in Disguise, specifically the UK comic of the 1980s In Iron Man and S.W.O.R.D Gillen has brought back Death's Head, the freelance peacekeeping agent (don't call him a bounty hunter) that debuted in[...]
Rings Of The Mandarin To Start In Iron Man #23
The five-issue arc is being written by Kieron Gillen and with art by Luke Ross The cover is by Mike Del Mundo and will be on sale this March. Tony battles for his life against supernatural forces unlike anything he's ever faced before The destructive and powerful Mandarin Rings have resurfaced, in search of new hosts[...]
Young Avengers Reinvents Comics Again. Probably More Than Once.
There is resolution, there is reason, there is music, there is sex, there is parental responsibility and, as you can see from above, there is love. But there's also more of the page-twisting comic play that Young Avengers has been famed for, somewhere between Acme Novelty Library and The Filth. Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie established that[...]
The Postmodern Pinky Swear: The Young Avengers Wrap Party
Almost the entire creative team were there, including Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Annie Wu, Ming Doyle, Matt Wilson, Christian Ward, Becky Cloonan, Joe Quinones and a special appearance by a scale model of Emma Vieceli. Firstly, Gillen asked the audience if anyone minded the panel being recorded An avid podcaster, he recorded the audio and it'll[...]
Three, Three Hundred And Ancient Homosexuality
In the first issue of Three by Kieron Gillen and Ryan Kelly, Gillen talked about how it was a reaction to Frank Miller's 300, after he got very angry with the book and the moral implications of the things it both missed out and added, including slave suppression and slave hunting that the society was[...]
When Laurie Penny Became An Iron Man Character (Update – Also Abigail Brady)
Laurie Penny is a British author and journalist, She is a contributing editor for New Statesmen and, as her website states "writes and speaks on social justice, pop culture, gender issues and digital politics for The Guardian, The Independent, Vice, Salon, The Nation, The New Inquiry and more." She goes by the name Penny Red online. UPDATE: And here[...]
Avatar Press Goes Same Day As Print On Comixology
That means for digital readers, you won't have to wait to get your fix of Kieron Gillen, Jonathan Hickman or Christos Gage. The first three same-day-as-print releases are: Absolution: Rubicon #5 The final explosive issue! The Polymath is beaten… John Dusk has saved the day… or has he? Even sick and dying the Polymath plans to take the[...]
Friday Runaround – What Is A Superhero Anyway?
WHAT TO DO IN LONDON TONIGHT COMICA PR: WHAT IS A SUPERHERO? with Kieron Gillen, Si Spurrier, Will Brooker, Richard Reynolds & Alex Fitch Tickets: £6.00 from WeGotTickets Where: Foyles Bookshop, 3rd Floor Gallery, London, WC2H 0EB A SECOND DARKNESS Christopher Mitten draws the cover for the second print of Ash And The Army Of Darkness #1. YOUR COMICS ARE WORTH NOTHING Yahoo[...]
Wyatt Cenac Narrates His Marvel Stories On Marvel AR
Iron Man #17 had Kieron Gillen ruminating on Iron Men And there was nothing in X-Men or Nova despite cover promises… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrVBkkQuzRQ[/youtube] I don't know why but I couldn't get this page to work on Marvel AR. Or this Anyone else have any better luck? But What Now? Did have The Daily Show's Wyatt Cenac and[...]