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Coming out of Lake Como Comic Art Festival is the news that Dave McKean, of Sandman, Mirrormask, Cages, and Neverwhere fame, is working on the new revived, remake Caligula movie. Caligula was a 1979 movie starring Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, John Steiner, and John Gielgud An attempt by Bob Guccione, founder[...]

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 Hogan's The Strain), Vertigo (The Unexpected, House of Mystery) and Marvel (Age of Apocalypse, Deadpool MAX). Outside of comic books, writers tend to stay in their[...]

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[...]

The second volume in David Lapham's Caligula series is available to order from the new Previews Catalogue. In describing the series back in December, Lapham said: "We find out that there's some pretty sick things going on through the underbelly of Rome.  Caligula was destroyed but the demon within' him lives on and has found a new host[...]

For fans of David Lapham's Dan the Unharmable, issue #9 arrives in stores today. If you don't know Dan, you're in luck... as the Dan the Unharmable Vol. 1

Today, David (Stray Bullets, Ferals, Crossed) Lapham and painter German Noble bring you Caligula: Heart of Rome #2! The demon Caligula lives, but there are new rivals to him that hunt the fertile grounds of Rome.  Within the would-be boy-emperor, Nero, another voice speaks and guides him to unthinkable acts.  And as Laurentius searches for the monster that[...]

  David Lapham's tale of ancient debauchery and villainy reaches new depths with this week's Caligula: Heart of Rome #2. Here is a sneak preview…   David Lapham's tale of ancient debauchery and villainy reaches new depths with this week's Caligula: Heart of Rome #2. Here is a sneak preview…   David Lapham's tale of ancient debauchery and villainy reaches new depths with[...]

David Lapham Day continues with Dan The Unharmable #8! Lizzy’s quest to find out more about her father has put her and the other Hickenlooper kids in bad

Caligula returns for an all-new series by the original creative team!  David (Stray Bullets) Lapham and painter German Noble return to the time of hedonism and supernatural evil with Caligula: Heart of Rome #1! They thought the mad emperor destroyed, his mysterious soul box gone, and his body run through with a thousand blades.  But the[...]

Destiny vs Free Will all over again. The new Caligula series continues to give us the cop-in-Rome-well-out-of-his-league but this time takes him off the force to go private for a certain client Rome Noir And we get to have some fun with the kids… Change #1 fives us one character dealing with an unpleasant image… by given[...]

In addition to the debut of Caligula: Heart of Rome – the sequel to his supernatural horror tale set in ancient Rome – Wednesday will also premiere the collection of his original Ferals werewolf crime/horror comic series, and the most recent issue of his detective series, Dan The Unharmable #8. We spoke with Lapham on these personal labors of love and[...]

A new story arc begins in Dan the Unharmable #7 for David Lapham’s gonzo noir crime epic!  Dan is your average indestructible slacker.  He doesn’t really

Think you are having a bad day? Why don’t you try to escape from a den of sycophantic lunatics with a “scroticular claw” clamped over your manjigglies and

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 David Lapham's smash reimagining of the classic story of lust and power starts here FERALS VOLUME 1 (Tarde[...]

All this was news to me, straiught from the Avatar panel at San Diego Comic Con David Hine is to write Night Of The Living Dead: Aftermath, a major new series launching in October from Avatar Press set in the George Romero zombieverse, set in the life of one woman living in in Los Angeles in[...]

The title that debuts today in graphic novel format is Caligula, his supernatural horror title chronicling the depravity of Rome's most notorious emperor. The Caligula graphic novel is gorgeously painted by artist German Nobile, and is available in three different cover formats (softcover, hardcover, and special autographed hardcover), all signed by Jacen Burrows (Crossed: Badlands, Neonomicon).   CALIGULA[...]

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[...]

The latest edition of Previews is just around the bend, and we're giving you a head start at looking at the March 2012 solicitation artwork for Avatar Press (corresponding to items shipping in May). Caligula Volume 1 Softcover Edition (Cover by Jacen Burrows) David Lapham and German Nobile's tale of the infamous Roman emperor.  To mock one[...]

This week's release of Caligula #6, the final issue of a spectacular horror miniseries, is the perfect example The twists and turns as this terrifying tale comes to an end are going to surprise you, guaranteed! Caligula brought us back to ancient Rome, once a golden era, but now tarnished as the most feared emperor in[...]

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[...]

You've been good boys and girls so here's an Avatar Plug Of The Week for Caligula #3, shipping tomorrow, from David Lapham and German Nobile. Nasty nasty Roman court stuff that makes Hostel 2 look like The Care Bears Movie and Spartacus: Blood On The Sand look like My Hungry Caterpillar. Really, you should be shot for[...]

Rob Granito gets ignored for Geoff Johns and Zeb Wells, and we're right into tomorrow's comics from guys who have read them with Guy Gardner in Emerald Warriors, Jimmy Olsen's collected shorts, Action Comics as it all kicks up, Amazing Spider-Man, Kick Ass 2, Caligula (with Aaron calling for an Eisner nomination already), Avengers, Butcher[...]

Keith Davidsen writes for Bleeding Cool. If you're a Little Bleeder, you've heard the name David Lapham quite a lot.  As one of the most distinct voices in the comic book business, he's worked on such groundbreaking, gritty works as Stray Bullets, Young Liars, Detective Comics, Terror Inc., and Deadpool Max. His latest completed work was the[...]

I'll break it up into two parts; this first bit below focuses on his work on Crossed and the new series Crossed: Psychopath, while tomorrow we'll have breaking news on Lapham's new series… Caligula! Crossed: Psychopath is a seven issue full-color series with art by Raulo (Captain Swing) Caceres that starts in February 2011. Keith Davidsen:[...]