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Avatar Press Solicitations – Crossed: Badlands 41 & 42
David Hine and German Erramouspe bring us these twisted tales of terror. CROSSED: BADLANDS #41 Retail Price: $3.99 US Cover:  Matt Martin Writer: David Hine Art: German Erramouspe MR, Color, 32 pages ***In Stores November 13, 2013 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:  DAVID HINE spins a bloody and dire tale from the beginning of the Crossed outbreak.  A group of American college kids abroad find themselves[...]
You Wait For Ages For TransComics And Then Three Come Along At Once
We've had Batgirl recently, when a female character created by Gail Simone who had appeared throughout the current run, outed herself out as transgender. Then last week, Storm Dogs by David Hine and Doug Braithwaite from Image ran a storyline involving a transgender character in a science fiction setting, which inspired this rather thoughtful essay. And then[...]
Gender, Sex Work And Going Beyond Diversity – Storm Dogs #5
For every sweet and good-natured little sub-plot like Tong's in FF #4, we get some insulting gross-out moment like The Russian's depiction in Punisher Noir, and for everything that feels relatable, down-to-earth and well-researched like Batgirl's Alysia Yeoh, we get something over-the-top, wildly inaccurate and generally exploitative like Lord Fanny of The Invisibles. The latest instance[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week – Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath #3
The original zombie epic returns with a fresh and violent picture of the end of the world courtesy of David Hine in today's Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath #3! Las Vegas is a city of the dead now.  The zombie epidemic hits new heights as the government tries to cover up the extent the plague[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week –  NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: AFTERMATH #2
The original zombie epic continues a decade after the classic first film with today's Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath #2! Las Vegas is shut down.  Mexico and Canada are closing their borders.  The zombie outbreak is spreading despite the media and politicians that claim the epidemic is under control.  A group of unlikely survivors find[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week – CROSSED: BADLANDS #18
The all-action conclusion to David Hine's (Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath, Darkness, Spawn) horrific tale arrives in today's Crossed: Badlands #18! The Crossed have invaded "Stumptown" and appear to have missed finding the mansion of the reclusive, twisted Gideon Wells  But with a fateful infection, one vengeful student decides to teach the master a lesson in[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week – CROSSED: BADLANDS #17
David Hine (Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath, Darkness, Spawn) continues his tale of manipulation and terror in this week's Crossed: Badlands #17! Gideon Wells promised his students they would learn some hard truths about themselves at his Writers Retreat.  In fact, they are just learning about how Wells can manipulate them against each other and[...]
Storm Dogs Makes For A Top Dog
He's said in the past that he doesn't read any comics that are coming out today, which means that he's probably not gotten a look at Storm Dogs #1 out from David Hine, Doug Braithwaite and Image Comics Alan's going to be missing out on a terrific comic that reads like that dark, nasty British[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week: Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath #1
Night of the Living Dead, makes it's return today, Halloween, with an all-new on-going series, Aftermath! Horror Master, David Hine (Crossed, The Darkness, Spawn), launches the new series a decade after Romero's first film. Set in the excess of the late 1970s, we follow the world as it has evolved with the zombie threat, a disaster they thought[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week: CROSSED: BADLANDS #16
Things get worse for our fictional cast of would-be writers in this week's Crossed: Badlands #16, by real-life horror master, David Hine (Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath, The Darkness, Spawn)! Hine and artist George Duarte have created a story that takes all of our fears about interpersonal relationships and throws them in a bloody blender.  It's[...]
Comic Shops To Host Halloween Night of the Living Dead Parties
Avatar Press feels there is no better time to launch their new on-going series, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: AFTERMATH to help celebrate with some ghoulish fun! Set 12 years after the initial outbreak in the cult-classic first movie, this series is written by long-time horror writer, David Hine (Crossed: Badlands, The Darkness, Spawn) and promises to be faithful to[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week – CROSSED: BADLANDS #15 Sneak Preview
David Hine (Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath, Spawn) continues a lesson in horror that you won't be able to forget with this week's Crossed: Badlands #15! The Crossed have invaded "Stumptown" and if you thought the population had a problem with amputations before, they have a new level of separation anxiety with the Crossed applying their zealous[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week – CROSSED: BADLANDS #14 New Arc/Creative Team
David Hine (X-Men, Darkness) and artist George Duarte join the ranks of the Crossed with their first horrifying Badlands arc:  "The Golden Road."  A hedonistic party is taking place at a writers retreat in famous author Gideon Welles' estate.  Eight self-centered college students are secluded with no contact to the outside world in order to find the true meaning[...]
Advance Look: Covers December 2012
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[...]
Pop Culture Hounding Curt Pires, Ramon Villalobos And David Hine
Curt even stops by to provide some background commentary after our Skype link-up fails. From there I conduct another one of my famous pub chats with creator David Hine (Strange Embrace, Elephantmen, The Bulletproof Coffin) We discuss his writing technique, the upcoming Storm Dogs with Dougie Braithwaite, his gradual shift away from the Big Two to[...]
Why Retailers Should Invite Zombies Into Stores on Halloween
As previously mentioned on Bleeding Cool, Avatar Press will deliver the gore and violence that zombie fans have been craving, courtesy of writer David Hine (Civil War: X-Men, The Darkness). But that's not all! Following on the footsteps of its very successful Crossed C-Day promotion earlier this year, Avatar Press is launching the new NOTLD: Aftermath[...]
First Look at Avatar Covers for November
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 Written by Garth Ennis and Adapted by Mike Wolfer Artwork by Mike Wolfer Softcover Edition, Hardcover Edition, and Signed Hardcover Edition Illustrated[...]
The Comic Book Convention With A Theme Park – And Alan Moore
David Hine is going to N.I.C.E., the Northamption comic book convention in a theme park, taking place in September You know, the first comic con Alan Moore is going to in twenty-five years Tickets still available David decided to tell us why; Jeff Chahal runs the Close Encounters comics shops in Bedford and Northampton and is[...]
Night Of The Living Dead Aftermath To Be Avatar's Big Hallowe'en Event
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[...]
FIRST LOOK: Night of the Living Dead Aftermath and Day of the Undead
David Hine (X-Men: The 198, Civil War: X-Men) will be taking their Night of the Living Dead franchise and creating something new and epic with it The new ongoing Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath series is set to debut on Halloween day itself with a big promotional effort, and looks to be released hand-in-hand[...]
Storm Dogs by David Hine And Doug Braithwaite – That Full Artwork
We ran the news that this existed yesterday, announced at Kapow, a new sci-fi comic book by David Hine and Doug Braithwaite for Image Comics, Storm Dogs, out in October We ran some rather blurred artwork Here it is again, but a lot… crisper. Swit swoooo… We ran the[...]
David Hine On Biting The Hand That Fed Him
Over at Broken Frontier, David Hine seems to have done a rather good job at burning his bridges. A familiar smaller press name from the nineties, David Hine relaunched his comics career at Marvel, working on a numbr of titles including X-Men and Daredevil He also write Azrael until Flashpoint and the New 52 18 months[...]
A Newly Discovered Brendan McCarthy Comic From 1980
David Hine, author of Bulletproof Coffin with Shaky Kane, has been writing about another hero of British comics, Brendan McCarthy's early work, including Electric Hoax with Peter Milligan But now he has reprinted an early encounter with the creator, by way of a 1980-published comic called Cipher, and a cover strip by Brendan, never reprinted since[...]
David Hine, Animal Rights Activist From The Eighties
Every now and then, you're reminded just how old David Hine (Azrael, Darkness, The Spirit) actually is So our thanks to Conflict Gypsy for scanning in this Graphic Guide illustrated by David Hine, adapting 'Animal Liberation' – the bible of the animal liberation front by leading activist and animal rights philosopher Peter Singer[...]
Could This Be The Hottest Marvel Book Of The Year? Superior Kapow Special #1
If you're lucky. Created at the Kapow Comic Convention earlier in the year, its aim was to tell a Superior story with as many people as possible, raise money for charity and break a couple of world records in the process. I'm not sure how the Most Contributors To A Comic Book record was arrived at –[...]