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The Boys Banned In Qatar
Patricia Donohue writes to Bleeding Cool; Garth Ennis is banned from Doha. Well his comics are. I recently ordered 11 volumes of The Boys and got it sent to me through Aramex I've lived in the Middle East long enough to know that was stupid, but I've also ordered truckloads of comics and never had a problem before[...]
Garth Ennis And His Big Reveal
Then, a roar of applause as Garth Ennis himself walked into the panel I was ecstatic Garth Ennis is one of my favorite writers with titles such as Preacher and Chronicles of Wormwood to his more recent work on Crossed and his newest series Dicks. I was first row center and I had waited in line[...]
Crossed's Free Online Comic, Wish You Were Here, Live with New Chapter
If you haven't tried Crossed yet – the over-the-top outbreak story created by Garth Ennis (Preacher, The Boys, Chronicles of Wormwood) – Avatar Press gives a free taste every Thursday with Crossed: Wish You Were Here Written by Si Spurrier (X-Men Legacy, Judge Dredd, 2000AD), this adults-only web comic features a ragged band of survivors[...]
Slipknot's Corey Taylor Meets Garth Ennis at NYCC
Frontman for the bands Slipknot and Stone Sour, Corey Taylor, is a huge Garth Ennis fan Attending the New York Comic Con on Saturday to promote his own new comic, House of Gold and Bones, he took time to make his way to the Avatar Press booth to meet one of his favorite creators, Garth[...]
Garth Ennis To Give Us Patient Zero In Crossed
Crossed continues to grow as a franchise comic for Avatar with ongoing comics, spinoff series and now films. Its creator Garth Ennis is not only returning with an arc with issue 25 with artist Raulo Caceres in March, for the annual C-Day promotion, but Garth will also return one year after that with issue 50. The difference[...]
Garth Ennis And Avatar To Make Their Own Crossed Movies
Today at the Garth Ennis panel, Ennis is announcing that not only has he and Avatar got the media rights to Crossed back, but they are going to be making Crossed movies themselves. The plan is to launch a series of webisodes in separate seasons, set in the Crossed world The schedule is to shoot in[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week – CROSSED VOL 4 BADLANDS COLLECTION Sneak Preview
The best-selling Crossed collections continue with Volume 4, collecting the hit bi-weekly series, Crossed: Badlands #1-9. Two tales of terror from the most vicious landscape in modern horror, written by groundbreaking graphic novelists Garth Ennis and Jamie Delano!  When the worldwide outbreak transforms most of humanity into murderous psychopaths, the uninfected survivors are driven by desperation to the very brink of[...]
NYCC: Garth Ennis To Launch Red Team For New Crime Line At Dynamite
Garth Ennis seems to have Avatar and Dynamite divided up neatly Avatar for the horror and supernatural stuff, Dynamite for the crime and war books And with The Boys ending and no follow up to 606, that seems to be solidifying I don't know what Avatar have planned for Garth Ennis at NYCC, ironically,[...]
NYCC Panels: Avatar Press and Bleeding Cool Details
So, mark your con agenda and get your questions ready! What will be Garth Ennis' huge announcement? I guarantee you won't be expecting this! GARTH ENNIS: Top Secret New Project Revealed! Sat 10/13/12 4:00 – 5:00 PM Location: 1A06 Speakers: William Christensen (Avatar CEO), Garth Ennis (Crossed, Stitched, Preacher, The Boys) Garth Ennis has created dozens of critically-acclaimed projects including: Preacher, Crossed,[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week – STITCHED #8 New Arc/Creative Team
Stitched #8 kicks off an all-new arc which will reveal how the curse of the Stitched began! Having read this issue and the next, I can tell you… Mike Wolfer delivers a story that keeps you riveted and guessing the way great action/suspense films do. The relentless curse of the Stitched extends its reach beyond the[...]
Getting Stitched – Garth Ennis Creation Collected
Garth Ennis (Preacher, Crossed, The Boys) is known for his over-the-top plots and in-your-face action He has delivered an assembly of memorable characters, some whom should not be mentioned in polite company  So, what story haunted Ennis so much so, he felt it was worthy of the big screen? Stitched is the first film written and[...]
"Kill, Kill, Kill!" Mike Wolfer Talks the New Direction of STITCHED
Whether it's his work on the Boundless Comics beauties Lady Death and War Goddess, or his creepy horror on Avatar's Stitched and Night of the Living Dead, or his new project in development, Malison Plague, he's an interesting cat who's got a lot of great insight into the comics storytelling medium. Beginning in September, Wolfer will[...]
The Boys #72 Appears To Be Garth Ennis' Final Word On Superheroes
Darick is returning to draw the final issue of The Boys, published by Dynamite in November. The Boys began as a Justice League story requested by DC Comics from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, that Dan DiDio recommended be rewritten with new characters and given to their Wildstorm imprint to publish, though DC would later deny[...]
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[...]
Batman Incorporated #3 To Reboot… Bueno Excellente?
Those of us who fondly remember Garth Ennis and John McCrea's Hitman series, may also remember one of the members of the non-superhero superhero team Section 8. Along with Defenestrator (the power to throw people out of windows), Friendly Fire (the power to create fire but hit friends instead of foes), Sixpack (the power to get[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week – STITCHED #6
You know what you'll find in your local comic shop today? Terror… sheer, senses-shattering terror! Stitched #6 hits shelves today, bringing Garth Ennis' original vision of undead horror in the desert one step closer to its explosive climax Originally written as a film treatment, Ennis released Stitched first as a 15-minute long film (documenting a band[...]
Avatar Plug of June Previews – Crossed: Wish You Were Here Volume One GN
What an honor! The Wish You Were Here storyline is something new and wicked for Crossed: it's the first epic (what I call "long form") tale set in the universe that Garth Ennis created While previous stories followed small groups of survivors for a finite number of chapters, Wish You Were Here follows a group of[...]
Announcing the Winners of the Crossed C-Day Retailer Contest
BleedingCool.com reported a fair bit on the new Garth Ennis / Jacen Burrows storyline which launched the ongoing bi-weekly series, and hundreds of retailers promoted the series heavily in their stores with freebies like Crossed face masks, tattoos, buttons, and the sampler Get Infected comics. As C-Day approached, we announced the Crossed C-Day Retailer Contest[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week – Stitched #5
This $#&% just got real. Garth Ennis and Mike Wolfer proudly present Stitched #5, due in stores worldwide tomorrow Continuing a terrifying tale first presented in a short film directed by Ennis himself, Stitched follows three American solders and a British SAS team, stuck in the ravines of Afghanistan and surrounded by the most hostile of[...]
Jennifer Blood Does A Rambo
Not only are all the DC New 52 books getting zero issues, but Garth Ennis' Jennifer Blood is going back to her earliest stories with a new First Blood series from Dynamite, looking at the character's motivation and her journey from Jennifer Blute to Jennifer Blood Sadly it's an issue one, not an issue zero… they missed[...]
Garth Ennis To Revisit The Punisher In Vietnam
At the Garth Ennis panel during the Phoenix Comic Con last weekend, the man of the hour talked about his FuryMAX series, and how following the Bay Of Pigs storyline, he will be following Nick Fury's journey to Vietnam. As well as introducing him to a certain Frank Castle serving there, better known as The Punisher. Ennis[...]