Avatar Press April 2010 solicited releases

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CROSSED Vol 1 TPB

Retail Price: $24.99 US
Cover: Jacen Burrows
Writer: Garth Ennis
Art: Jacen Burrows
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 240 pages, TPB
ISBN ? 1592910904

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Garth Ennis has pulled out all the stops to write the most depraved and twisted book of his career, one that also may be his most poignant human drama! Crossed is Ennis? horrifically visceral exploration of the pure evil that humans are truly capable of indulging and collected here are all ten heart-stopping chapters. This gut-wrenching vision is brought to vivid (and more than a little disturbing) life by his partner in crime Jacen Burrows. Imagine, for a moment, the worst crimes against humanity. Picture the cruelest affronts to decency. Conjure your darkest nightmares… and then realize it could all be so much worse. When civilization crumbles in one terrifying moment; when people are gleefully breaking into unthinkable acts of violence all around you; when everyone you love has died screaming in agony: What do you do? There is no help. There is no hope. There is no escape. There are only the Crossed. The Crossed collected volume is available in three editions, all with new covers by series artist Jacen Burrows: A standard Trade Paperback, a Special Edition Hardcover that is limited to only 2000 units, and a special Dual Signed Hardcover that is signed by both writer Garth Ennis and artist Burrows that is limited to only 1000 copies!

CROSSED Vol 1 Hardcover
Retail Price: $32.99 US
Cover: Jacen Burrows
Writer: Garth Ennis
Art: Jacen Burrows
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 240 pages, HC

ISBN ? 1592910912

CROSSED Vol 1 Dual Signed Hardcover

Retail Price: $49.99 US
Cover: Jacen Burrows
Writer: Garth Ennis
Art: Jacen Burrows
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 240 pages, HC
ISBN ? 1592910920

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Limited to 1000 copies. Allocations are likely.

DO ANYTHING Vol 1
Retail Price: $5.99 US
Cover: Jacen Burrows
Writer: Warren Ellis
Readership: All ages
Format: B&W, 48 pages
ISBN: 1592911056

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: From Warren Ellis, the award-winning author, comics creator and popular columnist (and who is currently writing the screenplay for the film adaptation of the comics series GRAVEL, also published by Avatar Press), comes a collection of the most mind-bending columns you’ve ever read: DO ANYTHING. DO ANYTHING VOLUME ONE: JACK KIRBY RIPPED MY FLESH collects the first 26 chapters of Ellis? text masterpiece and is a grand tour through comics & culture as seen through a burgled robot head. The robot head of Jack Kirby lives on Warren Ellis’ desk. It knows everything and is connected to everything. You must obey the robot head of Jack Kirby. There are many ways to look at comics. In this book, we see the medium through the hazy android eyes of Jack Kirby (actually the stolen and repurposed head of the missing Philip K Dick robot, which Mr. Ellis confesses to swiping off the back of a plane), taking a rattling ghost-train ride through the history of comics. David Bowie, the CIA, mad architects, Will Eisner, Frank Zappa, Tintin, the designer of Skylab, a train station in Paris, Arthur C. Clarke, the circus, the Black Panther Party and William S. Burroughs: all of these things are connected by Jack Kirby, all part of the secret history of comics, and all illustrating the special nature of the medium as the place where you can do anything. The continuing DO ANYTHING column, from which this book is derived, can be found every Tuesday at http://www.bleedingcool.com.

WOLFSKIN: Hundredth Dream #1
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Gianluca Pagliarani
Writer: Warren Ellis, Mike Wolfer
Art: Gianluca Pagliarani
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, 1 of 6
UPC: 820023006168 01011

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Before history was recorded in stone and ink, some men wrote it in blood! Ellis and Wolfer, the writing team on Gravel, unveil the next six-issue barbaric epic of Wolfskin, this time joined by Gianluca Pagliarani, the star artist of Ignition City! His leather boots have carried him far, across an Earth both young and terrifying. He has wandered from the boreal climes of the his former home among the Northish tribes to the bustling seaports of the southern fjords, neither escaping his past nor embracing his future. But for the nomadic, berserker warrior named Wolfskin, past and future are about to collide in an unprecedented adventure of cataclysmic proportions. Having slaughtered his own tribesmen in the throes of an uncontrollable blood-rage, Wolfskin hopes to find a purpose in life by accepting a position as guide and hired swordsman on a rescue quest to the volcanic, High Northish ice plains. Accompanied by a rogues gallery of misfits and magicians perched between prehistory and the advent of technology, Wolfskin will become the central player in the greatest undocumented heroic legend to ever be lost in the corridors of time. This all-new, full-color six issue series is available with several historic covers. Series artist Pagliarani provides the Regular and Wraparound covers, maestro Felipe Massafera delivers the lush Painted cover, super-star artist Juan Jose Ryp serves up the violent Blood Thirst cover, and retailers are able to order a super-limited Bronze & Blood edition.

WOLFSKIN: Hundredth Dream #1 Bronze & Blood order incentive
Cover: Gianluca Pagliarani
Writer: Warren Ellis, Mike Wolfer
Art: Gianluca Pagliarani
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, 1 of 6
UPC: 820023006205 01051

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: For every 3 books purchased (can be mix-and-match any of the covers), retailers may purchase one copy of Wolfskin: Hundredth Dream #1 Bronze & Blood cover.

WOLFSKIN: Hundredth Dream #1 Blood Thirst
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Juan Jose Ryp
Writer: Warren Ellis, Mike Wolfer
Art: Gianluca Pagliarani
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, 1 of 6
UPC: 820023006199 01041

WOLFSKIN: Hundredth Dream #1 Painted
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Felipe Massafera
Writer: Warren Ellis, Mike Wolfer
Art: Gianluca Pagliarani
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, 1 of 6
UPC: 820023006182 01031

WOLFSKIN: Hundredth Dream #1 Wraparound
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Gianluca Pagliarani
Writer: Warren Ellis, Mike Wolfer
Art: Gianluca Pagliarani
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, 1 of 6
UPC: 820023006175 01021

FEVRE DREAM #2
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Felipe Massafera
Writer: George R.R. Martin
Art: Rafa Lopez
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, 2 of 10
UPC: 820023006113 02011

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: The second installment of the ten-issue vampire epic on the bayou from the writer of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels is here! From the New York Times Best-selling author, George R. R. Martin, comes a tale of vampire clans, death and debauchery, legendary blood masters, and even a few epic steamboat races on the muddy Mississippi. This is Martin’s FEVRE DREAM, an antebellum story of power, loss, and the fever of bloodlust. Marsh and York’s beautiful riverboat, the Fever Dream, has already proved herself faster than the smaller boats on the river. But now she’s going to face off against The Southerner, and that race won’t be the only confrontation on the river when Marsh goes head to head with his co-captain! And what is the dark and brooding Damon Julian planning? There’s snarling and dissent from his brood on the Garoux plantation that can only end in blood… but whose? Each issue of this stunning full-color epic is illustrated by Rafa Lopez, an artist whose skilled line captures every moonlit drop of blood in delicious detail. Adapted by the Hugo-nominated author Daniel Abraham, this version of FEVRE DREAM stays faithful to Martin’s original dark vision, while bringing the torture and joy of his vampires to almost-human life. This haunting series is available with Regular and Wraparound painted covers by Felipe Massafera and a very limited Nightmare retailer incentive.

FEVRE DREAM #2 Nightmare order incentive
Cover: Felipe Massafera
Writer: George R.R. Martin
Art: Rafa Lopez
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, 2 of 10
UPC: 820023006137 02031

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: For every 3 books purchased (can be mix-and-match any of the covers), retailers may purchase one copy of Fevre Dream #2 Nightmare cover.

FEVRE DREAM #2 Wraparound
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Felipe Massafera
Writer: George R.R. Martin
Art: Rafa Lopez
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, 2 of 10
UPC: 820023006120 02021

SUPERGOD #3 Auxiliary
Retail Price: $3.99 US
No Freight rebate available, this item ships directly from Avatar Press.
Cover: Garrie Gastonny
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Garrie Gastonny
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, 3 of 5
UPC: 820023005482 03041

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Series artist Gastonny delivers this powerful vision of Krishna on this all-new cover. This special edition first printing is limited to just 2000 copies and available for the original cover price!

ABSOLUTION #5 Auxiliary
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Juan Jose Ryp
Writer: Christos Gage
Art: Roberto Viacava
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, 5 of 6
UPC: 820023006052 05051

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Juan Jose Ryp delivers the next of his amazing homage covers, this time to the classic Detective Comics #38! This special edition first printing is limited to just 1250 copies and available for the original cover price!

ANNA MERCURY 2 #3 Auxiliary
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Michael Dipascale
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Facundo Percio
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, 3 of 5
UPC: 820023004355 03041

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Anna has gotten in way over her head as the action epic continues with a new painted cover by Michael Dipascale! This special edition first printing is limited to just 1000 copies and is available for the original cover price!

CROSSED #7 Tasty
Retail Price: $3.99 US
Cover: Matt Martin
Writer: Garth Ennis
Art: Jacen Burrows
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, 7 of 9
UPC: 820023005338 07071

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Matt Martin unveils this viscera-encrusted special edition that is sure to delight gore hounds! This special edition first printing is limited to just 1500 copies and available for the original cover price!

CROSSED #8 Sizzling
Retail Price: $5.99 US
Cover: Michael Dipascale
Writer: Garth Ennis
Art: Jacen Burrows
Readership: MR
Format: Full Color, 32 pages, 8 of 9
UPC: 820023005987 08091

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Painter Michael Dipascale serves up breakfast, Crossed style! One of the rarest Crossed editions ever, this edition is a first printing and is limited to just 750 copies!

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