Garth Ennis, George R.R. Martin, and Max Brooks are Among Many Guests of Publisher!

“Avatar Friday Night” event to feature special presentations and mingling opportunity

Norwalk, CT, March 10, 2010:  Officials at C2E2 (Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo) have announced that Avatar Press will play a huge role at the new pop culture convention where the renowned independent publisher will not only have a significant presence on the show floor but will be bringing many notable writers and creators including Garth Ennis, George R.R. Martin and Max Brooks.  Other leading Avatar guests who will be on hand at the convention will include: Jacen Burrows, William Christensen, Christos Gage, Matt Martin, Gianluca Pagliarani, Brian Pulido, and Mike Wolfer.  All of these personalities will be at the Avatar Press booth, and will be participating in a variety of activities ranging from panel discussions to autographings.

Notably, Avatar Press will play host to the “Avatar Friday Night”, a special event from 8pm – 10pm, Friday April 16 which will feature Max Brooks and George R.R. Martin in their first ever joint appearance.  Brooks, whose Zombie Survival lectures are a world-wide hit, will provide his own unique form of humor and entertainment while George R.R. Martin, one of the most acclaimed wordsmiths of the day, will provide a reading from one of his favorite works.  Other Avatar Press guests and creators will be on hand to meet and greet fans.

“I am blown away by everything that Avatar Press is doing at our show,” notes Lance Fensterman, Group Vice President for the Reed Pop Culture Group and Show Manager for C2E2.  “The quality of these guests is absolutely incredible and I am hugely grateful and pleased to see that Avatar finds such value in our event.  Our show is going to be massive AND fun and it is in no small measure because of exhibitors like Avatar Press who build excitement and anticipation on our show floor and throughout the convention by making talented personalities and creators available to meet and greet the thousands of fans who will be on hand at C2E2.  I am sure the ‘Avatar Friday Night’ event will be packed and I encourage people to buy their tickets fast!”

Other Avatar Press events that will take place during C2E2 are three panels, including a Max Brooks Q & A, as well as numerous autographings with all the Avatar guests at the Avatar Press booth.  For ticket purchases and more information about the “Avatar Friday Night” event, fans should go tohttp://www.avatarpress.com/conventions/c2e2.

Organizers for C2E2 also note that tickets for the convention itself are selling fast and so all fans are encouraged to buy tickets in advance.  For more information on guests, tickets, or C2E2 in general, visit www.C2E2.com or check out the show’s official blog, MediumAtLarge at www.mediumatlarge.net, or follow C2E2 on Twitter at www.twitter.com/c2e2.

AVATAR GUESTS:

MAX BROOKS: New York Times bestselling author Max Brooks has become one of the world’s leading authorities on zombies with his Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z titles.  He has also written the graphic novel Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks which was produced in cooperation with Avatar Press. Brooks was a member of the Saturday Night Live writing team from 2001 to 2003, for which he won an Emmy. He also has a number of acting credits, including appearances on Roseanne and 7th Heaven, and voice work for Batman Beyond and Justice League. Paramount Pictures has acquired the film rights for World War Z.

JACEN BURROWS: A 1996 graduate of  the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1996, Burrows has worked with several comic companies over the years including Caliber Press and London Night Studios, and is currently working under an exclusive contract with Avatar Press. Outside of comics, his work as included contributions to Rockstar Games’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and TSR’s Dungeons & Dragons.

At Avatar, Burrows has worked with the best writers in the industry, praised for his detail and free-flowing story-telling, he has just finished CROSSED with writer Garth Ennis and is currently working on NEONOMICON with Alan Moore.  Previously he has illustrated graphic novels by Warren Ellis (SCARS, BAD WORLD, DARK BLUE), Alan Moore (COURTYARD, YUGGOTH CULTURES) and Garth Ennis (303, CHRONICLES OF WORMWOOD).

WILLIAM CHRISTENSEN: Avatar Press editor-in-chief William Christensen’s 20-year career in the comics has included contributions in publishing, writing, and comic industry journalism.  Christensen was a prolific freelancer for Wizard during the magazine’s formative years in the early 90’s, and went on to work with  90’s indy powerhouse Chaos! Comics in various capacities.  His first comic book writing credit was in the 1995 series Chaos! Quarterly. After founding Avatar in 1996, Christensen became the architect of much of the early company line, including Pandora and The Ravening. As Editor-in-Chief of Avatar, he has become known for establishing Avatar’s famous policy of creative freedom as well as his knack for working with the industry’s best writers, including Warren Ellis, Alan Moore, and Garth Ennis.

GARTH ENNIS: Comic Book writer Garth Ennis is the creator of Crossed, Preacher, and the Boys. Among his numerous writing credits, he is also known for his work on Marvel’s Punisher and DC’s Hellblazer. Ennis has won Eisner and Eagle awards for his work on Preacher. After getting his start in comics in legendary UK anthology 2000AD in 1988, Ennis took on long-running DC/Vertigo title Hellblazer in 1991 and under his tenure the comic stood alongside Gaiman’s Sandman as DC/Vertigo’s best series. But his 1996 launch Preacher was to prove an even better showcase for Ennis’ unique talent. A compelling cast of characters in an eyes-wide-open drama unafraid to explore any subject quickly made Preacher one of the most important and controversial titles of the 1990’s. Ennis’ work on The Punisher subsequently became a cornerstone of Marvel’s direction in the Quesada era. At Avatar, Ennis has written 303, Dicks, Chronicles of Wormwood, and Crossed.

CHRISTOS GAGE: Christos Gage has written numerous screeplays and was a writer for the TV show Law & Order: SVU before he added comics to his impressive resume.  He’s done several top -selling series like World War Hulk: X-Men, Thunderbolts, Iron Man, Avengers: The Initiative for Marvel and co-wrote GI Joe: Cobra for IDW.  He created a whole new universe for his acclaimed series Absolution at Avatar and he is current working on the sequel to that series.

GEORGE R.R. MARTIN: Award-winning author George R.R. Martin is the creator of the epic fantasy series A Song of Fire and Ice and A Game of Thrones.  Martin has written a number of other books and short stories in genres as diverse as horror, science fiction, and military fiction.  As an editor, he was the creator and primary architect of the Wild Cards shared super-hero universe. Martin was active in early comics fandom and credits the attention he recieved from a letter to the editor in Fantastic Four #20 (1963) and fanzine activities with his interest in writing.  His television writing credits include The New Twilight Zone and Beauty and the Beast.  His lengthy list of awards includes Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards. Martin’s A Game of Thrones is now in production at HBO. His Fevre Dream is about to begin at Avatar Press and The Skin Trade is also in production at Avatar.

MATT MARTIN: Writer/Artist Matt Martin is best known for his creator-owned title Snowman, a supernatural tale of revenge in the form of a creature of ice and snow.  Martin has also written and drawn The Coven: Dark Sister for Avatar and drew a story for the Yuggoth Creatures collection of Lovecraft-inspired tales. Martin is a prolific cover artist at Avatar, with work on titles such as Lady Death, Alan Moore’s Glory, Warren Ellis’ Anna Mercury, and much more. He is currently working on an upcoming title written by Garth Ennis.

GIANLUCA PAGLIARANI: An artist on several Warren Ellis titles, Gianluca Pagliarani’s precise, detailed linework and retro sci-fi/fantasy influences have won him acclaim on Avatar books such as Ignition City, Aetheric Mechanics, and Wolfskin: Hundredth Dream.

BRIAN PULIDO: Brian Pulido has created and written hundreds of comic books including Lady Death and Evil Ernie, and licensed comic such as A Nightmare on Elm St. and Friday the 13th.  As the founder and president of Chaos! Comics, Pulido was the leading independent comic publisher of the 1990’s

He is on The Hero Initiative’s fundraising board, has received the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s Defender of Liberty Award and is the Chief Creative Officer for Mischief Maker Studios.   Pulido also wrote and directed the feature film “The Graves”, starring Tony Todd (Candy Man) and Bill Mosley (The Devil’s Rejects). He is the co-writer, with Mike Wolfer, of the upcoming Lady Death monthly series, slated to debut in fall 2010.

MIKE WOLFER: With the self-publication of DAIKAZU #1 in 1987, Mike Wolfer began a comic book career which has spanned over 20 years. After creating and publishing 14 issues of WIDOW for his own Ground Zero Comics, Wolfer moved on to work on various series such as Dark Horse Comics’ GODZILLA, Chaos! Comics LADY DEATH, and many others. Wolfer’s largest body of published work has been for Avatar Press, where his unique brand of graphically illustrated horror and violence has been on display in Warren Ellis’ STRANGE KISS/STRANGE KILLINGS, Alan Moore’s YUGGOTH CREATURES and Garth Ennis’ STREETS OF GLORY. In addition, Wolfer has contributed to several licensed comic series, serving as both writer and illustrator on such well-known properties as George Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, New Line Cinema’s FRIDAY THE 13TH and John Russo’s ESCAPE OF THE LIVING DEAD. Wolfer is currently serving as co-writer with Warren Ellis on Avatar’s GRAVEL and WOLFSKIN, and with Brian Pulido on the new LADY DEATH series.

ABOUT REED EXHIBITIONS POP CULTURE GROUP:

The Pop Culture Group at Reed Exhibitions owns and operates the New York Comic Con (NYCC), the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2), and the New York Anime Festival (NYAF).  New York Comic Con was launched in 2006 and quickly became a dominant presence in the pop culture world of public events.  In 2009, 452 companies exhibited at NYCC for a total of 84,000 square feet of paid exhibit space, and it has been ranked by Crain’s New York Business as the second-largest annual event in NYC.  C2E2, which will debut April 16 – 18 at Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center, is modeled after NYCC and will provide fans the opportunity to meet and greet their favorite writers, creators, and artists, as well as to see, hear and learn about the latest and greatest in comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television. The Pop Culture Group also operates the recently-launched Star Wars Celebration in partnership with the Lucasfilm Ltd. and UFC Fan Expo.  Additionally, it holds a strategic partnership with Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) in 2008 and will work closely with PAX on the launch of PAX East in Boston in 2010.

The Avatar Press comics and other items listed below are available in comic shops this week, according to our distributor. Most retailers in the U.S. display new shipments for the week beginning on Wednesday. Please ask your local stores about these items.

• JAN100772 ABSOLUTION #0-6 COMPLETE BAG SET (MR) $24.99
• JAN100771 ABSOLUTION #2 MCM CON ED (MR) $3.99
• JAN100770 ABSOLUTION #4 AUXILIARY ED (MR) $3.99
• JAN100765 CHRONICLES OF WORMWOOD LB #2 AUXILIARY ED (MR) $3.99
• JAN100768 CROSSED #7 MCM CON ED (MR) $3.99
• JAN100769 CROSSED #8 CHEERLEADER VAR (MR) $3.99
• JUN090743 CROSSED #9 (OF 9) (MR) $4.99
• OCT090735 CROSSED #9 AUXILIARY ED (MR) $4.99
• JUN090744 CROSSED #9 WRAP CVR (MR) $4.99
• JAN100764 IGNITION CITY #5 CON ED (MR) $3.99
• JAN100759 SUPERGOD #2 AUXILIARY ED (MR) $3.99

Pick of the Week from the most energetic video review segment in the business, Cammy’s Comic Corner:

The long-awaited Crossed #9, the 40 page ender to the first Cross saga, is printed and will be in stores next week!

A fantastic review of Ignition City from A Comicbook Orange — complete with cosplay!

Ignition City is the last spaceport on an alternate Earth giving up on space travel, and where Mary Raven has come to investigate the death of her spaceman father.

Warren Ellis had been brewing the series for awhile and finally delivered it with all his usual tricks we have come to love; dark humorous dialog, mind-twisting science, and bittersweet characterization.

Gianluca Pagliarani’s art is amazingly detailed; everything, from clothes to aliens to rocketships to rayguns look believable, sometimes to horrifying effect. His characters faces are a bit loose with consistency, and this host is troubled by the number of butt shots. Still, minor compliments for this richly rendered story, especially with the coloring; you can almost feel the grit and grime of the city and its residents.

Ignition City is a great mash-up of frontier living, retro sci-fi, and murder mystery written with modern sensibilities. Pick up the collected hardcover released by Avatar, especially if you like shows like Deadwood and Firefly. We give it 4.5 oranges out of 5.

Out this week everywhere from Warren Ellis, Raulo Caceres, and Avatar:

The Avatar Press comics and other items listed below are available in comic shops this week, according to our distributor. Most retailers in the U.S. display new shipments for the week beginning on Wednesday. Please ask your local stores about these items.

• DEC090689 CAPTAIN SWING #1 (OF 4) (MR) $3.99
• DEC090690 CAPTAIN SWING #1 WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99
• SEP090631 CHRONICLES OF WORMWOOD LAST BATTLE #3 (OF 6) (MR) $3.99
• SEP090632 CHRONICLES OF WORMWOOD LAST BATTLE #3 WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99
• OCT090718 GRAVEL #17 (MR) $3.99
• OCT090719 GRAVEL #17 WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99

The Avatar Press comics and other items listed below are available in comic shops this week, according to our distributor. Most retailers in the U.S. display new shipments for the week beginning on Wednesday. Please ask your local stores about these items.

• DEC090684 IGNITION CITY TP VOL 01 (MR) $19.99
• DEC090685 IGNITION CITY HC VOL 01 (MR) $27.99
• DEC090686 IGNITION CITY HC VOL 01 DUAL SGN ED (MR) $49.99

Today is Crossed Day at Bleeding Cool. Read the original Crossed #0 for free, find out who told Garth the sickest joke he ever heard, who Jacen Burrows thinks has the most obscene imagination among the writers he’s worked with, and I understand we’ll have a word from new Crossed writer David Lapham on Bleeding Cool today.

Crossed 9 will be in two weeks, and the first collection will be out in April.

The Avatar Press comics and other items listed below are available in comic shops this week, according to our distributor. Most retailers in the U.S. display new shipments for the week beginning on Wednesday. Please ask your local stores about these items.

• DEC090693 ABSOLUTION #3 AUXILIARY ED (MR) $3.99
• NOV083807 ALAN MOORE NEONOMICON HORNBOOK BURROWS SGN LEATHER CVR (MR) $9.99
• DEC090701 CHRONICLES OF WORMWOOD LB #1 AUXILIARY ED (MR) $3.99
• DEC090700 CROSSED #7 RYP VAR CVR (MR) $5.99
• DEC090692 SUPERGOD #1 AUXILIARY ED (MR) $3.99

Full text for our April 2010 releases. You can also check out all the covers.

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!

The Avatar Press comics and other items listed below are available in comic shops this week, according to our distributor. Most retailers in the U.S. display new shipments for the week beginning on Wednesday. Please ask your local stores about these items.

• JUN090723 ANNA MERCURY 2 #3 (OF 5) (MR) $3.99
• JUN090724 ANNA MERCURY 2 #3 PAINTED CVR (MR) $3.99
• JUN090725 ANNA MERCURY 2 #3 WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99
• AUG090686 GRAVEL #16 (MR) $3.99
• AUG090687 GRAVEL #16 WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99
• NOV090627 NO HERO HC (MR) $27.99
• NOV090628 NO HERO HC ELLIS & RYP SGN ED (MR) $49.99

The Avatar Press comics and other items listed below are available in comic shops this week, according to our distributor. Most retailers in the U.S. display new shipments for the week beginning on Wednesday. Please ask your local stores about these items.

• NOV090642 ABSOLUTION #6 (OF 6) (MR) $3.99
• NOV090644 ABSOLUTION #6 CRIME FILES ED (MR) $3.99
• NOV090643 ABSOLUTION #6 WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99
• NOV083806 ALAN MOORE NEONOMICON HORNBOOK (MR) $1.99
• NOV090626 NO HERO TP (MR) $19.99

The Avatar Press comics and other items listed below are available in comic shops this week, according to our distributor. Most retailers in the U.S. display new shipments for the week beginning on Wednesday. Please ask your local stores about these items.

• NOV090639  GRAVEL #14 BIG APPLE ED (MR)  $3.99

The Avatar Press comics and other items listed below are available in comic shops this week, according to our distributor. Most retailers in the U.S. display new shipments for the week beginning on Wednesday.   Please ask your local stores about these items.

• OCT090716 GRAVEL TP VOL 02 THE MAJOR SEVEN (MR) $19.99
• OCT090717 GRAVEL HC VOL 02 THE MAJOR SEVEN (MR) $27.99

The Avatar Press comics and other items listed below are available in comic shops this week, according to our distributor. Most retailers in the U.S. display new shipments for the week beginning on Wednesday.   Please ask your local stores about these items.

• SEP090634 ABSOLUTION #4 (OF 6) (MR) $3.99
• SEP090635 ABSOLUTION #4 CRIME FILES ED (MR) $3.99
• SEP090636 ABSOLUTION #4 WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99
• OCT090729 SUPERGOD #2 (OF 5) (MR) $3.99
• OCT090730 SUPERGOD #2 WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99

It’s no skip week this holiday — the FreakAngels are back in action with another big episode.  And there’s also new FA merch in the store for your black friday festivities.

Bleeding Cool’s Thanks Givens series has posted a couple tidbits about upcoming Avatar projects — including a page from Alan Moore’s Neonomicon by Jacen Burrows, and some script from the previously-unannounced The Heat by Kieron Gillen.

The Avatar Press comics and other items listed below are available in comic shops this week, according to our distributor. Most retailers in the U.S. display new shipments for the week beginning on Wednesday.   Please ask your local stores about these items.

• OCT090744 ABSOLUTION #1 CHICAGO CON ED (MR) $3.99
• OCT090745 ABSOLUTION #2 HOMAGE AUXILIARY ED (MR) $3.99
• OCT090733 ANNA MERCURY 2 #1 CHICAGO CON ED (MR) $3.99
• OCT090736 CHRONICLES OF WORMWOOD LB PREVIEW CHICAGO CON ED (MR) $1.99
• OCT090732 IGNITION CITY #5 AUXILIARY ED (MR) $3.99
• OCT090734 NO HERO #7 ZOMBIES CVR (MR) $3.99

The Avatar Press comics and other items listed below are available in comic shops this week, according to our distributor. Most retailers in the U.S. display new shipments for the week beginning on Wednesday.   Please ask your local stores about these items.

• AUG090673 IGNITION CITY #1-5 COMPLETE BAG SET (MR) $19.99
• JUN090729 IGNITION CITY #5 SGN POSTER ED (MR) $3.99
• JUL090705 CHRONICLES OF WORMWOOD LB #1 SGN POSTER ED (MR) $4.99