Avatar Press New in Comic Shops 1/8/14

New Avatar Press books in comic shops this week on Wednesday 1/8/14:

Crossed: Badlands #44

Crossed44regPRODUCT DESCRIPTION: ?Crossed: Badlands welcomes a new scribe, as Deadpool writer DANIEL WAY joins the ranks of the damned with a new tale of Crossed misery in ?Grave New World.?? In a story that spans the length of the Crossed infection, a naval captain and his loyal crew attempt to outlast the monsters that have overtaken the world.? But aboard the vessel there is little joy and the remaining crew wonder if perhaps their leader has gone mad.? When two very strange survivors are brought on board a world of hate and vengeance begins to destroy this carefully preserved oasis.? In a world of maniacs, there is no help, there is no hope, there is only the Crossed.? Available with a Regular, Torture, Wraparound, and a special Red Crossed Incentive cover all by Gabriel Andrade.

God is Dead #2 Enhanced Edition

god-is-dead-2-enhancedPRODUCT DESCRIPTION:? The scarce second issue is now available again with this special Enhanced edition! Hickman’s smash series is now an ongoing and the early issues are in huge demand.? This edition is even better as it features an all-new second story, not available anywhere else, from co-writer Mike Costa and artist Rafa (Crossed) Ortiz!? Just like with our sold out Uber #0 Enhanced, this will be the LAST printing of #2, and it is limited to only 7500 copies.

 

 

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Avatar Nominated for Retailer Gem Awards

Every year Diamond Comic Distributors issues the list of publishers, products, and creators that have been nominated for the Gem Awards.? These comic industry nominations are based on the best selling items of the previous year and are presented to active comic book retailers to vote upon and bestow the honor of being selected by the very partners that sell the items every day.

This year Avatar Press has been nominated for two awards –

AvatarPressLogoBCM6 (3)2013 Comic Book Publisher of the Year ? Under 4%? – Avatar Press

2013 Magazine of the Year – Bleeding Cool Magazine

 

 

Avatar would like to thank our retailer partners for considering us while placing your votes.? Voting for the awards is open until January 17th.? The complete list of nominations can be found here:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/12/31/these-are-the-nominations-for-the-annual-diamond-gem-awards/

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Avatar Press New In January Previews

UberSpecial1_BlitzkriegUberSpecial1_PropagandaWhile March’s C-Day celebrates all things Crossed, Kieron Gillen’s Uber also takes center stage with an oversized one shot issue that digs deep into the origin of the Ubers.? The Uber Special #1 is a 40 page story that features the incredible art of Gabriel Andrade of Ferals.? For the first time, we go behind the murder and destruction of the Battleship class Ubers to UberSpecial1_WrapUberSpecial1_Regget a look at the humans that became unstoppable monsters.

Fans of Gillen won’t want to miss this must have addition to the world of Uber.? Orders for the issue are being taken now – ask your local retailer to reserve a copy for you today.

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Happy New Year From Avatar Press

AvatarPressLogoAs 2013 comes to a close, Avatar Press would like to wish fans, friends, and retailers a very happy and prosperous New Year!? 2014 has a lot of big events and comics on the way and with your continued support and encouragement, Avatar will continue to produce the same cutting edge uncensored works you have come to expect.

With new books by Garth Ennis, Alan Moore, Kieron Gillen, Max Brooks, and a host of other creators coming up, you can bank on more Avatar horrors on the way to haunt your dreams in the new year.

Stop by your local comic shop today to pick up an Avatar Press trade paperback to ring in your new year with some fear.? Or visit Avatar on comiXology to find the latest releases in horror.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Avatar Press on ComiXology 12/31/13

The following Avatar Press comics are new to ComiXology on Tuesday 12/31/13:

Caligula: Heart of Rome #1-6

CaligulaHeart1RegPRODUCT DESCRIPTION: ?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 demon lives on and ten years later the job of finding and slaying the beast once and for all has fallen to heroic Laurentius. But can anyone unravel the mystery of the demon before its bloody tendrils can make glorious Rome a wasteland?

 

Gravel #15 – 21

gravel 15PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: ?Warren Ellis and Mike Wolfer serve up the beginning of the third major story arc right here, and the magicians of Britain will never be the same! William Gravel has reformed the Minor Seven, Britain’s occult detectives, exclusively from people like himself. But there are people who aren’t going to be happy about that. And the new, young Minor Seven are pretty much on their own… it’s never a dull day being Combat Magician William Gravel!

 

 

George R.R. Martin’s Fevre Dream #1-5

George RR Martin Fevre Dream - 9781592911196 - JPEG2PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: ?Prepare for a ten issue vampire epic on the bayou from the writer of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels! From the New York Times Best-selling author, George R. R. Martin, comes a tale of vampire clans, death and debauchery, legendary bloodmasters, 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. It is 1857, and Abner Marsh is a remarkably ugly man — but the best steamboat man on the river. When the pale Joshua approaches him with a partnership and enough money to build the boat of his dreams, it seems too good to be true. But Joshua is a mystery of a partner, a man who keeps strange hours and stranger friends. It’s only a matter of time before Abner begins to wonder where the FEVRE DREAM is heading, and if it may turn out to be a nightmare, after all. 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.

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Avatar New In January Previews

Crossed50_RegCrossed50_TortureC-Day 2014 is coming. ?March 26 is the day that the hordes of Crossed maniacs will descend upon unsuspecting comic shops in search of the highly anticipated issue of Crossed: Badlands#50. ?This year’s anniversary issue is a Garth Ennis penned masterpiece that takes fans back to the origin of the outbreak with “Patient Zero.” ?The new story arc will see Ennis Crossed50_TrueRomanceCrossed50_FatalFantasyaddress the cause of the plague and reveal some hints about where it originated. ?Was it an act of god? ?Did it begin as a man-made bio weapon? ?Is it the final evolution of human kind? ?Now is your chance to find out.

The issue will come with a celebratory host of covers from some of the best illustrators Avatar has to Crossed50_MissionFailureCrossed50_Amazonsoffer. ?With a regular, Wraparound, Torture, True Romance, Final Fantasy, Mission Failure, Amazons, and two incentive covers – Red Crossed and Pure Art – there are going to be enough options to satisfy even the most voracious of Crossed appetites. ?There is also a limited edition Deluxe Collectors Box Set that includes all the covers and a special Crossed #50 Crossed50_WrapBadlands VIP cover that is only available in the set. ?Other swag includes the Patient Zero Ashcan Signature Edition (signed by Ennis, Zanier, & Burrows), six 11×17 art prints, and an original art Crossed Sketch Card by Tomas Aria. ?All told it is nearly $200 worth of Crossed insanity for a $99.99 price and is strictly limited to 400 sets.

Be sure to let your local comic shop know what to order for you to satisfy your Crossed cravings this coming C-Day.

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Uber Enhanced Edition

A lot of folks take time off in the week between Christmas and New Year. ?And if you are looking for the best in comics to read, this is a great time to go to your local comic shop and browse their graphic novel sections to try that book you’ve been meaning to check out. ?Most retailers are running sales the entire week and are always happy to offer their suggestions for new titles based on your tastes. ?There really is no better way to find new comics to try than with chatting it over at the local comic shop.

uber-vol-1-enhanced-hcWe here at Avatar would like to make a few suggestions for the week as well. ?Today’s title is what many have called Avatar’s best new ongoing series of the year. ?Kieron Gillen and Caanan White’s redefiining of the alternate history genre with a super soldier series that shows the potential horrors of an escallated World War II. ?The Uber Enhanced Edition HC is the perfect way to experience the series. ?It provides the full first chapter story of the series and a massive 160 pages of extra material to allow you to see the way it came together. ?From story notes, to interviews, to design sketches, the huge tome will not only introduce you to this pivotal series, it will immerse you in it.

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Avatar on ComiXology 12/24/13

The following Avatar Press comics are new to ComiXology on Wednesday 12/24/13:

Chronicles of Wormwood: Last Battle #1-6

Chronicles of WormwoodPRODUCT DESCRIPTION: ?Garth Ennis returns to the fan-favorite Chronicles of Wormwood series! Jimmy the Rabbit, Jay, and Danny Wormwood, the Anti-Christ himself, are back in a new full-color six issue series that promises to provide everything you love about Ennis! Danny has started to get his life back together after averting the apocalypse, and getting rid of God and Devil. But Hell might be getting taken over by something even worse, Pope Jacko! Series artist Oscar Jimenez provides the stunning cover and interior art. Ennis drags the whole world into the gutter with his trademark razor-sharp dialogue, biting wit, and the stunning art of Jimenez.

 

Dicks #6 – 10

dicks9regPRODUCT DESCRIPTION: ?Garth Ennis and John McCrea have insulted just about everyone there is in the pages of Dicks. Or have they?? Dougie and Ivor are now going where no idiot has gone before. Space.

Featuring the Christmas and New Years special issues #9- 10: ?It?s Christmas with the Dicks! If you always thought it was a bit obscene to leave a large stiff peppermint stick for a fat old elf, then strap on your jingle bells and get ready to do up the holidays with Dougie and Ivor. Nothing is sacred to these two scallywags and if you think a little holiday cheer is going to have them singing Silent F@#king Night, you got another thing coming. Join Garth Ennis and John McCrea in an exercise in obscenity that will forever taint your yuletide memories.

Escape of the Living Dead: Airborne #1 – 3 ?& Escape of the Living Dead: Fearbook

388513-21579-130358-1-escape-of-the-livingPRODUCT DESCRIPTION: ?John Russo’s Escape of the Living Dead returns will an all-new tale of the continuing spread of the zombie virus… But now, it’s taken a different and even more treacherous turn! In the back woods of Pennsylvania in 1971, a bus filled with San Francisco-bound hippies and flower children are about to find “peace and love” replaced with “fight or die” as they are attacked in an unthinkable onslaught by flesh-hungry zombies. Stranded, trapped and surrounded by the living dead who lurk in the dark waiting to feast upon their gory remains, the ragged group of heroes will begin to fall, one by one… And that’s before the arrival of enigmatic, zombie messiah Deadhead! There are no rescuers, no defense and no hope for survival after the Escape Of The Living Dead!

Night of the Living Dead: Specials – ?Holiday Special, Just a Girl, & New York

1540647-night_of_the_living_dead_holiday_special_1PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: ?Ho ho ho ’tis the season…for zombies! Mike Wolfer unleashes the NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD HOLIDAY SPECIAL and brings a new brand of terror home for the holidays! There will be more than just chestnuts roasting on an open fire as a large family gathers to celebrate the season, a raging snowstorm has buried their remote, mountain farmhouse in virgin snow, with no way in, and no way out. But a dark, despicable family secret that lay buried in the barn will not stay dead, and the resulting orgy of bloodshed, murder and cannibalism will transform this into anything but a silent night! Warn your children: This year, it is NOT Santa Clause coming down the chimney!

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God is Dead #7 Preview

GID7-05-600x900GID7-02-600x900Jonathan Hickman’s smash hit comic, God is Dead, is set to take Armageddon to the very end, beginning in February when it goes bi-weekly with issue #7. ?Co-writer Mike Costa takes up the scribal chores and fleshes out the world that has captured the imagination of so many comic readers. ?We have a special three page preview of that new arc right here to give you a sneak peek at the issue.

GID7-06-600x900GID07regAt the end of the world there is one god ruling over human kind. ?But at what point in history has man ever been able to live with the status quo? ?There are always those that seek to upset the balance in an attempt at pushing civilization further. ?But when your plan includes toppling one god with the return of more ill tempered divine beings, can you really expect things to get better?

Retailer orders for the first issue of the new arc are due this week. ?If you want to make sure you continue to see the latest developments in Hickman’s modern day “clash of the titans” make sure you ask your local shop to reserve copies today.

 

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Ferals Chapter 3 Leads to All Out War

FERALSVol3David Lapham’s redefining of the werewolf mythology into a vital, horrifying, and vicious survival tale has been one of the must-read horror comics of the past few years. ?Dale Chesnutt is a flawed sheriff and a feral man that has become more than anyone thought he could. ?His position straddling the fence between two worlds has been a difficult balancing act that he can no longer manage. ?The time has come to choose.

Everything in the first 18 issues of the series has been leading to this…the tipping point. ?As the government crossed a pivotal line and now, the Feral community which has been hidden for so long is ready for all out war. ?Fans of classic werewolf stories, violent survival horror, and action oriented drama need to check out this latest chapter of Ferals. ?Ask your local comic shop to order a copy of this groundbreaking trade for you today!

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Ferals Volumes 1 and 2 are both available from local comic shops at this time and single issue digital downloads are available on the ComiXology website: ?http://www.comixology.com/Ferals/comics-series/7297

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