A gallery of the four covers for Warren Ellis' Apparat line has been added to the Apparat section. Artwork by Juan Jose Ryp, Laurenn McCubbin, Carla Speed McNeil, Jacen Burrows, and Greg Waller. The Apparat group consists of Angel Stomp Future #1, Quit City #1, Frank Ironwine #1, and Simon Spector #1, and is available for preorder now at local comic shops and online stores everywhere.
[ posted Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:48:28 PM  |  permanent link to this item ]

Ellis, Wolfer, and Waller bring us the cover for the final chapter in Warren Ellis' Strange Killings: Necromancer saga. Issues #1 and #2 of this series are in stores now. Issue #5 will be an August release. More details on our August releases here soon.

Warren Ellis' STRANGE KILLINGS: Necromancer #5
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Mike Wolfer
Story: Warren Ellis
Art: Mike Wolfer
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 5 of 6

The action heats up in the penultimate issue of Ellis' and Wolfer's latest brutal series featuring combat magician William Gravel! Trapped with an innocent reporter in the jungles of the Philippines, Gravel has figured out the secret of the island and why the British government wants it kept hidden from the rest of the world. But that won't help him fight the zombie horde that is closing in on him and the woman who means more to him than he will admit.
[ posted Friday, May 07, 2004 9:19:15 AM  |  permanent link to this item ]

Warren Ellis' Strange Killings: Strong Medicine is coming to trade paperback in July, and we've got some  finished pages and other art from the saga online:
www.strangekillings.com/strongmedicine/

Ellis and Wolfer return for a new volume of the adventures of Combat Magician William Gravel and unleash a saga full of bad juju. Gravel finally escapes his deniable ops in the USA and is able to return to his home in London. But before he can even settle in, he gets sucked into a horrific child mutilation investigation. Because this child was killed in a very specific way, it was a muti killing designed to bring powerful magic to someone. And if Gravel can't stop him, many more children will die to create a black magician with very strong medicine.

"Strong Medicine is an old-fashioned occult detective story based on an actual unsolved case: a boy's torso washed up on the banks of the Thames, bearing the hallmarks of a ritual death for the purpose of muti -- African shamanic medicine," says creator Warren Ellis. "In a London already unusually charged with racial tension, combat magician William Gravel is blackmailed into solving the crime before it triggers off mass violence."

Strange Killings is the story of Sergeant Major William Gravel, a brilliant soldier of Britain's SAS -- and a combat magician. Placed on "K" duty  -- deniable operations -- when he's found to be taking unofficial black market jobs for money due to mysterious personal reasons, Gravel is plunged into the dirty life of a secret black-ops world. Still, with his power Gravel could probably change the world if he was capable of actually getting his life together. Instead, he's constantly involved in other people's lives and dirty secrets, running headlong towards the day when he hits something he can't escape from, shoot, or wish away.
[ posted Friday, April 23, 2004 10:48:40 AM  |  permanent link to this item ]

The first issue of the new William Gravel saga, Warren Ellis' Strange Killings: Necromancer came out last week, so let's catch up with some finished, lettered preview art from this issue by Mike Wolfer. This issue is still on the stands or available to your local retailer for reorder, so be sure to ask your store for a copy. Issue 2 will be out in a few weeks.
[ posted Monday, March 29, 2004 1:22:24 PM  |  permanent link to this item ]

Our first cover from a May release shows up online today with this cover for Warren Ellis' Strange Killings: Necromancer #2, artwork by Mike Wolfer, color by Greg Waller. By the way, for a complete rundown on Strange Killings and the rest of the William Gravel saga, you can always point your browser to strangekillings.com.  And check back with us here over the coming weeks for more on our May '04 releases -- there are some very big surprises coming from Avatar in May.

Warren Ellis' STRANGE KILLINGS: Necromancer #2
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Mike Wolfer
Story: Warren Ellis
Art: Mike Wolfer
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 2 of 6

Ellis and Wolfer return for another brutal series featuring combat magician William Gravel!
For Sergeant Major William Gravel, another routine "K" duty begins to slip into the darkness of his most disturbing adventure yet. Arriving in the Philippines, Gravel's covert mission is simple: Assassinate a reporter investigating a renegade British scientist conducting illegal chemical weapons tests in the region. As the combat magician closes in on his target, his assignment becomes a bit more complicated with his discovery of the dismembered remnants of an S.A.S. squad... And an army of vicious, flesh-hungry zombies stalking the remote island paradise!
[ posted Monday, February 02, 2004 9:23:46 AM  |  permanent link to this item ]

Ellis and Wolfer kick off the coverage of the latest saga of combat magician and S.A.S operative William Gravel with this cover for Warren Ellis' Strange Killings: Necromancer #1, art by Wolfer, color by Greg Waller.  Necromancer is the 6th installment of the William Gravel saga, the first four arcs are currently in print in trade paperback form.  Check the Warren Ellis' Strange Killings section for complete information and artwork.
[ posted Thursday, January 22, 2004 7:00:29 PM  |  permanent link to this item ]

Combat Magician and S.A.S. operative William Gravel returns in April '04 for Warren Ellis' Strange Killings: Necromancer, and we've got a sneak peek in the form of this promo graphic by Strange Killings collaborator Mike Wolfer.

Ellis and Wolfer return for another brutal series featuring combat magician William Gravel! Something with the unholy hunger for human flesh lurks in the Philippine jungle, a horror whose global political ramifications could shake the British government to its very foundation. But eradicating its trail from England is not Sergeant Major William Gravel's assignment. Curiously, the S.A.S.'s top combat magician has been given the seemingly simple task of assassinating one investigative reporter. Before this dark mission's end, however, Gravel's morality as a man will be put to the ultimate test and thrust him into a fight for his life against an army of the undead and quite possibly his very own countrymen.

Warren Ellis' STRANGE KILLINGS: Necromancer #1
Retail Price: $3.50 US
Cover: Mike Wolfer
Story: Warren Ellis
Art: Mike Wolfer
Readership: Mature Readers
Format: B&W, 32 pages, monthly 1 of 6
[ posted Friday, January 09, 2004 11:05:40 PM  |  permanent link to this item ]