I’ve not seen a lot of Avatar coverage around the interwebs this year. I suppose it makes sense; Avatar has their fair share of controversial content that usually applies to specific niche audiences, even more so than you average superhero joint. But this year, I’d say it’s rather impossible to ignore what Avatar brought with them to the con.
As covered by pretty much just that site owned by Avatar (surprise!), Avatar announced:
- An adaptation of George RR Martin’s “In the House of the Worm”
- Garth Ennis’ “Rover Red Charlie,” about 3 best friends who are dogs and trying to survive the apocalypse
- Facundo Percio’s “Caliban,” a sci-fi book done “Avatar Style”
- Kieron Gillen’s “Mercury Heat,” the long in development sci-fi cop book that Gillen has been mentioning for quite some time now
- Si Spurrier’s “Neurotrash”, another sci-fi book “about a future in which being young is considered disgusting”
- Justin Jordan’s “Red Shift”, about a bounty hunter in space with a loose definition of “dead or alive”
- the re-launch of “Gravel” by Mike Wolfer with input/approval by Warren Ellis for an 18-issue series
- Upcoming “Crossed” arcs featuring the return of Garth Ennis followed by an arc by Justin Jordan, with plans to take the series up to issue #120
- “God is Dead” becoming an ongoing after issue 6 with bi-weekly
Oh, and some unknown up and coming creator named Alan Moore bringing a new book to comics called “Providence” with collaborator Jacen Burrows which is apparently planned to be “as immersive an experience as possible.” The book is set for August 2014 and will be the full return of Alan Moore to monthly comics — not adaptations of old material or random “League” graphic novels, but just full-on monthly books. After his last book with Jacen, “Neonomicon,” featuring Moore’s meditation on Lovecraftian mythology and featuring quite a few uncomfortable moments, it should be very interesting to see what this new book is.
So a lot of sci-fi coming down the line and it looks like Avatar is going to make a very concentrated effort in bringing their line in a futurist direction. Plus: new Alan Moore.
