#avatar press

[bad-comic-art]

Yes, the anatomy on that woman is horrible, but I also can't stop staring of the silhouette of that monster guy's balls

Faust: Singha's Talons #3, by David Quinn, 2014

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submitted by @lizardtakesflight

#faust #avatar #avatar press #comics #comic books

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

#crossed #garth ennis #avatar press #horror #horror comic #horror comics #body horror #indie comic #indie comics #poll

[towritecomicsonherarms]

Uber #18

#uber #kieron gillen #oppenheimer #comics #avatar press #daniel gete

[thebuhonerodazorrow]

Lady Death

Leather and lace

2005 Avatar Press

#lady death #comics #avatar press #Leather and lace #Brian pulido #mark seifert #William christensen #di amorim #Andrew Dalhouse #Joao Paulo

[stainlesssteellocust]

If Richard Upton Pickman was around today he’d get hired by Avatar Press

#if you know you know #Cthulhu mythos #h p lovecraft #richard upton pickman #pickmans model #avatar press

[dynamobooks]

Warren Ellis & Garrie Gastonny: Supergod (2011)

#warren ellis #garrie gastonny #avatar press #comics #gods #krishna #steve austin #morrigan #lugus #maitreya #perun #dajjal #arms race #superhuman

[eye-review]

32) Gravel issue 6

#Read #Comic #Action #Horror #Gravel #Warren Ellis #Mike Wolfer #Oscar Jimenez #Avatar Press

[bad-comic-art]

30 year old baby from Crossed: Family Values (2010)

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submitted by @strawberryking​

#crossed #avatar press #comics #comic books

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

#god is dead #jonathan hickman #mike costa #avatar press #indie #indie comic #indie comics #poll

[towritecomicsonherarms]

Uber Invasion #4

#uber invasion #kieron gillen #daniel gete #comics #avatar press

[navarrocabrera]

'God is dead' (2014) coloring

Guión / Script: Alan MooreDibujo / Drawing: Facundo PercioTintas / Inks: Sebastián CabrolColor: Hernán Cabrera

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#alan moore #avatar press #color #facundo percio #god is dead #hernan cabrera #sebastian cabrol #Work

[cryptocollectibles]

Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths #1 (September 2003) by Avatar Press

Written by Alan Moore, drawn by Bryan Talbot and Juan Jose Ryp. 

#Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths #Alan Moore #Bryan Talbot #Juan Jose Ryp #Avatar Press #2003 #Comic Books #Comics #Etsy #Warrior Magazine #Yuggoth Cultures #Vintage Comics #Nightjar

[thingsthatmademe]

Taking the Scraps

Content warning for transphobia, old words we used, and violence/murder.

Frank Ironwine was part of a four-issue comic book series from Avatar Press entitled Apparat Singles Group and ran from November through December of 2004. Avatar was, and is, an independent publisher that appeared to have relationships with several authors who'd made their names at DC and Marvel and they published works with a much darker tone and subject matter -- sometimes in an artful way, sometimes in an exploitative way.

Apparat's bit is that each issue is a single episode in a nominal imaginary series. They're genre exercises -- detective story, science fiction story, pulp vigilante, etc. The series was written by the now notorious Warren Ellis. Ellis will probably come up again -- a large impetus for my original, pre-transition, vision of this website was my desire to reevaluate my relationship with Ellis's work and career where its energy intersected with my own. I say energy because I have zero connection to the actual players in that situation (but generally hope that everyone gets the closure and justice they need and deserve).

The artist on the book is the fabulous Carla Speed McNeil whose long-running aboriginal science fiction series Finder will almost certainly come up again.

Plot Synopsis: Frank Ironwine is a detective in the model of Sherlock Holes or Gregory House -- an eccentric, rude, hyper-observant genius detective who knows all and solves all. We meet Frank on the day his new partner, Karen De Grout, is fishing him out of a dumpster. They set off to solve today's murder.

The case? Gary Eigler's been found dead in his apartment. The first suspect, Alison (his wife), is quickly ruled out as she was shot two hours ago by a woman named Janie Guthrie. Through a compassionate interrogation, Frank determines that Janie believed her husband, Phil, was having an affair with Janie. She confesses to taking one of her husband's guns with the intention of using it to scare Janie off and that the confrontation got emotional, the gun accidentally went off, and Janie was dead. Janie says nothing of Gary, and Frank's partner Karen is frustrated by what seems to be Frank's credulousness.

Frank continues his scolding and belittling of his partner as they travel to Phil's residence, giving her New York City history lessons along the way. They arrive at Phil's apartment and inform him of what his wife's done. Then Frank proceeds to, via a recounting of his keen observations and transphobic conjecture, let Phil know he knows that Phil is trans and killed his secret boyfriend Gary when Gary wouldn't leave his wife. Frank's taunts eventually lead Phil to pull a gun, narrowly miss both cops at point-blank range, and then flee down the fire escape. Just as Phil leaves the alley Frank punches them in their face, arrests them, and has a quip for his exhausted partner who chased Phil down the escape.

So -- a grim detective story dripping with negative tropes and transphobia. We have both the trans woman as the murderer and, thanks to this history lesson from Frank, the trans woman as the murder victim.

We also have Frank's odd double standard -- Jane's reckless manslaughter of Janie is met with compassion. Phil's reckless killing of Gary is treated with cruelty and violence. Then the standard Ellis trope of the rude super genius who knows all and expects his female partners to keep up with the verbal abuse he dishes out constantly.

So pretty shitty by 2023 eyes -- but what's really messed up is in 2004 this could feel like representation.

First, there's the mention of a murdered trans woman -- Amanda Milan. As a story device this serves to clue us in that Frank Knows Things™ about the city and its history, knows about trans people, and lets the observant reader get to the conclusion before Karen does.

Amanda Milan was a real woman. Murdered in New York City in 2000 by two men, Dwayne McCuller and Eugene Celestine who were abated by a third, David Anderson. Her death was noticed because it happened right before pride in New York City, and trans activists made it their business to make sure the world knew about this murder. The primary antagonist, Dwayne McCuller, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 17 and a half years -- which means he's free today, (assuming the broken carceral system didn't grind him to dust).

The mention of this detail from Frank and his framing of it -- mostly because she was a transexual and she didn't give a shit what anyone thought about it -- can be read as sympathetic. This then-four-year-old bit of grim trans history promoted in a straight and cis space like Avatar comics could make the work (with a dollop of compartmentalizing) feel friendly and sympathetic to trans women.

You could even, if you had the self-reliance brain worms that so many of us in gen-x had, view Amanda's death as noble and tragic because she was out and Phil as ignoble because they were closeted and letting their feeling for one man screw up their life.

With a little extra compartmentalization, you could read the work and think "Oh -- people are trying to be trans out there".

It's very telling to me that I remembered this comic as Frank solving the murder of a trans woman and not discovering that a trans woman was the murderer and menacing them until they snapped. When there's so little representation of people who look like you you tend to take whatever scraps you get and construct a patchwork identity for yourself.

#trans #transfem #content warning #comics #avatar press

[eschergirls]

There's something about this cover that just feels like it absolutely needs to be a caption contest because I can think of way too many funny ways to contextualize what exactly is going on.

So let's have one!  Caption this cover, what do you think is going on, or what do you think they're saying or thinking?  Be creative!  Be funny!

You can submit your captions here using reblog or comments, or on the main site in the Disqus comments or by email (at [email protected]).

The contest will run for 2 weeks and then I'll pick the winners!

Good luck everybody!

(Cover of 10th Muse/Demonslayer #1/2 Special, Avatar Press)

Originally posted at EscherGirls.com

#10th muse #Demonslayer #comics #comic books #superheroes #Avatar press #promotional material #WTF clothing #odd poses #attack of the clones #caption contest

[awkwardarmadildo]

sorry to all the kataang shippers (edit: N O T D I R E C T E D A T K A T A A N G S H I P P E R S T H I S I S A G R I E V A N C E W I T H T H E W R I T E R S) out there but kataang genuinely skeeves me out like

hes 12. shes 14. thats so weird to me. thats so Gross to me. thats a sixth grader, a kid brand new to middle school or even still in elementary school depending on location/school district, and a freshman in highschool.

and dont even say uM aCtUaLly HeS oNe HuNdReD aNd TwElVe i do not give the faintest fuck. he has the experience, mentality, physicality, all that shit, of a twelve year old. hes twelve. thats weird, thats gross, i dint like it

no judgment to kataang shippers though (edit: some of) yall seem neato

(edit: i was 14 freshman year, i was 12 in sixth grade, im not pulling numbers and grades from my ass this is just my actual experience)

#avatar the last airbender #atla #katara #aang #avatar aang #atla aang #i feel bad saying this #but like #what the shit #ive always been skeeved out by this #even when i first watched it #it was always like #huh #huh? #huh??? #HUH??? #anti kataang #i guess? #since yall were pressed #was tagged as kataang #was tagged as aang x katara #¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Uber Invasion #3

#uber #uber invasion #kieron gillen #avatar press #comics