Well I must have done something right. Cryptozoic sent me the Locke & Key card game today. And I opened it. And filmed myself doing it too. Welcome to the new Locke & Key unboxing event…
Why The Hell Isn’t There A My Little Pony Comic Book?
Aaron and Mike of A Comic Show want to help fix what’s wrong with the comics industry, they swear they’ll start a regular bombastic op/ed column here on Bleeding Cool. But first, they feel they must follow their hearts (hooves), and use their connections to get a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic comic made!…
Jim Lee’s Hidden Tribute To Carla
Awwwww… Jim Lee finished the most recent issue of Justice League #5 just before his new child was born, and while his wife Carla was rather heavily pregnant. He’s written that the new arrival held out until he’d finished his deadline, which was appreciated by all, I’m sure. But what tribute could Jim Lee make…
The First Page Of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Revealed At Angoulême
We know from the publicity that DC Vertigo are publishing graphic novel adaptaions of the Millenium Trilogy, with Denise Mina and Leonardo Manco adapting the first book The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo into two parts. And in April they’ll be publishing a free teaser of the first graphic novel. But Bleeding Cool (alone it…
Comics
Molly Crabapple’s Sex In The Comix To Preview At Angoulême
The French documentary Sex In The Comix presented by Molly Crapabble will preview tonight at 8pm at Angoulême, the largest comic convention in the world, before airing on French TV on Saturday at 10.30pm and 10pm in Germany. As you can see it involves everyone from Robert Crumb to Milo Manara to Aude Picault to…
Marvel Editor Records Deadpool The Musical
It looks like it’s back up. Deadpool editor Jordan D White’s recording of Daniel Way’s lyrics from Deadpool #49.1 by way of a few popular modern tunes and beats. Jordan writes “On the track, I play the ukulele, bass guitar, mini-bongos, egg shaker, and do all the vocals. The last section features a special guest…
Avengelyne And Skullkickers Give It Away For Free
Last year, there was a kind of proto-Extreme relaunch with Mark Poulton and Owen Gieni recreating the Rob Liefeld character Avengelyne for Image Comics. Well, inspired by Jim Zubavich‘s free online serialised experiment with Makeshift Miracle, Owen Gieni worked out a deal with Rob Liefeld to serialize issues of Avengelyne daily via Keenspot, while pointing…
Preview: Free Comic Book Day 2012
It’s getting closer and closer to Free Comic Book Day … in that there’s only three and a bit months to go. But it’s a lot closer to the point when retailers hand in their orders to take part in the annual promotion that sees stores give out hundreds of free comics to their customers…
Digital Delights – Graphicly Potential, iBook Practice, Pearls Possibilities
BeDamnedDelight: Graphic.Ly introduces a Rosetta Stone for digital comics publishign. Basically, if you are an author of visual stories, such as children’s books, graphic novels, art books, picture books, shoot even cookbooks or yearbooks, you can now come to Graphicly, upload it, and then have it automagically converted to work on (almost) every single channel…
Will You Sign The Petition For Rob Granito To Come Back To Comic Cons?
So this petition recently went up on iPetitions. Rob Granito, a hard working artist and family man, made some unwitting mistakes doing tribute art and was buried in the comics tabloid media. Rob admits to his mistakes, and wants a chances to make amends and return to the industry he loves so much: the world…
What Price Stan Lee’s Signature? (VIDEO)
Next month sees the London Super Comic Convention, a new comic con focusing solely on the comics medium, being held at the London ExCel Centre, the same venue that hosts the twice-yearly MCM London Expo. Of course, what the London Super Comic Convention has, is Stan Lee, making his first signing appearance in the UK for decades….
Friday Runaround – Robins, Kramers, Pilgrims
GoshWatch: A few of the things Gosh Comics in London is up to in the next few months… Eddie Campbell next Friday, Kramers Ergot the week after and a couple of book launches… TweetWatch: “A lot of people have been asking about upcoming DC projects. All I can say is that my next project will…
Thursday Trending Topics: Toy Spoilers
A new source of spoiler info has steadily emerged in recent years, and I doubt it’s going to change anytime soon. Licensees have to have a lot of advance info — and they have to file patents, market to major buyers, and prepare marketing materials well in advance of the events they’re tying into. Most-Read Comic…
And Finally… The Incredi-Barack Hulk
Well someone liked the State Of The Union address. From Ron English’s Popoganda.
Retailer Draws His Own Variant Cover For Adventure Time #1
A number of comics have run retailer variant covers, exclusive to one retailer who orders a whole bunch. It can be a fun promotional exercise, it raises publicity for the retailer, it guarantees hundreds more sales for the publisher, it can be a real win win. It can however be on the expensive side. But…
Swipe File: Zuda And Oni Press
One is the abandoned logo of an abandoned digotal comics line from DC. The other is the brand spanking new logo from Oni Press. Note the sharp libe of the speech balloon, the face focus, the website… if only Zuda had included a pun in the logo as well…? Too much of a reach?…
TV/Film
Drive Director Turned Down for Doctor Who Gig, But Nicolas Winding Refn Has Yet To Make His Mind Up About Drive Sequel
Nicolas Winding Refn has been riding a groundswell of rave reviews and fanboy adoration in the wake of of Drive, but not everything has gone perfectly.
Hope Springs Eternal For Captain Marvel And The Shazam! Movie
I would probably put the jigsaw puzzle together incorrectly, but here are the pieces I remember. There was going to be a Captain Marvel movie, called Shazam! John August took a pass at the script. Then Bill Birch came on to have a try, with the help of Geoff Johns. Jake Gyllenhaal was rumoured for…
Ferris Bueller Off To The Superbowl As Matthew Broderick Reprises Iconic Slacker
Linda Ge writes for Bleeding Cool. Bueller? Bueller? Looks like economics class is going to have to wait a little while longer, as Matthew Broderick is taking another day off to go to the Superbowl. The mysterious video below, uncovered by The Wrap and titled only Coming Soon, teases a commercial that’s set to air…
The Future Of Horror Movies – Afterwards They Will Explode by Patrick Willems
I think Patrick Willems has excelled himself with his second Afterwards They Will Explode video this week for Bleeding Cool. Man, I want this, I want this now. You may disagree, but if you do, you’re wrong. I can prove it with graphs.
Go Swimming With Spider-Man And The Lizard
Is this our best, full-body look at The Lizard so far? You betcha. He’s still plastic, but he’s standing proud. Seems that Doctor Connor’s lizardification process swaps out one tail for another, know-what-I-mean-alright-am-I-right? Thanks to Little Bleeder Tom who dropped me an e-mail, saying: I’ve been following the slow reveal of the Amazing Spider-Man’s Lizard…
A Monty Python Reunion Set For Terry Jones’ Sci-Fi Comedy, Absolutely Anything
Terry Jones‘ writing partner of late has been Gavin Scott. Together, they’re the chief writers behind the promised new Terry Pratchett TV shows, one of which should be an adaptation of Good Omens, the other of would be something like a crime-of-the-week show set on Discworld – CSI: Ankh Morpork, as it were. Another of…
New Sherlock Viral? Or Something Geekier?
Below you’ll see a photo of a poster, hanging on a bus shelter. It was taken by Little Bleeder Ian, who wondered: I don’t know if this is genuine viral marketing or just a bunch of students. You can see a #believeinsherlock hashtag on the bottom right hand corner. I went to Twitter and searched…
New Animated Avengers Poster Is Sort Of Animated, Sort Of 3D, Definitely Wiggly
This is an online replica of an actual poster you can buy. Of course, it would only look like this if you swang left and right a bit while looking at it. Lenticular posters never really caught on in cinemas, while still selling fairly well as collectables, I’m told. Another example of how “the core”…
Sh*t Daleks Say
See the popular meme get Exterminated by everybody’s favourite pepperpot plungerheads.
The Wolfpack Gets Huge Pay Raise to Return For The Hangover 3
Linda Ge writes for Bleeding Cool. Of course there’s going to be another sequel to The Hangover, and of course Warner Bros will do whatever it takes to get the trio of Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis to come back and reprise their roles as amnesiac groomsmen, The Wolfpack. THR reports that the…
Casting Breakdown For The Green Arrow Show Reveals Black Canary And More Will Appear
Reading this casting breakdown for Arrow, the new CW pilot for a TV vehicle for the Green Arrow comic book character, I realised I didn’t really know who any of them are. None of the names were familiar at all. So I asked Rich, and he spotted the alias in the mix. Here she is:…
Ong Bak Video Game Coming, Apparently Based On A Yet-To-Be-Announced Sequel
I’ll never be able to pull off Muay Thai moves in real life but… actually, who am I kidding? I probably won’t be able to pull them off properly in a video game either, at least not in anything like a flowing sequence. Still, I think that an Ong Bak game could be rather exciting,…
