We’ve just had Manhattan Projects from Image, the latest in a run of fantasy science comics (and yes, I have my own somewhere in the pipeline). In August we get the next one, from Top Cow’s Matt Hawkins and Rahsan Ekedal, Think Tank. And it’s hard not get the original Manhattan Project fear from this…
Bleeding Cool has been banging on a bit about DC Comics giving their New 52 all zero issues in September, returning to regular numbering in October, to commemorate the one year anniversary of the reboot. DC have not released all their August shipping details. To back up our thesis, we could do with a lot…
It may have been Free Comic Book Day a weekend ago. But that doesn’t mean everything was left to undulate in the breeze. Take this scene from the Marvel FCBD Ultron War #0.1. An exact reprint of Avengers #12.1 yes? Well, not exactly. Here’s the original. Looks like there was a little creative colouring going…
In September, DC Comics publishes zero issues of the New 52, to celebrate the year anniversary of the revamp. Some books however, it seems, may not make it that far. Justice League International #12 will be the last issue of the series. An interesting decision as it outsells the like of Suicide Squad, Superboy, Birds…
If there is a Big Bad of the Justice League, comprising Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Flash, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Cyborg, then you can be sure he’s going to be the Big Bad of pretty much everyone. And Geoff Johns has been seeding him for a few issues now. In issue 3 of Justice League,…
Now there will be some spoilers in this piece, I’ll try to avoid all the big ones, but you are going to find out who wins between Gambit and Captain America, there’s no getting around it. Sorry. So, anyway, a lot of this week’s Avengers Vs X-Men comics could just have squee written all over…
At the Kapow comic convention this weekend, an new anthology comic is launching called Overload, with a lead strip by Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby and Eoin Coveney, with a zombie critique of modern Coalition Britain. So who better to lead the New Undead than Margaret Thatcher? She shut the coal mines, privatised every major public…
Shipping from Dynamite today… Ninjettes and Army Of Darkness extended previews, with the rest following on behind… Open publication – Free publishing – More bleedingcool ARMY OF DARKNESS VOL. 3 #4 32 pages FC • $3.99 • Teen + Written by ELLIOTT R. SERRANO Art by MARAT MYCHAELS Cover by TIM SEELEY It’s a rumble…
FedWatch: When the FBI went after stolen Joe Simon artwork. Towards the end even Joe Simon clearly had enough cause to believe that his own daughter might have been the culprit as he admitted as much to the F.B.I, but this might have been an admission of a man who wasn’t up to facing yet…
This is a pretty good idea, and a lot of people on the internet seem to agree today: One of the highlights is the Awesome Inking Panel in which various comic professionals at the show are provided with penciled art copied on blue line paper, and asked to ink the penciled image in their style,…
Take the cover of tomorrow’s Avengers Vs X-Men #4… and it triggers a new motion comic summing up the story so far. And jiggling Hope around quite a bit.
Aaron Haarfeld of A Comic Shop in Florida writes; SAGA #3 was the best third issue ever printed! OMG! I’m offering money back on all 3 issues of SAGA at A Comic Shop! It doesn’t matter if you don’t like sci-fi or fantasy, this story and the characters are totally unique and foreign while being…
Dr Manolis Vamvounis writes for Bleeding Cool. Last week in comics: WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN #10 alone makes up for everything that’s sucked in AVX so far. The major mutant players come together at the Jean Grey school and actually behave like the characters we know for a change. Cyclops and Wolvie have an insightful…
Here are a bunch of Dynamite’s solicitations for August 2012. Plenty of Boys, Game Of Thrones, Shadow and Green Hornet… but it looks like you’ll have to wait for your Flashes, Mings, Spiders and Sonjas. THE BOYS #69 32 pages FC • $3.99 • Mature Written by GARTH ENNIS Art by RUSS BRAUN Covers by DARICK…
Brian Pulido continues to unlock the dark corridors of Lady Death’s past in Lady Death Origins: Cursed #2, hitting stores tomorrow. Bridging the gap between Avatar’s previous take on the cult favorite character and the ongoing Boundless Comics series launched in 2010, the Cursed story arc reveals the ivory heroine’s final confrontation with Sagos… the…
And we’re back! Hello everyone, it’s your friendly neighborhood comic-book writer with yet another “commentary track” for my latest issue of Army of Darkness. Sorry you all got this one late, but I thought I had this one written and it turns out that the Necronomicon ate my previous draft. J So let’s jump in!:…
Tomorrow we get the fourth issue of Thief Of Thieves, the new Robert Kirkman/Nick Spencer comic from Image Comcis that’s already been picked up for a TV series from AMC. Shops just can’t keep this comic in stock, and the usual reduction of orders for subsequent issues from retailers hasn’t been matched by lessening demand – quite…
The Avengers 2012 is a huge hit, but not all comic book readers are happy about that. Host Grace Randolph takes a look at the online hate for The Avengers 2012, largely coming from fans of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming The Dark Knight Rises. Can’t Marvel and DC Comics fans get along? Isn’t The Avengers 2012…
Heritage Auctions is selling the original art to the cover of Spider-Man #1 by Todd McFarlane, on behalf of its owner Martin Shamus, father of Wizard Magazine‘s Gareb and Steven Shamus. The cover of Wizard #1 was famously based on this cover. It’s iconic and probably bsums up nineties comics better than any other….
Dr. Elizabeth Shaw undergoes some testing by Weyland Corp. while she pitches her case for the Prometheus mission to the stars. Lots of good ideas there.
No Ashton Kutchers allowed. Sony are (now officially) having Aaron Sorkin write the screenplay for Steve Jobs, an adaptation of Walter Isaacson‘s hugely best-selling biopic of the Apple magnate. There’s no more information – no clue on who will star, or who will direct. I’ll take some shots in the dark, though. Sorkin himself is…
Almost nothing. The year the film is coming out. The year of this poster’s copyright. The lack of a 2 in the title, despite what I already said. The subtitle. That some people wear the same shoes and trousers quite a lot. That there’s no space for Christina Applegate – not even her feet. Incidentally,…
The big new idea in Blu-ray special features is that of “the second screen experience,” something that you’ll run on your phone or tablet in sync with the movie playing on your TV screen. This week, Warner Bros. have released Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows on disc, and the iPad extra through the app…
If ever it was worth going to a university purely for the speech at your commencement ceremony, that learning establishment would be Syracuse University and the man giving the speech would be Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin. This was intended for students who graduated from the university on Sunday 13th May, but anyone with two ears…
Sometimes, I see footage from The Amazing Spider-Man that encourages me greatly. Then, I see more than leaves my scepticism rising. There’s a little of both in this new featurette, but only on a very small scale. The conversation with director Marc Webb is interesting enough, though. It gives away something of his attitude, even…
One of the best movies of “last year” is getting longer, hopefully better.
The Duplass brothers write brothers well. Maybe that’s one of the benefits of forming a family filmmaking duo. Last weekend I went to see Jay and Mark Duplass’ Jeff, Who Lives At Home, having been a fan of the Duplasses’ work ever since seeing This Is John, the short that made their name, during a…
Screenwriter Scott Z. Burns has amassed a strong body of work, but Contagion may well be the best of his films to date. It will certainly be the most frequently evoked when discussing his new gig, rewriting the sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes. There’s already been a draft or two of…
In my Avengefuls comic for Boom!, I had President Obama shooting Osama Bin Hulk in the head with the line “guns don’t kill terrorists, Presidents kill terrorists.” It felt right. We know President Obama used to read comics. Even when he was all grown up. Appearing on The View, he was asked about Kardashians, Fifty…
These new stills from Brian De Palma‘s Passion only seem to confirm what we suspected when the first image arrived online: this is probably not a film you should sit down to watch with your elderly grandmother. No, not even if you have Orange Wednesdays and you can get her in for free. For those…
Stephane Aubier and Vincent Patar were the creators of oddball stop-motion misadventure A Town Called Panic, one of the most beloved cult toons of recent years. It was the one with the toy horse and “Indian” going to war with the underwater people. You most definitely know it if you’ve seen it. Their next feature,…
There are some films out there being made for less than the Transformers catering budget. And some of them are pretty interesting. One such is Fare, a new thriller being made by director PJ Harling.
Can’t quite work out the motivation here. But a customer of the Regal Cinema in Abingdon, Baltimore, was rather annoyed to discover that the showing of The Avengers that he’d paid to see had captions. He remonstrated with cinema staff who offered him a refund or replacement tickets. He refused both and returned to his…
