John Rozum recently talked about his problems as writer of Static Shock, citing that he was hardly writing the book, the actual work being split between artist Scott McDaniel and editor Harvey Richards, which is why he chose to walk off the book with issue 4, not wanting his name to be associated with work…
The Darkness #100 is on its way… And this is the first you’ll have seen of the Todd McFarlane (above), the Michael Golden (below) and the Marc Silvestri retailer incentive (further below). 48 pages for $4.99 US, it’s out the last day of February. But since the Darkness II game comes out today, it seems…
It was the recent ICV2 interview with Marvel Senior Vice President-Sales David Gabriel that did it. Answering a questionnaire with no followups, he managed to dodge some questions by answering different ones, and throw some googlies at the opposing team. But he’s hardly alone in this, DC’s Executive VP-Sales, Marketing and Business Development John Rood…
Pretty much as premiered last night at Sony’s The Untold Story special events, here’s the first full trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. This time there’s Lizard, there’s more back story and there’s a good sense of the “new” Peter Parker. I say “pretty much” because those of usat the events got to see it in…
BostonWatch: Front page of the Boston Herald, yesterday. BBCWatch: Scottish vampire comic gets a little interest… Mandragora Productions/Invictus Films, which also operate from Glasgow, have a film option on the comic book story. School of the Damned by John Farman, Jim Devlin and Dave Alexander is described as a horror and gothic romance. The story…
Before seeing the trailer, I’d been thinking that Bourne without Bourne would seem to be a risky proposition at best. But it’s a good cast, and they seem to be setting the right tone here, so as long as they can hurdle the somewhat unusual mainstream marketing challenge (“Yes it’s called Bourne, no, Bourne is…
Sacrifice #3 continues Sam Humphries’ one man attempt to show that Diamond Comic Distribution is unneccesary with his self-distribution model… the next issue is out in select stores on February 15th. With Dalton Rose still on art, naturally there are plenty of covers. The FIRST PRINTING cover by Dalton Rose, limited to 1,100 copies, THE…
Rick Shea of Famous Faces & Funnies in West Melbourne, Florida is interested in a new comic bok. Saga, from Image Comics, written by one Brian K Vaughan and drawn by one Fiona Staples. But he has some concerns about other retailers. He writes for Bleeding Cool; As we are getting our Previews numbers together,…
Here you go folks. The first few pages of Avengers Vs X-Men #1 by Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, Matt Fraction, Jonathan Hickman, Ed Brubaker and John Romita Jr. Considering how open Marvel used to be with who was President, I notice it’s a little more mysterious now…bit of a Bendis signature that. Maybe it…
UPDATE: It has been pointed out to me that Cuneo has not only left Marvel but has joined Valiant Entertainment. SOmeone should tell the conference who insist he is still CEO of Marvel. Peter Cuneo, CEO of Marvel Comics, Valiant Entertainment, will be speaking at the Customer Experience Leadership conference of high level company executives…..
Yesterday we looked at a couple of digital jobs as Marvel Comics. Well, it looks as if DC Comics is extending their employment into that area too… Time Warner, Inc. – Job details – DC Comics Production Designer The Production Designer will have frontline responsibility for the day-to-day implementation and execution of DC Entertainment’s brand…
‘Nuff said, true believer.
And with that, it ends. The Punisher, the MAX version of him at least, is dead. And the world moves on. Even as Nick Fury fights against it. This is a comic about endings. Solid, stone, unbreachable endings. But damn if Jason Aaron and Steve Dillon give us a new beginning at the end… and…
On the left is the cover to Fallen Angel Reborn #3 from IDW, by Nick Runge from 2009. On the right is Ruby Leigh Young from well before that. And she’s not happy. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies,…
I read a little concern from certain retailers over the Vertigo Preview 2012, out free in comic stores today, over the fact that the Fairest preview contained full frontal nudity, and they may not have expected that in a free giveaway. Goodness, I thought. And considered that it would be remiss of me not to…
USA Today reports that in today’s issue of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9 from Dark Horse Comics, Buffy shares her newly discovered status as a pregnant woman with her family and friends. She presumes that the vampire on-again-off-again lover Spike is the father, although there’s some plot-purposeful indecision about that. And hey, it may…
If you never got to ride the original Disneyland Star Wars attraction, Star Tours before it was ripped out and replaced, this is probably as good a simulation as you’ll be seeing any time soon. Because you’ll be taking the ride at home, everything has been recreated in CG, and not just the on-screen action….
There’s not yet been a trailer for The Tall Man, but here’s the first teaser, of sorts. You’ll not want to listen to the soundtrack, though…
My hunch is that Peter Jackson’s casting agent really likes British comedy. Indeed, I believe that Bill Bailey, Johnny Vegas and Alan Davies all auditioned for The Lord of the Rings, or The Hobbit or both, but none of them won a role. But the Big Yin did.
With pre-sales about to get rolling at the EFM in Berlin, Zentropa have issued an official blurb for Lars Von Trier‘s quasi-pornographic Nymphomaniac. It’s written as, more or less, a front line commercial for an unmade film, devised to draw in potential distributors. Here it is in full: Nymphomaniac is the light and poetic story…
Fox have announced the end of their tremendously successful “Sherlock Holmes in a hospital” drama, House MD. Mrs. C and myself just finished watching the Blu-rays of season seven over the weekend, and despite a few missteps here and there, thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing. Indeed, we could say much the same for the first…
Note: Already-revealed spoilers ahead, alongside new, and appealing info.
There’s only one way to get to the bottom of Ridley Scott rumours, and that’s to go to Ridley Scott.
The Burt Reynolds movie Heat was adapted by William Goldman from his own novel and, yeah, I’ve always been quite fond of it. Compared to The Princess Bride, Butch and Sundance, Marathon Man or All The President’s Men, it’s clearly not Goldman at his best, but it’s certainly not a terrible film, despite the troubled…
Linda Ge writes for Bleeding Cool. After the unexpected surprise success of Daniel Radcliffe horror flick The Woman in Black last weekend, it looks like the industry is suddenly keen to greenlight more horror projects that went unproduced before. Hammer, the genre arm of Exclusive Media and the studio behind The Woman in Black, are…
Coming over the next 24 hours, an awful lot of coverage of The Woman In Black, with a masterclass in creeping out the audience from Jane Goldman, James Watkins and Susan Hill; and a chat with Hammer CEO Simon Oakes about the company’s position in the horror market, their respect for the past and plans…
Another Wednesday, another set of MPAA ratings from the guys at CARA. This week, however, a real surprise nestled away near the bottom. Newly awarded a G rating is a new Disney submission, Paperman. The only information given is that it’s a “short subject.” Luckily, Google exists. What I managed to find so far are…
The Bourne Legacy has been directed by Tony Gilroy, the one man to have played a part in the writing of all three previous Bourne movies, and also the director of Michael Clayton and Duplicity, both of which I rater liked. This time, there’s no Jason Bourne, just his… er… Legacy. Let’s see what that…
