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…
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…
Recently, Bleeding Cool ran an article on how Marvel were looking to get certain creators out of their exclusive deals with Marvel, in an attempt to save money. And how Ariel Olivetti may have been a good example, locked into a two year excluisve deal with Marvel but suddenly appearing on the rejigged Men Of…
Toy News International ran these scans of images of DC toys and statues for 2012. But did they miss the headline story? Or is it a case of one side of DC not knowing what the other is doing? Because in May 2012, as part of the New 52 Cover Girls Of The DC Universe,…
Well, I think it’s official. Captain America #600 did not receive the kind of media coverage that the death of Captain America, the death of Batman or the unmasking of Spider-Man did. And there was no big casting announcement, Will Smith or otherwise. As a result, buying a stack of issues with the aim of…
INT. AMERICAN MILITARY BASE A gruff American colonel, probably someone we’ve seen in 24, shouts at an underling. GRUFF AMERICAN COLONEL Get me the Egyptian state defense. Tell them there’s a Michael Bay film on its way in, and to evacuate everyone, stat! UNDERLING Sir, they’ve only cleaned up from filming Iron Man. GRUFF AMERICAN…
A number of people received the following e-mail this morninmg from ex-Publisher of Marvel Comics, multi-millionaire and head of 360EP, Bill Jemas. He wrote: About You: If you are reading this, you have been receiving our PeacePaint newsletter and have not opted out of your subscription. Thank You. To stay in business, we need people…
A friend of mine runs the FryingPanFire blog, a news journalist reporting on stories that often get hidden in the current 24 hour news cycles. Yesterday I ran extracts from a piece on current Iranian unrest, including the work of one street cartoonist using the methods of Banksy to make political points. My friend has…
Last week, casaldi80 on the BleedingCool forums posted that he had a copy of the much sought after Captain America #600. Yesterday he posted a review. I call it a review, it’s more of a synopsis. It certainly gives away, well, everything, in terms of plot points. You want to read it? Go ahead, I’ve…
I love the French. Every last one of them. From the tip of their berets to the edge of their thin unrolled moustaches. Especially the women. Well, fresh from their “Clone Saga” scoop, Superpouvoir.com is running with the news that Phil Jimenez will take over from Bianchi Simone on the Warren Ellis-written Astonishing X-Men, and…
I write and draw editorial cartoons for UK political blogger Guido Fawkes. I feel terribly smug, satirical and pompous while doing so, striking a blow against the most corrupt of politics. Meanwhile people are fleeing for their lives for doing similar in Iran. A friend of mine reports the words of one such person in…
So what’s the big deal about Captain America #600? Tomorrow, a number of stores in the USA and Canada will open their doors to customers clamouring for copies of this much anticipated book. The newspapers will be brimming with stories about its contents. There will be long lines, heavy eBay activity, massive internet forum discussion……
In September, Marvel are launching the mini-series Spider-Man: The Clone Saga by Tom DeFalco, Howard Mackie and Todd Nauck. Once upon a time, in the seventies Spider-Man was cloned. They had a fight, they ended up on the same side, the clone died. Then, in an early attempt to rid Spider-Man of being a book…
One of my favourite meta-textual comics moments from the last five years was the Superboy Prime Punching reality scene in Infinite Crisis, as it was used as a reason to explain changes in comics’ second prints and eventual collections. Some were as a result of extra-editorial criticism of the origina finished books, some were seen…
Cerebus Archive is a serialised account of Dave Sim’s career as a cartoonist and comics creator. Issue #3, out later this week, contains three comics stories from the seventies, “The Necromancer,” “The Company Man,” and “Gravedigger’s Banquet” as well his rejection letters from Charlton Comics.
It would have had to be yesterday that Mark Waid sent a call across Twitter to block my account wouldn’t it? The day I also used Twitter to warn comic fans, publishers and professionals about a current scam artist operating, who has already taken people for many thousands. My relationship with Mark Waid has always…
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…
The above is a commission by Frank Miller, recreating the splash page from The Dark Knight, below, for one Felix Lu. Such a detailed commission from Miller, it would be quite a rarity these days and rather expensive. Albeit not quite as expensive as buying the original art, recently selling for almost half a million…
Here’s an orderly and dependable plot blurb for The Amazing Spider-Man, as issued by Sony and piling up across the net (and in my inbox) like wildfire right now. There may not be any bombshells in here, but the strands come together pretty clearly. You know – like a web. The Amazing Spider-Man is the…
The last time I remember reading a Legend Of Zelda comic was back in the nineties, from Valiant Comics before they decided to move into superheroes. There’s were also a few manga books tied into specific game releases but no US licenced comics for quite some time. This could change if Joe Madueira gets his…
He’s done gangbusters for DC Comics, taking C-list character Animal Man, whose return to the DC Universe from DC Vertigo had been lacklustre at best, and turned him into a surprise critical and commercial hit as part of the DC New 52. So it’s only natural that DC might tap him for any other bright…
I would assume that the success of The Lord of the Rings and the huge interest in The Hobbit, not to mention the extraordinary, eight-film success of the Harry Potter series, would encourage Warner Bros. to look seriously into all of their similar options, but the studio has not to move ahead with a long-developing…
