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,…
There must be something rather brave about listing a copy of a valuable silver age comic on eBay for one cent. I mean, you know that a copy of Amazing Spider-Man #2 will never actually go for the solitary coin, but there’s always the nagging possibility that it might. It does get attention however, and…
Let’s talk about the WATCHMEN movie, since nobody is anymore. And while we’re at it, let’s talk about the 20th CENTURY BOYS movie trilogy. Why? Because there might be something instructive to be learned here. It’s fitting that movies of both WATCHMEN and 20th CENTURY BOYS should come out in the same time period. Their…
Am I the only one who thinks that Alan Moore looks a bit like Ricky Gervais in The Office when he talks to camera? “I’m a friend first, magus second, probably a street magician third…”
House To Astonish podcast are very nice to BleedingCool. But some other sites have stories as well, youknow. The BBC looks at Yorkshire-based comic artists feeding the US market. While The Sun reports on Judge Dredd artist Ron Smith in court, accused of rape and assault. UPDATE: He has been found not guilty. Newsarama tells…
Sometime I want to take the New! Improved! Scans_Daily and kiss it on the forehead. Before working myself slowly downwards. They recently commented on the fuss caused by Wonder Woman killing ex-JLA leader Max Lord… And posted a rundown of every other death-at-the-hands-of-Wonder Woman they could find, as if to make a point. Here is…
Warren Ellis used to bemoan the grip the superhero comic book had on much of the commercial comic industry, comparing it to the hypothetical situation where 90% of all books sold in bookshops were nurse novels. Oh, there would be some works of genius there, plenty of new twists on the form, but they were…
Today, a court in Singapore sentenced the fifty year old Ong Kian Cheong and his forty-six year old wife, Dorothy Chan Hien Leng for distributing a series of eleven Jack Chick comics, described as “seditious or objectionable” to Muslims. Jack Chick comics, or “tracts” have a long established reputation for fundamentalist muscular Christian evangelism, against…
Absolution #0, the prologue issue to a new series by Christos Gage and Roberto Viacava is published in the US today by Avatar. Christos is a TV/film/comics writer with credits for Numb3rs, The Authority, Law And Order, Thunderbolts, Teenage Caveman and Union Jack amongst many others. About a superhuman self-justified serial killer, we’re talking Green…
Neil Gaiman, author of Sandman, Stardust, Coraline, that sort of thing, in the bath with partner and performer Amanda Palmer, excellent musician, videos here and there, talking about singing songs about abortion,the effects of Jonathan Ross breaking radio, audio awards, wetness and photography, interviewed by Sara Benincasa. Neil and Sara wearing clothes, Amanda, not so…
The events of 11th September 2001 have inspired a number of American comic books. Some aimed at raising money and awareness, others reflecting how that day affected so many, others finding plot twists, treating it as a part of the storytelling traditions of history and an graphic novel based on the official report. However, the…
Tomorrow, the biggest comic shop in the UK, Forbidden Planet on Shaftesbury Avenue, London, is having a signing with Jim Mahfood and Scott C, to celebrate their books Carl: The Cat That Makes Peanut Butter Sandwiches and Double Fine Action Comics Volume 1. They intend to spend the hours from 4pm to 7pm signing and…
I understand that on Sunday night, Wizard management called Scott Klein, company controller, to let him go. I understand they also let Darren Sanchez, VP of Production and Circulation, go in a similar fashion. This is part of a long series of redundancies at the publisher, that has led to fewer people doing the same…
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…
