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,…
Yes, there is a Transformer in the new movie with testicles. Big swinging ones. And yes, thanks to militarised quick thinking John Tuturro, they become a plot point in the movie. But it’s not as like this is a major change for Transformers fans. Have they forgotten Heinrad so soon? Heinrad was one of the…
Retailers, if you’re thinking of increasing your orders of Chew #2 in light of unprecedented demand for such a low profile title, you’re out of luck. The series by John Layman and Rob Guillory for Image Comics sold out its first issue weeks ago, with issues going from $30 to $50 ($160 slabbed) and a…
Earlier this month I ran an exclusive preview of the screenplay for Paul, a currently-shooting film written by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, directed by Greg Mottola. Part of the movie takes place at San Diego Comic Con and there were high hopes that the production would film on location at Con, using the tens…
So, what reports have there been from comic shops in the field this week, dealing with the largest shipping week for over a decade, mostly down to Marvel shipping double their usual titles, and including many of their best selling X-Men and Dark Reign titles as they try and get a whack load of books…
One vaguely mainstream press notification of the publication of Detective Comics #854 and its notable relevance is in today’s Dallas Voice, a gay community newsletter, written by Arnold Wayne Jones, as part of a puff piece for a signing by Greg Rucka of the comic at Zeus Comics. And it uses “Zowie!” in the headline….
Co-writers of Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes and Dracula comics, Leah Moore and John Reppion are proud to announce that Leah is five months with child. Everyone is healthy, happy and hearty, and we wish the couple-about-to-become-a-triple the sincerest of Bleeding Cool well wishes. And as the Twittercongratulations descended upon the pair, what did John have…
A comics scamp not involving Josh Hoopes? It feels wrong, doesn’t it? Right now a man calling himself JP Silva is working his way through the comic store phone book. He calls store owners purporting to be a producer working on a series called Myths, Legends, & Supermen, to be hosted by Hugh Downs and…
At a Ben And Jerry’s concession stand, in the corner of London’s Leicester Square sat Rich Johnston and SlashFilm’s Brendon Connelly. With a laptop. And an unreliable microphone. What would happen next? Could this be the first in a series of Bleeding Cool podcast things? Yes, yes it could. Talking about embargos, of all things….
Rick Marshall of Splashpage MTV has just reminded me of that plan for Michael Jackson to buy Marvel Comics, himself a long term comic book fan, as part of a bold coup with Stan Lee Media with Stan Lee and Peter Paul on board. Just imagine… Joe Quesada: ..and then, after all that, Mephisto makes…
A few minutes ago, I Twinterviewed Rantz Hoseley, the inventor of Longbox. Set to transform the way we read comics, with deals with all sorts of publishers, could this be the beginning of universal, multi-format, user-friendly, iTunes style digital comics? And what effect could this have on our industry? Was he a devil or an…
How hard can it be go sell “Lesbian Batman” to the mass media? A few years ago, I broke the story that the new Batwoman in the DC Comics line of Batman comics was going to be the sixties Batwoman character Kathy Kane. And that in this new incarnation, she was going to be a…
Frank Quitely’s cover for All Star Superman #1. Darick Robertson’s cover for The Boys #34, already in trouble at Diamond. A nice “swipe” here, clearly a homage to the original, taking the squeaky clean benevolent uberman image of Superman and reinterpreting him as… well, a racist, genocidal bastard. Yeah, you know DC could never have…
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…
