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,…
Mid-size publishers like Avatar, Dynamite and Aspen REALLY benefitted from a lack of Marvel and DC on the convention floor at Wizard World Philadelphia, with reports of insane levels of business and queues for the likes of Garth Ennis snaking around the show. WizardWorld and HeroesCon really shouldn’t schedule against each other. Nikki Clyne, Cally…
The Eagle Tribune reports the ground breaking news that the Hampstead Public Library in New Hampshire is readying itself to stack comics intended for adults on its shelves. The article explains that “they’re not comics. The books belong to a genre called graphic novels.” That’s a genre, folks! And it’s all thanks to one geek…
It’s become customary for movies to have video game tie-ins these days as an additional merchandising cash-in. SUPERMAN RETURNS, IRON MAN, INCREDIBLE HULK, TRANSFORMERS, UP, you name it, there will be a game. Usually, the games are boring and repetitive approximations of the superficial aspects of the movies that dooms them to bargain bins months…
Is that a slightly misleading title for a BleedingCool.com post? Well, yes but it was irresistable.And it’s not actually false, it’s just defined by context. Rogue Nation is a new novel set in 2014 dealing with the UK’s possible political future. And a Republican challengers, Todd McFarlane has beaten Obama after only one term in…
Fathers 4 Justice was a pressure group, that raised the issue of fathers being denied access to their children. And they did so by dreessing up in superhero costimes and chaining themselves to public monuments. And it worked. Not only did the mainstream press provide huge amounts of coverage, but courts did seem keener to…
Earlier today, Bleeding Cool was the first to point the finger at the unprecedended success enjoyed by the first issue John Layman and Rob Guillory’s Chew from Image Comics. When was the last time the first issue of a new series was hitting $50 on eBay two weeks later? Not with Bone, not with Ultimate…
Valerie D’Orazio has written a lot about comics and sex as part of Occasional Superheroine. But not really the kind of material one can, um, use on a journey to bring oneself to issue, as it were. More about abuse, threats, violence and internal injuries. Her boyfriend David Gallaher writes less about sex in High…
Steven Hoveke used to be the Operations Manager of Wizard Entertainment in 2007. He currently runs small publisher Square 1 Press who have published a Walt Simonson Convention Sketchbook and were debuting a Howard Chaykin Convention Sketchbook this weekend at the WizardWorld Philadelphia convention. Which they did on Friday, with Howard due to sign copies…
Chew #1, by John Layman and Rob Guillory, came out a couple of weeks ago. About a police detective who experiences psychic visions of everything he ingests (including the corpses of murder victims), it felt like one of those American TV cop shows about a detective with a special skill bordering on a super power…
I’ve just suggested to the good lady wife that was go for a weekend away in France for her birthday. She loved the idea. At some point I’m going to suggest that as well as walking up to Montmartre and driving through the rural countryside, we may pop down to south-west France to a little…
The image used to promote the Dark Reign: The List – X-Men at conventions this weekend has drawn some comments… while Namor’s left thigh disappears through perspective, he seems to have gained another thigh on his right leg. Obviously a remnant from an image with more than one character, it does look rather odd. Thankfully…
Over at the Marvel.com message boards, Marvel.com writer Kevin Mahadeo has posted the first official confirmation by Marvel of the Dark Reign: The List series that first seeped out from BleedingCool this morning. Kevin reports that the idea behind Norman Osborne creating a list of targets in the Marvel universe to deal with came from…
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…
