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,…
A momentous day! Because in America at just after half past noon, it will be 12.34 and 56 second on the 7/8 2009. Or, 123456789. Today is also the day in America that DC ship the first of their new weekly oversized title Wednesday Comics. Could well be one of the greatest superhero titles this…
As predicted, Wednesday Comics hits the headlines as the New York Daily News splashed on the new oversized weekly series from DC Comics, quoting Dan DiDio as saying “It’s either old-fashioned or it’s cutting edge, or it’s a little bit of both” USA Today features the Superman story from Wednesday Comics by John Arcudi and…
The fanzine-styled anthology Headpress #27 from Headpress.com was published eighteen months ago. In among reports on Spanish festivals, cinematic Manchester punk, the story of Long Jeanne Silver and the All About Loud comic, was a longform frank interview from Jerry Glover with Alan Moore about Lost Girls, pornography, relationships, drugs, physics, astrophysics, the nature of…
Marvel’s talent scout and Image comic creator CB Cebulski has a certain way with Twitter. A frankness, a directness, yet no one can’t hate the bugger. Here’s what he had to say late last night, reposted with permission. In our quest for the “next big comic creator”, I think we elevate some artists too quickly,…
Richard Stark’s Parker is the kind of anti-hero that America isn’t meant to create anymore, let alone enjoy. A cold hearted killer with the will to do the kind of things that most flinch at. A less social, more driven version of Dexter, without the morals, his sex drive mixed up with a violent streak…
Shipping tomorrow from Avatar Press is the next issue of Warren Ellis and Juan Jose Ryp’s series, No Hero. The solicitation reads; The penultimate issue brings the world of The Front Line crashing down around them. Things are falling apart for Carrick Masterson and the Front Line, under attack on all sides. And in the…
Gutsville is an Image comic by Si Spurrier and Frazer Irving about a religious 18th century world within the belly of an unknown beast. The Book of Job crossed with Luddites and a community that survives. But it’s been on hiatus for quite a while. Writer Si Spurrier offered to explain, live, on Twitter. Bleeding…
006 Stan Lee started out writing full scripts. He was writing full scripts at the commencement of Marvel Comics. He discovered that, such was the imaginative power of his collaborators, he could get a comic much more to his liking, without anything like the workload of full script, by holding story sessions with the artists. …
It seems that red haired lesbian Batwomen drawn by JH Williams III in tight leather are rather popular. Who’d have thought? Detective Comics #854, starting the rather-fantastic-and-frankly-undismissable-over-such-trivial-aspects Batwoman series by Rucka and Williams has sold out but is still in demand. So DC Comics have cranked up the printing machine in the basement and are…
Is he The Riddler in the next Batman movie? Chameleon in Spider-Man 5? No, David Tennant is playing the villainous Pomfrey in the new St Trinians 2 movie, which started filming today. St Trinians was a series of cartoons created by Ronald Searle who also illustrated the Molesworth cartoons. They portrayed a British girls private…
From the current online Previews, in Diamond’s list of variant cover editions from various publishers, there’s a peculiar listing for one certain best-selling comic book Flash: Rebirth… excepot who is publishing it again? How long before it gets amended? Let’s start the countdown. Tick, tick, tick…
Age: Height 6′ 1”. Weight: 220 lbs. BMI: More to LOVE. The Year is 1984, Big Brother is here and watching. Watching over this crescent, with it’s two tall spruce trees, wrapped by large ominous ferns. The surrounding suburban houses are a breeding ground for social decay and villainy. Meadow Crescent had become my Battleground,…
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…
