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,…
Fifteen years ago I began self publishing comics with LA-based Mike Meyer as Twist And Shout Comics. We actually made money and it got me to my first San Diego Comic Con where I met Mike for the first time. Fifteen years later, he’s a digital animation programmer and has a keen interest in the…
So I’m walking past the Radical Publishing booth and I’m grabbed by Barry Levine. You don’t say no to Barry, especially when he wants to talk about his comics. And so I sat down for a chat with Barry and Jesse Berger. But mostly Barry. Radical publish a number of lush comic book projects from…
It’s true. Being lifted to my feet in the corridor to my hotel room was not my finest hour. And to be fair, I didn’t so much pass out as think the carpet looked comfy and wouldn’t it be nice to lie down on it, just for a second… But it had been a heavy…
It’s another one of those missing signposts of comics. Knights of Pendragon by Dan Abnett, John Tomlinson, and Gary Erskine created the Marvel UK line of books, fairly accidentally. Ostensibly an enviromentally aware action adventure, it took the minor cast from Captain Britain books, expanded upon them and created a remarkable horrific supernatural adventure, with coloured…
I understand from close sources that the San Diego Conference Center has been told by the San Diego Comic Con organisers that they must significantly increase the size of the building and available facilities by 2011, or Comic Con International will move locations…. There has been much rumour concerning the move of the convention and…
Daleks, Seth Cheerleaders with prominent Adam’s apples, and Image United art, as its being inked. The kind of stuff you bump into when you walk around Con.
As I teased yesterday, Marvel are to publish the Marvelman comic book. It’s been an up-to-the-wire deal, but Marvel have signed a contract with Emotiv, who are representing Marvelman creator Mick Anglo and will reprint the silver age comics published during the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties. Naturally there are questions about the more recent-ish…
During the Book Of Eli panel at San Diego, an audience member threw in a question to Gary Oldman and Denzel Washington. “When will the next Batman movie come out?” No one thought he’d get an answer he did. Gary cooly replied “We start filming next year”. Denzel stayed schtum. So I guess the answer…
Currently unnanounced, I understand that David Hine and Shaky Kane have an Image comic in the works. While many US readers are familiar with Hine’s work for Marvel, Shaky Kane may be less familiar. Working for the likes of Deadline, Judge Dredd and Escape, Shaky Kane took the style and imagery of Jack Kirby and…
The Wall Street Journal kicked off the Comics! As! Movies! dialogue that possessed the show yesterday. The floor was much less busy as Ballroom 20, and Hall H especially, took the brunt with enormous eye watering queues, including the legendary Twilight panel. As a result, for much of the day, where there weren’t queues for limited edition…
He’s just flown into Los Angeles with David Tennant, then whooshed across to the San Diego. And I just nervously (hence the shaky cam)bumped into Britain’s most famous TV presenter as he checked into the Homophobic Hyatt Hotel in his cosplay gear. I say cosplay, Ross is a famously snappy dresser, and it could just have been…
I understand that on Friday’s Cup O’ Joe panel at San Diego Comic Con, Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada will announce that Marvel will publish something. And I know what it is. I squirrelled it out, piecing together all sorts of aspects from many sources. But I’ve been asked to hold off from any mention, however…
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…
