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,…
Tony Lee and Cliff Richards are adapting the monster hit Pride And Prejudice And Zombies for Del Rey/Random House as a graphic novel for release in March. Expected to be announced over San Diego Comic Con, the release will also tie in with the movie, slated for late next year. The novel surprised many, selling…
Let me show you Jim Lee design for today’s Google Doodle, on the home page of Google.com. Which is nice, sweet, lovely, joyous…. and only the beginning. Now you can redesign your Google experience to take in all sorts of comics designs, from American Born Chinese to Vertigo to Hulk to Women Of The DC…
Thank you Suicide Girls! Your announcement that you will be engaging in cosplay throughout the convention, with considerable visual accompaniments has suddenly made me consider cosplay in a new light. Maybe I should learn to understand more and condemn a little less… Oh look! A Suicide Mod!
(SHORT ‘N CURLIES) – #3 SI SPURRIER BRAINFART: I have The Fear, and here is why: Modern inventions and discoveries lack elegance. Really. They’re either so sky-fuckingly complicated that they tend to be the sole preserve of scientists with more letters after their name than an episode of Sesame Street, or — if they are…
I understand that Mark Millar is flying in to San Diego for the Kick Ass Panel tomorrow at 5.45pm PT. The current convention listing has been updated to include Mark Millar as a guest on the panel. He posts on his board while sitting in an airport; Fuckign Hell! Didn’t know this was happening until…
Panini is one of the biggest comics publishers in Europe, best known in the US for their reprints of Marvel title. It also published Nausicaa Valley Of The Wind and other art books by Hayao Miyazaki. And it also published the miniseries Le cronache del Mondo Emerso written by Roberto Recchioni and drawn by Gianluca Gugliotta and Giuseppe…
Say hello ladies! This is the queue for the Twilight Saga: New Moon panel, taking place tomorrow sometime between 1.45pm and 2.45pm at the San Diego Comic Con, at 7pm tonight. Cast members wil take questions and debut footage will be shown. Hopefully these ladies will still be awake to see it…
Bluewater and Jewish Life TV are creating two new lines, Jewish-American Patriots and Pioneers Of Israel. The first has the likes of Haym Solomon, Hank Greenberg and Dr. Jonas Salk (no mentions of Stan Lee or Jack Kirby though). The second will cover the likes of David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Dayan and Golda Meir. Each series…
It’s a hot con. The mighty air conditioning cannot cope with the body heat of thousands of geeks. We have beaten it! Yay! We win! Anyone got deodorant? Also, I’ve heard of at least one hotel that has run out of water. Probably doesn’t help… Wednesday is clearly now “just another day” and, compressed into…
Hello everyone! We’re at #2701! Free Absolution #0 comics! Ignition City #4! Me pimping! Wooo! Normal service will be resumed shortly.
Hand sanitizer is everywhere and I’m trying to popularise the “air handshake”… In other news, IDW are making Transformers, GI Joe, Danger Girl, Astro Boy, Groom Lake, John Sable, Freelance and GrimJack. Not all IDW titles, but Scott Dunbier seems to be the common factor in many of those extra acquisitions. These will appear on…
From inside the halls… abandon hope all ye who enter here… those of you who would like to meet up for breakfast, meet me in the Homophobic Hyatt lobby at 8.30am and we’ll go somewhere more tolerant of orientations. My US number is 1-625-216-2780. And they’ve just opened the doors….
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…
