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,…
By Glenn Hauman Wow, it’s been busy here at our booth. The stuff that’s been coming in for the John Ostrander benefit auction (tonight at 7:30 PM central time) has been impressive, both in terms of generosity and sheer “oh my lord I want that” factor. People have been coming by all weekend and dropping…
Janelle Siegel is an editor on the Batman books at DC Comics. Tom Brevoort is an editor on, well, just about most things, at Marvel. And while there may be offical strains between the companies, down on the Twitter shop floor it’s Christmas Day in No Man’s Land and they’re playing football. Janelle Siegel: You…
This is the cover artwork of Deadpool Team Up #899, shipping in November. Goven the Hulk and Hercules numbering snafus earlier, this just made me laugh. Thank you “New York Times Best-Selling author” (this is the only way he should ever be referred to) Fred Van Lente, artist Dalibor Talajić and cover artist Humberto Ramos….
I understand a Fantastic Four Omnibus collecting all the Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch stories will ship in February 2010, 400 pages at a rather attracting $75. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje was interviewed outside Mann’s Chinese Theater with , regarding the Black Panther movie he’s been attached to. He said “you’ve heard the rumours and there’s some…
Okay, so, it’s an hour until the denizens of Room A get to see a chunk of KickAss… so what else is going on in that place? Bleeding Cool ran the big bits from the Avatar Panel earlier… and CBR has just run all the art from the Ultimate Marvel panel which appears to show…
At the 4pm Mark Millar panel at WizardWorld Chicago Comic Con in, what, an hour and fifteen minutes, I understand thirteen minutes will air from the fantastically violent and sweary Matthew Vaughn/Jane Goldman movie KickAss, adapted from Mark Millar and John Romita Jr’s Kick-Ass comic for Marvel. Or is the comic an adaptation of the…
By William Christensen Hard to believe I just kicked off something like my 25th Chicago Con, I have been coming to this show in one form or another since I was just a kid. Many owners and locations ago, this show was where I first discovered many books and filled out loads of holes in…
If you’re at WizardWorld Chicago Comic Con today, you’ll have a host of programming to distract you from the wrestlers and Star Wars extras. And while there are stomach churning conflicts it’s At 3pm it’s Mark Millar’s Ultimate Avengers vs Warren Ellis’ SuperGod as Marvel’s Ultimate Panel and the Avatar Panel go head to head….
It was one of the first examples of social networking sites that appealed to a mass market. Friends Reunited existed to initially let people find old school friends. And then, it seems, shag them. Reunions organised, marriages destroyed, and lawsuits started. It was a media friendly success story, but they decided to charge £5 for…
“The man in the sky is not coming to save you.” Supergod is the new series by Warren Ellis and Garrie Gastony (Caliber, Radical Publishing) that kicks off the first of five issues in November, to be announced at the Avatar panel at WizardWorld Chicago Comic Con today. If Black Summer was about superheroes with…
I’m not at Chicago Comic Con this year. But the abscence of Wizard or WizardWorld branding at this year’s Chicago Comic Con is freaking a few people out who suddenly feel like it’s the early nineties all over again. There are reports of not lots of people but not exactly stellar sales at yesterday’s Preview…
Okay, that’s a poorly faked sign. But forget Twilight. Turns out that the big stand off at Comic Con was happening in the Fables panel, where Bill Willingham chose to lightly mock the fact that his full panel was populated by a significant section of people who were “squatting”, getting a seat for the next…
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…
