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,…
010 Comics creators who are also performers: • Afua Richardson, singer • Paul Pope, DJ • Alan Moore, vocalist • Robert Crumb, guitarist • Antony Johnston, musician • Kieron Gillen, “Bez” Styles are tricky things to nail down in comics. In music, they’re defined either (and rarely) by the creators, or by professional critics, and…
“Two men say they’re Jesus. One of them’s gotta be wrong” – Industrial Disease, Dire Straits. UPDATE: Since the original publication of this article, both parties have worked out their differences. Last year published the first issue of the comic book. This year it published the second. There has not yet been a third and…
With eBay bids for Stuff Of Legend #1 topping $15, the Art Of Chew hitting $79 Comics for Boom!, comics for Archaia, Jim Henson will also see PBS webcomics for their new series Wilson & Ditch: Digging America at a site that receives 9 million unique visitors a week. But who will win the print…
You know those people who go around saying “don’t film anything videoed at these Comic Con presentations or we will kick you out of Con?” Thankfully some people ignore them. Then find a friend with a YouTube acount. And the studio probably don’t really mind that much… it’s all in the game. Kick-Ass!
While I was at San Diego, I tried repeatedly to get comment from Todd McFarlane Productions over Marvel’s new claim to the Marvelman/Miracleman character, without joy. Years ago McFarlane bought the assets of bankrupt US Miracleman publisher Eclipse, including their license agreement with Quality Communications, publisher of Warrior magazine that serialised Marvelman, . However, not…
A friend and I were discussing “Epitaph One”, the unaired last episode of Joss Whedon’s DOLLHOUSE that’s included on the DVD set. The episode is an example of the “flash-forward” episode, where a show suddenly leaps far ahead of the series’ present storylines to show or hint at the long-term outcomes of various characters and…
Thank you to Trevor Phillips who noticed this bizarre looking Top Stories visual lineup on Bleeding Cool the other day. Totally unintentional! Monday in Norfolk and the plague of ladybirds I tweeted about yesterday seems to be a recurring thing. Off to the beach now, but will later be reporting on a rather bizarre legal…
So I’m sitting here, drinking Gaynors cider, the children are asleep, watching Man On Wire. The night is drawing in, the last of the sun’s rays stroking the Norfolk countryside. It’s twilight. And it’s Twilight. They changed the schedules around. They shifted panels about. But still there has been major criticism of the handling of…
Producer Julie Gardner and showrunner Russell T Davies made it clear at San Diego. “We are not making any announcement about a Doctor Who movie,” she said. “I’m really sorry. I don’t know where the rumor started. But what it’s made us think is it might be a good idea to do at some point….
It’s not uncommon to get a body part signed. Arms, breasts, forehead, it’s certainly been done. It’s a fun, temporary reaction to getting things like comics, books, records signed. And why not? Of course sometimes it’s not so temporary. As when a comics fan at the Isotope comics store decided to make his Geoff Johns…
It’s been no secret over the last year that Zenescope, publishing of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Escape From Wonderland and the like (which I’ve been known to describe as “Fables with tits”) has some cash flow issues that have caused a number of comic creators to complain about delayed payments, partial payments or indeed in some…
These posters for the new Surrogates movie starring Bruce Willis based on the Top Shelf comic book series (oh and by the way, have you seen the original collection, the prequel graphic novel and the combined hardcover collection of both? They are Top Shelf sweet) are roaming the internet right now. Anyway, I understand a…
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…
