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,…
Friday. I used to look forward to Fridays. But now it’s all, palm kids off onto their grandparents, go to the bank, post office and supermarket, teach young children at a church holiday club about St Francis of Copertino, take the tube into London to meet old friends, pick up a used PC that might…
Diamond Previews updated earlier with the latest cover of Previews, that gave the Big Bad reveal away for Blackest Night. And now it’s gone. Was this a spoiler? Was this unfortunate timing? Was this a leak? Not a bit of it. The editorial, creative and marketing team at DC Comics want you to know. This…
It’s long been hoped that the previously-unpublished-and-once-thought-abandoned Teen Titans: Games graphic novel by Marv Wolfman and George Perez would be completed and published for next year. Because 2010 would be the 30th anniversary of the New Teen Titans comic by Wolfman and Perez. Initially plotted by Marv Wolfman, with a number of pages drawn by…
As the writer of Civil Wardrobe, which had 17 creators drawing one page each, I know the difficulty of juggling many creative teams. But what if I had to do it every week? So I have much sympathy for DC editor Mark Chiarello when Mike Allred is happy to announce at Chicago Comics Con that…
(Short ‘N Curlies) — #6 Si Spurrier The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Writing comics and writing novels are two brainshittingly different disciplines, and you’d have to be thicker than Ronald McDonald’s arteries not to know it. Different media, different cultures, different worlds. Yes? Yes. Consider: one’s the preserve of overweight, pasty-skinned writers in cheap T-Shirts,…
Dan Slott has been working in the comics industry for an absolute age. But it’s only of late that he’s really been noticed as a full blown comics writing talent by a fanbase after reinventing his career at Marvel from the bottom up. Not only is he a major Spider-Man and Avengers writer, but I’m…
It may not be the most obvious of all swipe files. But at Wizardworld Chicago Comic Con, Mark Millar confessed that he saw the cover to heavy metal band Pantera’s Vulgar Display Of Power album on a fan’s T-Shirt at the first WizardWorld Chicago Comic Con he attended, and mentioned it later to John Romita…
The Guardian newspaper asks… is Neil Gaiman a hack? I know I am… in the same paper, Dave Gibbons talks about using computers in his work and his hatred for the typeface he helped inspire, Comic Sans and his joy at seeing his own digital lettering font used in The Dandy. At WizardWorld Chicago Comic…
I’ve known Antony Johnston for some time, we hung around in the same comics drinking circles on and offline and for a while I used to really annoy him by telling people he was my brother. Antony Johnston currently writes the post-apocalyptic sci-fi ongoing series Wasteland for Oni Press, collaborated with Alan Moore for Avatar,…
What is Band Of Heroes? I understand it’s the tentative name for a new Marvel mini-series by Paul Jenkins set in the World War II era, using a number of Timely characters who only appeared briefly before disappearing into publishing limbo. Combined with a number of Jenkins’ own creations, the series follows the characters as…
Sorry for the delay folks. I have spent the last twenty-four hours alternating between being sat on the toilet or bent double over it. Thankfully I got this bug after the children and good lady wife had had it, so I was able to help them and now they are helping me. Eve, my four…
Check it out folks, what some of you always dreamed of is coming true. Gritty, intelligent crime comics by some of the best names in the business, snuggled next to barely legal, silcone pumped blonde meat puppets. No offence. Well, Playboy.com are currently previewing Filthy Rich by Brian Azzarello and Victpr Santos as well as…
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…
