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,…
“I’m not wearing that” This is the story of the 22nd Phantom, starring Ryan Carnes, written by one of the Carnivale fellows and one more attempt to try and convince Americans that, yes, they do want to watch the purple-clad adventures of one of the world’s oldest superheroes. And by the look of this, SyFy…
At the Brand Licensing Exhibition in London today, the Iron Man 2, Avengers and Thor movies were being promoted to potential licensees. Marvel didn’t have much of a presence per se but instead had a massive Stark Industries booth with the five Iron Man suits from San Diego and a bunch of Stark Industries security…
Dennis O’Neil has a long history in the comics industry as both a writer and editor. He’s best known for writing Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman, through the seventies, Spider-Man in the eighties and for editing Batman-related titles in the nineties. A widely published novelist and screenwriter, he is currently lecturing at the NYU on…
Two books come out today and I thought it was worth reviewing them. Together. One is Mickey Mouse & Friends, the first issue to be licensed and published by Boom! Studios, taken from Gemstone Publishing who previously held the licence. And the other is Herogasm, the even more explicit that the already rather explicit The…
Thanks to Eddie Campbell for today’s blog title. He recently had a go at James Robinson’s recent tweets on Alan Moore’s work and attitude and takes apart the whole “Alan Moore stole his Watchmen ending from The Outer Limits” urban legend. James Robinson is the guy who scripted the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen… the movie…
The new Marvel title S.W.O.R.D. #1 by Kieran Gillen and Steven Sanders has been solicited without any details of the backup strip that will be appearing at the, well, back, as Marvel roll out increased extra material across their $3.99 titles. Whatever the story, it is notable that this will be the first created by…
Tom Root, co-producer and co-head writer of the successful Robot Chicken series for Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network is writing comics…. and it’s Jughead, Archie’s burger obsessed numbskull. Apparently. I can’t read Archie comics, I’m sorry, something happens to my head when I try and I just drift off. They look fine and all……
CB Cebulski is Marvel’s full time Talent Manager these days. With a history of writing and publishing comics for himself, through Image and talking the ins and outs with creators and editors all day, he has a quite rounded experience of the comics industry as it is right now. And he seems to have a…
Primeval was the Doctor Who challenger from British commercial station ITV, featuring a bunch of dinosaur hunters and scientists tracking down creatures lost in time, running around 21st century Britain. It grew into a complex conspiracy of timelines, competing government agencies and the kind of time twisting tricks that even Doctor Who would never dare…
018 Story-strips. It made more sense to me than a lot of other replacement terms for comics. It reminded me of the early childhood where the British comics I got were called “adventure strips,” or “picture libraries.” When the comics I got were called “boy’s papers.” To me, it speaks to a time when popular…
Remember the Warner shareholder who talked about Warner dumping their magazine publishing operations? One Time Warner official told one news source that it was poppycock – “Time Warner without People? I can’t imagine it” and that the magazine line (and indeed the comics line for that matter) are profitable for the company. — DC Comics…
I was asked to write a foreword to the upcoming first volume of Superfogeys, by Brock Heasley, the online strip about superheroes in a care home. Here you go… — I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I…
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…
