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,…
The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Halfway through writing a novel is exactly the wrong time to start reading one. Primates are notoriously easy to distract, and all those industrious Chimpanzees in the Random Genius Metaphor of your imagination – that’s the typewriter sound you can hear while you’re trying to sleep – are liable to…
Today is new comic day! Yesterday’s exclusive Bleeding Cool scoop that Paul Levitz was stepping down as President/Publisher was reported on everywhere, with the DC Source blog being the official disseminator of information about the setting up of DC Entertainment. But who will Paul’s replacement be? Well, despite names such as Mike Carklin, Dan DiDio,…
Nomad is a substitute character. Intially the identity Steve Rogers took in an abscence from the Captain America identity, when he got annoyed at the US government for the sort of things Michael Moore has a go at them for too. Though Moore doesn’t dress in spandex to do it. Sorry about that picture, mea…
Ambush Bug is a satirical character in the DC Universe, honed to perfection by Keith Giffen. I followed his tales with glee in the eighties and the nineties, indeed, the character actually introduced me to aspects of the DC Universe I’d have never visited otherwise. But he didn’t last, internal politics and sales on the…
It’s been hard to see the protagonist of Kick Ass, Dave Lizewski, as that much of a hero. More of someone in the Nixon model of congitive dissonance, overcompensating in order to disprove feelings of inadequacy and low self esteem, that will never be sated. He’s persistently pathetic. This time, this issue, he finds a…
As of last night, I understand that Paul Levitz is telling people he intends to step down as Publisher and President of DC Comics within days. Working at DC editorially since the mid-seventies, becoming Publisher in 2002, Paul Levitz is, more than anyone, the man responsible for the comics industry that exists in America today….
I understand that hotel rooms for July 21st-25th 2010 at the Omni are all but sold out. This doesn’t include any reserved discounted rooms arranged with the San Diego Comic Con 2010, which will be made available to attendees early next year, but it seems that there are a number of companies who don’t so…
This week, the US will join the UK in enjoying Thursday shipping of comics, thanks to Labor Day (a holiday in which people don’t work… isn’t this like celebrating Martin Luther King Day by being really racist?) and making a mockery of the Wednesday Comics title. Still there should be plenty to entertain. Hours after…
I used to start writing Christmas ads for various companies around about April. That’s the kind of lead many clients needed. You want a Christmas book at a big publisher company? Pitch it in January. The year before, if it’s DC. Anyway. The deadline for the Artists Alley tables at next year’s San Diego Comic…
Aleksander Zograf, Bryan Talbot, Pat Mills, Warren Pleece, Dan Goldman and Dylan Horrocks are a few of the international comics creators contributing to the ComICA comics project, Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption, highlighting corruption as the central cause of modern day poverty around the world. 96 pages long with twenty tales and edited by Paul Gravett, the…
015 The artificial muscles in the severed robot head of Jack Kirby start shifting around. For a moment there, he looks like the piercing-eyed Superman of his original JIMMY OLSEN pencils. Hair starts sprouting, bushy and vegetal, until I find myself faced by Philip K Dick. Tendrils in the back of his head have connected…
As part of their Female Force line of comic biographies, which recently swerved from political figures such Hillary Clinton to Oprah Winfrey, Twilight author and Stephanie Meyer. And now their latest pick is the Scottish author of the Harry Potter novels, JK Rowling (as if I actually have to tell you). The biography, to be…
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…
