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,…
Tanker of the Comic Bloc forums first posted this possible swipe file… Brian Bolland on The Killing Joke Frank Quitely’s cover for Batman And Robin #3, flipped. With the internal story seemingly a reflection of some of Killing Joke‘s themes and images, well it’s just rather lovely isn’t it? Fingers through the hair, mad staring…
Last night, while his movie adulthood premiered on a UK satellite channel, its writer/director and BAFTA award-winning Noel Clarke sat down instead to watch Catwoman on ITV2. We’re not sure why, maybe it was masochism. But he twittered what he saw… OH MY GOD! How shit is CATWOMAN? and RE: LOL CATWOMAN Unbelievable rubbish. I…
I’m getting repeated reports of more redundancies at McFarlane Toys. I’m told that a number of people have gone from accounting, including the department controller. Names like Rob Kern, Mike Sandoval, Joey Frystl, Matt Connelly, Patty Deutsch and Michelle Campbell are dropped as being, well, dropped. The Sales department is down to two salespeople and…
Armageddon Now: The Beast, written by Phil Hotsenpillar, drawn by Rob Liefeld and painted by Mike Caprotti will debut, not in a comic store, not even at a comic convention, but at Prophecy Weekend 09. Armageddon Now is a series of painted comics depicting events based on the New Testament book of Revelation, but with…
The CerebusTV.com countdown clock continues to tick away the numbers until 10pm on the 22nd October. And we’re starting to get some kind of idea of what it actually will be. A regular online show about Dave Sim, Cerebus, and other works, including Judenhaas, Cerebus Archive and my favourite, glamourpuss. Bleeding Cool has already mentioned…
Harker is the upcoming graphic novel sequel to Dracula by Tony Lee, Neil Van Antwerpen and Peter-David Douglas. It has the slightly spurious honour of being the only Dracula sequel approved of by a member of the Bram Stoker family, Dacre Stoker, but that’s a temporary thing. I reckon I could do my own sequel…
Olive Branch is Diamond Comics Distribution’s largest warehouse. Six hundred thousand square feet in size, it was set up last year with state-of-the-art technology to replace three distribution locations in Memphis. Half the volume of comics, graphic novels, toys, statues, books, DVDs distributed by Diamond goes through Olive Branch and visitors to the centre are…
It has come to be a tradition in Atlanta, Georgia. As summer rolls into fall, DragonCon rolls into town. And the good ol’ dragon has grown to monstrous proportions over the years, feeding on the offerings of Trekkies, X-Philes, and an assortment of pop culture fanboys and fangirls. This year, Bleeding Cool aims to bring…
Who wears the Watchmen? Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s superhero opus comes to Hallowe’en this year. But the question is, will anyone do a full on Doctor Manhattan? If so, I want photos. Sadly the blue spray can is not a costume option over at WatchmenCostumes.com. though the Rorschach costume seems a bit of a…
Entertainment Weekly report, amid their Marvel/Disney coverage, that “Pixar is said to already be eyeballing an Ant-Man movie.” Marvel Studios has had an Ant Man movie in development for a while, with a script by Spaced/Shaun of The Dead/Hot Fuzz/Scott Pilgrim‘s Edgar Wright Jr and Joe Cornish, to be directed by Wright. And probably with…
Jon Ronson is one of the UK’s leading social and political satirists. His first novel Them: Adventures With Extremists saw him stalking conspiracy theorists and the subjects of their conspiracies. The Men Who Stare At Goats took this to a new level, looking at the madcap theories and quite literally insane policies that have informed…
During San Diego I reported that Marvel had announced they had bought the Marvelman character from original creator Mick Anglo. Which meant they had the rights to reprint Mick’s stories from the fifties and sixties and to create new stories using the character. Of course what people really want to know is about the Alan…
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…
