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,…
Guy Ritchie/Lobo! Guy Ritchie/Lobo! Guy Ritchie/Lobo! Guy Ritchie/Lobo! That’s all I’ve been hearing. But I’m much more intrigued by some other British movie director/comic book project news. That Stephen Frears, who made one of my favourite movies Dirty Pretty Things (as well as The Queen, The Deal and Mr Jolly Lives Next Door)is to direct…
This is a first look at a teaser video for the Fall Out Toy Works motion comic. Fall Out Toy Works is a new comic created by Pete Wengtz of the band Fall Out Boy. It is written by Brett Lewis and drawn by Imaginary Friends Studios. The comic is published by Image. USA Today…
Shed Simove is an Ideas Man. His latest idea is that he wants to be famous. In fact he thinks he will be. To the extent that he’s made a bet to that effect with William Hill. Fifty pounds at a hundred to one that Simove will be famous by 13th August 2010, defined as…
Chris Weston went to the bank yesterday. Me to. Nothing unusual in that. But he blogs about watching an “extremely charismatic fellow” in the line ahead of him. Who then proceeded to rob the bank. I gave my contact details to the bank and then ran like the wind back to my studio and set…
Look at the small Thulsa on the cover and the large Doom. This is a bad guy comic from the get go, even emphasising a certain syllable in common with a Marvel bad guy… A Robert E Howard creation from the Kull stories, Thulsa is a the wizardic nemesis of Kull, appearing on Conan stories…
Last issue’s 99c issue brought a lot of people on board this superhero title from Boom. It answered questions and set up all sorts of new ones, introduced the implications of a supergod, and ended on a series of cliffhangers. Let’s see if new readers have been given reason to stay. Well the mystery of…
Rawbone is a very viceral violent pirate story, intricately researched and written by famed Hellblazer writer Jamie Delano and drawn by Max Fiumara for Avatar. The new issue is out today in the US, out tomorrow in the UK. It’s depraved and decadent, Delano playing the trick, as he with the entire series, of placing…
See, all you need to get your comic book coverage in USA Today is be a rock star. That’s how you break into comics… Want to draw a Stan Lee Graphic Novel? Check the Craigslist recruitment drive. Note, there is no guarantee Stan Lee will actually write the graphic novel. In fact odds are, he…
The official comment from DC Comics on the Disney buyout of Marvel Comics is “no comment.” Internally of course it’s a very different matter. No one saw this coming, certainly not yesterday, and certainly not Disney. Before now, the biggest Marvel buyout rumour was from Sony. And that was a while back. DC owners Warner…
Greg Weisman, creator of the Gargoyles cartoon and producer of the 2008 Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon, wrote; 1. Last Thursday (8/27/09), Vic Cook and I were informed that in exchange for some concession vis-a-vis the live action Spider-Man features, Sony returned the television rights (including the animated television rights) for Spider-Man to Marvel. This took place…
Isaac Perlmutter, known as “Ike”, has been the big name at Marvel for quite some time and its Chief Executive for four and a half years. (Six Day) War veteran, he joined the board with Avi Arad when their company Toy Biz, now Marvel Toys, engaged in deals with Marvel. After dealing with Ron Perelman…
Michigan State University launches its History Of The Modern Comic Book course – or HST101h for its snappier name. Join in by following Assistant professor Ethan Watrall on Twitter as captain_primate. Professor Captain Primate. Yes, I like that. He’s currently talking about, what else, Disney buying Marvel. The course consists of blogging about your favourite…
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…
