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,…
James Robinson, who in a past life wrote the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen screenplayand is a close friend of Blackest Night writer Geoff Johns, twittered about the Mania interview with Alan Moore that set the net abuzz this week. I was thinking about Alan Moore’s remarks about Blackest Night. And albeit this is me, here,…
Staz Johnson was recently mentioned as the artist on the nippletassletastic Agent Provocateur comic books. But he’s been turning his hand to something else of late, the upcoming Classical Comics graphic novel edition of Dracula. And… well… wow. No seriously, wow. This is Jim Lee meets Mignola meets Byrne meets Adams in a world that…
Two images by Steve Bissette from this weekend’s SPX-launching 4 Square: Dark Corners, available at the IKJK table (area F). It’s a ten inch by ten inch oversized square horror anthology with work by Steve Bissette (obviously) with Jeff Lok and Caitlin Plovnik, as well work from Denis St. John, Mario Van Buren and more,…
Did anyone else seeing Magog’s mother Alba, designed by Howard Porter, on the DC blog The Source get a sudden flash to Queen Amidala from Star Wars: The Not-Quite-As-Good-Prequels? No? Just me then. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic…
017 It’s right there on the cover of Jack Kirby’s 1980s miniseries SILVER STAR, a comics version of a screenplay he wrote and never sold in the 1970s: “A Visual Novel.” I guess Jack didn’t fancy using the term “graphic novel,” perhaps because it’s so intrinsically linked now with Will Eisner, whose paperback edition of…
Beneath A Steel Sky is a fondly remembered game from the nineties, that featured copious amounts of Dave Gibbons artwork and designs, and a merging of the media of games and comics that’s rarely been matched since. And now thanks, in part, to Gibbons’ increased profile off the back of the Watchmen movie, the game…
Does clothes maketh the man? What’s in a suit? This summer, DC Comics sought to answer these questions with a suit of its own. A lawsuit against Jonny Resin, the company that made statues licensed from various actors who had starred in the Batman TV series from the 1960s. Such as this charming resin kit…
Are you a British comic buyer? Are you a Marvel fan? Are you expecting to go into your shop this Thursday and pick up any of the following – Avengers Initiative #28, Fantastic Four #571, Guardians Of The Galaxy #18, Halo Helljumper #3, New Avengers #57, Riftwar #4, Uncanny X-Men #515 or Wolverine Origins #40?…
Newsarama and CBR both have different sets of December Marvel Previews to fawn over, but they’ll all be missing some until midnight ET. So until then, here are a few odds and ends; click for the full visual. In other Marvel solicitation news it appears that Christos Gage is writing Mighty Avengers solo without Dan…
Friend of Bleeding Cool, Brendon Connelly, has been flown out to the West Coast to talk Slashfilmy stuff. First up, he’s been asking Lauren Shuler Donner X-questions, with word that as well as X-Men: First Class and Deadpool in the works, we are indeed looking at a fourth X-Men film, referred to as X4. And,…
I guess by now everyone who reads comics regularly must be pretty tired of Big Event Crossovers, especially since Marvel and DC won’t stop foisting them on readers like a recurring case of herpes every year. It’s getting to the point where these crossovers are the only coherent books that can get the readers’ attention,…
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…
