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,…
This Sunday, Serbian capital Belgrade is host to Gay Pride March. Belgrade far right groups have plastered the city with posters that say, in a slightly aggressive fashion, “We’re waiting for you.” And in a slightly more aggressive fashion, “Who wants it up the ass, will get it in the balls”. The last Gay Pride…
The rule about selling comic books related to a movie is do it in the two weeks prior to release. After that, it’s a case of diminishing returns. That’s when there’s the most hype and the least disappointment from the movie, and everyone is scrambling to get the original copies of the comic. There are…
National Public Radio pits Gotham City Sirens against Marvel Divas in a battle of the cheesecake, with butt shot/boob shot comparison stats ready and find that while Gotham City Sirens is basically a Russ Meyer film filtered through Paul Dini sensibilities, Marvel is unexpectedly actually telling a serious story without reverting to stereotype, and that…
Ross Rojek was once the owner of the largest chain of comic shops in America, Comics & Comix, as well as the largest online comics operation, Another Universe who, amongst other things, hosted a previous version of Newsarama. Previously, he also distributed a number of comic titles to Tower Records. A series of events led…
Bored To Death is a new HBO comedy starting this weekend, based on a story by Jonathan Ames, and starring Jason Schwartzman as the writer, Ames. It also has one character that certain industry types may find familiar, a cartoonist played by Zach Galifianakis. He’s based on ACT-I-VATE founder Dean Haspiel, who drew Ames’ graphic…
A sad day for archivists of comics – the company Library Binding has been sold to a new owner. And unlike other, more major comics industry changes recently, the new owners are saying that things will change. And that the company will not offer a binding process for comic books. Over the last decade, Library…
Plugged: Twitter continues to fascinate me, though probably not in the way it’s supposed to. (A Caveat: I suspect it’s deeply unhip of me to still be interested in this sort of thing. Twitter has, after all, been in existence for Three Whole Years Already, and is used by far too many people to be in…
To tell you the truth, I was expecting to miss Frank Quitely on the book. Morrison and Quitely made such a fine pair on All Star Superman and the beginning arc of this title, just how could Philip Tan compare? Well, by stepping up and, in places, doing his best Frank Quitely impression in terms…
How do you sell Welsh churches to the “yoot”? Why, by describing the stained glass windows thus; We have to remember, so many people couldn’t read – I suppose it’s a kind of graphic novel with New Testament one on the other side perhaps the Old Testament. Amid all the tepid reviews of the Whiteout…
This has been the conspiracy comic with possibly the highest concept ever. What if the creators assigned to come up with “unthinkable” possible ways for terrorists to attack America post-911 found their ideas used… to attack America. Even the really really stupid ones, like everyone in China jumping up in the air at the same…
Okay, so Doctor Peter Venkman was always a bit of a cowboy. Well, now he appears to be a Sherriff, in a Wild Western town fighting ghosts with some hastily assembled Ghostbusting equipment. What is this, a parallel universe, a dream sequence or… oh look, all the Ghostbusters have been thrown back in time by…
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…
