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,…
Remember, it’s not called Wizard World anymore. Not that it ever was. Just the Big Apple Comic Con. I went to one of them before Wizard bought it up and it was fun, but small. I understand that this show may be a leeeetle larger. And they’ve got William Shatner. Wizard are flying me in…
Division and Rush is Todd Allen and Scott Beaderstadt’s new online comic being serialised at Chicago Now, a Chicago Tribune website. Todd has been a comics commentor and consultant specialising in digital content. So this is a chance for him to put his money where is mouth is. And Scott is probably best known for…
Dragon Ball is the latest graphic novel to be banned from a library, in this case all school libraries in Wicomico County, as the first volume Dragon Ball, Volume 1: The Monkey King contained scenes with naked children, something a parent pointed out when their nine year old child brought a copy home. You know,…
The Zuda digital line from DC Comics has confounded critics and proved a success of a number of comic titles, in some case making industry names of a few, such as David Gallaher (when I spell his name right.) It’s become the comic equivalent of the X-Factor, of American Idol, bringing people from obscurity to…
We know the image. Warren Ellis, hunched over his laptop in his local Essex pub, damning the smoking ban and sipping whisky as he taps madly away ripping stories from the ether and trapping them in cold hard digital bits to be mailed off to editors and artists and agents and fans the world over….
The KeyBoard Is My FuckMonkey: You want to work in comics? HAHAHA. But okay, no, that’s cool. Very worthy. Fun! And it’s not as if you even like paying bills or making rent or eating etc anyway, so, no — that’s awesome. Good for you. Hopefully you’ve got some talent too — that’s always a…
What can I say, those Archie people know how to play up publicity. As part of the Archie Wedding saga, it seems that he’s not going to marry Veronica anymore (he proposed in Archie 600) and instead, in issue 603 will propose to love-rival Betty (as seen in the cover, left) This is clearly a…
Live in Ontario? Looking for a new home in Brantford? Wanting something with a little geek chic? Well there’s this little family home in West Brant that would be darling. All very nice but… wait… what’s that? Really? In photos for a real estate listing? You think that will appeal? Well I suppose if it’s…
From an upcoming Bill Sienkiewicz Green Lantern poster. Could this be the shape of things to come? Or the way they were… The original art is for sale here.
Next year, Peter Bagge is to teach a course at Seattle University on the art of writing graphic novels. Creator of Neat Stuff, Hate, his Hulk strip finally seeing print in Marvel’s Strange Tales and an upcoming graphic novel for Vertigo, Second Lives, Peter Bagge is one of the most influential and successful modern alternative…
Here we are. The final chapter of Dynamite’s new Sherlock Holmes series and Holmes is in the dock for a murder that he supposedly didn’t commit. But this is not just a courtroom drama in which Holmes pulls his defence out of the bag, and finds the true culprit through deduction and logic from within…
I want to talk about three specific scenes in these comics, two published yesterday by Avatar, one by Dynamite, all written by Garth Ennis, and how they show the duality of the man. The first is from Crossed #7 and it’s the opening scene. Infected “crossed” deviants appear to have been following a group of…
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…
