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,…
How one guy and his blocked-in car outside a comics shop, got the attention of Steve Niles. And some free comics. A few minutes later the dude was smashing at his window with a cinder block, which only dented his door. I felt bad that he was going to such lengths to get his Jeep…
Alan Robert is the bassist for Life Of Agony and the frontsman for Spoiler NYC. He’s also got a comic book out from IDW next year, Wire Hangers, an abduction/conspiracy/journalist horror comic. As he told me in our recent Twinterview, he’s been working on it for a long time… Rich: Many musicians/actors create comics they’ve…
Dennis O’Neil has a long history in the comics industry as both a writer and editor. He’s best known for writing Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman, through the seventies, Spider-Man in the eighties and for editing Batman-related titles in the nineties. A widely published novelist and screenwriter, he is currently lecturing at the NYU on…
There’s a lot riding on this comic. A brand new comic character, a new creative team made up of comics industry stars, in an industry that rewards the latter but punishes the former. How is it going to do? For start off, I want to talk about the costume, if you can call it that….
Two non traditional superhero comic books in one week? But which is best? There’s only one way to find out. Fight! Absolution #2 opens with a wonderfully composed scene, that of a murderer being killed by a super cop. The victim is pressed against a window, a bolt of solidified psychic energy bursting through his…
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. There’s something so refreshing about a comic book by a celebrity that not only does he write, but he draws as well. And, indeed, draws well. Nick Simmons takes a classic manga action approach but, doesn’t stay within the style associated with that approach in the US…
It’s war, but not as we know it. The Buffy clan have gone all unilateralist on their magic stylings in order to hide, only to find themselves found and targeted by armed forces with no Slayerness, spells or supernatural forces to defend them. So what do the girls do? Man up. This issue of Buffy…
As Berke Breathed says in the notes to this book, he didn’t have a clue what Bloom County was going to be about. It was a place, he was filling it with characters, he could go off on whatever tangent he fancied. A strip about kids, about lawyers, about the elderly, about politicians, about monarchs,…
Comic Con International: San Diego runs Thursday to Sunday with a Preview Night on the Wednesday. One observation on the convention floor this year was that the Preview Night was even busier than Thursday, concentrated as it was into a few hours with less programming to draw people away. But, still, it was a good…
Back in the mists of time, Lying In The Gutters ran a story that Rick Olney, of TightLip Entertainment, had not been paying creators of its horror anthology Tales Of The Spooky. When asked, Olney claimed that all matters had “been worked out to the mutual satisfaction of both parties.” This opened the flood gates…
Avatar are on a roll this week. Crossed, Absolution and now Wormwood. The story of the Anti-Christ who doesn’t want to bring down the Apocalypse on our heads and his best drinking mate, Jesus, who isn’t quite up for a Second Coming. And so our friends pass the time, with Wormwood (and yes, I think…
Crossed #7 also comes out from Avatar tomorrow in America and on Thursday in the UK. I’ve got a preview of this twisted zombie-ish tale where the population has been infected with something that turns them into sick amoral people with a desire to destroy and despoil everything they can in the most tasteless 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…
