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,…
Comic book artist Josh Adams talks about the world he finds himself in, the industry, the family, the personality traits…. First off, I was to apologize for missing last week’s article. Personal matter had to be attended to and coupled with some horrific deadlines there just hasn’t been time for me to do hardly anything…
I did wonder why Com.X, the British comics publisher born out of a design studio, was attending the Long Beach Comic Con. I know they have been trying to get back into the comics publishing the game again, but it seemed quite a way to go. Well now the other shoe has dropped. I understand…
Long Beach Comic Con starts today, the Birmingham International Comics Show starts tomorrow and I am going to neither. I may well be flying in a hot air balloon across London with Gail Porter and Bear Grylls on Sunday, courtesy of Pixar’s UP, but that’s another story. Long Beach Comic Conventioneers can expect to pick…
Lee Bermejo has been posting the original pencils from his USA Today-facing Superman strip from Wednesday Comics. And now that the weekly series has come to an end, it seems a perfect opportunity to run through the gallery. As always click the image to expand… I don’t suppose there’s any chance of a black and…
Tyrese Gibson has been talking to CNN about his experience withe the Mayhem comic book from Image, and his decision to take it onto the iTunes online distribution model. “There was an experience that I felt was pretty limiting as far as the comic book experience itself on paper,” says Gibson, who stresses that he…
Wowio, the digital publisher with a massive comic book line has had a problem. The money it used to compensate publishers for each download of their comics came from venture capital rather than advertising. And when it dried up, not only did income levels fall, Wowio were unable to meet their debts for the second…
Ben Novack Jr, heir to the Fontainebleau hotelier fortune, was found murdered, bound and gagged in his Hilton Rye Town hotel room in July. Now it appears that his vast collection of Batman comics and memorabilia, filling four warehouses, has been stolen. Believed to the the second largest suchcollection in the world, it was worth…
They Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Let’s roleplay. Work’s going terribly. Every sentence you write is a jagged-tipped teaspoon being dragged across the wet surface of your eyeball, and the pulsing flush of triumph after each new word is instantly mitigated by the cruel kidneykick of self-analysis. It’s All Shit, idiot. In disgust you leap from…
A couple of interesting Marvel solicitation amends. Amongst the many minor notes, we discover that Models Inc #3 will help to justify its $3.99 price with an extra six page Zombie Model back-up story by Paul Tobin and Colleen Cover. And X-Babies #2 will, intriguingly, get an added reprint story in the back from Marvel’s…
Back in the nineties, it wasn’t uncommon for creator owned comics to bust open the charts, with the emergence of Image and Legend putting out titles regularly in the top ten. But the last hurrah for big creator-owned sales was probably the Cliffhanger imprint from Wildstorm that saw the likes of Battlechasers and Danger Girl…
We’ve come to expect it. Comic book creators announce project – and it’s late. Kick Ass, Planetary, Civil War, Final Crisis, we’re getting to expect it now. It’s part and parcel of the territory. So when singer songwriter VV Brown announced her own comic book City Of Abacus back in May, promising five issues up…
It seems Elmo wasn’t enough for one man. The Ricky Gervais/Elmo outtakes from this November’s Sesame Street became a bit of an classic online. “It’s called acting, Mr Gervais…. acting!” “N… is for Necrophilia!” Well, it seems he’ll be doing it again. A Sesame Street environmental special next year will star Ricky Gervais alongside the…
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…
