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,…
Viz Comic is celebating its thirtieth anniversary this week. The best selling English speaking comic in the world (just about) is a British not-for-children newstand anthology of comic strips that parody the tropes of British comics of old, reflecting modern and generally sexual, sensibilities. From Sid The Sexist to The Fat Slags to Kappa Slappa…
I do like a nice Alex Ross cover. And this is certainly one of them. From up the Superpowers spinoff series from Dynamite, a first look at the cover to Black Terror #7. And since we’re all friends here, let’s have a look at upcoming cover #5 and #6 while we’re at it.
Mark Millar will be announcing his new project with Steve McNiven for Marvel on Friday. The creative team have worked on Civil War and Old Man Logan together, with significant sales impact, so their next project is much anticipated – especially by retailers. Especially if it comes in on time. Millar writes; I was out…
022 From up here, maybe we can see what we’ve been talking about this whole time. A world that, from up here, looks like Jack Kirby’s Ego The Living Planet, but instead of its face being a wizened old man, it does of course strongly resemble the robot head of Jack Kirby. Our parachute opens,…
We know the plot here. Sacha Baron Cohen is Brüno, a flamboyantly gay fashion TV presenter in Austria with a fetish for Hitler, who comes to the USA to restart his career, filmed veritas using as many real people and as few actors as possible. It is filthy, funny, and exposes all sorts of prejudice…
This is the first double page spread from last week’s issue of Spawn #165 that has a few people mystified… Not so much the “dying for this” but… can you see it? Let’s zoom in. Possibly not clear enough. And again… There are words… let’s clear that up a bit. There’s “DEVIANTART” there, the website…
Every Monday, Warren Ellis will release a new T-shirt. With a typically Warrenesque phrase from that week. So this week’s t-shirt bears the legend LOVE – means never having to tell the authorities where I buried you. Yes I know. But come on, you’re thinking about it, right?
Today from 4pm onwards, at Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London, there’s an Avatar/Bleeding Cool signing at Orbital Comics. Crossed‘s Jacen Burrows, Freakangels‘ Paul Duffield (with the third Freakangels TPB to boot), Kieron Gillen, Si Spurrier (both upcoming Avatar creators, talking about their new stuff), William Christensen (Avatar publisher and EIC) and me (signing…
Everyone wants Stephen King. He’s a blockbuster of a name in the movie, TV and book world. So naturally comics wanted a slice. And there were little nods here and there. After all, Stephen King was a self-confessed comics fan, it was only natural. A couple of pages in the Heroes For Hope charity comic…
I’d stopped thinking about BATTLESTAR GALACTICA completely after that horrendous finale aired, but now there’s a certain amount of hype being built up for the release of the latest (and hopefully last) TV movie spin-off THE PLAN, I found myself mulling over the show and the problems with long-term plotting in TV series in general….
So what’s been occurring? Well, since the last Lying In The Gutters I’ve been to two comics conventions on two different continents. In the first a war broke out between Wizard World and Reed, and in the second a war broke out between Jedi and Street Fighter. So what’s been happening on the Cool over…
This morning, Stephen Colbert, host of “The Colbert Report” & right-wing alter ego of Stephen Colbert, has been served with a legal document called a writ of replevin by schoolteacher Robt Seda-Schreiber. It demands the return of Captain America’s shield to its rightful owner. Two years ago Joe Quesada appeared on the Colbert Show to…
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…
