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,…
eigoMANGA, publisher of titles such as Rumble Pak and Sakura Pakk appears to be in a little bit of trouble. Scheduled books disappearing, a website falling down and currently existing in some kind of semi-limbo state. And now its mailing list jerking into some kind of spasmodic life. While there haven’t been any books published…
Robocop has been published by a number of comic companies. Marvel, Dark Horse, Avatar… and now Dynamite Comics. Here’s the cover to the first issue… I’m really hoping its a return to the anti-police-anti-authority-satire-disguised-as-a-conservative-call-to-arms that so defined the original movie, as well as Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers, but I’d settle for anything close to Millar/Simonson’s Robocop…
While the East End may be covered in Daleks, according to reports coming out of yesterday’s MCM London Expo (couldn’t make it the Sunday sadly, life got in the way), the West End appears to have its own robots taking over the landscape. Ladbroke Grove is currently playing home to the Mutate Britain exhibition under…
That’s a shout-out to J M Ringuet, who created Stolen Suns, which he reckons was the first comic formatted specifically for iPhone. He also gives it away for free, proving he is a far nobler person than me, or possibly just lives someplace where the rent doesn’t cost what it does in NYC. Anyway, this…
Evony is an online Civilisation clone, where bored office workers can be build a medieval empire, fighting off other rulers controlled by other online players to reach some ultimate goal. Probably a goblet of some sort. But what is much more notable about the series is their ubiquitous online advertising, and they are no stranger…
Misfits is the new E4 superhero TV show that Bleeding Cool has been on about for a while now. And all sorts of bits and pieces are being released. You’ve already seen part of the sales pitch document and the trailer, but what else do we know? Kelly – “Don’t act like you know me,…
From last week’s Mighty Avengers. Almost the last page. So, you know, obviously spoilers… Does the Heroic Age start here? A new Avengers founded by Hank Pym? One made of light’n’brighty instead of grim’n’gritty? Could be… Oh and that’s Eternity speaking by the way. Giving it large.
The new Skins-Meets-X-Men TV series from E4 launches next month. Until then, here’s the very stylised trailer to tease you with a bunch of young crims stuck on community service, who get hit by some special kind of lightning and develop new powers. Basically its Superted. But with sex, drugs and thieving, probably. Enjoy. But…
Well, yes, obviously the MM I was referring to that was hinted at as the big bad at Big Apple Comic Con was Molecule Man, a character I very much related to reading in the Marvel UK Secret Wars series at the age of ten – a weak-willed oft-bullied character with god-like powers. I wonder…
The MCM London Expo is going on this weekend, with an array of cosplay, lots of anime and manga displays, a comics village with British comic creators, big and small, film and TV previews and cast panels, comics programming and basically lots of stuff. There are far more people than at Big Apple last weekend,…
Some people wait till they get to the MCM London Expo before they pull out their costumes and makeup. And then again, some people don’t. Delight in Londoners reacting to Zombie Disney Princesses, Jedi and Nightcrawler….
It was The Losers panel at the MCM London Expo today, with Idris Alba, Jock and… who was that closest to the camera? Let’s take a close up of his name placeholder. That’s right, the well known Marvel exclusive writer and cast-member of the UK soap Andy Dingle. Or is he? Seems there may be…
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…
