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,…
Legendary comic book creator Barry Windsor Smith has a new project. Persuading America of the case for a system of universal health care, and support for Barack Obama towards that aim. After seeing the very concept of Britain’s National Health Service being used by critics as a reason not to go down Barack Obama’s planned…
In an interview with British fanzine Mustard, we learn that Alan Moore has received legal threats over the rewritten lyrics to The Threepenny Opera that appeared in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century We did have a contretemps with the owners of Brecht and Weill’s music despite the fact that all the words are different and,…
Vertigo’s new crime line, currently consisting of the published Filthy Rich and Dark Entries (which is not actually a crime graphic novel, but is written by a crime novelist) has made some significant breakthroughs in mainstream advertisin, from full page ads in the New Yorker to advertorial features in Playboy. Well, I understand that they…
New page of Contropussy, lettered by the Flying Friar and Civil Wardrobe‘s Thomas Mauer there… Oh and created by Camilla Outzen Rantsen, Christian Meesey and Emma Caulfield – who played Anya in Buffy, the cougar vengeance demon who got all deaded in the last episode. Yes, that one.
021 Do you know where you are? I have this vague recollection of someone asking the writer Spider Robinson where his ideas come from, and his answer having to do with hacking your way through a jungle (with Burne Hogarth denouncing you from a tree, probably) to find a filing cabinet in the middle of…
Warning: Here Lie Potential Spoilers. So who is the super secret weapon that Norman Osborn is using to ensure his Cabal keep together, during the Marvel Dark Reign crossover event? The shadowy figure that everyone from Doctor Doom to Loki is intimidated by? This weekend at the Big Apple Comic Con I saw evidence that pointed…
I’m constantly studying Japanese comics and cartoons, or “manga” and “anime” to you cognoscenti, because they have a hard-to-define directness in their themes and ideas, and the ability to hook you very quickly in the way the best serialized stories do, almost effortlessly, while the majority of Hollywood movies and American and Western comics seem…
(Warning: this is a really fucking long column. But, seeing as it contains an overview of all current digital comic distributors and platforms, it kind of has to be this long.) This week has not gone as intended. Here is what was meant to have happened: begin cutting the robot video; letter episode 1 of…
Today I will be wandering Manhattan, seeing a couple of friends, popping in a few shops then flying out tonight. I’ll basically be offline. Alex de Campi has an Uncanny ValleyGirl lined up in hour and Adi Tantimedh has a Look! It Moves! to follow. Expect regular Cool service to get back up to speed…
Coming out of Big Apple Comic Con pro chatter, Avengers Academy is a new series coming out next year from Marvel by Christos Gage and Mike McKone. That’s about all I know. No, actually that’s all I know. I’m guessing it’s about an Academy for the Avengers, and one might suppose it’s a replacement for…
A slower, sparser, wetter Sunday. There are dripping coats and damp beards. And that’s just the Suicide Girls. The Avatar panel was sparsely attended, but then there was also the smallest Twilight Cast crowd I’ve ever seen as well, as Rain Destroyed Twilight. Not that it mattererd to the group of young ladies in the…
Coming from Image Comics in February, Chase Variant One Shot (Is All I Need), a metatextual action adventure about a four armed short packed tattooed assassin and the unseen card game that drives her every move. Two artists work on different chapters in the book, Italian artist Saverio Tenuta, is known in the US for…
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…
