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,…
I’ve been told that the advance sales are big. Really big. I know you think that the orders on Haunt #1 were big but that’s just peanuts to the Big Apple Comic Con. Listen… Sorry, Radio 4 have been serialising the new Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy novel, And Another Thing, which I swore I…
Coming out of the Frankfurt Book Fair, I’m told that the people behind the now-closed Virgin Comics are continuing with one of their many projects, and possibly the one with the potential to be the biggest selling comic book in the world next year. A new graphic novel written by the late King Of Pop,…
Two for Warren Ellis from Avatar this week. Only one of them has a movie deal. But odds are the second is on the way. For those not in the know, Gravel is a combat magician, basically Bravo Two Zero meets Hellblazer, Ross Kemp in a world of Neil Gaiman. He’s a member of the…
Denny 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…
It has widely been stated that the upcoming Asterix: The Golden Book will be the final Asterix graphic novel by Asterix co-creator Albert Uderzo. There has been wide speculation that Trolls Of Troy author Christopher Arleston will take over the line of books. Now Uderzo has stated that while he worked on the new book,…
Well, it’s no Watchmensch… But Aaron Freeman and Sharon Rosenzweig have been creating a comic version of The Torah for some time now, online, but are trying to get publishing to fund it. They have a deadline of November the 12th to raise $12,000 and are currently over a third of the way there. This…
I’ve got to say, when I started Bleeding Cool, I didn’t expect to be writing pieces on new fashion lines from Bloomingdale’s or new makeup lines from C.O. Bigelow. But there you go. Cancer survivor Marisa Acocella Marchetto, creator of the soon-to-be-a-Cate-Blanchett-movie-vehicle autobiographical comic book Cancer Vixen comic book have lend the name and character…
So start’s Neil Gaiman’s new collaborative novel, on Twitter, for BBC audio. Thousands of people have responded with the next possible sentences and it’s already gone off into all sorts of tangents. The selected twits are chosen by BBC Audio and are viewable here. The final version will be recorded and released free on iTunes….
Marvel have launched their new digital comics reader, giving it a 3.0 suffix and, well, let’s face it, learnt from some of the more popular comic book reading programmes out there. Above is the new Marvel 3.0 reader… and below is the much tauted Longbox digital comics reader… I mean, it’s not, obviously. Longbox deals…
Variety report that Frenemy of The State, an upcoming mini-series from Oni Press about a wealthy heiress working for the CIA, from star of The Office, Rashida Jones and Past Lies’ Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir has already been sold as a “movie based on a graphic novel” to Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, though…
The Dominator is a powerful hero who repeatedly fights and beats the furious and monstrous Megazoid. That’s the story seven year old Dominic Osorio told himself as he struggled to remain perfectly still, encased in a mask receiving radiation therapy for brain cancer. Dominic is The Dominator in the mask, and the Megazoid is his…
Well, what with everyone getting a credited column on this site, I thought I might as well have a go. And yes I know that almost every article is already written by me. Shut up. It’s my blog, my rules. And yes I know it’s not my blog, it’s Avatar’s, look do you want me…
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…
