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,…
In other news, Mark Millar is gearing up for Friday’s big Comic Book Resources interview over his new Marvel project with Steve McNiven, Nemesis. Naturally I know nothing about it – except I’m told that Nemesis is the name of the title character. So no, Robot6, not Marvelman… Mind you… it couldn’t have anything to…
Lookit! Iron Man 2 poster! With two Iron Men on it! Looks like they gone taken that “2″ moniker a little too literally for my simple homespun tastes. Thanks to Yahoo for putting that there thing up and for the good folks at /Film for bringing my deficient attention towards it.
We knew that Richard Curtis was writing a Doctor Who episode for next year. Something with Vincent Van Gogh in it. We also knew that the Daleks would be coming back next year. But we didn’t know they’d be at Curtis’ hands. Hell we still don’t officially. But presenter/producer/script editor Emma Freud, Richard’s partner, just…
Sandra C. Ruckdeschel and Pedro Ponzo are adding to Bluewater’s biographical comics line (as seen on The View, apparently) with Ellen DeGeneres’ life story. The publisher has had a very successful run of late, with their books on Stephanie Meyer, JK Rowling, Hilary Clinton and more making headline news across the globe and reaping sales…
All these months of talking about the difference between British and US genre shows has made me think about them more when I looked at two new Brit shows that have started, MISITS and PARADOX. I started seeing them as prime examples of current British genre TV. First, a potted and entirely subjective history of…
From the upcoming Dawn 20th Anniversary Trading Card Series – some of the Friends Of Dawn hand drawn sketch cards inserted, courtesy of Dynamic Forces.
A couple of weeks ago, Marvel brought out a Black Knight comic. A customer at the comic shop Amazing Fantasy in Hull suggested that Marvel were trying to cash in on the Blackest Night buzz which got retailer Paul Eke thinking…. what he needed was a Blacker Night comic to sit in between them on…
We went a bit mad this week, offering up around 37 posts in as many hours over the Thanksgiving holiday period, including a page from Alan Moore’s new graphic novel Neonomicon and a Jock Batman. So what else been has happening? Well, Wednesday was one of the bigger shipping weeks for comic stores in time…
I love the theory of simultaneous evolution. That sometimes things happen that seem so linked but that are clearly seperate in origin. And it’s true in comics. Swamp Thing/Man Thing, X-Men/Doom Patrol, UK Dennis The Menace/US Dennis The Menace, Death/Return Of Captain America/Death/Return of Batman, Blackest Night/Necrosha, it’s all there. Well, add one to the…
It was invented as a satirical joke. Chess boxing was a plot device in the graphic novel, Froid Équateur (Equator Cold) by Serbian creator Enki Bilal. Unitil Iepe Rubingh, a comics artist from Holland, started organising real matches. And now there are 150 professional competitors. And is shown on German TV. Insane. Matches are made…
And over fifty years since it was first serialized in the comic magazine Pilipino Komiks, the Francisco V. Coching’s classic comic El Indio has been painstakingly restored from newsprint copies and collected into a new graphic novel with new material and aforeword by Coching’s widow, with Leinel Francis Yu quoted as saying One only needs…
It’s about this time of year that I get asked by Americans about fun British stuff that they can’t get as easily over there, but which they could impress their similarly minded Anglophile friends and family with, imbibed with a sense of snobbery that comes with discovering something new. So, here’s a top ten. Any…
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…
