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,…
Enjoy. No really, enjoy. Courtesy of the great guys at Spazdog Comics, a dramatic reading of the first two issues of Tyrese Gibson’s hit Image comic, Mayhem. Here at Bleeding Cool Towers, we can’t wait for the third. Best enjoyed alongside a copy of Tyrese Gibson’s Mayhem. Ask Meltdown Comics, they’ve got plenty.
Ex-Virgin Comics, ex-Comics Foundry, ex-MTV Splashpage, current lead writer for AOL’s Comics Alliance, Laura Hudson covered the Scott Kurtz/Wizard spat with the headline Scott Kurtz vs. Wizard Magazine, Fight!. But it seemed she was about to become a member of the fisticuffs brigade herself. Laura took the opportunity to defend Wizard on the basis that…
Hey You Guys point up a new Britmanga-to-film project, Buskers. Based on the just-published graphic novel, it will star Blur/Gorillaz’s Damon Albarn, Kevin Spacey, Mos Def and Ian Brown. Buskers is the story of a successful banker brought low, under criminal investigation and a suicide attempt under his belt, who falls in with London’s busking…
Yes, I’d like to point this out. The Guy Ritchie/ Robert Downey Jr/ Jude Law Sherlock Holmes movie was not based on a graphic novel. A few pages were sketched/ storyboarded out to pitch the movie. That’s it. Still looks fun though. Here’s a new trailer. Oh and there’s also some kind of immersive online…
From last week’s Green Lantern… okay it might come off as a pwning of Alan Moore’s comments a few weeks back, but that would have been a very last minute change and it’s impossible for the mighty publishing machine could have reacted so quickly. I understand it is, however, a refutation to some readers who had previously…
IGN have released the first Kick-Ass movie posters which, following the pattern of the “upteenth” print of the Kick-Ass comics, spell the title out across them all… Met a Forbidden Planet employee in the pub last night who loved the preview they’d seen, although especially for seeing Niocolas Cage getting his head kicked in repeatedly….
Sadly no one blew up Parliament last night. Maybe next year. Here are a bunch of ComICA events starting today. See yesterday for more of the ongoing ones. Black Powers Black comic book creators John Aggs, Patrice Aggs and Woodrow Phoenix talk with the curators of an exhibition on black representations in comic books. Free,…
Doom Patrol #4 is the first Blackest Night tie-in comic to come with a Blackest Night promotional ring, in this case, a Yellow one. So how has it affected sales? Well, there have been sellouts. Stores that really felt they stretched orders to a mighty twenty-five copies in to qualify to order the rings, many…
People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” – V For Vendetta, the movie Today is November the fifth, the day Britain celebrates the foiling of a plot by Catholic terrorists in the seventeenth century to blow up the Houses of Parliament with Dynamite. Guy Fawkes was tried,…
One of my Little Bleeders, Wade Campell, saw a screening of Kick-Ass last night. It’s still an unfinished piece, the Superman music seen at San Diego is still present at the beginning, the animation sequence is very unfinished and effects need finalising. But here are his thoughts on what he saw. Take it away, Wade!…
If you’re going to invite a prominent critic to one of your conventions to hopefully placate him, always, always address him by name. The right name. As Scott Kurtz, author of PVP and a number of comments about Wizard World Conventions let the world know when he received the following hail. From: Larry Ernst to:…
The English-speaking world’s biggest comic arts festival launches today in London. ComICA 2009. So what’s going on? Well. there are many ComICA events to choose from – some are ongoing, some starting today, and some only on today. A Heavy Pencil session with David Lloyd, creator of V For Vendetta. He will draw live in…
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…
