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,…
Things are happening in comics. Here are just a few of them. How big is your comic? Probably not as big as this one. 400 feet long, by Isabel Rucker, the opening party for the Unfurling : This Land show is tonight from 6pm at SOMArts, 934 Brannan Street, in San Francisco, CA 94103. —…
Do you want to know about Iron Man 2 and Batman Begins Sequel 2? Good. Now go Google them. Done that? Okay, cool. Let’s talk about some fresh stuff. Jason Schwartzman’s Gideon fights with a sword in Scott Pilgrim vs. The Just Come Out Already. Why, then, even bother with flying kicks? Because they cool,…
Back in August, Frank Cho launched a contest to find an artist for his upcoming Image book 50 Girls 50 with Doug Murray. They did awfully well, and set successful applicants a number of tests. Newsarama reports on the winner, Axel Medellin, with his winning submission. But there’s a much more interesting story. One of…
Launching at next year’s Bristol Comics Expo, will be The Bulletproof Coffin, a giveaway preview of the new Image comic book by Shaky Kane and David Hine with artwork, background information and interviews. The series proper will launch in June and run to six issues, telling the stories of the classic and fictitious Golden Nuggets…
Today sees the release in the US of The Boys Limited Edition Hardcover, one of the Dynamite Fifth Anniversary books. The Boys is the superhero satire that got booted from DC Comics despite selling ever so well, and picked up by Dynamite where it rapidly became their number one selling book. It remains one of…
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 appears that all five chase covers to the Archaia licensed Days Missing title painted by Frazer Irving can join together to form some kinf of pentaptych. They can be a bugger to track down. So here’s bit of Photoshopping to point it out. I understand the assembled covers will form the underside of the …
Seriously, Avatar should so run an “After Green Lantern” ad once that film hits. Because, yes the similarities are obvious and probably intentional. But this is dark police drama with superpowers rather than a superhero comic per se. In fact what costumes exist are probably a distraction that another draft may have removed (see Wanted)…
Smoking Gun, a Canadian games developer, has created a graphic novel called X to tease its upcoming unnamed game. It’s written by social commentator and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, and drawn by the game’s designers Cheoljoo Lee and Younger Yang. The first seventeen pages are online… and there’s even a little interaction hidden within the…
Ah Deadpool fans incensed that this creator Rob Liefeld is drawing part of Deadpool #900. you know, Rob Liefeld. The guy who created the character. — Enjoy Neil Gaiman’s telling a rather fun story about squeamishness, nicknames and a spot on impersonation of Alan Moore, 3:40 in… — Comic Vault of Chicago moves into…
Here’s your Monday roundup of recent comics-related movie and TV news just, for a bit of fun and that, on Tuesday. Martin Campbell has spoken about The Green Lantern to Empire magazine who just put it out in print and not, you know, cyberwordies. Thankfully, some enterprising blog has stolen their material and put it…
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…
