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,…
That’s his name, right? Twilight? (I wish I’d thought of that. It’s really a joke from techie comedian Chris Hardwick. Respect!) So the second movie in the TWILIGHT trilogy, NEW MOON, just broke opening day box office records but it didn’t beat THE DARK KNIGHT’s opening weekend record, to the relief of nerds everywhere as…
Metro is a graphic novel that was published in Egypt in 2008. Billed as the country’s first graphic novel intended for adults, and possibly the first adult graphic novel written in arabic, it’s set in modern day Cairo, the story of a young software designer forced into debt by corrupt government officials, who robs a…
It ran on Friday night as part of BBC’s Children In Need marathon. As well as a skit from Merlin and the first three minutes of the Christmas Doctor Who, we got the Children In Need DVD single. And it’s spectacular. A medley arranged by comedian Peter Kay who does the voice of Big Chris…
Thanks to the Hollywood Reporter we know that despite some of the worst reviews for a movie since, well, no, actually, worse than Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, The Twilight Saga: New Moon took $72.7 million in the USA on Friday. Which smashed the $67.2 million taken by The Dark Knight last year. Holy sparkly…
Older, but none the wiser. And thankfully the internet didn’t break in my absence. The New York Daily News has splashed with a piece on Model Life, a graphic novel by… a model. Isobella Jade has written the book with artist Jazmin Ruotolo, telling the story of a model trying to make it in the…
Oh you think you’re so hot collecting those Blackest Night promotional rings. Well Gareb Shamus beats you hands down, collecting comic book conventions. He recently picked up the Toronto Con, now he’s ticked off New England Comic Con on the checklist. The con has been running since the seventies in Boston, run by comic store…
Watchmensch, my Watchmen comic book parody that takes a trip through the tussles between creators and publishers over the last seventy-odd years, is already available on PanelFly, and Comixology any day now. But now it exists as its own App in its own reader, designed by Mike Meyer of Weasel Floss Studios, creators of the…
Yesterday was the day that exhibitors tried to book their hotel rooms for San Diego Comic Con 2010. And prayed they’d get one close to the San Diego Comic Convention. The Marriot or the Hyatt basically. The Omni at a push. And, in the ten minutes they had to try and make bookings at a…
That’s the introduction to Alan Moore’s new self-published-ish fanzine, Dodgem Logic, in shops now. In fact I’m told that in Alan Moore’s home town of Northampton he turned up at his local comic shop, Close Encounters and dropped them off saying “does Frank Miller do that?” No, Alan, no he doesn’t. Frank is currently in…
See, I don’t know what to think about the internet anymore. Obviously I live my life by what comics tell me to think, don’t we all, but this week I’m terribly conflicted by three different books. The first up is Adventure Comics #4. Not only is it a promotional Black Lantern ring book but it’s…
Oh go on then Mr PR Person, I will embed a featurette (read, advert) for the new Sherlock Holmes movie by Guy Ritchie, starring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law on Bleeding Cool. Because it looks pretty, the bit with the stick in the face is funny and London looks superb in it. And I…
Although the current solicitation was written before it was all signed and sealed at Marvel, Wasteland‘s Antony Johnston will start co-writing Daredevil with current ongoing writer Andy Diggle from issue #505 until #507. Johnston is a long time comics/games/novels writer with comics such as Wolverine: Prodigal Son, adaptions of Alan Moore stories such as Light…
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…
