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,…
We all remember the wonderful disaster that was the Judge Dredd movie. Surprisingly watchable now with your tongue firmly in cheek, it is still a shocking example of how many movies take a comic, remain slavishly true to certain small aspects of it, but with the rest just throw it into a vat of acid…
In 1968, we saw 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Doctor Who adventure Wheel In Space, with Cybermen and stuff. Anyway, some bright sparks have smooshed them with some damn fine CGI. And it’s brilliant. If you, you know, really like 2001 and Doctor Who. Which I do. Oh, how I do. It is a…
Today in the UK, it’s the annual Children In Need telethon. A campaign publicised and promoted extensively by the BBC to help children’s charities. And there’ll be an evening of it. With that awful but eventually endearing Pudsey Bear character. Ooh, and a first look at the upcoming Christmas’ Doctor Who at some point. And…
So Idris Elba (off of Ultraviolet, The Wire and The Losers) will play Heimdall in the Thor adaptation. Cue various internet complaints that Heimdall wasn’t black. And not as many people pointing out that Chris Hemsworth is neither a Viking nor a God. And Stan Lee is still wondering about his cameo… — Every now…
(Short ‘N Curlies) — #19 Si Spurrier A historical Twentieth Column (don’t be confused by the #19 up there, kids — you’ll recall the wanky Column#0 back at the start) demands something special: a Bumper Double-Length erudite-fest of Vital Wisdom! Sadly, I can’t be arsed with that. You’ll have to make do with an overlong…
The second episode of Misfits, the new British superfiction series about a bunch of young troublemakers granted superpowers airs in half an hour on E4. And I thought I’d watch it with some of you guys. They do this kind of the thing on the Guardian website all the time with stuff like The Wire…
We’ve mentioned this before, but it’s worth a brief recap. A county library in Jessamene, Kentucky, recently fired two staff members, Sharon Cook and Beth Boisvert, for circumventing the library’s lending policies on Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier. The graphic novel which takes famous literary characters and…
In the good old days of the early twenty-first century, Marvel and DC used to provide First Look books to retailers, sending them a copy of certain comic book issues the week before the book would actually see proper distribution. But printing issues, distribution problems and fears of illegal pirating put a stop to that….
Eric Canete posted about his recent issue of Amazing Spider-Man and how some Spidey fans didn’t take to his artwork much (idiots of course, it’s damn fine gorgeous) – this is the double page spread that got some in a tizzy. Obviously what they see as poor anatomy, I see at a distorted viewpoint intended…
Comic book writer Tony Lee has spend the last week in India, flown out by the British Council as part of a cultural programme. The writer of Doctor Who, Harker, Pride And Prejudice And Zombies and Hope Falls comics found himself lauded, feted and given lots of flowers. And as some kind of cross between…
Yesterday morning, Leicester Square (where I’m doing some freelance) looked like this. Children and the occasional mother queuing for the Twilight: New Moon premiere ten hours later. All fine and dandy though, you know, school truant officers? Hello? But getting out of work later was almost impossible. Twilight ruined Leicester Square. — I wonder… with…
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…
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…
