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,…
Achieve even a modicum of success in the field of writing comics — a solitary prideparticle of Published Material; a lonely tick on your comicography; a flicker of sperm-frothed spandex on the ledger of your self-respect — and thanks to the teeming mob of journalists, bloggers, rumour-mongers, noisemakers and sideways promoters which populates our bonsai…
Sorry about the silliness earlier, here is the full image – although why Peter Parker’s nose is still hidden beats me… and yes, it’s the return of the red head. In that wedding dress. Mind you , those of you who want the pair married again – don’t get your hopes up. Unless it’s the…
Blackest Night has been the big crossover that has pushed Green Lantern to the fore, redefined the mythos of the character, made it relevant to all the DC Universe and has seemingly sold quite well too. But what if Geoff Johns had been otherwise occupied? Back in September 2007, comic book creator Alan Davis posted…
He’s bald, he’s got two major sci-fi franchises under his belt and now the Queen has made if official, naming Patrick Stewart in her New Year’s Honours list to be knighted, Sir Patrick Stewart, for services to drama. He recently co-starred as Claudius alongside David Tennant in Hamlet , and has a long history with…
PornWatch: Playboy‘s Hugh Hefner spent his teenage years writing and drawing autobiographical comic books, reproduced in the examinatory volume Hugh Hefner’s Playboy. “To really tell my story in an interesting way, the part that I wanted to include in the book — the part that intrigued me — was what came before. The origins ……
Wallet Pop has run a price comparison chart across the noughties, seeing what everyday items have increased in price over the last ten years and by how much. And while the price of a Slurpee jumping from 99c to $2.12 runs high up the chart at a whopping 122% increase, a comic book jumping from…
Prominent comics commenter Tom Huxley writes for Bleeding Cool: Ten comics for ten years: some of my favourite comic book series of the 21st century so far. Bear in mind this is a narrow and personal list, NOT an authoritative one. It is limited particularly because most of the great comics I read this decade…
Everyone’s doing lists. Can I do one, can I? Can I? Can I? Remember, this list will be wrong for many reasons. Wrong for missing out the ones you know are best. Wrong for missing out the ones I forgot about. Wrong basically because I chose them. But I think I’m right. For the next…
Created to help sell the world of The Book Of Eli, with the comic book artists used for conceptual, illustration and storyboard designs for the movie, Chris Weston and Tommy Lee Edwards, here are two motion comic books that act as prequels to the movie. The Book of Eli Chapter One: Billy with Tommy Lee…
So Marvel have released a number of puzzle pieces to make up an image showing Spider-Man’s future in 2010… Some enterprising chaps have pieced them together… But there are still pieces missing. Well, here for the first time is that image completed in full. What? UPDATE: Oh go on then, this is how it’s looking…
I read the first collection of Chew this week which, given the week also saw my introduction to the wonderful world of food poisoning, may not have been the best idea in the world. It’s a great book though, one where the hype is well and truly deserved and the art and the script are…
This week Diamond Comics Distribution doesn’t ship comics to any of its stores. This was because, due to UPS holiday schedules, a significant percentage of stores would not have received their comics on the due date and so Diamond took the decision that, rather than giving some stores unfair advantage, no one would get their…
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…
