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,…
It appears that a combination of Ewoks and salad killed David Lynch’s Return of The Jedi. I don’t know about you but I reckon that’s probably a good thing. Or you might have had George Lucas CGIing Jar Jar Binks onto whatever Lynch had come up with…
Underground Heroes is an art project arranged for London Underground’s Art On the Underground continuing project. in this case, artist David Blandy and a bunch of London yoot dressing up as posing as superheroes, with photographer Tom Wichelow, costume designer Jenny Hayton and make-up artists Amita Rallin and Antigoni Livieratou filling in the gaps. The…
MillerWatch: Talking about burying your lead. According to IGN, Frank Miller is no longer attached to any ongoing Buck Rogers movie treatment. ZombieWatch: Natalie Portman signs on to play Elizabeth Bennet in Pride And Prejudice And Zombies. Yes. AuctionWatch: Selling a Simpsons script for £340. The guy was given the script when he was eight…
Three years after she hit the comic industry headlines with her essay Goodbye To Comics (and burnt all her remaining bridges at DC Comics instantly) Valerie D’Orazio is writing a Punisher MAX story for Marvel, the adult-audience intended series featuring Marvel’s skull-adorned assassin of criminals. And she’s telling a violent, gory, sinful, sexy and decadent…
Heidi MacDonald links to a story in the Pocono Record, detailing the arrest of Alfonso Frank Frazetta, Frank Frazetta’s son, caught breaking in to the family’s art museum to steal ninety pieces of artwork, including work by his own father. Heidi intimates that the identity of Alfonzo’s accomplice will make the story even more bizarre….
So this is the way things are then are they? DC post something on the Source blog, all the other blogs repeat it, link to it and be a bit sarcastic about it? Fair enough, I can do that. No probs.. Today it’s the turn of Old DC to show its head and push Final…
Okay, I’m not so sure about expanding continents, but this should expand both Neal Adams and Scott Kurtz‘ respective audiences. And you get to watch it actually happen…
Price: $4.99 Story page count: 38 Story page count without the preview of something you’ll probably buy anyway and was also included in Dark Avengers Annual: 32 Of which how many are splash pages: 2 Really? And who is being used as Norman Osborn’s photo reference in this issue? Julian McMahon Off of Nip/Tuck?: Yes…
Caped Crusaid is an AIDS awareness auction/benefit that is benefits the AIDS charity Crusaid, involving a number of comics creators and sci-fi actors. Orbital Comics in London is currently holding an exhibition of sketch postcards which are being auctioned off here including, amongst others, John Barrowman, Alan Cumming, John Simm, Brian Blessed, Sylvester McCoy, Russell…
The blog Letters Of Note is dedicated to presenting, well, letters of note. Written communication that needs to be preserved for historical, artistic, social, humorous or cultural reasons. They’ve just linked to a 4 Color Heroes entry, presenting a letter from Alan Moore to Dez Skinn, talking about the first Marvelman script he enclosed. His appeal for…
Bleeding Cool recently ran a piece on how hot young rapper MF Doom modelled his appearance on the Marvel character Doctor Doom. Well, Sara of the Sara Makes Things blog (and partner of artist Matt Boyce) has taken a Doctor Doom doll and made some necessary additions to make him more like his hip-hop namesake….
EDIT: Sorry folks you had to be quick… Fancy reading Grant Morrison and Tony Daniel’s Batman: The Black Glove? Don’t fancy paying the full price of £10.99? Or the Amazon price of £6.68? Well what about twenty pence? Including post and packaging, at least in the UK? That’s what Currys, Dixons and PC World are were selling…
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…
