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,…
Comic book creator Brian Einersen has created a small press comic book, Lady Saga, based on the life, times and public image of Lady Gaga, in the manner of a saint. Yup. Oh and a superhero of course. Einersen told undercover.com.au “she will still use her powers of wit and style. However, like every good…
Our cat died today. Zoe, she’d been getting on a bit and was starting to get doddery. We had an appointment with the vet today and I was fearing the worst, something which she spared us. We’ll be having the talk with our eldest daughter Eve today, Alice will remain blissfully ignorant – just that…
023 Deceleration, as the canyons become skyscraper-walled New York streets. We pass the office window that Alex Toth, who never drew a story worthy of his talent and today is known only to specialists in the medium, attempting to defenestrate editor Julius Schwartz because “Julie” refused to pause his lunchtime card-game to get Toth paid….
This Week I Have Been Mostly Hating: This one fucking woman… This tubby, over-loud middlemanagement skankpig, dolled-up in so much makeup she could’ve deflected a bullet, with hair like a fibrous condom and eyes so hungry for attention they’d transcended mere awfulness and become psychic black holes (even Joy couldn’t escape their pitiless gravity), who…
This week I have been roundly mocked, first by Ragnell, then by Laura Hudson as well as oodles of commentators in a game I like to call spot-the-hypocrit. I know I should never get dragged into these things but what happens is that I always jump in with both feet, occasionally in my mouth, on…
Devil’s Due Publishing is mid-level publisher, alongside the likes of Zenescope, Avatar, Bluewater, IDW, Dabel Bros, Dynamic, Boom! and Archaia, though it’s been around longer than most. They’ve published some high profile books, including GI Joe, Barack The Barbarian, Micronauts and Family Guy, employed some well-known talents such as Rick Remender and Guy Davis, and…
I get tired of how generic and tame and polite most pop fiction is. It seems to be an affliction with comics and especially TV and movies these days. Most stories tend to be generic, they have to be in order to ensure commercial success. They’re subjected to review by editors, producers, executives, sponsors, investors,…
Oh go on, while I’m in a promotional mood, how about this one. Get to www.bbc.co.uk/tickets at 10 o’clock Thirsday morning (5am New York, 2am Los Angeles) and try and grab a pair of tickets to an advance screening in London of the first episode of the second series of Being Human on January 7th….
The penultimate episode of Misfits, series one, runs on Thursday 10th December at 10pm on E4… have fun!
First an old photo of the man sipping java, courtesy of the featured Jill Thompson… And now the main attraction, a look at the Grant Morrison biopic trailer…
We launch Episodes 1 and 2 of Valentine in nine days. I’m up to my neck in website building, as well having two music videos in post. That’s why I vanished for a couple of weeks: hectic pre-production on a Los Campesinos! music video, plus my mother falling ill just before Thanksgiving, then the video…
ContractWatch: Cullen Bunn, co-creator of The Damned comic and the writer Shawn Lee, who Bunn worked with on The Tooth, have gone exclusive with… Marvel? DC? No, Evileye Books. They will be creating and developing a dark fiction religious/plague/apocalypty thing called The Raze, putting out at least one novel and one graphic novel a year….
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…
