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,…
The prequel to Black Beetle: No Way Out, Kara Bocek by Scalped and Zorro‘s Francesco Francavilla is a weekly Sunday webstrip on his Pulp Sunday blog, set in Instanbul/Constantinople before World War II. And ain’t it just the bee’s knees?
Mike Netzer (the comics artist formerly known as Mike Nasser) writes; Back in 1978, while incarcerated in a Detroit psychiatric facility for “messianic” activity (they really did that?), I produced a strip for the ward paper SUPERGOD. Some of the art floated around and in the early 1990′s was found by someone who recognized the…
Jump Start is a syndicated comic strip about a policeman and his family. Currently it’s running a thanksgiving-inspired plot that is exploring the importance of bulletproof vests as standard for police on the job. But running a strip with two police being shot at, one hit in the chest, may have been unfortunate. Because you…
The rain is pelting down. I’ve just made the kids lemon and sugar pancakes. And I’m thinking of writing a scriptural justification for the acception of, nay, promotion of homosecuality in the Christian church. Why, how are you spending your Sunday? LocalWatch Shot In The Dark Comics astounds local media by published three comics in…
The Guardian’s Book podcast interviews Apostolos Doxiadis, the co-creator of bestselling graphic novel, Logicomix, about the life of Bertrand Russell and the unique madness associated with advanced mathematics. I would call it a foundational quest because the thing was that at some point around this time, people started suspecting that mathematics did not rest on…
Mr Millar, wash your mouth out with soap and water, what would the nuns say? Mark Millar and Steve McNiven announced their new creator-owned series from Marvel Icon at CBR today, Nemesis, a comic about a supervillain fighting a city’s police with all the technology available to the likes of Batman, inspiring the full version…
Moonstone have decided to make the first issue of Tony Lee and Jake Minor’s Lady Action comic available online free as a PDF. Not that unusual you might think. But three weeks before it’s meant to come out in the shops? Okay, that is a little unusual. Retailers who ordered copies may well crucify Moonstone. Both of…
With DC almost topping Marvel’s market share in October, the expectation was that, buoyed by the Blackest Night promotion, DC Comics may tip the scales for November orders. However, that was not to be. The latest figures for November released by Diamond have Marvel on a 37.85% of dollar share to DC’s 31.71%. And for…
Price: $4.99 Story page count: 37 Story page count without the preview of something you’ll probably buy anyway: 31 Of which how many are splash pages: 4 Price per non-preview story page: 16 cents Really? Does that include sales tax?: No Price per story page in Chew #1 TPB also out this week: 9 cents…
Out next week, the penultimate issue of Phonogram 2: The Singles Club by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie from Image Comics. So enjoy the sneak peek below… and ooh isn’t that last page terribly Morrisonesque? Yes, Kieron, it is.
The Jessamine County Public Library that fired two library employees for restricting the loan of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier, and who invaded one customer’s privacy in doing so is currently engaged in a massive shutting-the-stable-door exercise. After a high-profile pub;ic meeting full of petitions, claims and counter claims, The Black Dossier,…
Every year, BBC One run a special themed series of idents for programming over the Christmas period. And this year, what with David Tennant’s final Doctor Who episodes playing out over Christmas and the New Year, the BBC have made the idents, well, a little Tardisy. Here they are… aren’t they pretty? (UPDATE: The first now in…
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…
