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,…
Typical. I go out to the pub with freelance-workmates and Wizard suddenly change their Chicago Comic Con dates and Dynamite Entertainment buy the Dabel Bros titles, such as Mercy Thompson, Fear Nothing and The Warriors . Heidi MacDonald told me that when she took a day off, Disney bought Marvel. Anyway. I had two questions…
1. We all know Tom Brevoort’s Marvel blog. Source of art, insight and the occasional off-message hilarity (including just now a response to a bolshy comics creator). But what about Jessica Brevoort, his wife? Well she’s been collating recipes, cookijng up a storm and filming their creation. So, if you want an idea to what…
Okay, it’s funny, a gag, I get it. The Big Bad in Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 8 is called Twilight. Ha ha. And yesterday, Dark Horse gave CBR the cover to Buffy #33, where the identity of Twilight is seen on the cover, with his face blurred out. And then later, they provided artwork with…
The New York Times reviews a biography of Strangers On A Train.The Talented Mr Ripley writer, Patricia Highsmith, and tells us; This biography also delves into Highsmith’s secretive career as a writer of superhero comics and into the connection between those stories’ identity switches and her sophisticated later crisscross plot schemes. Indepth intrigue on Golden Arrow, Spy…
Dave Elliott would just like people to know something. That he created the revamp of Aladdin, published by Radical Comics. Currently in litigation over his departure from the company, Dave Elliott was the one of the founders of the publishing/media exploitation company behind such hits as Hercules, Incarnate and FVZA and was responsible for many…
A few nights ago, Northampton was host to the launch party of Dodgem Logic, Alan Moore’s new fanzine. One of the bands playing was The Retro Spankees, whose work appears on the free CD with the magazine. And as part of their set, Alan Moore joined them on stage for a number. There now, you…
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…
You’re a British soldier in Afghanistan. Every day brings new dangers, new injuries, new deaths. A bit of escapism back at the barracks can go a long way. The Ministry of Defence have cancelled plans to comics and graphic novels out to British troops in Afghanistan in time for Christmas. Originally arranged with British comics…
So I conducted a Twinterview with Mike Benson, writer of Wolverine, Punisher and Moon Knight – but possibly more importantly, Entourage and The Bernie Mac Show. I hoped to bounce of his choice to move from TV into comics, ask him about the challenges a new medium demands and maybe get some clarification on that…
Titan Publishing are a UK-based company, spun out of the mighty beast that was Forbidden Planet and Titan Distributors (now Diamond UK) that used to really show you what a monopoly was. Currently they are best known for redistributing and reprinting DC graphic novels and trades for the UK bookstore, as creating tie-in movie books…
I enjoyed reading Tom Spurgeon’s Holiday Gift-Giving Suggestion List Thing. No, I really did. But when I got to the mini-comics, I knew something was up. Mini-comics? Oh sure, some people will like them, especially from the creator in question but seriously? You rock up at your family abode, they give you a big box,…
The first issue of Warren Ellis and Garrie Gastony’s Supergod set up the format for this… one man telling the story of the end of the world to either another person, a recording device, or his own mind. And the end of the world has been caused by governments engaging in a superarms race, creating…
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…
