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,…
Crossed #8 by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows ships today (tomorrow in the UK) and it’s just a bundle of loveliness. If loveliness means a harrowing and literalised subtext of man’s inhumanity to man. Important people have died, the structure of the survivors’ group has changed and with every step forward they seem to take…
NightWatch: So… will today see copies of Blackest Night #6 leak out of shops a week early? Or will everyone hold onto them fearing the wrath of DC Comics’ Bob Wayne? Report any sightings to Bleeding Cool! Comics2FilmWatch: Brendon Connelly reports for /Film that Transformers writer John Rogers is working on the script to the…
Manga titles have known this for years. It’s the price of the first Chew trade paperback. Vertigo have had a spate of them, Crossing Midnight, Unknown Soldier, Scalped and now Dynamite’s Project Superheroes is using the price point for their new trade. $9.99 is a golden price point for trade paperbacks to entice the unsure…
This is a preview of Red Sonja: Wrath Of The Gods #1 of 5, due out in February from Dynamite. By Luke Lieberman and Walter Geovani, it looks like it’s, well basically what you want from a Red Sonja book. Lots and lots of Red Sonja. The solicitation copy says it “explores the mysteries of…
KickAssWatch: Oh go on then, let’s watch that new Kick Ass Hit Girl Trailer… ComicsToFilm: DC Entertainment must be really grateful for the success of Iron Man and expected success of Thor. It means that they can make Hawkman without too many people going “Really? Hawkman?” ComicsToFilm2: Comic book creator Riad Sattouf (Manuel du Puceau)…
025 Engineer Tony Visconti has set up three microphones in front of David Bowie, with volume-triggered gates on them. It was a huge room in Berlin, previously used to record symphonies during World War 2. (Private Jack Kirby: “I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.”) One…
Noel Clarke is probably most recognised on the street for playing Mickey Clarke in Doctor Who, the first black Doctor Who companion. But he also wrote a decent Torchwood episode, the movie kidulthood and wrote/directed its sequel adulthood, finding a unique vantage point somewhere between Menace II Society and Grange Hill. He’s now a major…
Ho ho ho. Right that’s Christmas festivities done. Bleeding Cool will be posting on Christmas Day will all sorts of goodies to entertain you after the post-roast fug has set in. So what’s been happening on the Cool this week? Well, we… Saw what was happening with Virgin Comics/Liquid Comics/Epic Cycle announcing a new line…
It’s sometimes fun to see just how tastes change across the decades. How one acceptable image becomes the most politically correct jab on the planet. Or how one bland scene would one have been interpreted as a tatseless piece of gore. Today, the cover to the Comics Code-Approved Justice League: Rise Of The Arsenal #1…
Recently we reported on news that Dynamite Publishing had signed a new publishing deal with the debt-ridden Dabel Brothers. And then that Dynamite had taken on debts from the publisher. So exactly who have Dynamite been paying for debts incurred by the Dabel Bros? I understand that creators, many of whom had given up ever…
The British heavy metal group have signed a deal with Primary Wave to exploit the Def Leppard brand in many ways , but most notably, a cartoon series and spinoff comic book. The cartoon will take the five members of Def Leppard and cast them in a fantasy action adventure setting. And probably not-pushing fifty…
WARNING: This column has loads and loads of spoilers for many of the big video games that came out this year, so if you want to play them, you may not want to read it. If there’s anything about 2009 that stood out to me, it was that video games became more compelling to me…
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…
