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,…
VWatch: Images of V For Vendetta created by David Lloyd during a session at ComICA are available on eBay, to raise money for Cartoon Classroom – collating comic book studies in the UK and Eire. TargetWatch: The Fox TV show Human Target based on the DC comic is shifting its 9pm Wednesday slot to 8pm…
Recently Mark Millar announced that he was to start directing a superhero movie this spring. He also announced his new creator owned superhero comic with Steve McNiven for Marvel, Nemesis. It seems some people on the West Coast have put two and two together and I have received repeated reports telling me earnestly that Mark…
We all know that December 30th is a comic book skip week. No New Comics. Apart From That Blackest Night #6/Free Origins Of Siege/Avengers Calendar And ID Cards That Shops Have To Hold For A Week. The presumption was that books intended for that week would peter out through January. Not at Marvel. I understand…
Price: $4.99 Comic page count: 74 What? Really? Yes How much original comic material: 52. They reprint Madrox #1 as well. Splash pages? 6 That’s still pretty good. So what’s that per page? 9 1/2 cents a page. How much was Dark Avengers per page, also out this week? Over 18 cents a page. Additional…
RomaniaWatch: In 2004, 15 year old Alida Tomiuc wrote and drew a graphic novel (all of three pages) about the Romanian Revolution based on the stories of her parents, set in 1989, events to which she was an unborn participant. Her father remembers and uploads the project to the Radio Free Europe site. LibraryWatch: The…
Last week I saw Avatar. Tonight I saw Sherlock Holmes. And all that stuff about Avatar changing cinema forever – well here’s one thing it changed. I can’t stand watching XBox-level CGI in the cinema anymore. And Avatar has spoiled me for it. And there’s a lot of panoramas showing off Victorian London, specifically the…
Today all the British papers were full of reports that TV chat show host and radio star Jonathan Ross was offering to cut his reported £6 million a year salary at the BBC in half in order to stay on with the broadcaster, as well as reducing the length of his contract. So here’s something…
From the Captain America: Who Will Wield The Shield preview out today… A quite literal spoiler there, albeit with an apology. Basically giving a summary of the end of the Reborn series – even though it hasn’t been published yet. Still, you know, the series was called Captain America; Reborn, One might say the spoiler…
A quick preview of the new series of Being Human there, the houseshare drama about a ghost, a werewolf and a vampire, returning for a second series on BBC2 on January 10th. Ooh and here are a few werewolf photos to keep you happy till then…
Is Stark responsible for Whiplash armour? is this Armor Wars all over again? Is that a touch of Extremis? Is that an Iron autopsy? Just how many Iron Men are there in this film? And is the “dark side” of Iron Man’s past going to come over all Avatar-preachy? Anyone got any answers? Do I need…
It’s been called the journal of record for the comics industry. The constant critic, holding an industry’s feet to the fire. I’ve read it for decades, been inspired, influenced and enraged by it. But now we all have the chance to laugh at it. In The Comics Journal’s mighty issue three hundred, there is a…
It’s been called the greatest, cleverest, most successful attempt to put the superpower on screen to date. Admittedly by me, but still. None of the clumsiness of Watchmen, the tongue-in-cheesyness of Iron Man, the unconvincing prosthetics of Hellboy, the soap operaness of Smallville or the unconvincing earnestness of Heroes. Misfits take four or five members…
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…
