Well I must have done something right. Cryptozoic sent me the Locke & Key card game today. And I opened it. And filmed myself doing it too. Welcome to the new Locke & Key unboxing event…
Why The Hell Isn’t There A My Little Pony Comic Book?
Aaron and Mike of A Comic Show want to help fix what’s wrong with the comics industry, they swear they’ll start a regular bombastic op/ed column here on Bleeding Cool. But first, they feel they must follow their hearts (hooves), and use their connections to get a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic comic made!…
Jim Lee’s Hidden Tribute To Carla
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…
The First Page Of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Revealed At Angoulême
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…
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Tuesday Runaround – This Is Madness, This Is Not A Graphic Novel!
MuseumWatch: A week on Saturday at 4pm, Darwyn Cooke will be reading from Parker: The Hunter at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. TVWatch: Watch for more and more referenced to the willies-and-front-bottoms TV series, Spartacus:Blood and Sand for Starz, airing this Friday, being shot in a “graphic-novel style”. Without ever coming anywhere close to a…
Cully Hamner In Danger Of Being Forgotten In Red Adaptation
The movie Red, based on the Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner comic book mini-series of the same name for DC/Wildstorm started shooting yesterday. With an all-star aging cast of the likes of Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Denzel Washington, John Malkovich, Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfus and Ernest Borgnine. All fine and dandy. But in the press…
Lying In The Gutters – 18th January 2010
Enjoy Batman, Aquaman and a bloody big whale, courtesy of Neal Adams and Frank Miller’s upcoming Batman: Odyssey. This has officially been Bleeding Cool’s biggest week since the site launched in June. Even during the week of Disney buying Marvel and Paul Levitz resigning, it didn’t come close. So what made it quite so massive?…
Rob Liefeld To Draw Deadpool Corps Comic For Marvel
They are both Rob Liefeld’s finest creations. And Deadpool especially is finding success, a film on the way and the character supporting four monthly mini-series. where once the character failed to keep even one going. So naturally Deadpool was on hand to change the name of Cable‘s final issue, to Deadpool And Cable, to see…
Marvel’s Her-Oes – Teenage Female Superhero Comic Actually Written By A Woman
I know, it’s a surprise. A Marvel comic book featuring female teenage versions of Marvel superheroes, ostensibly aimed at a female teenage-or-younger market, and actually written by a woman. As opposed to a fat bearded man like me tapping away on a keyboard pretending to know what it’s like to be one and exactly what…
Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh #33: Dumb Thrillers Keep Us Dumb
I already reviewed the HUMAN TARGET pilot back during the upfronts, but some thoughts lingered in my head, especially after Fox put it on with the premiere of the latest season of 24 on Sunday night. Looking at it again doesn’t make me change my mind about it, and having 24 on only compounds what…
The Return Of Starman… In Blue
James Robinson talks to iFanboy podcast about the revived issue of his Starman series as part of Blackest Night out this week, how it’s basically a Shade project and how he is considering new Shade comics. But he also let slip the the alien ex-invader Mikaal from the series will assume the mantle of Starman…
How Will Apple’s Tablet Affect Comics? Weasel, ComicZeal, Graphic.Ly, LongBox, Robot Comics, ComicRack And Comixology Speak Out
The Apple iSlate/iTablet is expected to be announced later this week. Jim Shelley has interviewed a number of movers and shakers in the emerging digital comic book field about the emergence of the device, its effect and how they are planning to answer the challenge. More tomorrow… Jim Shelley: Could you introduce yourself and your…
The Montgomery Story – Is This The Most Influential Comic Book In America?
The writer and artist are unknown but this fourteen page comic book published the Fellowship of Reconciliation tells the story of the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by Martin Luther King, Jr, and includes a history of passive resistance in India. Published in the same year comic was spread amongst the Southern black population in…
Monday Morning Runaround – Gambling On Hellboy
HaitiWatch: The Heroes4Haiti auctions continue apace. AnalogyWatch: As she contemplates suicide, Charlotte Raven compares Huntington’s disease to something concocted by The Joker. LocalWatch: Lafayette resident Kodie Chamberlain gets profiled by his hometown paper. He talks about getting the 30 Days Of Night gig. I wasn’t drawing any better the day before I got the call……
Swipe File: The Mask And… The Mask?
The Mask is a story who obtains a mysterious ancient tribal mask. Whenever he puts on the mask, Barnes experiences dream-like visions which become increasingly disturbing and violent. The visions begin to alter Barnes’ personality, and eventually drive him insane. That’s the plot of the 1961 3D gimmick movie, in which viewers were encouraged to…
Kick-Ass Lobby Poster – And Does Millar Hint At Scorsese For Nemesis?
Over at Millarworld, Mark is giving it his usual schtick. Okay, am pretty drunk. I downed many Guinnesses as my gang re-watched Spidey 2 tonight (a master-piece, btw) and am now weirdly wide awake. But have spoken to three directors about the Nemesis movie in the past seven days, none of whom have read the…
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New Sherlock Viral? Or Something Geekier?
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…
Frank Miller Redraws The Dark Knight
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…
The Amazing Spider-Man Is Tidied Up A Little By An Official Blurb
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…
Joe Madureira Wants To Draw A Zelda Comic Series
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…
The Robins – A New Comic From Jeff Lemire?
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…
Warner Bros. Nix ElfQuest Movie, Pin Blame On The Hobbit
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…
