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
Five Questions For A Sunday Night
There has been a lot of hinting going on… 1) Marvel are publishing The Fallen in April. Does this indicate a major culling of the Marvel Universe? They mention a funeral… but “Fallen” is a bit plural isn’t it? 2) Are the Brightest Day banner books purely to be defined by characters who have come…
Doctor Who – The Readers’ Turn
Some of you share my love of Doctor Who. Some of you don’t. Some just like certain aspects. Some wonder if I write too much about the show on BleedingCool.com For those, I hope you’ll spare this one piece. Russell T Davies and Ben Cook have updated their correspondence collection The Writer’s Tale, now The…
2000AD, The USA And Diamond
Recently at the Comics Reporter website, Grant Goggans talked about recent issues that he believes have caused problems with the distriubution of the British weekly sci-fi comic 2000AD in American comic stores. There’d be a six-week gap between issues and then four would show up. Six weeks later, the missing two would show up, along…
S.W.O.R.D. Cancelled, Campaign Starts…
The Astonishing X-Men spinoff book S.W.O.R.D. by Kieron Gillen and Steven Sanders has been cancelled from #5 by Marvel. Sorry, folks, I’ve been enjoying it too. But as we know in this game, and cancellation isn’t always forever. And can be reversed. On the Nerdery blog, Greg Hyatt is launching a campaign to save the…
Sunday Runaround – Bissette To Banerjee To Ballet To Batman
BissetteWatch: Why not read Steve Bissette’s new webcomic King Of Monster Isle? The first five pages are up, so here are the first two… BalletWatch: Apparently The Time Traveller’s Wife‘s Audrey Niffeneger has been approached about her graphic novel The Adventuress being turned into a ballet? Are there any other graphic novel-to-ballet adaptations that I’m…
Thor And Warriors Four – It’s Power Pack!
What with Volstagg getting blamed for mass murder in Siege, it’s probably not the best time to be one of the Warriors Three. But is the new Thor And The Warriors 4 series solicited for April from Marvel Comics, a rebrand from soup to nuts of the classic concept? By kicking out Fandral, Hogun and…
The Man Who Leaked Wolverine… Looks A Bit Like Wolverine
The New York Times ran a piece the other day on Gilberto Sanchez, a man who claims he bought X-Men Origins: Wolverine from a Korean bootleg DVD seller, before uploading it online, and feels he’s being victimised for a crime he didn’t commit. Well, didn’t completely commit. Look, he didn’t do the original nicking of…
Saturday Runaround – Casting Around For Chew
LaymanWatch: As Chew enters the New York Times Bestseller List, the paper interviews Layman about the book- and a possible film version. Mr. Layman’s dream cast has two television actors, Ken Leung (from “Lost”) and Felicia Day (a little of everything if IMDB is to believed), in the lead roles. MuseumWatch: The Northern Illinois University…
Kick Ass and Sherlock Holmes Baddy May Be Green Lantern Baddy Now
It looks like British actor Mark Strong is now your Hollywood go-to guy for bad guys. It wasn’t always this way. I remember him playing policemen in all sorts of things including Prime Suspect. He was a little bit of a corrupt businessman in Our Friends In The North but you wouldn’t call him bad…
Heroes 4 Haiti
Heroes 4 Haiti is an appeal within the comics industry by comics artists to raise money to benefit the natural disaster in Haiti right now, with a Facebook page for instant updates. 100% of the money raised goes towards the efforts, eBay don’t take a cut and anyone can participate, pro or fan, putting artwork,…
April Comics – Kevin Smith’s Kato, Savage Axe Of Ares, Doc Savage, Warren Ellis’ Wolfskin And Neil Gaiman’s Instructions
The vanilla order forms for April have been doing the rounds, and Comics Should Be Good stripped out some of the Marvel stuff; New Avengers Finale #1; something called Fallen, five Siege-related one-shots devoted to Loki, Spider-Man, Captain America, Young Avengers, and Secret Warriors; Captain America: Who Won’t Wield the Shield #1; Thor and the…
Bryan Fuller Writing Pushing Daisies Graphic Novel, Honest
I’ve written about Bryan Fuller’s plans to conclude the cult favourite TV series Pushing Daisies as a graphic novel. Indeed Anna Friel has even talked about it on chat shows. Well now it’s actually happening. Sci Fi Wire reports Chi McBride, who played detective Emerson Cod took part in an interview in which he stated;…
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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…
