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…
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The Morning After The Night Before – Comic Industry Wakes Up To The Apple iPad
It can’t run Flash. It can’t run Photoshop. It’s basically a big iTouch. But it could be the biggest change in comic books. So now that people have had a little time to let it sink in, what’s the judgement? National Public Radio kindly links to Bleeding Cool as it prophesies that the iPad will…
Tokyo’s Comic Book Mass Murderer Pleads Guilty
Yesteday, Tomohiro Kato pleaded guilty on all charges of murder and attempted murder made against him at the Toyko District Court. The murders were committed in 2008 in Akihabara, a district of Tokyo known for its comic book and video game stores. The seven deaths and ten maimings was one of Tokyo’s most bloody crimes…
Thursday Runaround – WalMart And The Bullpen
WalMartWatch: What happens when Wal Mart dress as Marvel Comics. SerialKillerWatch: Martin Conoghan and Will Pickering their new Burke & Hare graphic novel at Edinbugh’s Forbidden Planet at half four till half five today. RossWatch: At some point this year, Jonathan Ross is planning to fly out to Italy to interview Jim Steranko for the…
Tank Girl Let Off At The Last Minute
On April 1st 2009, during the G20 meeting in London, there was a public protest and demonstration on the streets outside that, despite the best efforts of the media and police, didn’t boil over into mass violence, rampage and the burning down of Old London Town. Amidst the protest was a tank, driven by the…
Zac Efron To Star In Brian Michael Bendis’ Fire
Brian Bendis was recently twittering about a mysterious non-Spider-Man 4 movie project. Looks like it was Fire, an adaptation of his very first crime noir comic book, which he wrote and drew, first published by Caliber then picked up by Image Comics, and now picked up by Universal. Or as Brian Bendis put it last…
VIDEO: Comixology’s Apple iPad App For Reading Comics
This is, apparently, how one will read comic books on the Apple iPad, using digital distributor Comixology’s tablet application. It is rather snazzy, don’t you agree? I think it’s time to sell my Deadpools. Comics by comiXology concept from comiXology on Vimeo.
Comic Industry Instant Responses To Apple’s iPad
Thank goodness for Twitter… Ben McCool: Er, iPad kinda sounds like something futuristic women might put in their underpants… Brian Reed: I cannot believe they named it iPad. Colleen AF Venable: The bad naming of iPad makes me wonder if any woman work for Apple at all. Cameron Stewart: I called the name “iPad” months…
The Apple iPad Is $499 – Welcome Your New Comic Overlords
The presentation has concluded. We haven’t heard a thing about LongBox, and Rantz Hoseley didn’t tweet once. And anyway, the iPad doesn’t seem to do flash. Wherefore Zuda? But with the likes of RobotComics and Comixology having iPhone apps that can port right over to the newly announced iPad, mean they should have a field…
Kevin Smith Talks Green Hornet – ONLINE EXCLUSIVE
Comic Shop Insider is a weekly giveaway newsprint magazine on comic books. Last week, they ran an interview with Kevin Smith about GReen Hornet. However, CSN don’t have an online portal for their content, preferring to remain print only. So how can the publisher Dynamite, get that interview out where it can be Google-indexed? They…
Diamond Will Now Honour Comic Book Orders, Even If They Fall Below Minimum Levels
Last year, Diamond Comics Distributors changed their terms, first increasing the minium retail order at which they would deem it acceptable to continue distributing an ongoing comic book, or other product. And then stating that they wouldn’t distribute any order that came below that figure. This move was to both maintain profits on each line…
Grant Morrison’s Wonder Woman Too Weird For The DCU?
One of my all-time favourite runs on a superhero comic was Grant Morrison and Richard Case on Doom Patrol. A quite astounding take on what had become a more traditional superhero comic, mixing in surreal and dada influences and creating something that obeyed all the tropes and patterns of a superhero comic but twisted all…
David Beckham Biographical Comic Kicks Off
Bleeding Cool has scooped the cover by Matt Bellisle to the Bluewater biographical comic of David Beckham, English football star (now of Los Angeles Galaxy). Peter Rogers will be writing it, and it will be published in the summer. Should be a run through the life and times of Britain’s most famous current footballer, through…
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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…
