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: February 2010
Is This Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern Without The CGI?
Reaction to the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern costume hasn’t exactly been glowing. Unlike the suit. But what does it look like if the CGI is turned off? Something, it appears, that might be more acceptable to hardcore fans. Take a look at this shot that purports to be from set. Or is an excellent photoshop…
Rapidshare Banned From Distributing Pirated Comic Books
So how do comic books get pirated? I mean apart from the scan, filter, fix and upload aspects. There are two main methods of distribution. Fileshare, where direct links to a copy of the file in question are distributed and torrents where hosts of files can be downloaded to your machine while you simultaneously share…
Killer Creates Comic About His Crime
Yesterday, I ran a story about how a man who stalked a woman before shooting him, has left behind a disturbing graphic novel. Today there’s news about how another killer has written a comic book about the event. The Day I Killed Someone is by Des Brown, Pastor at the Emmanuel Christian Centre in London….
Korean Comics And Propaganda… Grium’N'Gritty?
We’ve covered American and European propaganda through comic books – now it seems the eye is on Korea. American-Korean literature professor at the State University Of New York, Heinz Insu Fenkl, is promoting the use of North Korean comic books to understand the country, its politics and its culture. His team gather up rare, insular…
Sunday Runaround – Killing Batman To Kicking Out Xena
Quote of The Day: “Last year I got to kill Batman, which was kind of fun. Everybody should kill Batman once.” – Neil Gaiman, Naperville Reads 2010. LegalWatch: Blog@Newsarama reports on DC firing their legal team in the Siegel Vs DC Comics case in which the estate of Superman jo-creator Joe Siegel are attempting to…
Neal Adams To Work On New Wolverine Comic For Marvel
I understand contracts were signed last week for Neal Adams, one of the most influential comic book creators in superhero comics, to work on a new Wolverine title for Marvel Comics. Adams, famed for defining the modern look of Batman, Superman and Green Arrow, he worked on X-Men before the introduction of Wolverine and the…
Preview: Mondo Urbano from Oni Press
This new graphic novel scheduled for May from Oni Press, is a collection of Brazilian mini-comics, originally PowerTrio, Overdose, Cabaret, Encore and a new Bonus Track. Mondo Urbano drawn by Blue Beetle’s Rafael Albuquerque, is already being touted as the new Scott Pilgrim… have a quick untranslated preview. Just keep on scrolling down…
The Many Worlds Of Alasdair Stuart – A Very English Armageddon #2 – Russell T Davies’ Dark Season
Two facts about me: I’ve used rucksacks since I was about 12. I used to have this really cool one, mid-sized, army green, padded back, a ton of pockets. These days I’ve got a chunkier one that, entirely by accident, is the same bag Simon used on Studio 60. That makes me far happier than…
Is This The First Graphic Novelist Killer?
Jed Waits of Ellensburg, Washington was shot and killed by police yesterday morning after the shooting of Tacoma teacher Jennifer Paulson on her way in to work. This tragedy was the accumulation of stalking behaviour and Waits was arrested for breaching a restraining order the previous week. Waits was also, it seems, a frustrated comic…
Saturday Runaround: Millar Vs Tacos
Quote Of Last Year: If you steal my artwork, you will pay. In cash. Spank you very much and good night – Nick Simmons. MillarWatch: In a story for Latino Review about a rumoured remake of the Hitchcock movie Suspicion, regular source Pinche Taco also addressed Mark Millar’s contradiction of his/her previous report about Mark…
Kitty’s Back And You’re Gonna Be In Trouble…
As Marvel announce the return of Kitty Pryde in Uncanny X-Men 522, last seen saving the Earth by permanently phasing herself and the massive bullet she was trapped inside so it passed through the Earth and continued into deep space (I know my Kitty), variant cover artist Mark Brooks breaks down how he arrived at…
Four Million Comics For Sale, Six Cents Each, Free Shipping Worldwide
One day and four hours to go on this quite remarkable eBay listing. Four million comic books with a Buy It Now price of $240,000 for the lot. And they’re also throwing in twenty pallets of trade paperbacks and ten pallets of toys for a quick sale. In a week where two single comic books…
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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…
