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
Wizard Announce Mars Comic Con
Earlier today, Heidi MacDonald posted; Everyone was wondering when the Wizard World tour would leave the continent, but Gareb Shamus has done everyone one better by announcing that the Helium Super-Card Mini-Con will henceforth be known as the Mars Comic Con Wizard World Interplanetary convention While this was a scoop of sorts, she exposed her…
Name Nemesis – The Mark Millar Auction Kicks Up A Gear
The auction to name the hero character in Mark Millar and Steve McNiven’s upcoming Marvel comic book Nemesis went for $8400 to art director Blake Morrow, helping to fund Mark Millar’s brother’s attemps to buy a bus for disabled children he works with. Well now the main character in the book, the villain, the what-if-Batman-was-the-Joker,…
Chris Nolan To Reboot New Superman Movie
Nikki Finke and Mike Fleming are reporting that Warner Bros is about to announce its Superman movie plans – and they’re giving them to Batman Begins/Dark Knight’s Chris Nolan to mentor. While he won’t make the film himself, he will be hands-on involved in its development. DC Entertainment has teased a bunch new movie announcements…
Tuesday Runaround – Diamond Down, Robbins Up, Love And Commerce In The Air
FilmWatch: Tim Robbins has been cast as Senator Hammond, Hector Hammond’s father in Green Lantern. Robbins’ previous comic-based film? Yes, that would be Howard The Duck. DiamondWatch: Diamond Comics Distributor’s website went down yesterday, and a number of retailers were unable to make their usual calls. Was this the end of the comics distribution of…
Lying In The Gutters – 8th February 2010.
Secret Avengers by Brubaker and Deodato Jr? I want more adjectives dammit! Avengers Academy won’t be enough, I want Preppy Avengers Academy!! So what else has been happening this week? Oh yes. I broke out the Young Justice League cartoon news, and thought that, wow, that was going to be my biggest story of the…
Exclusive Script Review- THE CAPE from NBC by Thomas Wheeler
It was announced a week ago that NBC are working on a number of new television dramas, including commissioning a pilot The Cape by Thomas Wheeler, a proto-superhero comic book about a policeman framed for a murder he doesn’t commit, and who becomes a masked vigilante to take down his opponents. Kick-Ass meets Dirty Harry,…
Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh #34: Why A Movie?
As Rich reported last week, many news outlets would only report on the prospect of a WATCHMEN sequel by speculating on the prospect of a movie sequel rather than any follow-ups to the comic. Leaving aside the laziness and incompetence of the journalists in question, what I wondered was, Why the need to bring up…
Preview: Batman And Robin #8
I have to say I do have a problem how some sites show off preview pages to comics. Take DC’s The Source, they have just put up preview pages of Batman And Robin #8, out this week, and very nice they are too. But putting up thumbnails, getting you to open each page up, read…
Cleveland Makes It Eleven – Wizard Names Their Next Comic Con
Gareb Shamus has bought the North Coast Comic Con and will rename it Cleveland Comic Con. Seriously, there should be a template for this by now. Garab Shamus bought the show from local convention organiser… balh blah blah… who will remain with the show…blah blah… free to run one day conventions in the same spot…
The Angoulême Prix Fix…
So just how did Paul à Québec win the Angoulême Public Award – mostly voted on by French voters, when it hadn’t even been published in France? Was it all a ballot stuffing scam by Canadians? Well, yes… and no. It turns out that the public vote wasn’t quite as public as people thought. Last…
Monday Runaround – Ghosts To Pittsburgh
FilmWatch: Bill Murray has confirmed he’ll be in Ghostbusters 3. Ish. In a bullet point-style quasi- interview with the British newspaper, The Mail on Sunday, Murray says; I said to them, ‘I’ll do it if you kill me off in the first reel.’ So now they are going to have me as a ghost in…
Number Crunching: Milestone Forever #1
Price: $5.99 How much? $5.99. I know, I almost dropped my bacon sandwich. Comic page count: 45 So that’s basically the same as two $2.99 standard books? I suppose so. And do they normally have a card cover and perfect board. Um… no. Well then. Get on with it. Splash pages: 11 Splash pages that…
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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…
