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
Avatar Plug Of The Week Part One – Warren Ellis’ Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island
This is a preview of the much anticipated first issue of Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres’s Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island. Warren calls it “Not steampunk. An Electrical Romance of a Pirate Utopia Thwarted.” Yes, that is the real title. And yes this is a real preview. And yes it is…
Exclusive: New Beanworld Story From Larry Marder
It’s no secret that I believe Larry Marder’s Beanworld is one of the finest comic books ever created. And that I owe Dark Horse an immense debt of gratitude for their one, two, three digest hardcovers collecting and continuing the series so far. So I feel very honoured to have been sent a new Beanworld…
Preview: Nemesis
No, not that Nemesis, sorry, got confused there for a minute. Easily done, so I’m told. This Nemesis, Nemesis: The Imposters, issue 1 from DC Comics shipping today by Ivan Brandon and artist Cliff Richards. There’s something even odder going on with the DC Source reader today, so here’s a quick Flash version with the…
New Kids Comic Megaton Launches Tomorrow
Megaton is a new UK comic book/gaming monthly magazine for tweenagers from Skyjack publishing, the people behind the Toxic and Ben 10 publications. And it launches tomorrow. 100 pages each month, with free stickers, models and trading cards, the magazine will run Cartoon Network licensed strips and gamning material. Issue one out tomorrow comes with…
Elimination Of The Direct Market As We Know It? There’s An App For That.
The new Apple iPhone TV commercial advertises something very specific. That one can read comic books on it. And shows you someone doing just that with the Comixology app, featuring Atomic Robo by Brian Clevinger and artist Scott Wegener. The ad is running below…
A Filthy Orphan #4 by Nevs Coleman: And We All Sign On
Nevs Coleman is a man of a mulitude of hats, including nearly 2 decades of comics retailing, UKCACing, punk rocking, stand up poeting and indeed, the like. He writes for Bleeding Cool… If you hadn’t worked it out, this one’s about signings. As always, it’s a general look, rather than a series of hard and…
Tuesday Runaround – Suspecting Staff, Reviewing Relatives And Watching Walls
SpoilerWatch: The final big-spoiler double splashpage to Blackest Night #7 was uploaded to online image store Photoshack yesterday, a day before official release, and spread around the message boards. Naturally suspicion has been pointed at retail staff at shops that receive Tuesday deliveries in ordeer to have stock up and ready by Wednesday morning opening….
“Wait Till They Get A Load On Me!” – More Batman XXX Porn Set Shots
Two definite photos from the currently-filming Batman XXX: A Porn Parody appear in my inbox, with Randy Spears playing The Joker and Evan Stone as The Riddler. I’m told producer Axel Braun spent $20,000 on the costumes and used the people who designed the originals from the Batman TV show. Shame, when they’re going to…
Paul McGuigan, Grant Morrison, Stephen Fry In New BBC Thriller
Paul McGuigan, director of Gangster No 1, Lucky Number Slevin and the upcoming Sherlock Holmes TV series by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, has confirmed for LiveForFilms that he will be indeed working on a new TV series for BBC Scotland, written by Grant Morrison and starring polymath Stephen Fry. Bleeding Cool reported on this…
Make Money Fast – Buy Deadpool Secret Invasion HC Now
Okay, here’s a possible opportunity. Deadpool: Secret Invasion HC is one of those titles that was printed pretty much to order before the recent boom in Deadpool interest and, as a result, is devastatingly rare to the new Deadpool collector. And prices have rocketed, anywhere between $35 and $150. Well, it appears that Amazon.com have…
Twenty-First Century Stories And Art #1 by Kimberly Cox
Kimberly Cox is a writer and social commentator, living and working in Manhattan in and around the comic and film industries. She writes a personal viewpoint for Bleeding Cool about the changing shape of storytelling today. She’s also a little bit right-wing. Imagine Anne Coulter, just without the desire to baptise Iraq. So I’m fascinated…
Warner Buy Majority Stake In Arkham Asylum Developer – Create BatSynergy!
Warner Bros have bought 68.4% of London-based video game developer Rocksteady Studios, best known for last year’s critical and commercial success, Batman: Arkham Asylum. Warner already have a number of investments in the gaming sector but it’s hard not to read into this some kind of synergy with the DC Entertainment announcements of late, and…
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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…
