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 Herd Reality Stars Around North America Like The Cattle They Are
So you sign up for a reality show. Maybe you’re an exhibitionist, maybe you reckon you might get a few media-friendly jobs out of it, maybe you’ll be able to marry a footballer or something. Maybe you’re really bored. But little did you know you’d be placed on a podium and taken to geekfests to…
Avatar Plug Of The Week: Warren Ellis’ Ignition City TPB
Ignition City by Warren Ellis and Gianluca Pagliarani is out in trade paperback this week, and you can tell this is a real labour of love for Warren. A long time in the making, this is his ode to 1950s pulp science fiction, gathering all sorts of characters together, giving them a final outpost, a…
Not Avatar Plug Of The Week: Chase Variant
I’ve got a new comic book out in the USA today, and in the UK tomorrow. Comic shops stocking Chase Variant for the shelf are listed at www.chasevariant.com and yes, I can’t believe the domain name was available either. Comic Book Resources have run a preview here and MTV ran the Rob Liefeld cover here….
DC Comics Makes First Six Brightest Day Issues Returnable
There has been a bit of fuss regarding the solicitations for DC’s new series Brightest Day. While the creative team is solid, no one is exactly sure what it’s all about. And without that knowledge, how can a comic retailer order in confidence? DC have tried to solve that by making issues 0, 1, 2,…
A Filthy Orphan by Nevs Coleman #3 – No One is Innocent: Youngblood Totally Pwns Vertigo
No One is Innocent: Youngblood totally pwns Vertigo, Avatar, IDW, others. Imagine this: There you are, restocking your back issue section on a quiet day. You have your inventory set aside by publisher. A few dozen boxes of Marvel, another few dozen of DC. A couple for Dark Horse, IDW, Wildstorm, Vertigo, etc. You’re checking…
Wednesday Morning Runaround – Politics, Race And Empire
CaptainAmerica602Watch: Keith Obermann takes on the Captain America #602 controversy and naturally finds it lacking. Can you believe Liberality For All! got a mention on MSNBC? CaptainAmerica602Watch: Chris Muir creates a… well, let’s go with interesting take on the affair. MuseumWatch: Apropos of nothing, NY1 runs a piece on the Marvelous Color exhibition Bleeding Cool…
Here Are Your Avengers
Captain America. Iron Man. Thor. Spider-Man. Wolverine. Basically anyone who’s had/having a film out. And the big bad guy for these avengers of the Heroic Age to fight? It’s Kang, folks! I feel like I’m ten again. In other Marvel solicitation news… There are a lot of those glowy goldeny Heroic Age variants about… bit…
Wizard Attempt To Crowd Out NYCC With New England Dates
Reed’s New York Comic Con is on October 7th-10th. So is Wizard World Big Apple Comic Con, on the very same road, a few blocks down in Manhattan.This announced date has been seen was an act of aggression by Wizxard World against a main competitor they seemed to have a grudge with. The weekend after…
Review: Crossed #9 by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows
This is how the world ends. Crossed is one of the bleakest comics on the stands. And it terms of genre-styled comics, it’s one of the best. There have generally been two central strands to Garth’s writing in comic books. First the dramas that examine what a decent person is, and the road such a…
Speculator Corner: Whatever Happened To Crossed #1 Auxiliary Edition?
Avatar creates a nunber of variant covers for its comic books. It’s part of its publishing plan, and has a long history of finding new twists on the concept. Such as regular “Auxiliary” editions of the comics, offering a new cover a couple of months later to freshen the market and demand for those issues…
Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh #35: Make Your Own Zombiepocalypse
The Zombiepocalypse has been normalized. Nowadays, you won’t go into a video shop or a comic shop without seeing a new zombie title. I just go, “Here we go again.” It didn’t use to be like this, of course. The horror genre used to be considered disreputable. Teenagers liked it because we could piss off…
Garth Ennis’ Boys And Battlefields To Boot
Apparently Garth Ennis writes comics for publishers other than Avatar. Shocking I know. Anyway, here’s a preview of upcoming work on Battlefields and The Boys for you, exclusive to The Cool I’m told. Because man cannot live on sick twisted infected humanity alone. There has to be tanks and dodgy teen superheroes as well.
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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…
