We’ve just had Manhattan Projects from Image, the latest in a run of fantasy science comics (and yes, I have my own somewhere in the pipeline). In August we get the next one, from Top Cow’s Matt Hawkins and Rahsan Ekedal, Think Tank. And it’s hard not get the original Manhattan Project fear from this…
Bleeding Cool has been banging on a bit about DC Comics giving their New 52 all zero issues in September, returning to regular numbering in October, to commemorate the one year anniversary of the reboot. DC have not released all their August shipping details. To back up our thesis, we could do with a lot…
It may have been Free Comic Book Day a weekend ago. But that doesn’t mean everything was left to undulate in the breeze. Take this scene from the Marvel FCBD Ultron War #0.1. An exact reprint of Avengers #12.1 yes? Well, not exactly. Here’s the original. Looks like there was a little creative colouring going…
In September, DC Comics publishes zero issues of the New 52, to celebrate the year anniversary of the revamp. Some books however, it seems, may not make it that far. Justice League International #12 will be the last issue of the series. An interesting decision as it outsells the like of Suicide Squad, Superboy, Birds…
The Ghost of Ellie blogsite has been repeating serious claims regarding the current status of Frank Frazetta Sr.
As previously reported by Bleeding Cool, the site alleges that Frank has been seized in Florida by members of his family and art collectors and associates, after the death of his wife, Ellie, who managed the family business. That his work is being stripped and sold off to benefit his captors. And that his son Frank Frazetta Jr has been framed for the theft.
They are reporting that a candle lit vigil will be held outside the Frank Frazetta Museum tonight to protest at this alleged kidnap and will be joined by family members Lori Frazetta, Frank Frazetta Jr. William Frazetta, Frank Frazetta III, Nicole Frazetta and Noelle Frazetta, as well as Frank and Ellie’s local pastor.
However, the Frank Frazetta Museum, run by those including Frank’s other children, Holly Frazetta, Bill Frazetta and Heidi Grabin have released a video to contradict these allegations, with Frank is rude health, seemingly dismissing any issues.
Frank Frazetta Sr has also given an interview to the Pocono Record where he states, regarding Frank Jr,
My son is an alien… There’s no telling what he’ll do. He’s been like that for, I don’t know, how many years. We played baseball in the old days. He always chose the opposite side from me… I’m in my own home. I’m the only one who lives here. Yes, absolutely I’m under my own free will. My daughters don’t tell me what to do. I’m a man of my own word… Don’t you believe anything he tells you. He’s full of beans. He wants to run the museum by himself. He wants the whole thing to himself. What does he think — I’m dead? He’s really gone, he’s gone haywire
The Ghost of Ellie site attributes this kind of behaviour to a version of Stockholm syndrome, and lists contradictoiry evidence.
In my Avengefuls comic for Boom!, I had President Obama shooting Osama Bin Hulk in the head with the line “guns don’t kill terrorists, Presidents kill terrorists.” It felt right. We know President Obama used to read comics. Even when he was all grown up. Appearing on The View, he was asked about Kardashians, Fifty…
Heritage Auctions is selling the original art to the cover of Spider-Man #1 by Todd McFarlane, on behalf of its owner Martin Shamus, father of Wizard Magazine‘s Gareb and Steven Shamus. The cover of Wizard #1 was famously based on this cover. It’s iconic and probably bsums up nineties comics better than any other….
Can’t quite work out the motivation here. But a customer of the Regal Cinema in Abingdon, Baltimore, was rather annoyed to discover that the showing of The Avengers that he’d paid to see had captions. He remonstrated with cinema staff who offered him a refund or replacement tickets. He refused both and returned to his…
Larry Young writes for Bleeding Cool; THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE AVENGERS MOVIE. I’m not a person who puts much truck into “spoilers,” because I’m an old-school entertainment consumer. Back in 1980, I bought the novelization of The Empire Strikes Back and found out Yoda was a little blue yard gnome. The experience…
Bleeding Cool has been banging on a bit about DC Comics giving their New 52 all zero issues in September, returning to regular numbering in October, to commemorate the one year anniversary of the reboot. DC have not released all their August shipping details. To back up our thesis, we could do with a lot…
This morning, Bleeding Cool reported the news that Neal Adams was to draw and co-write a First X-Men book with Christos Gage, following sources and stories over two years old. We presumed it was his much-promised and signed-off Wolverine series. Well, it looks like we were half right. (UPDATE: Oh look, Wolverine is in it.)…