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: March 2010
TOLDJA: Hulked Out Heroes
To be fair, it was Nathan Crosby who TOLDJA in a CBR interview that Bleeding Cool picked up on. So Ed Brubaker can get annoyed with him. But just in time for retailer’s Final Order Cut-Off, Marvel have confirmed to retailers that the actual title of the mysterious H.O.H is Hulked Out Heroes, or for…
Tim Seeley Hacks And Slashes Devil’s Due Debt
Bleeding Cool has run a number of articles on problems at Devil’s Due regarding paying its creators. Citing issues with increased returns from Diamond Book Distributors, publisher Josh Blaylock has stated that his income has been slashed and creators have born the brunt. One was Tim Seeley, a Devil’s Due employee and creator of the…
A Look At The Longbox Beta Launch
If you want to look at what may very well be the future of comics, it’s time to download the public Beta version of the comic reading/storage/purchase software application, Longbox. Download it with the links at the bottom of this page and you’re away! Firstly, if this is a big success, it could be game…
Tuesday Runaround – Jonathan Ross To Jedward
RossWatch: Jonathan Ross and Tommy Lee Edwards will be signing copies of Jonathan’s first published comic book, Turf from Image Comics at Forbidden Planet in London on Wednesday April 14th, 6-7 pm. You want in, start queuing in the morning… SciverWatch: From MegaCon, Ethan Van Sciver is working on a new mini-series with Gail Simone….
Action Comics #1 8.5 Ready To Smash Batman’s Record For Good
It looks like it’s happening again. Only a few weeks after the first appearance of Superman, Action Comics #1 (8.0 CGC) hit a million dollars, only for the first appearance of Batman, Detective Comics #27 (8.0 CGC) to beat that by another $75,000 later that week. Well, it transpires that Comicconnect.com, the people who sold…
Tokyo To Restrict And Ban Sexual Comic Books – Creators Protest
It’s a common sterotype of Japanese comics. Young schoolgirls flashing their panties being interfered with by robot tentacles. And while the word of manga is vast and covers all forms of literature and culture, there is a lot of sexually explicit or suggestive material available, and a certain amount does seem to involve children, or…
Flash Comics #1 (9.6 CGC) Sells For $450,000
Until a month ago, no comic book had quite sold this much. But after the success of 1930s comics Action Comics #1 and Detective Comics #27, featuring the first appearance of Superman and Batman respectively, it’s a whole new world. And now Flash Comics #1, featuring the first appearance of the Flash from 1940 has…
Twilight Manga Graphic Novel Officially Released Today
It has a 350,000 first print run. It adapts into comic form one of the most popular novels of recent yars. And it has an audience of young women who will do whatever it takes to get their hands on the next new sparkly Twilight thing. Adapted by Korean manhwa creator Young Kim, with constant…
Jack Kirby Heirs Sue Marvel – Could We Get Two Fantastic Fours Out Of This?
The children of Jack Kirby are finally suing Marvel to terminate copyrights that Marvel claim over a number of the characters created or co-created by Jack Kirby, as well as recover profits for their exploitation. It is impossible to describe how large a blow this would be for Marvel should they win, Jack Kirby’s creations…
Lying In The Gutters – March 15th 2010
Welcome to another week of Lying In The Gutters. Let’s kick off, shall we? Top Ten Posts Of The Week There was one big story this week. The same one that started last week. It dominated Bleeding Cool, was picked up by mainstream press and the implication will be felt today and tomorrow as publisher…
FREE: Black Kiss #1 By Howard Chaykin – NSFW-ish
The Steve Bissette piece earlier brought it all back. The fight to get mature readers content into comic books and onto shelves. And no more was that fight fought than over Black Kiss #1. A hard-boiled crime comic book that dared to show participants having sex, including a pre-op transgender hooker. At the time the…
Zenescope To Publish Charmed Comic Book, Put Clothes Back On Their Witches
And this is what witches look like in the new Zenescope Charmed series, based on the nineties TV series, with #0 coming out in June, and the series proper debuting at San Diego. And this is what witches usually look like in Zenescope books. Wow. I’d call that progress, wouldn’t you?
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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…
