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
Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh #39: Walk Like A Yakuza
Adi Tantimedh is a writer and reader. I’m not sure in which order. I’ve been thinking about tourism in video games lately. I have a mild fascination with games that try to replicate actual cities and towns, usually in open sandboxes where you get to wander around the settings to your heart’s content, even the…
Brazilian Cartoonist And Son Murdered By Religious Madman
Brazilian national newspaper cartoonist, Glauco Villas Boas (54), and his son (25) Raoni Boas were murdered last week. Initially thought to be a robbery-gone-wrong, it turning into an even more unsettling case on investigation. Glauco was a member the Santo Daime sect. It transpires that the murderer was student Carlos Eduardo Sundfeld Nunes (24), a…
Monday Runaround – Stephen King Told “No Thought Bubbles!”
eBayWatch: The 1940′s Superman ring hist $12,000 with 9 hours to go… BendisWatch: Brian Bendis elaborates on the cancellation of Spider-Woman on #7 – it wasn’t poor sales, but that artist Alex Maleev has just drawn too much Spider-Woman – especially if you consider the extra elements necessary for the motion book. KickAssWatch: Apparently Hit-Girl…
How The Comic Industry Went To War With Itself – And Won!
Steve Bissette has gathered a wonderful folder of posts looking at one of the great-but-in-danger-of-being-forgotten battle of the comics industry. Ratings. In the late eighties, the comic book industry, and specifically DC Comics was moving towards a universal rating system for comic books distributed to comic stores, designed to protect against what were seen as…
Arrest Of Another Stepford Terrorist
Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, a second white American blonde female has been arrested by authorities in counter terrorism operations. She is supected, with others, of seeking to commit terriorist attacks on Danish cartoonist, Lars Vilks, who three years ago drew a cartoon portraying the propher Mohammed as a dog, as part of an organised cartoonist protest against…
Five More Newsbites From Emerald City Comic Con
To follow up yesterday’s runaround… 1. Women Out Of Refrigerators – Kyle Raynor’s girlfriend Alex DeWitt will be returning as a Black Lantern. She will be emerging from the same fridge her corpse was stuffed into, made famous by discussion piece by pre-professional Gail Simone, Women in Refrigerators – which lookes at how women repeatedly…
Ryan Ottley’s Sea Bear & Grizzly Shark
It’s been a long time coming. But Invincible’s Ryan Otterly’s much-awaited Sea Bear & Grizzly Shark oneshot is coming out soon from Image. Plenty of, well, this kind of thing. Shark-on-bear action in a variety of locations. With a lot of collateral damage along the way…
Male Slave Princess Leia Cosplayer Wins Over Convention
If there’s one image threatening to sum up the Emerald City Comic Con, it’s these ones. A young bearded man who has decided that, above all, he must dress up in the Slave Princess Leia, so popular of cosplayers and fevered light night gruntings. Two photos are being passed around online, one from Seattle resident…
Detective Comics Wins GLAAD Award For DC Comics
Detective Comics has won the Outstanding Comic Book category at the GLAAD awards, held in New York last nightcelebrating portrayal of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered in popular culture. Of course, this journey has been quite a tumultuous one. The Batwoman character, Kathy Kane, was initially introduced in the nineteen fifties to counter Seduction Of…
Sunday Runaround – Jetting Off To Austin And Seattle
TakingAdvantageWatch: Joan Jett and the Runaways are to appear in a biography comic from Bluewater Productions. Written by Spike Steffenhagen and Jay Allen Sanford, with interior art by Joe Paradise and Larry Nadolsky, the comic features a cover illustration by Michal Szyksznian. And coming out at the same time as a Runaways movie… StripWatch: ABC…
The Disappearing Post Of Clifford Meth
Earlier this week, writer Clifford Meth revisited his rather-abandoned-of-late column at Comic Bulletin, Meth Addict. In which he told how a project he was associated with, Dave Cockrum’s The Futurians almost made it to the screen a couple of times. And how he was also hired to write a screenplay treatment for his IDW series…
Seven Newsbites From Emerald City Comic Con
So, while I’ve been talking to people on Popgun Volume 4, apparently there’s been a comic convention going on. So lets have a quick run down of a few of the things that are being announced at Emerald City Comic Con 2010. 1. Amanda Conner, Jimmi Palmiotti and Justin Grey leave Power Girl. Possibly so…
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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…
