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
Amazon Still Not The Business Of Selling Comics
Yesterday, Amazon stopped selling directly almost all graphic novel distributed by Diamond Book Distributors, on the back of a price glitches expectations raised and dashed simultaneously. This included books published by Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, IDW, Avatar and Dynamite. Diamond sources inform me that they believe this is a precautionary measure on Amazon’s part, while…
Eve Johnston Receives DC Comics Freebies – Is Her Objectivity Now In Doubt?
When Eve Johnston came home from school yesterday afternoon, she walked into a wave of controversy. For there waiting for her was a “courtesy box”, posted by DC Comics, for her to open. A very kind gift, from one father to another. With Eve’s fifth birthday coming up on Friday, I decided to let her open the parcel now,…
Bizarre Butts: Green Hornet #2 First Look
We’re not exactly sure how She-Kato got into this opening with a bottom that large, but nevertheless, this is a first look at Stephen Segovia’s 1:4 variant cover to the second issue of Kevin Smith’s Green Hornet. You know, was original-Kato ever depicted with breeches quite so tight?
Twilight Manga Out Today At Irresponsible Comic Book Stores
The release date for the first Twilight Manga volume by Stephanie Meyer and Young Kim is next Tuesday. Except because comic store distributor Diamond only make a weekly drop to most shops, and many only get them on Wednesday, in order to stay competitive, Diamond have shipped a number of volumes to stores a week…
Swipe File: Repo Men Vs Monty Python
Here are the UK posters. But I saw the trailer for this last week and was just waiting for the Eric Idle song. “Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour…” Repo Men is out in the US on the 19th March and the UK on…
Philadelphia Woman Charged With Terrorist Threat Against Cartoonist
Colleen R LaRose, forty-something suburban Philadelphia resident has been indicted with the charge of conspiring to help and recruit Islamist terrorists to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks. This was after publication in 2007 of cartoons based on the Islamic prophet Mohammed, showing him with the body of a dog. Vilks has a $100,000 bounty placed on his…
How To Claim $30 Compensation From Amazon
Okay. You ordered a bunch of Marvel Omnibus titles from Amazon as part of The $14.99 Glitch and they’ve been cancelled. You probably knew they would do. But you may have received a previous e-mail saying that you would get at least one at the magic price. Or maybe Amazon never got round to emailing…
We Broke Amazon, Everybody – Are They Refusing To Sell New Comics Now?
Oh dear. Right now, it seems as if Amazon isn’t taking any direct orders for large amounts of graphic novels distributed by Diamond Book Distributors. You can still buy copies of those books sold by people on Amazon Marketplace, but very little from Amazon’s actual warehouses themselves. Also they aren’t taking preorders for a large…
The Shipping Forecast
Ninth Art used to run a great column, entitled the Shipping Forecast, where the website’s writers would anticipate comic books shipping that week. Well, you know how I love to steal a good idea, especially since those folks aren’t doing it anymore, so let’s give it a whirl. Ten books to look forward to shipping…
Kick Ass Billboards, Posters, In-Cinema Standees – And New Look Millarworld
A quick close up courtesy of the Kick Ass Facebook page… Okay, that’s nice. The standard posters appeared on SuperHeroHype I do like the use of paint, both as a super-blood substitute and a comic book colour reference. And here are some shots of Kick-Ass in-cinema standees from, well, me; While it appears that Millarworld…
The Mass Amazon Cancellation Rending Of Garments And Putting On Of Sackcloth
The internet is in mourning. People who had already received notices saying that their multiple orders of Omnibuses from Amazon had been reduced to one copy, and had shrugged it off, pleased at least that they got one copy at such a great price, are now discovering that their entire order have being removed. And…
Tuesday Runaround – From Amazon To Alpha Flight #106…
AmazonWatch: Journal Star and the Seattle Blog report on the Amazon Glitch (and the commentators make the blog give credit for its visual – cheers guys!) Imagine for a moment what chaos might be wrought if one of L.A.’s biggest crack dealers were to roll up to Skid Row and announce his product was going…
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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…
