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
Fixing The Amazon Glitch, Book By Book…
Ultimates Omnibus – indeed all the other Marvel Omnibuses now are priced at $62.99 on Amazon. And that’s the ones they have in stock. Golden Age is $78.75. They’re fixing everything. The Complete Invincible Library and Madman Gargantua are now $91.25. Expect those cancellation emails to go out soon. But remember what we had, what…
Official: It’s A Glitch – And It’s Being Fixed
Sorry folks. I have it on good authority from Diamond Book Distributors that the current state of Amazon.com – where most of the books in the Top 100 are now comics books, oversized graphic novels priced at $8.34 and $14.99 no matter what the original price (sometimes up to $125) – is a glitch. And…
It’s A Glitch – But Will Amazon Notice?
The reaction from comic book industry officials to Amazon’s massive graphic novel discounts is… they’re buying lots of omnibuses today. I have had comic creators who generally snub their noses at me, instead pledge their unborn children in gratitude for posting these two links. But as every slot on the Amazon Top 100 is getting…
Daddy, What Did You Buy In The Great $14.99 Amazon Day?
Earlier this morning, Bleeding Cool reported on some of the massive discounts on Marvel omnibuses, hardovers and trades currently sitting on Amazon. And the internet has gone mad for it. Currently the Amazon top twenty-five bestselling books chart has these entries. Remember, this is for ALL books. 1. Ultimates Omnibus $8.24 2. Wolverine Omnibus $8.24…
The Great Amazon $14.99 Graphic Novel Sell Off Of 2010
Are you a trade-waiter? Even better, do you put off buying a trade paperback or hardcover collection until there’s a sale? Then stop what you are doing and clear your shelves. Amazon is blowing out huge amounts of desirable Marvel, new and old, for $14.99 or less a piece – some that haven’t even been…
Diana Prince, Porn Star, Needs Geek Cred
Pinktender.com (absolutely NSFW unless you work in media) is an PR company, promoting the work of what are colloquially known as “adult performers”. They recently contacted Bleeding Cool wanting to promote the porn actress Diana Prince, by way of her geek credentials, the least of which is her porn name. Apparantly she has also appeared…
A Single Girl’s Guide To Dating The Doctor
We’re weeks away from the debut of Matt Smith in the lead role of Doctor Who. And already the fangirlies are making their expressions of love to him known, after only seeing a very few seconds of him in action. And Matt Smith is, it seems a single man. No longer dating Brazilian punk singer/actress…
Saturday Runaround – You Like Stan, You Really Like Stan
StripWatch: Marvel tells Comics Alliance about the Captain America online daily comic strip, as if it were created in the 1940s, by Karl Kesel. WuTangWatch: The Wu-Tang Clan geek out about Rob Liefeld and Chris Bachalo… QuesadaWatch: Joe Quesada talks about the DC High Five and is naturally very nice. No mentions of AOL comics….
Why Did DC Drop Milestone Forever’s Captions?
Last month, Bleeding Cool pointed out that a number of caption boxes containing quotes had been dropped off Milestone Forever #1, and printed the replacement captions that Dwayne McDuffie posted on his site. At the time I presumed it was a production error. It seems not. DC editorial have removed a number of quotes from…
Neil Gaiman To Give Chicago A Good Talking To
I’m not sure if Kevin Smith will be going. But at C2E2 (Chicago Comic and Enterteinment Expo), the new Chicago-based comic convention organised by Rees Exhibitions, Neil Gaiman will be giving a theatrical reading from his work to an audience, to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which intervenes in free speech matters that…
Punisher: Butterfly Vs Goodbye To Comics
There are many thing to love about the Punisher: Butterfly oneshot by Valerie D’Orazio by Lawrence Campbell out this week. And certainly the story about a woman writing a tell-all memoir about her work that gets in her in a lot of trouble has all sorts of parallels a certain “Goodbye To Comics” and “Memoirs…
Short ‘n Curlies 32 by Si Spurrier
Kultcha: Quezon City: most populous berg in the Already-Pretty-Fucking-Teeming Philippines, where overworked and creatively-stunted businessmen have taken the ancient martial art of Karaoke to a whole new level of rabid frothing seriousness. (An Aside: Personally, I’ve always been gently mystified by the phenomenon. And no, it’s not that I begrudge it per se — rampant…
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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…
