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 #40: Le Cinema Du Albert Pyun
The value of movies has been on my mind a lot. It’s inherent in just about everything I deal with everyday, and it’s implicit whenever I’m writing one of these columns about a movie. Not the monetary value, but the cultural value, what makes movies last as classics, or as cults, what lingers in the…
SCOOP: Turf #1 – Highest Preorders For Any Title To Date At Forbidden Planet
Turf is the first comic written by British chatshow host and all round god-geek Jonathan Ross, with 1985 artist Tommy Lee Edwards, published by Image Comics next month. Despite being published in America, it was always expected to do better in the UK than in the US. But possibly not this well. Forbidden Planet, one…
DC To Announce Batman: The Odyssey by Neal Adams? (UPDATE)
Are DC to announce Neal Adams’ Batman: The Odyssey tonight? Or this week? It’s been a while coming, executives have even denied its existence, it should all be official very soon, when the June solicitations go live. Look to see Batman: The Odyssey, the new maxi-series written and drawn by Neal Adams, and likely to…
A Look At Shaky Kane And David Hine’s BulletProof Coffin
Shipping from Image in June. Bulletproof Coffin, a six-issue by Shaky Kane and David Hine. Preview art from issues 2 to 4. Ashcan will be published for the Bristol Comic Expo. The pair threaten Voodoo Romance, Unexpected Fetish and The Hateful Dead
Britain’s Own Frederic Wertham – The Gorbals Vampire
It was a children’s game that would garner headlines around the world and introduce some of the most anti-comics government legislation in the Western world. Hundreds of young children in the Gorbals area of Glasgow were found running round a graveyard at night with knives and sticks hunting for a vampire with iron teeth, one…
Monday Runaround – Mail, Miracleman And McLovin
SnipeWatch: Bleach is being made into a movie. No word yet as to whether Nick Simmons will be providing the soundtrack. CensorWatch: Steve Bissette looks at Diamond’s involvement with the Ratings War, including an attack on the very existence of Miracleman #9 from Steve Geppi in which he starts “We are not censors” before stating…
VIDEO: Batman Arkham Asylum Wins Best Game At BAFTA 2010
Batman: Arkham Asylum developed by British company Rocksteady and published by Eidos has won Best Game at the BAFTA 2010 awards. It also won Best Gameplay, though favourite Uncharted 2: Among Thieves grabbed Best Action and Best Story.The Game BAFTAs are voted on by those in the industry and in the six years since it…
Captain America Wants Britain To Give Him Extras
Do you want to be in the big action adventure American propaganda movie of next summer? Are you a limey Brit from a sink estate in South London? Then Marvel Studios could be looking for you! There’s an open casting for extras going on right now in London for filming later in the year. Applicants…
Waiting For Millar With Team Comicana
So anyway, I chatted with the Team Comicana crew outside Forbidden Planet in London earlier this morning, hours ahead of the Millar/Romita Jr Kick Ass signing , about their upcoming geek anthropology show – far from a pilot, it seems this will be aired in the US on a cable channel, a “season zero”, with…
How America Sees The Doctor – And How The Brits Do Too.
Nothing like a trailer to sum up exactly how a media product is meant to portrayed. Take the American trailer for Doctor Who Season Five: And now the British version: Lots of the same images but a very different take. The British version leads with the female “companion”, an entry level character designed to drag…
SCOOP: Slaying Comicslayer – The War Against Comics Piracy Continues
There’s been a blow struck to illegal digital comics distribution this week. The normal run of books haven’t been flooding through the normal sites such as PirateBay or IsoHunt as smoothly as usual. The files are there,. but the distribution is spotty. It make have something do do with the taking down of the secretive…
Sunday Runaround – Kick-Assing In The Rain
Quote Of The Day: I am seriously pondering a career in burlesque – Jann Jones. AvatarWatch: The Avatar Rap by Dominic Frisby. “It also stars that bloke called Sigourney Weaver” – Aaaaaiiiii…. QueueWatch: The Kick-Ass signing, with Team Comicana in attendance, has begun its queue in earnest. I may pop by in a couple of…
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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…
