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…
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First Look At Green Hornet Covers – One By Alex Ross And Two By John Cassaday
I reckon Nick Barrucci of Dynamite Entertainment must have Alex Ross and John Cassaday’s beating heart locked in a treasure chest in his office. Either way, we have two new covers for Kevin Smith’s Green Hornet #5, one by Ross, and one by Cassaday, and another from Green Hornet Strikes #3 by Cassaday. Love that…
Chinese Printers Censor Archaia Comic
Archaia’s new graphic novel series Titanium Rain by Josh Finney and Kat Rocha arrived in comic stores rather late this week, delayed after Chinese printing companies refused the print the first book. The title portrays a future civil war in China, and the printers in question believe the book contains “politically sensitive content” opposed by…
Archie’s First Gay Character To Debut, Kevin Keller
Archie Comics is introducing its first gay character later this year, in Veronica #202, one Kevin Keller. In a move that I have to say I thought must have happened some time over the last twenty years but apparantly not. The first appearance of the character also plays up on the decades of rumours regarding…
Bizarre Breasts – Lady Deadpool #1
She eats pizza. She’s got a teddy. Hopefully she washed her hands after slaying. It’s a fun cover, one of seven Deadpool-titled comics this month. But… I’m sorry, what are those on her front? While we had fun with Kaare Andrew’s Astonishing X-Men cover yesterday, Emma Frost was presented in a cartoony format, exaggerated, sure,…
Pond Life #1 by Martin Conaghan – A Bit Of A Burke
I’m Martin Conaghan, I work as a journalist for the BBC, and I try to write comics. By try, I mean do. I produced a fact-based graphic novel about the serial killers Burke & Hare for Insomnia Publications with artist Will Pickering last year, and I’ve been quite lucky, really; some people actually bought it,…
“With Great Power Comes Great Cleaning Duties”
Spider Style, is a business with offices in France and Qatar, now opening in the United Arab Emirates, serving the big corporate geek still unaffecte by the recession. Because, while ostensibly a ‘Specialist Cleaning Services Entity and Rope Access’ company, they specialise in providing staff dressed in superhero costumes. Mostly Spider-Man (pictured). Which is a…
What’s Up With War Heroes?
With Tony Harris announcing a new creator owned series at Wildstorm The Further Adventures Of The Whistling Skull with B Clay Moore (is this the first superhero comic to star a mentally handicapped person? And Batman doesn’t count) there was one other question. What’s up with Mark Millar-written supersoldiers-in-Iraq book War Heroes, seemingly abandoned after…
Is It An X-Men Comic Or Is It A Fetish Icon?
Okay, it’s not like the X-Men and the fetish community are a Venn Diagram that never cross. What with the Hellfire Club, Wolverine’s claws, Rachels’ spikey red rubber suit, and persistent rumours about the influence of certain New York dominatrix clubs, there’s always going to be a certain frisson to Marvel’s mutants. But bloody hell….
Theft File: Living Dead Souls Vs The Walking Dead (UPDATE)
Living Dead Souls is a fashionable punk/goth/emo brand with clothes and accessories for men and women. Including this bag, snapped by Tim Pilcher. Does that artwork look familiar? Here’s a piece by Charlie Adlard from the comic book series, The Walking Dead, currently being turned into an AMC TV drama. And this from Tony Moore….
Preview: First Wave – The Spirit
Main feature: Mark Schultz and Moritat. Supporting feature: Denny O’Neill and Bill Sienkiewicz. In memory of you-know-who… The Spirit #1 from DC Comics, out today in the USA and Canada, out by Michelmas in the UK.
Conner And Palmiotti On New Creator-Owned Title
At C2E2, Amanda Connor told fans that she isn’t leaving Power Girl after issue 12 by choice, but because she can’t quite keep to a monthly schedule and so has been replaced. Jimmy Palmiotti was originally quoted on leaving Power Girl as saying “that though the decision was difficult to leave, once Conner was no…
Hickman Working On PLUS! For Image In Three Different Styles
With Jonathan Hickman been seen as a real rising star at Marvel Comics, on books such as Secret Warriors, Iron Man, Fantastic Four and Shield, he’s not abandoning the kinds of smaller, stranger projects that first brought him to public attention, such as Nightly News, Transhuman or Pax Romana. As well as A Red Mass…
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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…
