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…
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…
Recently, Bleeding Cool ran an article on how Marvel were looking to get certain creators out of their exclusive deals with Marvel, in an attempt to save money. And how Ariel Olivetti may have been a good example, locked into a two year excluisve deal with Marvel but suddenly appearing on the rejigged Men Of…
Toy News International ran these scans of images of DC toys and statues for 2012. But did they miss the headline story? Or is it a case of one side of DC not knowing what the other is doing? Because in May 2012, as part of the New 52 Cover Girls Of The DC Universe,…
Madame Tussauds, the world famous wax museum in London, are running a multifloor Marvel exhibition featuring a number of characters, artwork and items, culminating in a 360 degree 3D movie – giving the 4D moniker to the whole show. Here’s the trailer… with Marvel characters running amok amid tourist London.
This is the TV ad for Fables that ran on BBC America during the Doctor Who marathon this weekend. DC/Vertigo and BBC America appear to have an advertising exchange programme going on, so expect more Doctor Who ads in your copies of DMZ. Last time they ran an ad for the Vertigo Crime line, I…
BBC Radio 4 are repeating their drama series Pilgrim, four parts, every Monday afternoon for the next month.The closet thing you’ll get to a Vertigo comic on the radio, somewhere between Hellblazer and Fables. And the first episode is available to listen to, free, worldwide, for the next seven days. So sit, back, tune in,…
Tomorrow is the first anniversary of Bleeding Cool. 52 weeks since William Christensen of Avatar Press saved me from losing the house after I lost my job as a radio advertising copywriter. At that time I was in a bit of a flurry. Jonah at Comic Book Resources had offered to double my Lying in…
Yes, it’s time for me to talk about manga again. When I heard that DC’s manga line CMX was shutting down, the only surprise I felt was that it didn’t happen sooner. It was like Macbeth hearing his wife had finally dropped dead: “She should have died hereafter…” CMX always had a strange vibe to…
VS A U.S. cage fighter ripped out the heart of his training partner while he was still alive after becoming convinced he was possessed by the devil, it was alleged today. Jarrod Wyatt also cut out Taylor Powell’s tongue and ripped off most of his face in a brutal assault that police said looked like…
It’s a Monday, what else were you going to do? Game on!
This weekend held the MCM London Expo. And fo the first time in fifteen years, I had a table at a comics convention. Manned by me, Eve and Alice Johnston with help from Slashfilm’s Brendon Connelly, I managed to shift a stack of Watchmensch, Flying Friars, Chase Variants and Civil Wardrobes to unsuspecting cosplayes and…
MiddleEarthWatch: Guillermoro del Toro has pulled out from directing The Hobbit and its sequels, as a result of MGM’s economic-based delays on production. He is quoted as saying; In light of ongoing delays in the setting of a start date for filming “The Hobbit,” I am faced with the hardest decision of my life. After…
A run through the new episode of Doctor Who, the second part of the Silurian two-parter. Those without access yet, look away… now. 1. Voiceovers Must Be Ominous “This is the story of our planet, Earth, of the day a thousand years past when we came to share it with humanity.” Okay, that’s a bit…
On tonight on Sky 1, 6pm in the UK, it’s the adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal. And there are some spiffing digital posters of the main cast around and about the place. Here are a selection.
This was the flier being handed out at Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood at the London MCM Expo today… This is presumably the Sherlock Holmesian project that has been repeatedly hinted at of late. No named publisher yet, however. But a few character profiles for people to get their teeth into at this early juncture……
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
