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,…
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported that DC were upping the prices of the second issues of a couple of standard-sized DCU titles to $3.99, Mighty Crusaders and Time Masters, as well as the first issue of Emerald Warriors, as well as upping the Vertigo standard-sized title American Vampire to $3.99 as well. I now understand that…
See, everyone’s just been thinking iPhone and iPad. But IDW have realised that there’s a whole business community and more who would love to read comics… on their Blackberry. And IDW have made the first moves to stake their claim in this still-solid market. Leading with their Star Trek movie prequel, Star Trek: Countdown, and…
Dynamite! Entertainment, not content with licensing Red Sonja, Green Hornet, Lone Ranger and The Phantom, creating a new Kirbyverse, buying Vampirella, bringing in the Dabels, working with ex-Virgin Liquid Comics, and trying to rehabilitate Pat Lee have now bought the Chaos! library of characters from Tales Of Wonder, who bought them during the bankruptcy of…
NBC seem happy to let the world see the trailer for The Cape. But ABC are terribly protective of their trailer for No Ordinary Family. So basically I can’t see the video above. So, Americans… tell me… what’s it like? Does it live up to the following script review posted on BleedingCool a few months…
My wife likes Paul Cornell’s TV work, the ones she’s seen anyway. Which means Doctor Who and Primeval. And she’s liked what she’s seen, So we both snuggled down to watch a preview disc of his new show for the BBC, Pulse. Three minutes in, there was so much blood that she went to another…
That’s right! DC Comics may have cancelled the CMX manga imprint (and considering all the production, licensing and translation costs gone into three months work of comics… before dumping the lot, damn.) But the rest of the industry still insists on mirroring some of the worst stereotypes. Big Barda gets tentacled on Booster Gold #35……
At University, I was a Politics student. Thoroughly enjoyed it, did quite well, and it was only a fortuitous meeting that ripped me from going into politics as a career or sorts and into advertising instead. I still write about politics, for the Daily Show blog and draw cartoons for Guido Fawkes, and it’s something…
MembershipWatch: So who else got one of these? And who else is going to run run run run to their comic shop to see their little face appear in Avengers #1. Not me, it seems. I was not deemed Avengers-worthy. They may have used their psychological profiling on me I suppose. Look, I was only…
Aaron and Mike from A Comic Shop in Florida celebrate the arrival of Avengers #1 and defend the honour of Aquaman in this week’s run around this week’s comics for Bleeding Cool. I’m so pleased Bleeding Cool has managed to capture this pair and restrict them to our little box on the screen, making them…
Numbercrunching is a review format that values statistics, over less quantative measure when looking at comic books. It generally fails and gets dragged away on tangents but it aims to be a useful reminder of the value and appreciation of mere… counting. Prices: New Avengers $4.99 Dark Avengers $3.99 Siege $3.99 Story pages? New Avengers…
We’re doing something a little different this time, Post-Mod Squad. Since my last five posts have been super self-indulgent ramblings about my personal trials and tribulations on the way to breaking in to the comic biz, I figured I’d switch it up a little bit this month and swing the limelight onto other folks I…
The bestselling comics list still seems to be full of titles like Naruto, Fruits Basket, Maximum Ride, Pokemon, Vampire Night, Death Note and Bleach. But Viz Comics has fired 40% of their staff. TokyoPop popped. And now DC’s CMX imprint is to close – MegaTokyo by Fred Gallagher being the surviving title, after July. DC…
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…
