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,…
The Cape, NBC’s new superhero drama. I reviewed the script last year, reproduced below. But what I’m getting from the visuals is a real eighties/early nineties vibe. Manimal, Automan, Beauty And The Beast thing going on. Interesting. —– Exclusive Script Review- THE CAPE from NBC by Thomas Wheeler It was announced a week ago that…
It was looking to be a clustershag of epic proportions. The New England Wizard World show the week before Reed’s massive New York Comic Con in mid-October, the Big Apple Wizard World on the same Manhattan street the same weekend as NYCC and the New Jersey Wizard World the weekend after. Some kind of North…
HamillWatch: Looks like Mark Hamill is going to direct a movie based on the Black Pearl comic book series – that he wrote. He’ll probably write the screenplay, produce it, appear in it and whistle the score. CrockWatch: The Florida Alligator becomes a comics HATER! And all because of Heroes. ToyWatch: New toys based on…
“That was always the plan. We only went to a $3.99 price point if we had 30 pages or more of content. We’re going to hold to that line as long as we can.” – Dan DiDio That was the line back in December. “As long as we can” appears to be eight months. In…
Well itls one of my favourite books. But just now, author G Willow Wilson has made a rather sad announcement about her Vertigo series Air, drawn by M.K. Perker. Earlier today she took to Twitter to try and clarify the situation. And, yes, the cat is out of the bag…or the snake is on the…
Okay, this is a thing. The British Film Institute, at London’s South Bank Centre is having a bit of a Doctor Who thing on, come Wednesday the 2nd of June. The kind of thing some people might cross continents to get to. And they won’t even let you book tickets online. It;s person or phone…
Busy week at Lying In The Gutters. I mean it’s not all been porn. Just some of it. Remarkable really – considering all that we’ve seen and not even a whiff of nudity. Okay, so what have people been reading on Bleeding Cool? Top Ten Most Popular Posts Of The Week 1.The Second Batman XXX…
Quite possibly the most enjoyable thing I’ve read this week. Chris Sims’ superheroic periodic table for Comics Alliance. I am drop dead jealous of its gorgeousness. I expect posters, t-shirts, mugs and all sorts of spinoff tomfoolery. By the way, Chase Variant is KfFmAg and Flying Friar is MyFVhSSn…
A lack of publisher at DC Comics for a few months seems to have stymied what might have otherwise been grander 75th Anniversary plans. But variant covers on upcoming comics, as Marvel did for their 70th anniversary, that’s much easier to arrange. Such as this Mike Mignola take for Batman #700. Based on Detective Comics…
Saw something interesting when I’m out and about these days: a lot of women in their 20s and 30s are reading the first two Stig Larsson’s MILLENIUM TRILOGY novels THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO and THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (the third book, THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, isn’t out in…
Six months ago, Bleeding Cool covered the small press gay superteam comic Spandex, and the resultant international media press it got as a result of well, basically, existing. So what do they do for their difficult second issue, to try and recapture some of that massive media outpouring? Why, bring in royalty of course. Because…
There’s been some debate as to whether we’d see Jeff Bridges donning the famed eyepatch in the Coen Brothers remake of True Grit – the one that made John Wayne’s Rooster Cogburn such an iconic image in the original. Indeed some have presumed that the character would remain eyepatchless in this version, believed to be…
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…
