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 Comic Relief meeting went well this morning. More to come on that. Jonathan Ross has been talking to The Geek Syndicate podcast about his comic Turf, the magazine CLiNT, and his wife’s new screenwriting project X-Men: First Class. Future issues of Turf will see an increased cast as the book moves into Harlem, motivations…
LondonWatch: Okay, so it’s not quite the glamourous prize to me as it will be to some readers. But Kmart are running an Iron Man 2 Photo competition with a prize to win a trip to London, and visit the Captain America movie set. PornWatch: Dazzled by the detail on the Batman XXX: A Porn…
Buck Danny is a Belgian aviation comic book series that’s been running since 1947, published in English by Cinebook. It folows tha adventures of three American pilots in the US Navy and has proved very popular over the years. Although they have never aged, they have moved from conflict to conflict, beginning with the Pacific…
So, we’ve covered getting your comic an endorsement, the importance of getting the right logo and I’ve also looked at the fundamentals of writing (I’ll get on to the practicalities of writing soon), but one of the major aspects of creating comics that I’m not properly qualified to discuss is artwork. But I know a…
Here are twenty recently published comic books that are currently breaking the $50 barrier based on actual reported sales. No CGC, no chase variant covers, no signed editions, no hardcovers or out-of-print collections, just the bare bones of your standard floppy comic book. Do you have any of these in your collection? If so… how…
Yestrday, on his popular radio show, Rush Limbaugh took a call from a comic book retailer asking about the new Bluewater biographical comic about him. And it seems it has some serious innacuracies right from the beginning. RUSH: They said I had a cat named Banjo? CALLER: Yeah, well, it references a cat named Banjo….
Answerphone messages left by Michael Jackson have been collected and put onto the web. In one conversation, towards the end of the clip below, Michael Jackson talks about buying and investing in Marvel Comics. I’d love to work together. As far as timing… I really feel in my heart we must move as fast as…
This was basically an excuse to revisit the frankly gorgeous looking Alien Ink from the other day. Daley Osiyemi and David Bircham, creators of British small press comic Brodie’s Law have hit the big time by getting Channel 4 to hire them to create this new weekly webcomic written by Jaspre Bark. And it’s drop…
XWatch: Jane Goldman is to write X-Men: First Class. Her husband Jonathan Ross is in geek heaven. CosPlayWatch: This Sunday, Brighton beach will be cosplay city as the great Heroes Run takes place again, people of all shapes and sizes dressed up as superheroes, running to raise money for the charity Passing It On. Last…
Outcasts is a new BBC TV sci-fi drama about building a new world… quite literally. A group of pioneers and explorers land on the planet Carpathia, settling in the town of Forthaven, building a new life for themselves, trying to avoid the mistakes of the old world – and failing. And naturally the planet has…
Earlier today, Newsarama posted an interview with writer Fabian Nicieza about his work on the Red Robin comic. It included the passage; We would all very much like to see a more smoothly coordinated flow between the Red Robin and Teen Titans books. J.T. Krul and I have just begun discussions on how to more…
Axel Braun has had a long and varied career as a director of pornographic films, from the Big Cock Seductions Series to The Squirting Adventures Of Dr.G to Asspirations Asstronomical. But of late, he’s begun to specialise in porn parodies – taking existing intellectual properties, and doing the porno version, protected under US parody law….
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…
