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,…
PenisWatch: You are an average consumer of average American product. You watch the FOX show Human Target. It seems pleasantly bland enough. You notice on freeze frame that it appears to be based on one of those comic books that people talk about. So the next time you are passing a book shop, just before…
Okay, only by one or two days, and for a small handful of issues. And of course, all in the name of fun! Brian Michael Bendis announced a challenge on Twitter, stating that he was touring a few Portland comic stores on his bicycle and that anyone who stopped him could pick up a copy…
Do I have to say “Spoilers!” again. No seriously, stay away if you don’t want spoilers. Don’t come whining to me saying “you spoiled me!” No I didn’t you spoiled yourself by not reading this bit. Right then, off we go. 1. Looks Like Someone’s Been Jiggling With The Chameleon Circuit Again It’s bigger on…
Story pages: 71 Splash pages: 0 Price: $21.95 Price per page: 31 cents Blimey, makes New Avengers look cheap by comparison. Yes it does. Does it feel dirty, me mentioning New Avengers in this farrago of a review of Wilson? Yes it does. Good. Distinctly different style of drawing used: 9 So what have we…
DogWatch: “I actually liked Keanu Reeves as John Constantine – he wasn’t blonde and wasn’t English, but he still was a great movie-version of that comic character.” Those are the words of Kevin Munroe justifying why the character Dylan Dog, as played by Brandon Routh (which I scooped ages back) in the upcoming adaptation of…
A number of comic creators do their best work on it. Some do their best work about it. Any plenty of comic readers have enjoyed their favourites while enjoying it. But actually selling it, that’s a no no. Danny Wayne Barton of Kryptonite Komics/Good Karma in Alabama was arrested on Thursday on the charge of…
It was just a side mention by Tony Harris as part of his series of posts creating a new guild for comic creators. But it was one that launched a very interesting response from Image Comics’ Erik Larsen, and a flurry of posts from, it seemed, a good percentage of the comic book industry. Tony…
Well that’s how it looks to me. Seriously, can you tell the difference? No, I’m being silly, this is the first Alex Ross cover to the new Phantom ongoing series, with Ross as lead creative, with script by Scott Beaty and Eduardo on art. Dynamite announced this series a while back, much to the consternation…
Now we’ve introduced what we do at TRIPWIRE, we can get down to the meat of this column. One of the things that we do, and arguably, always have done in the magazine is draw people’s attention to creators working in industries related to comics whose work they probably have seen but may not know…
Or, rather, wrote and directed. Hit Parade is a straight-to-DVD-by-way-of-a-few-film-festivals production written and directed by Joe Casey, current writer of Avengers: The Origin and well known for his runs on Superman, Wildcats, Godland and Cable as well as co-creating the Ben 10 cartoon empire. Hit Parade is about a retired hitman bookseller who gets dragged…
If Josh Elder has his way, school children will never again have to hide their comics inside their schoolbooks ever again. (Which doesn’t usually work anyways, unless it’s an Archie Double Digest.) Elder is the executive director of Reading With Pictures, a Chicago-based non-profit advocacy and resource group for the use of comics and graphic…
Generator Rex launched on the Cartoon Network two weeks ago, airing at 8.30PM on Fridays in the States. About a young boy with nanotech inside his bloodstream, enabling him to create fighting machines from within himself, its launch episode was the highest rated show that night for boys, not just on cable TV but all…
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…
