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,…
Recently, Bleeding Cool ran a piece on Icelandic artist Erró, who of late has specialised in taking comic book artwork, redrawing it, mixing it up, mashing it up and presenting it as art, to the extent that Erró had his work recently exhibited in the Pomidou Centre. A number of artists, including Chris Weston, were…
Do you remember the time when Virgin Comics used to spend every week announcing a new project somehow linked to a famous creative name? Terry Gilliam, John Woo, Dave Stewart, Michael Jackson and, indeed, Guy Ritchie. And then everything went tits up. Well, Dynamite Entertainment have already announced a couple of ex-Virgin-now-Liquid Comics projects. But…
Rob Liefeld recently posted on his message board, over the delay on the Image crossover series Image United, Rob Liefeld seemed to confirm that things aren’t that well with the series. When asked if Image United is “dead in the water” he replied “That’s about right” later adding “Fans should ask Todd why he wont…
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 and artwork. I promised last week that I would get on to the practicalities of comic-book writing, so that’s exactly what I’m going to do this week. I should point out…
Look at this desk. It’s a nice desk. A lovely desk. Only $499 too, which is fairly okayish I suppose. But what makes this desk slightly more special is that it was once owned by the late Bill Bixby, who played Dr David Banner in the Incredible Hulk TV series. So if you want a…
The X-Men may have recently arrived in San Francisco. But for one tarot card reader, they’ve always been there. Reading the cards most Friday evenings, by appointment, at Swankety Swank in the Lower Haight for a snip at $40, STORM (that’s his legal name, all capital letters) has his own unique take. His Tarot pack…
Jim Shooter is famous for writing Legion Of Superheroes stories for DC Comics when he was fourteen. Well, Freddie Neno is going one better. The British seven year old is writing stories for weekly British comic The Beano. Writing for the regular strip, Fred’s Bed, about thh adventures of a young boy travelling to strange…
There, that’s better. MovieWatch: Rumours swirl around that The Skrulls will be the big bad in The Avengers movie are emerging – and that they may be the ones that control The Hulk. Also rumours continue that the Kevin Pennington will have a role in the movie and that he will be playing a proto-Captain…
Why not squint and have a look… anyone you recognise? Anyone fancy tallying goatees, chubby faces, sunglasses and the like?
Lee Bermejo reinterprets the cover from the concluding chapter to The Great Darkness War, Legion Of Superheroes #294, as a 75th Aniversary variant for Adventure Comics #12. Here’s the original for comparison…
Nevs Coleman, comic store employee at Orbital Comics in London, writes for Bleeding Cool. When he feels like it. A collection came in this week, containing, amongst other things, the “seminal”* run of Uncanny X-Men written by Chris Claremont and drawn by people like John Byrne and Paul Smith. These comic are held as the…
Yesterday in Boston, two eighteen month old pitbulls, names Venom and Bullseye turned on their owner, in a Siege-like plot twist that saw the owner and grandfather David Spaulding seriously injured. A heroic neighbour, 62 year old air conditioning repairman Bruce Briere (pictiured), ignored the Super Hero Registration Act to leap the fence and attack…
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…
