We’ve just had Manhattan Projects from Image, the latest in a run of fantasy science comics (and yes, I have my own somewhere in the pipeline). In August we get the next one, from Top Cow’s Matt Hawkins and Rahsan Ekedal, Think Tank. And it’s hard not get the original Manhattan Project fear from this…
Bleeding Cool has been banging on a bit about DC Comics giving their New 52 all zero issues in September, returning to regular numbering in October, to commemorate the one year anniversary of the reboot. DC have not released all their August shipping details. To back up our thesis, we could do with a lot…
It may have been Free Comic Book Day a weekend ago. But that doesn’t mean everything was left to undulate in the breeze. Take this scene from the Marvel FCBD Ultron War #0.1. An exact reprint of Avengers #12.1 yes? Well, not exactly. Here’s the original. Looks like there was a little creative colouring going…
In September, DC Comics publishes zero issues of the New 52, to celebrate the year anniversary of the revamp. Some books however, it seems, may not make it that far. Justice League International #12 will be the last issue of the series. An interesting decision as it outsells the like of Suicide Squad, Superboy, Birds…
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As voted on by you, the Bleeding Cool reading public, by the articles you clicked on most.
A nice big scoop there to start last week with. Reaction has been thoroughly mixed, some seeing it as the end of Vertigo, some thinking it’s about time, some asking why we can’t have the best of both worlds like Marvel manages with The Punisher?
A quick runaround trying to find people who had something nice to say about a certain Rise Of Arsenal #3 in the light of what seemed like a barrage of negativity. And we found one or two…
Photos of Robert Downey Jr buying copies of Avengers… okay, yes, probably a publicity stunt, but what a fun one”
Thefirst half of the two parter story, now confirmed by China himself.
Someone else’s exclusive leaked shots of concept art for Thor proved quite the lightning rod for interest.
Okay, that was fun. That was fun wasn’t it? Fun. All sorts of fun.
It’s still here! Back for its fifth week in the charts. Seriously people, this is a post from March…
A couple of quotes snipped from Empire’s printed version of the magazine and there you go. Even if Comic Book Movie and /iFilm went and snipped those quotes from Bleeding Cool for their own reportage without a by your leave. How do we know? They kept a minor error in my transposition intact…
Nothing like a little internet casting rumour to get everyone’s attention. And one that had no basis in reality whatsoever. Always the best kind I find.
Get used to these kind of stories, summer is on its way…
Not quite hitting the chart were lots of newsworthy stories, including Bleeding Cool’s One Year Anniversary, Exclusive Wars, silly cover suggestions, Neal Adams and Michael Golden Batman, Captain America and X-Men swipes, DC hunting Top Cow artists, the importance of vampires, Joe Quesada’s promotion, China’s plans for Swamp Thing, Del Moro pulling out of The Hobbit, video trailer and review of the Marvel Madame Tussauds exhibition, new XIII creative team, X-Men shooting on this side of the pond very soon, the Mark Millar campaign starts now, Video of the new Fables TV ad and Batman getting arrested, Four New Toy Story Movies A Year and Marvel Trial Simultaneous Print And Digital Release and retailer reaction.
1. Alan Moore To Headline James Randi Benefit With Richard Dawkins
2. Rob Liefeld – His Moebius Phase?
3. Gary Friedrich Loses Ghost Rider Rights Legal Battle
4. Before Scott Pilgrim – Edgar Wright’s Video For Bastardo
5. French Designers Take On DC Comics
And thanks again to columnists Adi Tantimedh, A Comic Shop and Martin Conaghan.
In my Avengefuls comic for Boom!, I had President Obama shooting Osama Bin Hulk in the head with the line “guns don’t kill terrorists, Presidents kill terrorists.” It felt right. We know President Obama used to read comics. Even when he was all grown up. Appearing on The View, he was asked about Kardashians, Fifty…
Heritage Auctions is selling the original art to the cover of Spider-Man #1 by Todd McFarlane, on behalf of its owner Martin Shamus, father of Wizard Magazine‘s Gareb and Steven Shamus. The cover of Wizard #1 was famously based on this cover. It’s iconic and probably bsums up nineties comics better than any other….
Can’t quite work out the motivation here. But a customer of the Regal Cinema in Abingdon, Baltimore, was rather annoyed to discover that the showing of The Avengers that he’d paid to see had captions. He remonstrated with cinema staff who offered him a refund or replacement tickets. He refused both and returned to his…
Larry Young writes for Bleeding Cool; THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE AVENGERS MOVIE. I’m not a person who puts much truck into “spoilers,” because I’m an old-school entertainment consumer. Back in 1980, I bought the novelization of The Empire Strikes Back and found out Yoda was a little blue yard gnome. The experience…
Bleeding Cool has been banging on a bit about DC Comics giving their New 52 all zero issues in September, returning to regular numbering in October, to commemorate the one year anniversary of the reboot. DC have not released all their August shipping details. To back up our thesis, we could do with a lot…
This morning, Bleeding Cool reported the news that Neal Adams was to draw and co-write a First X-Men book with Christos Gage, following sources and stories over two years old. We presumed it was his much-promised and signed-off Wolverine series. Well, it looks like we were half right. (UPDATE: Oh look, Wolverine is in it.)…
