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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The Let Me In trailer is going to hit fairly soon. Want to know what you’ll be seeing? Want to know how it compares to the very high standards of Let The Right One In? If so, here’s a descriptiony review of the trailer from an anonymous Little Bleeder. The point is, really, what he builds up to in the last sentence…
As the trailer begins there is a real familiarity to it. The look is almost exactly the same as the original. The landscape, colour pallete and even the grade have clearly been inspired by Alfredson’s version, and the opening line, about the death of a ‘recent graduate’ of Owen’s school has definite overtones of Let The Right One In.
By contrast, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Chloe Moretz bear very little resemblance to the leads of the original, and while Oskar and Eli looked strange and somewhat alien when compared to the rest of the cast, Owen and Abby just look like typical American teenlets. It’s hard to tell from the limited footage quite how this will affect the finished film, but it will certainly change the feel.
What is quite curious is how it seems to be being marketed. The trailer is full of very short, fast cuts, and has a loud rock soundtrack playing throughout. The word that springs instantly to mind is ‘overblown’, and whether that’s the tone of the finished film or not (my guess is that it won’t be), it seems as if it’s being pitched as an action-thriller rather than a slow-burning coming-of-age horror.
I wonder if said rock soundtrack is Muse?
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.)…
