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,…
I thought we’d all learnt our lesson from the Death Of Robin. But JMS with his You’ll Believe A Man Can Walk Grounded arc could be coming to your town. All you have to do is make a case. And live in America. Somewhere near Chicago, Des Moines, Denver, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Portland…
StarWatch: Conventions, whether comics, sci-fi, or fantasy, usually end up in the bar. Well, for Cyphan in Illinois at the end of the month, the organisers are bringing the bar into the convention. And set dressing it as the Chalman’s Cantina of Mos Eisley from the movie Star Wars. They describe it; In CYPHAN’s continuing…
When the DC Comics App launched today, with Justice League: Generation Lost #4 available for cover price hours before it would be available in the US, and a day before it would be available in the UK, without any warning to retailers who had ordered it as normal… Well, it was going to cause a…
Toru Iwatani, original creator of the Pac-Man game was visiting Holland for their Festival Of Games exhibition. And while he was there, he brought along a special folder. Featuring the very first designs of the Pac Man game. Drawn on graph paper. Waka waka waka…
Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool broke the story of the plan by multi-media store Hastings to massively increase its presence in the comic book direct market, with 127 stores rolling out with Diamond Comic Distribution accounts. But what sway will they have on the market? Everyone knows that the bigger comic book retailers can often…
So I take the wife out to see Macbeth at the Globe for her birthday. Wonderful performance, very bloody, at points becoming a pantomime production of Dawn Of The Dead. And I come home to about twenty e-mails from comic book creators contacted by Jim Lee and Dan DiDio as a result of the breaking…
Some people wondered why Dan DiDio was so keen to mention Sweet Tooth as a new hit Vertigo series when it hasnt been the biggest hit – at least not compared to American Vampire or even Unwritten mentioned in the same paragraph, which sells 50% more than the antler boy. It felt a little odd….
So Arsenal features a little casual misogyny, physical abuse, dubious sexual politics and a dead cat. Ho hum. Crossed, now written by David Lapham, features a rapist father as the strong moral guardian of the book and potential saviour of the human race. In issue 1 of the new series, we find one of his…
Shhh! No, just shhh! Don’t say a thing! Jean Reno is co-starring alongside Vincent Cassell’s Fantômas in the upcoming movie adaptation of the titular French pulp hero/villain, who appeared in novels, plays, movies, a stack of comics… and is probably best known to the readers of this site as the inspiration for Grant Morrison’s Fantomex…
Aaron and Mike from A Comic Shop in Florida talk about hanging out with Geoff Johns and how both Heroic Age and Brightest Day are not crossovers, even if the public have been trained by banners to believe they are. And how everyone should read Superman #700. So get an earlier look at today/tomorrow’s comics…
Collider state that Warner Bros have hired a new writer for the live action Akira movie. And that it’s Albert Torres. Collider also confirm that there will be two films, each taking three of the published Akira volumes. Kevin And Josh confirm however that director Albert Hughes will only do the first. Oh and yes,…
RadioWatch: Monday’s The Infinite Monkey Cage on BBC Radio 4, a comedy/chat look a science issues with Robin Ince and friends will be featuring Alan Moore and Jonathan Ross as guests. Tickets to Friday’s recording are sadly all gone… DoctorWatch: Chris Weston, May 2007: I hate Doctor Who – Why do I hate it…? Where…
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…
