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,…
DC Entertainment have been incredibly reticent about their plans for digital comics, with co-publisher Jim Lee stating that they weren’t happy with the digital reading experience yet and you’d have to wait a while. And then DC suddenly, without warning or fanfare, launch a DC Comics App that’s… basically just the same as all the…
Paul Cornell has announced he’s signed an exclusive two year deal with DC Comics. Writer for TV shows including Doctor Who, Robin Hood, Primeval and the upcoming Pulse, Paul Cornell was introduced to Marvel Comics through Mark Millar and worked on a number of series, creating the series MI13 and writing the upcoming Spitfire oneshot….
Over the last couple of days, Darick Robertson confirmed that he is dropping off The Boys for a few issues to draw spinoff mini-series Butcher. But this arrangement didn’t seem to be his ideal situation. He told fans; And if you miss me, also let Dynamite know. He thanked another poster for adding; Dynamite should…
I know I mentioned this in today’s Runaround. But it has stuck in the head. In a recent interview at CBR talking to Jim Lee and Dan DiDio, the question of criticism of DC’s handling of racial matters in its books was broached. Now I like Dan DiDio. Find him charming, witty, very entertaining and…
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran an article about the decision of the Hastings chain of stores to massively expand their comic book operations and become a customer of the Direct Market The original test stores for the new Hastings direct market comic expansion were in Wichita Falls and St. Joseph is Missouri. But expansion is now…
ESQUIVEL: Scotty God! His name alone is enough to strike fear into the quivering hands of lesser artists. No nancy boy middle initials, no gratuitously polysyllabic nonsense: just a nigh-blasphemously deific moniker the like of which would make Charles Atlas kick rocks. Alright, technically his Christian name is “Godlewski”, but that’s not how I, or…
Star of Grey’s Anatomy, Patrick Dempsey, really wants to play a different kind of Doctor. Doctor Strange. And comics artist-working-in-Hollywood Arne Starr seems to agree, whipping up this piece of art that got Dempsey seen by Marvel Studios. And now a movie has been announced,with screenwriters hired for the job. With Dempsey still rather popular…
Megan Fox told her namesake news channel Fox News that she wants to play the character Rainmaker in any upcoming Gen-13 movie. Megan has a long association with comic books, wanting to be a comic book artist at an earlier stage of her career, she attended a number of comic conventions with her portfolio. While…
BoysWatch: So exactly how can the co-creator of a creator-owned book be pushed off his own book against his will? FrankWatch: Just how does Frank Quitely make so much out of so little, in his cover for Absolute All Star Superman? FiskWatch: Four quotes from the DiDio/Lee interview… Paul Cornell is a guy who we…
Real name Chris Sievey, Frank Sidebottom was an intentionally shoddy light entertainer who hung around in the fringes of British popular culture over the last twenty-five years. He even wrote and drew his own comic series, in the pages of the much loved and in need of a revival, Oink!, the British anthology comic that…
We’re told the future of comics is digital. We’re told the comic store is a dying breed. We’re told it’s iPod uber alles. Someone disagrees. And is about to open up 127 new direct market comic outlets across the USA. Hastings is a national media store, selling books, DVDs, games, music, that sort of thing….
Picture – Eve Johnston (5). Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, a run down of the week in Bleeding Cool. Top Ten Most Read Posts Of The Week 1. Green Lantern Poster From The Warner Bros Lot It’s a poster. It might be for the movie. It might be for the CGI. It might be…
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…
