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 opening and closing films for this year’s Frightfest were announced early: Adam Green’s Hatchet 2 and Daniel Stamm’s The Last Exorcism. Both are high profile titles, sure, and well buoyed by strong advance word but that’s not really all that Frightfest does. Going into last year’s program there was no way The Human Centipede was anybody’s most anticipated title but since the curtain came down, it’s definitely been the most talked about.
So which of these movies is going to be the next Human Centipede? Actually, looking at the list, I’ve got a feeling there’s going to be more than one…
| MAIN EMPIRE SCREEN Thursday 26th August 6.30 - HATCHET II |
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| MAIN EMPIRE SCREEN Friday 27th August 10.15 - EGGSHELLS |
DISCOVERY SCREEN Friday 27th August 10.45 - BURNING BRIGHT |
| MAIN EMPIRE SCREEN Saturday 28th August 11.00 - CHERRY TREE LANE |
DISCOVERY SCREEN Saturday 28th August 11.00 - CHRISTOPHER ROTH |
| MAIN EMPIRE SCREEN Sunday 29th August 11.00 – THE PACK |
DISCOVERY SCREEN Sunday 29th August 11.00 – HIGANJIMA: ESCAPE |
| MAIN EMPIRE SCREEN Monday 30th August 11.15 - VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, |
DISCOVERY SCREEN Monday 30th August 11.00 - AMER |
Each title there is hyperlinked to its page on the Frightfest site. My picks from this little lot are to follow – stay tuned.
Tickets will be available in person from 11am on Saturday 3rd July at the Empire Leicteser Square, and then from noon on the Empire Cinemas website or by phone on 08 714 714 714. More ticketing details on the official Frightfest website.
Those who buy their tickets in person tomorrow will also be attended to a midday screening of The Final, a high school lynch-mob revenge flick. Will I see you there?
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.)…
