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,…
UPDATE: This piece was originally published on July 21st. Well, today it’s confirmed that Adam McKay will be directing The Boys. So another job for Simon then… When he was illustrating The Boys, Darick Robertson famously modeled the comic’s character of Wee Hughie on Simon Pegg without the actor’s permission. Thankfully, Pegg was nothing if…
Shelly Bond has announced at the Vertigo panel at San Diego Comic Con that in the extra-length issue 275 of Hellblazer, that John Constantine will be walking up the aisle. And avoid demon succubi to do so… In the book written by Peter Milligan called Bloody Carnations. And she preceded said announcement by humming the…
Take one writer of Final Crisis. Take one writer of Blackest Night. Let them collaborate on a big new shiny thing at DC. And start saving your pennies. At the DC Nation panel at San Diego Comic Con, Grant and Geoff mentioned that they are working on a new project from DC Comics for next…
Bleeding Cool first ran the story that he was coming back to DCU continuity, scotching an already-in-the-works project from the Vertigo, the green elemental’s home for so long. But… how? After all, he’ll probably need a grand entrance. Well, the word from San Diego is to look to Star City. And the star-shaped forest that…
You know the score. Don’t sic the fingermen on us. It looks better and less wobbly if you wear a pair of 3D specs. Honest.
UPDATE: It now appears that Joss Whedon may have been joking. Just a joke that few got in the room it seems… that bit was probably drowned out by the screams! So Joss Whedon has just named Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Buffy, Dr Horrible) as Ant Man in the Avengers movie. I just sneaked into the…
Sorry, expensive Comic-Con panels, but over on his official site, Neil Gaiman has revealed what I think is the most exciting movie news of the week. In a typically candid, not to mention engrossing, blog post, Gaiman gives the history of how he’s come to write one draft of an Anansi Boys movie and seven…
Here’s what you have to accept for all of this rumour to make sense: that Wolverine 2 is going to go into production soon, that it isn’t going to wait for Bryan Singer to finish Jack the Giant Killer, and that Tony Scott’s Potsdamer Platz can just be swept aside or rapidly rescheduled. Having said…
So keen are the Marvel puppetmasters that they should unveil their full line-up of Avengers at Comic-Con, they’re pressing hard to sign Mark Ruffalo to a deal in time to announce his appointment as the Hulk this very weekend. Unfortunately, there’s still some disagreements over his pay and the amount of movies he’d have to…
One of the ten books of Multiversity by Grant Morrison and friends, will be his take on Captain Marvel with frequent collaborator Cameron Stewart. Calling it Thunderworld, because Grant is bored by always having to use Shazam in the title, look for it next year… He’s also been talking Absolute We3 with new pages, which…
Sandra Bullock has been pictured leaving a hotel with director Stephen Daldry. Rather than supposing Bullock and Daldry (who has had relationships with both men and women) were meeting for pleasure, the popular assumption is that they were meeting for business. It’s more polite if nothing else. Just Jared got some snaps, but didn’t pretend…
This picture can be made rather big, so you can scrutinise all you want. It shows off the prop helmets for Thor, Loki and Odin that Marvel have on display at Comic-Con. Back horns, front horns, wings. Here’s Jerry Seinfeld’s routine on helmets: There are many things that we can point to that prove that…
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…
