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,…
We’ll get the little bit of Man Who Killed Don Quixote news out of the way first. Robert Duvall, the man who will play Don Quixote, has given an interview to The New York Times. They asked him about that picture, another with James Caan and also a Billy Bob Thornton-written drama set in the…
What follows is a review of Scott PIlgrim’s Finest Hour, if not the entire run of Scott Pilgrim comics – nay, the experience of loving that entire run of the comics. It comes from a comics retailer, was forwarded to me by Rich but… he didn’t tell me who the mysterious author is. Why so…
Here they are. Count ‘em. Put them together and what do you get? In Escape Brightest My Day, Sight. No In Evil Blackest Shall Night. I think there’s some kind of code here. Can anybody crack it?
Rich has left me in charge of this week’s Lying in the Gutters because he’s flying back from San Diego. Before he boarded, however, he did provide me with three handy top-ten lists and a few notes. It’s him in the red, me in the black (which is actually a bit like real life, for…
You might as well put that stick down right now because here’s more Guillermo del Toro news than you could ever hope to shake it at. Pinocchio Del Toro is producing a stop-motion version of Pinocchio. Here’s what he said about the film at Comic-Con: I will tell you what is a fact. We are…
Norm Breyfogle was featured in a Comics Should Be Good piece on nineties Batman comcs. And he decided to add his voice in the comments on why we don’t see him on Marvel and DC Comics anymore. DC knows I’m available to them, but after they turned down 10 or so proposals from me after…
The Suicide Girls were baned. Any porn star appearances were fully, or at least mostly clothed. And there weren’t even any nipples that needed covering up on banners and posters. Adult comics and panels were clealry labelled and, despite the Milo Manara panel being relatively tame, the staff were isuing loud verbal warnings to anyone…
It’s Far From the Madding Crowd all over again, but with Gemma Arterton in very short cut-off jeans (or – as you can see above – not). That’s two target audiences in the bag right there. Stephen Frears’ Tamara Drewe is a strip-to-screen adaptation that most people will likely never know came from a comic….
So DC recently offered Alan Moore the rights to WATCHMEN back, but on the condition that he allow them to publish prequels and sequels. Basically they were saying, “Hi! We’ll give you back your kid if you let us keep pimping it out and raping it. How about it, squire?” Is it any surprise that…
All you need in order to appreciate the work of legendary cinematographer Jack Cardiff is to see the work of legendary cinematographer Jack Cardiff. Most celebrated are probably his three collaborations with Powell and Pressburger: A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes. In these he’s almost always working with pure,…
That Was The San Diego Comic Con That Was. During which we learnt… 1) That the Captain America movie shield has a scratch on it. You mean that’s not actually made of an adamantium/vibranium alloy? 2) That nothing brings a group of individuals together quite as well as the bigotry of madmen. Seriously anyone who’s…
We’re starting with the official synopsis for Cat Tale because it’s eyebrow raising stuff: Cat Tale is a full-length CG animated film being created, designed, developed and produced by the Group. It tells a heart-warming adventurous story of “Rover”, a kitten which was delivered to and was raised by canine parents by accident. Cat Tale has…
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…
