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,…
Okay folks, time to break out your French to English dictionaries. Volume 4 of the astounding Blacksad series is finally released in two weeks. This anthropormorphic 1950 America film noir comic by Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido has blasted through the sales charts over the last few years, and its release is expected to…
British telly mainstay and one-time Doctor Who, Sylvester McCoy, has just quashed rumours of his casting as Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit: Part I. So what is his real relationship with the film? Who will he really be playing? This afternoon we’ve been told by a 100% trustworthy source close to the situation that McCoy…
This year sees the 20th anniversary of avant garde French publisher L’Association. Originally founded by a group of creators who wanted to do their own stuff free from French comics industry policies, five years ago current L’Association publisher Jean-Christophe Menu managed to alienate almost the other founders, who left the group quite disgruntled. Basically, an…
At the Edinburgh TV Festival today, Steven Moffat announced that the transmission of the next series of Doctor Who, in 2011, will be split into two blocks, one transmitting in the spring and the other in autumn. Moffat said What this show needs is a big event in the middle. We do 13 episodes, which…
Of course, this is hardly news to the Italians, French, Spanish, Germans, Portugeuse, Belgians, Swedes and the like who all seem happy to read comics in public everyday. In fact I’ve never seen a Brit embarrassed to read Viz Comic on the bus. But yesterday saw an attempt to address a perceived reticence to read…
Mark Waid’s keynote speech at the Harvey Awards at Baltimore Comics Con last night started by pointing out that copyright was all about putting work into the public domain, rather than preserving it for company ownership, and the concept of public domain should be embraced again. That illegal downloading is inevitable leading to a new…
A few days ago Bleeding Cool featured a blog that dissected Mark Millar’s characters through the influence of their parents. We rather liked it. As did Mark Millar. As did, it seems, the book publisher Seq Art, who came across Smith based on rcommendation from Gail Simone. Colin Smith has written a chronology of how…
Just as Brendon knows nothing about comics, I know nothing about film. So here are a bunch or texts from wherever Brendon is right now. London Fright Fest or something. He seems to be talking about a superhero film – Human Centipede? Someone bitten by a radioactive centipede no doubt. Anyway, this is what he…
Apparentkly today is Wear Comics In Public Day. Sneaker design by BrassMonki. Oh and these aren’t bad either.
Years ago, Erik Larsen wrote an anonymous and controversial letter to the Comics Buyers Guide in which he extolled the possibilities of comic book artists striking out on their own and writing their own stories to draw. It was a milestone in the movement that gave birth to Image Comics. It caused much debate at…
The British Film Institute (BFI) hosted a chat between director/funnyman Joe Cornish (Attack the Block, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn) and director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) just prior to the UK premiere of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. The BFI’ve posted video that conversation online. To learn…
BrainFart: All-righty-then. Let’s talk POPE. His pointy-headed Holiness descends upon these fair isles (there’s got to be an “aisles” pun there, but this is SACRED and PURE and NO LAUGHING MATTER also I can’t think of it) on Thursday 16th September. He’ll be rattling-about in his funny little popemobile from Glasgow to London, spraying Blessings…
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…
