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,…
How do you distinguish between a character from the Dandy and a delicious pastry? Desperate Dan, Flan. Korky The Cat, Pain Du Chocolat. You’ve got to have a system. Star of TV Burp, the surreal alternative-comedian-turned-major-mainstream-hit Harry Hill will see his own strip featured in the relaunch of Dandy as a weekly children’s comedy anthology…
It’s a testament to the overall quality of the Alien Anthology box set that it survives the monstrous disappointment of Alien 3 in just the way a heavyweight boxer survives a stubbed toe. Indeed, I can’t imagine I’ll ever watch this film again in either it’s theatrical or extended cut and I might as well…
Mark Evanier reports on the death of inker Mike Esposito, aged 83. DoctorWatch: From Turf #3, Tommy Lee Edwards and Jonathan Ross bring us a hidden freak show Face Of Bo; NewsWatch: Bleeding Cool has finally been accredited by Google News. This is mostly thanks to Brendon Connelly coming on board and increasing the diversity…
The Platinum Dunes-ified do-over of A Nightmare on Elm Street is released today in the UK, with perfect timing for a Halloween horror stock-up. To support tis release, Jackie Earle Haley got on the phone and had a chat with me about the film, the iconic lead character and something of his attitudes towards both…
Bleeding Cool scooped back in August that Sylvester McCoy, best known as playing the seventh TV incarnation of The Doctor in Doctor Who, was up for the major role of the wizard Radagast The Brown in the upcoming Hobbit movies. And it was a casting he was happy to confirm at the Armageddon Expo convention…
BBC’s Sherlock begins airing on PBS in the USA tonight, and the next two Sundays. Here’s what Bleeding Cool thought of the show back in July when it aired on BBC One. Brendon’s Review Of Episode One - A Study In Pink by Steven Moffat Rich’s Eight Thoughts About Sherlock Episode One Brendon’s Spoiler Free…
I came across a print out of The-Gutters at NYCC this year, And began kicking myself for not coming across these guys before. Writer Ryan Sohmer and a collection of artists having been creating spot on incisive snark and parody on the comics industry since the summer. Here are five of my industry-focussed favourites. And…
So you may not have an inverted cross on the cover of Batman And Robin. But this is what you can have on the inside of a Batbook. From the most recent issue of Azrael, in which The Vatican has sent out The Crusader, a super-powered assassin to rub out heretics. And here’s where Azrael…
On cookery/conversation show Something For The Weekend on BBC 2 this morning, we learned many things. That dates for Andy Serkis on The Hobbit are yet to be fixed, though dates aren’t fixed; thanks to his sweary appearance on Chris Evans’ TGI Friday, singer/songwriter Sean Ryder is the only person named in Channel 4′s constitution…
Weird Worlds is a new anthology series from DC that, well, has got me rather excited. Weird and wonderful takes on DC characters, this is just the kind of thing that floats my eccentically designed boat. With ten pages each month of Kevin Van Hook and Jerry Ordway’s Lobo, Aaron Lopresti’s Garbageman and Kevin Maguire’s…
Currently in production, with locations in the UK and Belgium, is a period caper called The Hot Potato. It’s not literally about a potato (shame, I know) but here’s the official synopsis to put me right on that and set you up correctly: London. The East End. 1969. One evening, a government research establishment explodes;…
PoliticsWatch: The Hill looks at cartoonist Nicholas Ivan Ladendorf running for Congress in Missouri as a Progressive Party candidate. What comic book or comic strip character do you think you’re most like? I didn’t want to get too obscure, but I have to say Nomad. Mainly because his sidekick was his daughter that he wore…
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…
