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,…
The trailers for Disney and Pixar animated movies regularly make their online debuts this way, ripped from a DVD or Blu-ray and posted to YouTube. You might think the Mouse’s PR and marketing departments might provide a controllable, sanctioned online version first, but no, they rarely do. There’s a leaflet in the packaging for the…
The Unstoppable junket is underway this weekend, and as expected, director Tony Scott has faced a barrage of questions about the in-development sequel to Top Gun. What’s Playing are first out of the traps with a horse’s mouth confirmation that Scott has said yes and will be directing the sequel. The film suddenly sounds really…
There’s a long history of animators using live action reference footage, and anybody who has ever drilled their way through a Disney DVD’s special features will have seen the admission of this. Here’s a nice, specific example that shows how Pixar can bypass the need for having a choreographer on the payroll when putting together…
We’re going to share a link to the trailer for Killing Bono. Thing is, it’s only online as a market research clip at the moment, and there’s no indication when it will be officially released. What we really need is for it to somehow be saved, and maybe uploaded somewhere a touch more permanent… Nick…
He may be considered by some to be part of a series of offensive sterotypical cartoons. But no one in the UK has ever thought about that. So he’s a perfect choice to demonstrate the speed of Virgin Broadband, even if that means he ends up in a dress, in a commentary upon how even…
It’s not just DC. Looks like Marvel is getting a pottymouth of its own. In New Mutants #17, set in a hellish Limbo, there is a demonic language spoken by a number of participants. Here are four examples. However the language used is a simple cypher of the English language, worked out by Alpha Flight…
Chances are, you’ve seen Rodrigo Blaas’ Alma by now, but if you haven’t, waste no time and click play on the video below. A couple of years ago it was revealed that Guillermo Del Toro was setting up an imprint at Disney to be called Double Dare You. After the initial reveal, radio silence… and…
Kcuf em syawedis… You know those calculator games where you can type in 55378008, turn it upside down and it reads “Boobless” that used to amuse every seven year old boy in maths lessons? Well, fittingly, Zattana #4 featured a gallic variation. Here’s the cover. See those numbers on the machines? Let’s turn them upside…
Will it work? Quite possibly. If you register at this site, you get a unique URL with while you can spam twitter, facebook, bebo, anything you like and get people to sign up themselves. This pyramid scheme will reward the greatest guerilla advertisers with cash prizes. And hopefully AMC with viewers. You have to live…
Here’s the first in a series of behind-the-scenes videos going behind the scenes of Telltale Games’ Back to the Future spin-offs. This one introduces the basic backstory – there’s a game, Bob Gale is involved – and show us Christopher Lloyd recording some of his dialogue and talking about the gig. Best of all, however,…
TheftWatch: A T-shirt maker steals a sketch of Matt Smith by 10 Doctors creator Rich Morris off the internet, then claims he has the original drawing and BBC permission when approached. When he clearly has neither. Contact me again and you can expect a knock on your door when I ring up the The British…
It seems like the production designers are pulling ahead of the pack when it comes to getting the new Fantastic Voyage in shape. While they’ve done “everything but build sets”, per Deadline, there’s still not a director signed to the project and a new writer has just been brought on to redraft. So who does…
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…
