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,…
I’ve already waxed lyrical about the quality of the Alien and Aliens transfers on the Anthology Blu-rays, but Fox want you to see for yourselves. They know that what they have speaks for itself. Unfortunately, via the medium of Youtube, something is lost. Just a little… But, still, this new featurette, talking up the quality…
France, Belgium, Germany, Italy. All about to host a new “pop opera” featuring the biggest stars of Japanese manga and anime, played by leading Japanese actors, supported by star musicians such as singer Piko and game musician Daisuke Asakura. The performances will be based around material from Naruto Shippuden, One Piece, Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood…
Here’s a smartly coiffed bombshell that I really wasn’t expecting. From the looks of a picture and tweet that Mark Gatiss shared with the world this morning, he’s taking a role in the next season of Doctor Who as the War Chief, a rather evil Time Lord who hasn’t showed up in the series since…
SportsWatch: Can a successful football player also be a sucessful web cartoonist? John Williams is making that play… The junior, who returned to the field last Saturday against Miami and will play Saturday at Virginia Tech, has been finishing new strips every couple of weeks, drawing inspiration from coaches, teammates and his experiences on the…
Some of these are old news some of them are real surprises, all of them have signed on the dotted line for a trip to Middle Earth. If only we knew exactly where Middle Earth was going to be… I’ll run pictures under bit of casting. Martin Freeman will play Bilbo, yer actual Hobbit. I…
Paddy “Pudsy” Morris, Scottish cartoonist for publications such as Northern Lights, OZ , Dope Funnies and Nasty Tales, , passed away earlier this week from a heart attack. He was 61. He’s best known for his psychedelic, doodly, drug inspired work, and his work on Ganjaman. His funeral will be held this Tuesday, 11:30 am at…
Back in early 2008, Don Coscarelli took the rights to adapt David Wong’s novel John Dies at the End into a feature film. Skip forward over two years and, in recent days, he took to Twitter and began sharing: Writing from an undisclosed location. Pre-production begins. Most only ride in a hearse once. Some are…
The UK press screening of Paranormal Activity 2 was taking place this evening. However, I knew that I could go and see it with the public earlier in the day, right here in Oxford and without a phalanx of notepad scribblers scrit-scritching around me. Obviously, I was going to opt for the latter option. And…
It’s been this week’s ping-pong ball of a news story, flashing back and forth, new details coming to light here, there and everywhere. And now, it looks like we’ve received the final update. According to an official statement from Todd Phillips, director of The Hangover 2, Mel won’t be making an appearance. Why not? Well,…
The new Total Recall, with a script by Equilibrium‘s Kurt Wimmer and directed by Underworld‘s Len Wiseman, is now set to finally get rolling in March. Wow. I’m feeling pretty deflated already and I’m only three sentences in. Rarely has a film seemed so uninspiring. Will the casting buoy me? Well, according to The Hollywood…
Well, it’s the set of The Hobbit right now, but if Warner Bros. go ahead with plans to move the production overseas, it won’t be the set of The Hobbit for long. Which set? Gollum’s cave. Crikey. Here’s a decently meaty and in-depth discussion with Peter Jackson and Philippa Boyens, batting back some simple but…
There we go. Mr Tarantino, looking rather cool on the cover of Clint #3 there. And Al Murray above him looking anything but. It should be out next week, but Forbidden Planet on Shaftesbury Avenue in London may get early copies as usual, as publisher Titan Magazines is a part of the same company group…
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…
