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,…
Looks like it was no one-off. Weeks before the second issue of 27 by Charles Soule and Renzo Podesta is set to ship, it has already sold out its overprint at distributor level and a second printing approved. Just as the second printing of 27 #1 is set to ship with 27 #2, so the…
Matt Fraction talked to John Siuntres on Word Balloon a couple of days ago about Fear Itself. So what do we know? Well, the series will centre on Thor and Captain America, an Eden-like myth in Norse history revolving around the God Of Fear, the serpent cast out by Odin, killed his followers and churches…
Sky are sinking a great deal of love, money and hope into their mini-series, Neverland. Starring Rhys Ifans as Captain Hook, Charlie Rowe as Peter Pan, Anna Friel as some sort of new character and Bob Hoskins in his Hook role of Smee (does that make this a Hook prequel too? No, it does not)…
Here’s a few of the many industry Christmas cards send by publishers, retailers and creators alike, that may need further exploration or interpretation. Don’t turn your back on Santa, or he’ll empty his sack. That’ll wipe the smile off your face. White kids get cowboy hats, black kids get basketballs. Green Lanterns are real cheapskates….
It’s just a couple of days until The Last Exorcism, one of my favourite films of the year, is released on UK DVD and Blu-ray and I’m looking forward to checking it out again on Blu. I’ve been lucky this week enough to have a good chat with the film’s producer, Eli Roth, and get…
It’s been a common retailer complaint in the light of DC Comics’ move from $3.99 30 page/22 page comics to $2.99 20 page comics that if comics consumers who left over the price change don’t know about the $2.99 price point that they won’t come flooding back. Well DC Comics seems to have a plan…
Recently, Ben Mortimer got to visit Natalia Tena in her own home, and take a video camera with him. It wasn’t the best camera in the world, but it did make sound and pictures. The intimacy of the setting has combined with Ms. Tena’s candid attitude to create one of the most open and frank…
ArchieWatch: So goody-two-shoes is an Obama fan while greedy narcassist Jughead is a Palin upporter? What are Archie Comics tryong to say?? HorrorWatch: Steve Niles is planning a horror universe of characters… Right now, between Dark Horse and IDW we have created a small universe of characters. Our hope is to one day get all…
We all knew this was coming. But with this week’s release of the final issue of WildCATs and the closure of the DC Comics offices for the holidays, there’s a sense of finality in the air. Everybody knows nothing stays dead in comics, and there will be collections, and down the road… who knows what…
April next year will see the publication of Alan Moore: Storyteller, a hardcover volume by Strangehaven‘s Gary Spencer Millidge with a foreword by fantasy author extraordinaire, and central influence on Alan Moore’s work, Michael Moorcock. Millidge was the author/editor/publisher of Portrait Of An Extraordinary Gentlemen, created for Alan’s fiftieth birthday (which I contributed a page…
Here you go, folks. Nine pages from two great British comics legends, from The Bulletproof Coffin #6, the last issue, out next week from Image Comics. Doesn’t that feel better?
Those who have seen the new DC solicitations for March can be in no doubt. Yet another minority character getting bumped off. Outrage outrage outrage. And what’s even worse is that it’s a spoiler. The current Blue Beetle is about to snuff it. It’s the calm before the storm in issue #21. Beetle is dead,…
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…
