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,…
Tweet Of The Night: “I’ve been laid off from Fantagraphics. Wednesday will be my last day as The Comics Journal’s newsblogger”. – Dirk Deppey. Damn. This is the last Lying In The Gutters before Christmas Day. I’ve just posted an interview with Pat Lee. That’s my present sorted then. Okay, so what have people been…
So right now my brain is rocking a little. A little while ago I was approached by one of the Dabel brothers. You know, the folks who have set up numerous publishing deals that always end with someone not getting paid and the participants of that deal parting company. Except this was David Dabel of…
Judging from the captions at the beginning, they want you to see some kind of fairy tale undertones in this trailer. Good luck with that. There’s lots of accent work and some very stylised shots, so I can see this going down well in certain quarters, but I’m yet to see a Joe Wright film…
When she was netted by Access Hollywood at a make-up marketing event in LA last week, Glee‘s Heather Morris said that she was under consideration for the role of Buffy Summers in the new, big-screen do-over. Here’s their exact quote: They’re considering me! I found out and I almost peed my pants ‘cause I was…
‘Tis the week before Christmas, and the ‘toons are all about the TRON LEGACY. Probably staying home from the movies at lookitmoves@gmail.com I’ve begun the official LOOK! IT MOVES! twitter feed. Follow me at http://twitter.com/lookitmoves for thoughts and snark on media and pop culture, stuff for future columns and stuff I may never spend a…
Last night, I was telling you about the other Thor movie, and now here’s some shots of the Thunder God and Loki, in costume and on location. Consider this a nice peek inside the moviemaking world of Asylum, as well as a nice comparison piece to Marvel Studios’ rather more expensive, expansive approach. All of…
The latest of The Hollywood Reporter’s roundtable videos sees some of the year’s most exciting directors in a lively back and forth. There’s over an hour of this stuff, and it’s as good as cat nip for me. I’ll be back when it’s finished…
Would you like to see more raw inks of Bill Sienkiewicz over Neal Adams pencils for Batman Odyssey? Would you? Would you??? Go on then.
When Mark Millar announced Kapow as the first big British comic con in London since the UKCACs, people at the MCM Expo were understandable a bit narked. Millar initially dismissed their show as being “anime” rather than comics – although ignoring the fact he’d been promoting Kapow with expected film content. Well, MCM are fighting…
They’ve been filming here in Oxford on Luc Besson’s “secret film”, The Lady. It will star Michelle Yeoh as Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the Burmese opposition, and David Thewlis as her husband, Michael Aris. A series of stills have premiered at The Guardian (see one at the top of the post, the others at…
The Titeuf strip is a huge seller and many call it the most successful comic in France. For a while it was being published in the UK, retitled as Tootuff, though I’ve no idea if it ever made it any further afield (American Little Bleeders, for example, may be able to inform me). It was…
The following is based on a combination of bar and party talk in and around the blocks of Manhattan that separate DC from Marvel. Use your own judgement, sprinkle plenty of salt and knock back with a slice of lemon. This is the kind of stuff I used to put a red traffic light on,…
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…
