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,…
Gosh! Comics of London is one of the best comic book shops in the world. It also has two of the other best comic shops in the world in near proximity, but that’s by the by. Anyway, a rare job opportunity has come up there. A full-time position in their books department for someone “hard-working…
You know you want one, and now you can have one. Thanks to the Disney Family website, anybody can print out and fold-up their own choice of TRON:Legacy style Lightcycle – Sam in blue, Clu in yellow, Kevin Flynn in groovy white. You’ll need five pieces of fairly stiff paper or light card, but don’t worry…
It was the ultimate heroes vs villains comic of the eighties and arguably laid the groundwork for all future major crossovers. Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars. And now it looks as if it’s going to be a computer game. Siliconera has noticed that Marvel has recently trademarked the name for computer games. Oh and bicycle helmets…
As a protest against the new laws in Tokyo to restrict sales of sexually explicit comic books to under-eighteens, the biggest comic book and anime producers in Japan, including Kodansha Ltd, Shogakukan Inc. and Shueisha Inc pulled out of next year’s massive Tokyo International Anime Fair at the end of March. All because its chairman,…
Earlier this year, I was surprised and delighted to announce the unexpected news that, by the time of me finding out about it, Terry Gilliam was already deep into the process of making a short film. In that case, the film was The Legend of Hallowdega, an energy drink tie-in to some Nascar myth that,…
MillarWatch: “I know that this will surprise many of you, especially since I often rant here about needlessly “dark” comic books, but I just read all four issues of Mark Millar and Steve McNiven’s NEMESIS (Icon) and I enjoyed it very much. Rather than messing with a pre-existing character, they’ve created a new concept that’s…
According to the inexplicably named Sandwich John Films, Clint Eastwood has cast Judi Dench, and is in the process of casting Charlize Theron, in his J. Edgar Hoover biopic, J. Edgar. Here’s what Eastwood spilled on the red carpet of the California Hall of Fame induction way back in mid-December: We think [Charlize Theron] will…
At the grand age of 88, Stan Lee has comic projects in double figures from several publishers and is, reportedly, getting his hands dirty with most of them. At comic conventions he is in heavy demand, with more signings, panels and public appearances than any other comic creator. At the last San Diego convention he…
One of my own biggest happy surprises of the year was Pang Ho-Cheung’s Dream Home. I hadn’t seen any of Pang’s films at that point, but immediately launched myself into researching and tracking down his prior movies. The one to have come directly before Dream Home was Love in a Puff, just earlier this year….
Yesterday, the poster; today, the trailer. The Other Woman hits IFC VOD on Friday then will play in US cinemas (What? Five cinemas? Ten?) in February. So, there we go – we learn that Natalie Portman is engaged and pregnant and then we get a trailer for a film in which she loses a child…
A simple update, so let’s first look at my original report from October, and then I’ll tell you how some details have now changed: Benoît Jacquot is assembling an all-star cast for his adaptation of Chantal Thomas’ Les Adieux à la Reine (Farewell, My Queen). Just three names on the list so far, but they…
My favourite stamps of all time were probably a series of plain, simple Sesame Street ones from Fiji. Having said that, I have very little awareness of stamps and really have to have them brought to my attention in order to even recall that they exist (I’m not that kind of nerd). Thanks, then, to…
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…
