Well I must have done something right. Cryptozoic sent me the Locke & Key card game today. And I opened it. And filmed myself doing it too. Welcome to the new Locke & Key unboxing event…
Why The Hell Isn’t There A My Little Pony Comic Book?
Aaron and Mike of A Comic Show want to help fix what’s wrong with the comics industry, they swear they’ll start a regular bombastic op/ed column here on Bleeding Cool. But first, they feel they must follow their hearts (hooves), and use their connections to get a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic comic made!…
Jim Lee’s Hidden Tribute To Carla
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…
The First Page Of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Revealed At Angoulême
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…
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Is This The End Of Marvel All Ages Books? Nope… (UPDATE)
With all the remaining members of the Comics Magazine Association of America having publically, dropped the Comics Code this past week, who’d have thought there would be Marvel news on this matter after they dropped it ten years ago? Well, Brian Clevenger has been promoting his new comic, Captain America: The Fighting Avenger #1 coming…
Kevin Smith Goes Crazy With The Hit Somebody Casting Details
Tonight’s the night of the Red State premiere at Sundance, and following the screening, Kevin Smith will be holding a live, public auction in the auditorium, for the rights to distribute the film. I wish him the best of luck with this because, though I don’t expect it will, there’s a real risk that everything…
Fire In A Tennessee Comic Shop
This was the tweet from the store that caused the concern; Well, we regret to inform you that Outer Limits of M’boro has burnt down. Cause has yet to be determined but we will keep ya’ll posted. The Daily News Journal reported a serious fire in the Outer Limits store in Murfreesboro, Tennessee yesterday morning,…
Jose Villarrubia, SCARCE At Angoulême
Bonjour à tous! Angoulême is the largest comic book convention in the world, held in France. SCARCE is a French magazine, running quarterly since 1983 focusing on American comics, available through subcriptions (7€ per issue, 25€ for 4 issues, shipped worldwide). Xavier Lancel is the current editor-in-chief and he will be providing Bleeding Cool with…
Stuart Immonen To Create Brand New Type Of Comic
This is the kind of thing I know I will enjoy. And there just isn’t enough of. From Stuart Immonen. A prototype for a isocahedral comic story. Let’s see you buy that on Comixology.
X-Men: First Class Clarifications And Explanations From Matthew Vaughn
First Class master Matthew Vaughn has some tidying up to do for those who haven’t been listening and instead just sat at the back, sniggering and passing smart-ass notes back and forth. He’s going to make plain some of the things about his new X-Men movie that, apparently, not everybody will have picked up on….
Sunday Runaround – Was It The CIA Or Was It Tintin Fans?
NameWatch1: Marvel’s Shadowland: Street Fighters collection collecting a bunch of different Shadowland comics has been retitled Shadowland: Street Heroes. I just bet it has. ContentWatch: DC has cancelled Azrael: Killer Of Saints that reprints all the anti-Catholic stuff from David Hine. I just bet they have. StripWatch: The Spokesman gets 4000 responses to its changing…
Details Of The Secret, Imminent Trailer For Tron 3, Film Presumably Set To Follow – UPDATED
Back in 2008, Disney’s plans for a Tron sequel went public when a surprise teasery concept clip was played at Comic-Con. From out of nowhere came a huge tidal wave of geek hysteria… And Tron: Legacy surfed that wave all the way to release, and now, it would seem, beyond. Despite an arguably disappointing box-office…
Kim Jong Il Is Batman
“Now this deal with North Korea represents a huge shift in the Bush administration which refused to even discuss Batman with North Korea. Is this a wrong move?” “Absolutely a wrong move. I mean we need to eliminate North Korea as a nuclear threat yes, but it’s not worth meddling with something as beloved as…
The Week the Comics Code Ends, A Historic EC Cover Which Helped Cause It Finally Surfaces
I think this is the definition of irony: one of the most famous moments of the 1954 Senate Hearings which helped prompt the comic book industry to create the Comics Code is an exchange between Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver and EC Publisher William Gaines, during which the Senator questioned Gaines about the cover of Crime…
The Next Avenger… Captain Canuck
Great timing, this. We’ve just learnt that Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger movie will be having a name change in Russia, The Ukraine and South Korea (well, a name abbreviation – it’s going to be called just The First Avenger), and then pretty much straight away, we hear that Captain Canuck is suiting up…
Kermit And Chris Cooper Interviews Yield New Muppets Details
It’s pretty rare that Kermit the Frog gives an interview, so it’s been an uncommon joy to hear what he has to say about the currently filming Muppet movie. Well, except for when what he says is quietly undercut with melancholy: People are used to seeing my being silly, but I’m very dramatic in this…
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New Sherlock Viral? Or Something Geekier?
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…
Frank Miller Redraws The Dark Knight
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…
The Amazing Spider-Man Is Tidied Up A Little By An Official Blurb
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…
Joe Madureira Wants To Draw A Zelda Comic Series
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…
The Robins – A New Comic From Jeff Lemire?
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…
Warner Bros. Nix ElfQuest Movie, Pin Blame On The Hobbit
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…
