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
Spider-Man Action Footage From New Movie
Spider-Man swinging off a moving truck, as shot for the upcoming movie, by someone who happened to be walking past with a phone. See, this is what the real Marvel Universe would look like on camera. Favourite comment from a Youtuber? “Fake…You can see the wires…”
Kevin Smith On His Plans To Re-Cut Red State, And More
Here’s one of the things Kevin Smith and I have in common: we called in to Washington DC’s Kevin and Josh Movie Show this week and talked about movies.* I called in to give a little bit of a Bleeding Cool-fuelled news update, and to ask a few questions of Dark Knight cinematographer Wally Pfister…
Lots Of Film News I Missed While My Mac’s Power Brick Was Broken
Here are a number of the stories that I would have covered over the last few days if my Mac’s power brick hadn’t died. I tried to blog as much on the iPad, or by proxy, but there’s a lot I couldn’t get to. So here are the best, missed bits. Michele Soavi wants to…
Kurtzman And Orci Producing Gavin Hood’s Ender’s Game, Seeking Studio Finance
Gavin Hood, the unfairly fanboy-maligned director of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, is currently at work developing a big screen adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game. The novel is set in a world where humanity is losing in war with a formidable alien race, and where children are trained from a young age to be members…
Jean Van Hamme To Be Awarded Commander Of Arts And Letters
Earlier this month, Bleeding Cool reported that ex-Dupuis editor Jean Van Hamme would be at Angoulême this year, the first time for twenty years since he was at Dupuis. The word was that he’s lobbying for the Angoulême lifetime accomplishment award for one of his creators… But instead of helping a protege get an award,…
Speculator Corner: Image First Issues – Infinite Vacation, Echoes And Who Is Jake Ellis
Image Comics gained a reputation last year for publishing a number of series that caught the comic book market by surprise. Morning Glories, Skullkickers, 27, the question has always been, what’s next? Well, Infinite Vacation #1. Already tipped by Bleeding Cool, it looks like retailers did not learn the lessons from Nick’s last comic, Morning…
Boom! To Publish Planet Of The Apes
We linked to this in this morning’s Runaround… but looking around, not too many people seems to have mentioned it. So, let’s give it a bit of prominense. Boom! Studios are publishing Planet Of The Apes in April, a prequel to the original movie, written by Daryl Gregory and drawn by Carlos Magno .
Swipe File: Transformers Fan Art Vs Car Insurance Advertorial
Comics Alliance recently ran/possibly-even-created (still not sure on that) a car insurance infographic feature that purported to show the original Transformers from the eighties cartoon alongside the vehicles they transformed into. But even a rudimentary knowledge of Transformers (and that’s what I have) would have clued you in from the very beginning that the Optimus…
Saturday Runaround – Let’s All Just Be Francophiles, Okay?
BookWatch: The satirical graphic novel Quai d’Orsay, based on former PM Dominique de Villepin, has become a surprise French literary hit. France has a long tradition of satirical cartoons and caricature. There has been a flood of slapstick comic-book parodies of Nicolas Sarkozy in recent years. But Quai d’Orsay stands apart in its critical acclaim…
Joe Prado’s Blackest Night Character Designs. Around A Hundred Of Them.
Joe Prado designed many Black Lantern versions of DC Universe characters for the Blackest Night mega-crossover. And now he’s selling them on his website, along with other original art. You can buy them here…
Bild Rewrites William And Kate Comic
Now I know what Hollywood actors must feel like when they see a foreign dubbed film using a very strange voice to portray their role. In this case, it’s a few scenes from the William and Kate comic books I’ve written for Markosia, drawn by Gary Erskine and Mike Collins, with Owen Jollands on colour….
Angoulême Day Two With Xavier Lancel
Xavier Lancel writes for Bleeding Cool As we entered our second day at the festival, (and the third one in Angoulême), Abby (Denson), Fred (Harper), Tim Fish and Charlie Alard, were panelists on a round table titled “Mainstream or Indy: which US career to choose?”. I (Xavier Lancel, editor of SCARCE) was the moderator. We…
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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…
