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: February 2011
North Carolina Comic Shop To Close. I Wonder Why.
Local news is reporting the closure of twenty-four year old Raleigh, North Carolina store Capitol Comics, just off the North Carolina State University campus. Nineteen-year-long manager of the store, Russ Garwood will lose his job. He blames internet shopping and computer gaming for the drop in business. The shop will close at the end of…
With Great Responsibility Comes Great Spending Power
Canadian comic shop owner Gareth Gaudin, of Legends Comics and Books in Victoria, B.C, owns a complete collection of Spider-Man comic books – including all his guest appearances in other titles, from Amazing Fantasy #15 to the latest issues of New Avengers. 2,500 comics strong, he is now about to sell it, with his second…
Did Scotland Invent The Comic Book?
An upcoming BBC Scotland documentary Scotland’s Amazing Comic Book Heroes by AKA Comics shop owner John McShane makes the claim regarding the publication pf The Glasgow Looking Glass published in that Scottish city in 1825, running fortnightly for a year. And the reason? Not only did the The Looking Glass, founded by John Watson, pioneer…
The Abstinence Teacher Next For Lisa Cholodenko?
For the longest time, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris were attached to direct a film adaptation of Tom Perotta’s The Abstinence Teacher, a characteristically satirical story that tackles sex and religion and, importantly, the intersection of the two. I say say “the longest time” because it really felt like that to me: at the risk…
Sunday Runaround – With Fleet Like This, Who Needs Enemas?
ProfileWatch: Ian Kennedy is profiled by his local press; Sighing regretfully about this digital age and its effect on publishing, he describes those days as “golden times”, when a talented young artist could find work easily. His first freelance strip was the wild west story Kit Carson, but he was soon looking for an excuse…
There Will Be No Winners At This Year’s Oscars
It very probably escaped your notice, but at last year’s Academy Awards, the final words spoken before each of the little gold men was handed over were “…and the winner is…” Even more likely to have passed you by was that this was not the norm. For the last two decades, the Academy have favoured…
Did Scorsese’s Hugo Cabret Jump Or Was It Pushed?
As far as we all knew, Sony had Martin Scorsese’s 3D kids’ flick Hugo Cabret scheduled for release across the US on 9 December 2011. Today, the picture has changed, and rather dramatically. It’s maybe not such a big deal that the film has come forward to 23 November for the Thanksgiving weekend, but it is…
India Ink: Comic Con India In Pictures
Bleeding Cool’s Mayank Khurana has been on the floor of Comic Con India (okay, the ground, then), camera at hand, catching the cosplay and the commerce on camera at India’s first comic conference.
No, Calm Down: The New Spider-Man Film Is A Reboot
There’s a quote from producer Avi Arad in the current Entertainment Weekly that has gotten the internet hopping. He’s talking about The Amazing Spider-Man : It’s not a comeback. You have to look at it this way. Do you want to know more about Spider-Man? This movie is going to tell stories that you didn’t…
Robert Rodriguez’ Black Mamba – A Promotional Short Film For Nike
Starring Kobe Bryant as his apparent alter ego The Black Mamba (really?) there’s a new, 5-minutes or so short by Robert Rodriguez, designed to hawk Nike wares. The film has a couple of other big-name cameos, and sweet small-name one too. I’m never going to own a pair of Nike shoes in my life, so…
All Eighty Variant Covers Of Godzilla #1 From IDW
This is probably one of the greatest comic book promotions of all time. Seriously, it will be written about in textbooks. And it has led to IDW’s biggest print run for any comic book to date, including the Transformers and True Blood titles. Godzilla #1. For which a retailer, if they ordered 500 copies, could…
Garth Jennings’ Video For Radiohead’s Lotus Flower (Plus A Very Fast Spoof)
From Garth Jennings, the director of Son of Rambow, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the upcoming Dud, here is the rather extraordinary video for Radiohead’s Lotus Flower. Street Spirit meets Bob Fosse? The first time I watched the clip, I could swear some of it was backwards, then I watched it again and…
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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…
