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
Fables And Walking Dead To Be Downloadable Games
It’s reached a hundred issues, it’s spun off into numerous series and books, it’s even got a superhero team, and there’s word of a TV series. And now Bill Willingham’s Fables comic from Vertigo is to be a video game. Telltale Games has got the exclusive license, as well as the license to Robert Kirkman’s…
On Despicable Me, Hop, The Lorax And The Addams Family – Interview With Producer John Cohen
Despicable Me is released on UK DVD this Monday, February 21st. As part of his promotions for the film, John Cohen had a chat with me about this and other films from Illumination Entertainment. 1. Producer Me I was one of the producers of this movie, working with Chris Meledandri and Janet Healey. I was…
The Battle Of The Comic Book Lawyers
Denis Robert is a French investigative journalist who revealed the first Clearstream fianncial instituition money laundering scandal ten years ago. Since then there has been a lot of back and forth of legal issues of defamation brought by Clearstream. He was found guilty, but the Supreme Court have now acquitted him. Until it gets the…
Watching 10 O’Clock Live On A Different TV Screen
Last night I watched 10 O’Clock Live, the political satirical show on Thursday night on Channel 4, sitting on a leather sofa. They had a rather fun back-and-forth on the efficacy of protests, comparing and contrasting the last few weeks in Egypt and the recent British protests against the selling off of forests, led by…
Friday Runaround – Taking Them Out In A Box
PapWatch: The Daily Californian gets the shot of Chris Juricich, manager of the now-closed Comic Relief comic store in Berkeley, California, loading longboxes into his car outside the shut-up shop. Jack Rems, owner of science fiction and fantasy bookstore Dark Carnival on Claremont Avenue, said he plans to open a new store in Comic Relief’s…
India Ink: Indian Comic Con Is Finally Happening
The first Indian Comic Con is happening in Delhi this weekend, and is already sold out. Regular Bleeding Cool correspondent Mayank Khurana will be covering the event for us with his India Ink column. He tells us what he expects of a Comic Con – and what he thinks the Indian event will deliver. Publisher…
M.A.C.-Sponsored Superhero Remix Show by Designer Jeremy Scott Causes A Stir During NY Fashion Week
It’s no longer much of a surprise to see fashion-oriented tweets in comic-book-centric twitter hashtags. As the iconography of this culture continues to seep into the mainstream, it’s inevitable that it will re-emerge in more and more interesting ways. Last year’s burst of Tron fashion was one noteworthy precursor to this phenomenon, and I think…
Christopher Lee To Voice Tim, Stop Motion Tribute To Mr. Burton
Currently raising funds via Kickstarter (which apparently works all too well) are the filmmakers behind Tim. In the spirit of Tim Burton’s own Vincent, this will be a tribute to Burton. Whereas Vincent had a wonderful voice over from Vincent Price, the narrator of Tim will be Christopher Lee. This video will tell you pretty…
The Muppets Movie To Get Its Own Toy Story Short Film
As well as there being a Toy Story short before Cars 2 this summer, Pixar’s render wizards are also cooking up another to play with Disney’s The Muppets at Thanksgiving. This will be the first time a non-Pixar feature gets a Pixar short, I believe. The first of these shorts will be the Hawaii-themed one…
New Thor Trailer Tries A New Angle
I almost wanted the headline to this story to be: Ano-Thor Thor Trail-Thor For Thor-sday Night But then I got over myself. This latest trailer for Thor starts on the “cute earthlings find beefy alien” angle, then quickly moves into “cute earthlings find beefy alien charming”, and then into “the alien seems to come from…
Samson, From The Bible, Is Being Reimagined As A Superhero… From The Future
The Fighter co-writer Scott Silver is working up a sci-fi superhero project. Here’s how he pitched it: I’m finishing up something completely different, a superhero movie set in the future. It’s an original superhero … a superhero based sort of on Samson. Hang on. If you take the biblical character Samson and relocate him to the…
Mila Kunis Opts For Raimi’s Oz Over Akira, Convinces James Franco To Sign
Though she was wanted and desired for a lead role in the Americanised, live-action Akira, Mila Kunis has instead opted to sign up as the Wicked Witch of the West in Sam Raimi’s Oz The Great and Powerful. Or, perhaps more accurately, as a young lady called Evanorah who will go on to become wicked,…
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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…
