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: March 2011
Song Of The South To Go Unsung, Pixar Greats To Go Without Sequels
CEO Bob Iger today chaired a Disney shareholders meeting and while I don’t have all of the details yet, Bleeding Cool has been sent a few partial accounts of what went down, with more to follow. It seems to be an annual occurrence that somebody asks Iger about The Song of the South, the long-shelved…
The Complete New Captain America Trailer Is Here (UPDATE: Now In Official Marvel HD)
There’s been lots of tease leading up to this one, and finally, here we are — the full Captain America trailer starring Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Tommy Lee Jones.
Wednesday Comics Review: FF #1 and Dark Knight #2
In FF #1 no one dies. But everything changes. For years the book has twisted and turned with different approaches, occasionally changing team members, getting new reasons to exist, being dubbed “imagineers” or what not, but with FF #1, we get the biggest change to date, standing for both the First Family and the Future…
DC Expands Co-Op Advertising Scheme To Facebook And Will Pay Stores For “Featured” Titles
For years, DC Comics has run co-op ads with comics book retailers, reimbursing them a certain ampount of their advertising budget if they run ads solely featuring DC comics or titles. It’s a way for DC to expand their marketing often at a local level while reducing their costs, as well as supporting the retail…
Final Set Of Retailer Variant Godzilla Covers Makes a Cool Hundred
IDW has arranged a second print of its retailer-variant covers for Godzilla #1 (launching next week). And, just like the first lot, Bleeding Cool has the exclusive. And with the WonderCon cover at the end, and covers with IDW getting smashed, this now makes a grand total of 100 variant covers for the comic. Gotta…
More New Avengers 100 Covers For Hero
We ran a big stack of these a while ago. With the eBay auction for the original art covers coming up in a week to benefit HERO, the charity that looks after comics creators in distress, why not have a look at the kind of comics you could be buying?
The World Is Going To Go Bang For Torchwood’s Miracle Day
Starz have released this poster for the new series of Torchwood, Miracle Day. And when is Miracle Day? July 8th, if you’re in the US, and “not far from that” in the UK.
DC Nation Moves To Television
It’s been the name of an editorial page in DC comic books and online. It’s been the name of the DC convention panels led by Dan DiDio. And now it’s the name of a new TV series, showcasing a variety of DC Comics characters as well as showing previews of DC movies and comic book…
Who Are The Worthy?
Fresh from the pages of this week’s Marvel comics titles… a look at some of the bad guys from Fear Itself. The Worthy, the avatars of the Serpent, of rage and destruction. And they’ve all got hammers. So is that… Juggernaut? Skaar? Penance? And could Colossus be inside the Juggernaut suit as teased elsewhere?
Join S.H.I.E.L.D, Promote A Movie, Buy A Car
I never realised that the prime functions of the Marvel espionage body S.H.I.E.L.D. were to promote the movies of Kenneth Branagh and a model of car I had previously not heard of. But according to the website JoinShield.com doing the advertising runaround right now,that’s exactly what’s hapening. Okay, okay, I’ve signed up. I’m sure S.H.I.E.L.D….
No Man Is An Island – But Spider-Man Is
I confess, I was kinda banking on Amazing Spider-Man #666 being a long overdue meeting with Mephisto again. Instead it looks like another kind of deal, where everyone in Manhattan gets Spider-Powers. And a bunch of them seem to start dressing like him too. Welcome to Spider-Island by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos. Here are…
Wednesday Comics Review: Captain America And Batroc The Leaper and Hellblazer 277
Batroc The Leaper is a joke. A character designed in full French stereotype, but one as a criminal with honour who will play the game. But as likely to turn tail if the rules change against his own code of honour. A buffoon, a clown, he has been mocked more than celebrated. And now 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…
