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…
I’m out at dinner, so excuse me for being unprofessional. This story is going to amount to little more than a couple of offhand jokes and a nugget of information. So, Darth Maul might be making a cameo in Insidious (that’s one of the jokes) but the man behind the masque, action man Ray Park,…
Yesterday I told you that John Constantine was coming back to the DC Universe. And tomorrow, while Doctor Who is on, current Hellblazer writer, who is also writing a number of Flashpoint books, Peter Milligan will be talking about John Constantine with Andy Diggle, Jamie Delano and David Lloyd as part of the London Sci…
So I’ve been talking to retailers. Quite a few of them. Asking them how they’ve been ordering the first issues of both Marvel and DC’s big summer crossover titles, Fear Itself and Flashpoint. It’s not pretending to be a comprehensive study. It’s probably not that representative. But the gap in figures looks beyond any reasonable…
The first teaser for Behind the Walls is absolutely full of Laetitia Casta, and in between, there’s space for a lot of familair spookhouse tropes. If it comes off, we’ve got another The Others here, or The Orphanage, or similar. Note that this will apparently be the first French film to be shot and released…
Here’s a good, clear still from the upcoming Margaret Thatcher biopic, The Iron Lady. So clear that we can appreciate the full effect of those funny false teeth Meryl Streep is wearing. The Maggie makeover has been executed by J. Roy Helland, Ms. Streep’s regular hair and make-up artist since 1982′s Alice at the Palace….
Comics Launch Pad is a very different kind of comic convention. While usually comic book professionals attend conventions for free, at Launch Pad they pay – but they are the only ones allowed to attend. It’s a convention for comic book professionals or aspiring professionals, with talks, seminars, demonstrations and workshops in Birmingham, England. Keynote…
Our last “guest blog” from Peter Jackson was a smash hit, so here’s another. If he keeps up this kind of quality I think we’ll probably offer him a permanent position. The boy’s got a future. Okay, it’s nothing of the sort. I’m just here to point you over to Jackson’s own, real blog on…
Earlier this week we pointed out that the DC Comics Presents: Legion Of Superheroes: Legion Of The Damned 100 Page Spectacular #1 (breathe in) reprinting previously unreprinted Legion comics had been recalled by DC Comics after chapters had been printed in the incorrect order. Or, rather, retailers were asked to destroy them, to be replaced…
It is one of the best selling English language comic books in the world. Reaching a peak of over a million copies, it still sells enough on British newstands to overshadow pretty much aver American comic’s sales in the whole world. And now you get a chance to be in it. As well as auctioning…
It was one of the funnier scenes (among many) in Four Lions, the jihadist comedy from last year. New recruits training in Pakistan, firing a rocket launcher at an overhead American fighter jet, only to realise it was pointing the wrong way round and they blew up the nearby training camp instead. Farcical it may…
Here are a few scenes from Super Dinosaur, published on Wednesday. And here is Strontium Dog from 2000AD created… a wee while before that. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox. We trust…