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: April 2011
Ray Park Admits To Taking Role In GI Joe 2
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,…
John Constantine – DC’s Man In Black
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…
FearPoint ItselFlash – Vital Statistics
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…
Moody Trailer For Creepy Yarn Behind The Walls
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…
PHOTO: Meryl Streep As Margaret Thatcher, Jim Broadbent As Her Husband Dennis
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….
Pro Con Hits Birmingham In June
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…
One More Smoke…
When Joe Quesada became Editor-In-Chief, one of his edicts was to stop characters from smoking. His father had died of lung cancer, he didn’t want to encourage imitative behaviour in children. Initially restricted to asking editorial not to have main character smoke, then to artists asking them from refraining from using cigarettes as a prop,…
Peter Jackson On Writing, Rewriting And Rewriting
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…
Legion Of Super Heroes Misprint Hits $30 On eBay
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…
Your Chance To Appear In Viz Comic, On eBay
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…
Chris Morris’ Rocket Launcher From Four Lions On eBay
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…
Swipe File: Super Dinosaur Vs Strontium Dog
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…
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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…
