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
Wednesday Trending Topics: Shape Of… A Transmedia Skunkworks
We’ve done this for going on a couple years now and if there’s one thing I’ve noticed, it’s that you can never tell when something’s going to really take off. Yesterday was one of our best ever based on the strength of Marvel Pajamas, and nearly as many people have read the original Rob Granito…
First Images And Cast Details From The Batman: Year One Adaptation
Before The Dark Knight Returns, he’s got to get through Year One. Here’s the first released diptych of images from the film, Interesting that Bruce is down on his knees in both images. At least he’s only wearing the fetish get up in one. We have The Hollywood Reporter to thank for those. They also…
Dirty Pair Go Hollywood
Here’s one for anybody cuddling up to a dakimakura body pillow tonight.* Created by Haruka Takachiho, Dirty Pair is smash hit series of novels, manga and anime which revolve around Kei and Yuri, an overly dynamic duo of reckless, often scantily clad operatives from the World Welfare Work Assocation. It’s their job to “consult” on…
First Look At Jessica Alba As A Spy Mom In Spy Kids 4
Dimension have released the first official image and a plot blurb for Robert Rodriguez‘ Spy Kids 4: All The Time In The World, a reboot of the kid-friendly franchise that, reportedly, will play a little nicer for adults this time. Indeed, the blurb makes it sound like Spy Mom might be a more apt title,…
Geoff Johns And His West Coast Super Friends
Last year over in Burbank, LA, within Warner Bros, DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns put a team together that included a number of recently-made-redundant DC Comics editors. And no one talked about it. Until now. Titled DC Entertainment Creative Affairs, the group has a rather roving brief. Working on multimedia exploitation such as…
Jim Kuhoric Joins Avatar As Managing Editor. Not Archaia.
First Keith Davidsen. Now Jim Kuhoric. Avatar seems to making a habit of hiring ex-Diamond Comic Distributors employees of late. Jim will be Avatar’s new Vice President of Publishing and Managing Editor. And not, as The Beat had him at Wondercon, joining Archaia. Oopsie. Jim has had a stellar rep amongst publishers at Diamond, and…
Geek Girl On The Street Reports: Show Me Your Booth Babes… With Brains by Kat Engh
Ah yes, the age-old debate: booth babes, ban ‘em or bring ‘em on? It’s not a new discussion topic; booth babes have existed longer than the mini skirt. Everyone knows that sex sells, but when you’re standing on the floor of a convention brimming with genius IQs and let’s face it, a shitload of expertise…
Gingerbread Girl, Interrupted – Greg Baldino Talks With Colleen Coover And Paul Tobin, Part Two
Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool Continued from Part One Greg:What comic book influences inspired the work on Gingerbread Girl? Paul: I think a lot of Colleen’s art stems from the teen humor comics of the 1960s, and from lots of other sources as well. Myself… yeah… I think so… I love the hectic pacing…
How To Write Comics And Graphic Novels by Dennis O’Neil #18 – Aren’t They All?
Dennis O’Neil has a long history in the comics industry as both a writer and editor. He’s best known for writing Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman, through the seventies, Spider-Man in the eighties and for editing Batman-related titles in the nineties. A widely published novelist and screenwriter, he is currently lecturing at the NYU on…
Jock’s Poster Concepts For Hanna
Despite Joe Wright‘s Hanna having been released a few weeks back in the US, I’m still under embargo and can’t tell you if I liked it, or if I thought it was an outrageous calamity. But here are some pictures by Jock, renowned Judge Dredd and The Losers artist and regular concept artist for the movies…
Wednesday Comics Review: Invincible Iron Man 503 And Avengers 12
Comics supplied by Holy Goat Comics of Kingston Upon Thames, London. Pop by and say hello. It’s hard not to read Matt Fraction’s Iron Man and Brian Bendis’ Iron Man as belonging to two generations. Just as Bendis was the new generation’s take on shell head when he wrote him in Avengers only seven years…
Wednesday Comics Review: Green Lantern 65 And Green Lantern Corps 59
Comics supplied by Holy Goat Comics of Kingston Upon Thames, London. Pop by and say hello. Never has war looked quite like a string of fairylights. DC to have the habit, it seems, of issuing both of these books in the same week, giving the reader double the punch of the same story, told by…
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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…
