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…
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The Hulk Has “Memorable” Dialogue In The Avengers
Some Hulks speak, some Hulks don’t.* So which will Mark Ruffalo be playing in The Avengers? The Chatty Cathy kind, of course. This is a Joss Whedon joint. Indeed, according to Ruffalo, we’ll “love” the Hulk’s lines and “one of them is actually very memorable”. Here’s MTV’s interview in which Ruffalo makes this promise. So…
Antje Traue Cast As Superman Villainess, Faora
There’s a villainess in the new Superman movie, Man of Steel, and while the role was initially rumoured to be Ursa, it turns out that Zack Snyder, David Goyer and company have gone for her comic book precursor, Faora. Or, at least, one of the Faoras. I don’t know much about the first one, a…
How To Write Comics And Graphic Novels by Dennis O’Neil #19 – The End Is Now
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…
Exclusive: X-Men First Class International Trailer
It’s X-Men: First Class. It’s a trailer. It’s international. And wherever you are, you’ve seen it here first. Make with the clicky. We know there’s been an American trailer recently released. And this is similar, certainly. But it also has footage you haven’t seen anywhere else. I’ll let Brendon tell you what – and why…
Greg Capullo’s First Batman And Robin Pencils
This is a close up shot of a print that Greg Capullo is creating exclusively for the upcoming Boston Comic Con, which he’ll be giving away. And it may give us a taster for what we might be expecting from his new Batman work for DC Comics. He does make fro a rather yobbish Damien….
A New Look For The Mighty Thor
As rival film makers and comic book publishers have discovered over the years, it’s very hard to copyright Thor as a comics character. And while Marvel have got a big blockbuster of a movie coming out featuring the Norse God Of Thunder, so there have been a number of look-alikeys around. But have any been…
The Cover To Strip Magazine Issue Zero
Three pictures for sunny evening in London. Two days away from the thunderclouds descend as a judgment on high upon an unholy union of two… I’m sorry, where was I? I think my antibodies must have kicked in as a result of being surrounded in royal fervour all day. Okay, where were we? Oh yes….
ITV’s This Morning Goes Royal Wedding Comic Mad
Allison Hammond off of ITV’s This Morning, holding a comic book with what appears to be a generous smile, there. And me and Mike Collins, in front of Buckingham Palace in London, part of the media circus that has grown up around the royal residence in preparation for the wedding of Kate and William this…
Milos Forman To Direct Period Con Drama, Ponzi’s Scheme
He’s the king of the biopics, having aced movies about Goya, Mozart, Andy Kaufman and Larry Flynt, and now Milos Forman is turning his attention to Charles Ponzi, the man behind the most notorious, and it would seem seminal, financial scam of the 20th Century. And I know that all sounds like a blurb from…
Death Of Nightcrawler To Benefit Japan
Mike Choi is auctioning the entire original artwork for X-Force #26, the issue in which Nightcrawler karked it, for sale on eBay to benefit the Red Cross. 23 pages long, it’s currently at around $700 which is an insane bargain, though I don’t expect it to stay that low for long. And it’s not the…
The Royal Wedding Motion Comic Launches Today On iPhone, iPad and Android
Diamond, it seems, have delayed shipping the Bluewater royal wedding comic to comic book stores next week. I can feel publisher Darren Davis’ pain, I really can. The book may be competition for my own, but considering the amount of publicity he’s organised, he must ache when he sees comic stores without the comic in…
Eric Canete Uses Kickstarter To Publish ENCOR[e]
Eric Canete is one of my favourite modern day comic book artists. His work is very viceral, having a sketchiness about it in structure, but a very solidified execution of that sketchiness. He creates a world with impossible angles, anatomy and perspective, but it’s very consistent for all that. And now he’s turning to his…
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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…
