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
Shannon Wheeler’s I Thought You Would Be Funnier. Free. All Of It. Here.
Shannon Wheeler’s I Thought You Would Be Funnier, a collection of his New Yorker cartoons, was nominated for Best Humor Publication for the Eisners. Although somehow, not only is it out of print, but it dropped off the online ballot for the first few days of voting. Thinks haven’t been going well for it. So…
Wednesday Runaround – A Right Royal Occasion
TVWatch: I’m going to be on telly this morning sometime with Mike Collins on ITV’s This Morning. We’re filming outside Buckingham Palace in the new media village that has been erected for the Royal Wedding, and we’re, naturally talking about our royal wedding comic book Kate And William: A Very Public Love Story, available in…
Red Band Trailer For Bridesmaids Plays Dirty
Just like I promised, here’s a Red Band trailer for Bridesmaids. Probably not safe for your work place, just fine at mine. I can keep you posted on job openings, if you’d like. Now you’ve seen it, be warned that not everything in this trailer is actually in the film.* Seeing as this is a…
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Save Us From Panic Again, Live
On Bank Holiday Monday, Simon Jones – the original and longest serving Arthur Dent – made a guest appearance on the Radio 3 Breakfast Show to pick out five of his favourite pieces of classical music. Between them, he engaged in a little chat with host Rob Cowan, and when conversation came to Douglas Adam’s…
Tuesday Trending Topics: Comic Lovers, Your Table Is Ready. But Who’s Serving?
Or your chairs are ready, anyway. But I’m not saying anything new by noting that an awful lot of corporate dollars are currently focused on an industry that has been rather famously hand to mouth for much of its history. It feels a little bit like the internet and we’re about to party like it’s…
Avengers Movie To Feature Mysterious Hula-Hoop Kid? (UPDATE)
Hoyts is a large Australian cinema chain, the second largest on the continent, with 450 screens spread across Australia and New Zealand, and dominating the Australian cinema advertising market. But their website listing for the upcoming Avengers movie for next year, is a little odd. Here’s the listing. Who the hell is The Hula-Hoop Kid?…
These Six Character Posters For Bridesmaids Play The Spice Girls Card
There’s an innocent one, a wild one, an… erm… dishonourable one? A getting married one? Okay, they aren’t just a set of adjectives, like Ginger, Sporty, Posh et al, but these character posters for Bridesmaids are tapping into something a touch Spice Girls-y. or Bratz-y. Or Seven Dwarfs-y. It appears to be the same trick…
What The Secret Door Hoaxer Did Next (Spoiler: More Rubbish, But Often Funny)
A false story swept the blogosphere a few days ago, rooted in a hoax tweet. Somebody had built a twitter account that looked like it belonged to American Zoetrope, Francis Ford Coppola’s production company. It didn’t. They tweeted that Sofia Coppola is set to reteam with Kirsten Dunst for a project called Secret Door. She…
Justin Rhodes Writing Brat Pack Movie (Not That Brat Pack, This Brat Pack)
Rick Veitch‘s Brat Pack comics are on their way to the multiplex, and a writer has just been signed to deliver a screenplay. According to the tracking boards, the job has gone to Justin Rhodes, writer-director of Contract Killers. Contract Killers, eh? Let’s have a look at the trailer for that. We’ll call it Exhibit…
Time For Another Looooong Green Lantern TV Spot
At two minutes length, this TV ad for Green Lantern would do some serious damage to your window of tea-brewing opportunity should it crop up in the middle of Coronation Street. This footage seems to have a bit more flying and a new emphasis on the ickiness of Parallax. Can director Martin Campbell pull this…
Tony Lee Sticks Well Polished Boot Through Fourth Wall
The first page of this week’s The Gloom from MTV Comics takes a rather unusual turn. I’ll let Tony Lee and his dapper colleague Dan Boultwood explain… Kittens don;t like it, folks.
The First Walking Dead Novel To Feature The Governor
We knew that a Walking Dead novel was coming. We knew it was part of a trilogy. We knew it would be outlined by creator Robert Kirkman and written by horror novelist Jay Bonansinga. Well, now we have the title, cover and synopsis. And it’s a doozy. Entitled Rise Of The Governor, the book is…
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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…
