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: May 2011
Wednesday Comic Reviews: All The Bloody Green Lantern Comics
It used to be an observed comics publishing maxim, that you spread the comics you publish through the month. That certain buyers have a fixed amount they spent each week, regardless of what comes in, and that concentrating too much in one week may see them leave books they’d otherwise buy on the shelf, once…
Robert Lantos Tells Us Five Things About Barney’s Version
Canadian film producer Robert Lantos has worked with and nurtured many great talents, including two of my personal favourites, Atom Egoyan and David Cronenberg. His outstanding films range from Patrica Rozema’s When Night Is Falling to Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises. Last year, his long-cherished adaptation of the Mordecai Richler novel Barney’s Version finally made it to…
Boom Studios Squeeze More From Stan Lee (UPDATE: Or Not)
Boom! Studios appeat to have registered the website www.stansbackformore.com which means we can probably look forward to more Stan Lee branded superhero comics written by other people, but launched and promoted by Stan at this year’s San Diego Comic Con, for publication in September. If previous form is anything to go by. UPDATE: Or not….
Vertigo’s Strange Adventures Cover Just Looks Weird
This is the cover to Strange Adventures, published by Vertigo today. And here’s the solicited version. See the difference? Yes, that’s right, logo, publisher logo, price, credits, cover text and… a massive Green Lantern ad slapped on the top. While this looks fine on the Green Lantern books published today, and okay I suppose on…
Roy Lichtenstein “Didn’t Even Like Comics”
According to the artist Peter Blake, in an interview with Time Out Hong Kong, legendary pop artist Roy Lichtenstein didn’t even like comics. He recalls that “Lichtenstein, who originally started off as an abstract expressionist, didn’t particularly enjoy comics. In fact, he painted his first rendition of the cartoon character Popeye the Sailor Man as…
MCM London Expo Starts Friday. Will You End Up On Big Brother?
Frank Quitely and Warren Ellis are the star comic book creators at MCM London Expo this long weekend. With Kieron Gillen, Emma Viecelli, John McCrea, Gary Erskine, Becky Cloonan, Leah Moore, David Hine, Rufus Dayglo, Richard Starkings, Tony Lee, Dan Boultwood, Al Davison, Simon Davis and loads more, there’s a lot to love. Oh and…
Swipe File: Archie And DeviantArt
Here’s the cover to issue 5 of Mega Man from Archie Comics. Note in the top right hand corner that Villain Variant avatar in the shape of an ol-style computer character for Timeman, a character than never actually had such a retro icon. So how did they make it? Well let’s take a closer look…
Seventh Series Of Ideal Starts Tomorrow Night
It doesn’t get PR. It’s hidden away in the schedules. But dark sitcom Ideal, starring Johnny Vegas, reaches it’s seventh series, starting tomorrow on BBC3 at 10.30pm. Somewhere between Shameless and Twin Peaks, Graham Duff’s Ideal is funny, character based but also sleepily surreal, mining the same territory as Chris Morris’ Jam in creating a…
Preview: X-Men: Schism #1
Look at that folks. Cyclops and Wolverine are so angry with each other, they’re chopping the logo in half. Here’s a preview of Marvel’s upcoming X-event, Schism by Jason Aaron and Carlos Pacheco from July. Which side are you on… this time?
Wednesday Comic Reviews: FF 4 And Amazing Spider-Man 662
FF continues its journey into the creation of a superhero comic book tesseract, infinitely complex and folded in on itself. We have Reed Richards teaming up with his greatest enemies to defeat three other ruthless Reed Richards. It’s a game of quintuple bluff, with so many protagonists (and possible antagonists) all with their own agendas,…
Digital Dump – A Little Death And A Lot Of Webcomics
AppDump: Comic Nerd is a new app from A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Sit Down, designed to take all your comic book digital files and arrange them in new, exciting and, radically, ease to use ways. Turns a digital comics collection into something you can actually read. VPDump: ICV2 point out that Marvel…
Previews – Crossed 3D and Night Of The Living Dead #5 – Avatar Plugs Of The Week
Two very different zombie comic books out today from Avatar in all good comic shops. And one or two bad ones too, probably, we’re not fussy. To start Crossed 3D by David Lapham and Gianluca Pagliarani…. Crossed bursts into a whole new dimension of horror with this original full-color graphic novel in 3D! Some horrors…
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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…
