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
New Tintin Image Features Blood And Gunfire – UPDATED
Looks like the upcoming Tintin movie might be pretty hard boiled stuff. A new trade ad for a tie-in card game features some familiar images from the movie and what appears to be an additional piece of concept art. This image is not just distinctive because it’s a paint job rather than a CG render,…
Colleen Doran Vs Alison Granito
Right now I’m off seeing X-Men First Class. More about that later. Because Colleen Doran wrote about Rob Granito a week ago with the title “Everything that comes out of Rob Granito’s mouth smells of ass and cheese doodles” which looked at Rob Granito’s claims with, shall we say, a cynical eye, and comments by…
Comic Con Wars: MCM London Expo Vs Super Comic Con
We’ve already had one Comic Con War in London this year, what with Kapow and MCM London Expo blasting each other in the spring with rather pointed press releases and comments. Kapow PR, often via Mark Millar, deliberately ignored MCM, as if it didn’t exist, proclaiming a uniqueness for Kapow over a number of attributes…
Five Reasons Why You Might Think Pirates 4 Is The Best One Yet
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides gets my vote for the best film in the series so far. Here are the Five Things that might convince you I’ve got a case. 1. Sparrow at the Centre When the series started, Captain Jack Sparrow was set up as the funny, goofball supporting character, not too unlike…
Constructing Green Lantern Reviewed By Greg Baldino
Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool. As the Green Lantern movie approaches this summer, Hal Jordan isn’t the only one building incredible things out of light. Constructing Green Lantern: From Page To Screen, by Ozzy Inguanzo, is a 208 page behind-the-scenes look at the development of the emerald policeman’s first foray to the big screen….
Marvel Hardcovers Hit British Newsstands
Hachette are launching a new range of Marvel hardcover collections of classic and modern stories for the British newsstand, as a partwork collection, in much the same way that Eaglemoss does with the Marvel and DC lead figurines. Out now is the Coming Home story by Joe Michael Straczynski and John Romita Jr, for an…
Batman Inc And Flashpoint Hit Barnes & Noble
Bleeding Cool told you back in April that Barnes & Noble was going to be re-entering the monthly comics market in a big way in June. Well. from the photo above, it looks like they are a week early, for DC product at least. To the extent that one reader finds a greater reliability on…
Keith Ralph Retires From Egmont Today
Keith Ralph was the managing director for many years of Egmont Creative in London for many years until 2010, controlling their Disney pre-school magazine and comics, and had been been consulting for Egmont until today. Before aquisition by Egmont, Keith Ralph was part of Fleetway, and editor of the kids comics Whizzer and Chips and…
Tuesday Runaround: Twilight Sets Again
ConWatch: The MCM London Expo this weekend gets some local press. Really local. I am told that organisers aren’t expecting volcanic disruption.. June4thWatch: Joe Kubert will be signing at Dewey’s Comic City on June 4th, in Madison, New Jersey. June4thWatch2: Jim Woodring appearing at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, at Midnight, talking and showing…
What Kind Of Mutant Insurance Do You Need?
The Famers Insurance TV ad, in conjunction with X-Men: First Class. I wish more advertising campaigns were so imaginative with their cross-pollination use… I’m seeing X-Men: First Class tonight. I’ll tell you how it goes…
JC Menu To Leave L’Association
Bleeding Cool reported last week that the current board members of French alternative comics publisher L’Association had reached an accord, with six of the seven founders, famed comic creators in their own right, including previous controversial chief editor Jean-Christophe Menu, were to work together and forget their previous differences. After strikes, general meetings and protests,…
Monday Trending Topics: Star Spangled Booty Shorts
In retrospect it should have been no surprise that Adrianne Palicki in booty shorts was going to be the top trend for the day, but I actually kicked this story out of the internal automated comic-news-gathering Computo feed twice because it seemed to be more of a footnote to the sad story of the TV…
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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…
