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
Monday Trending Topics: Watch The Skies
In day 2 of the X-Men: First Class skywriting campaign, the logos spread from LA to other parts of California. You have to wonder if they’ll start appearing above cities around the rest of the country as the week progresses towards the June 3 US opening day. That would be pretty cool, even though the…
Doctor Pooh
You have until 11pm BST on Wednesday 1st of June 2011 to order this really rather lovely Doctor Who/Winnie the Pooh mash up T-shirt. The clock is ticking. The shirt is available from Qwerty and was designed by Rob P Wood. It seems to be no more than a tenner including shipping too, so if…
Green Lantern ARG Gets Real – For Science
There’s a Green Lantern movie ARG running at the moment and while I’m not sure what I can and can’t tell you*, there’s a recent development I have to flag up: the game has now crossed over into the real world. Indeed, it’s crossed over into the depths of real space. A link appeared on…
Californians, Look Up In The Sky: The X-Men Logo Skywriting Campaign Is Spreading
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool told you about an interesting X-Men First Class marketing campaign that involved skywriting the X-Men circle-X logo over the skies of Los Angeles. Right now, the campaign appears to be spreading to other areas. Reports have the logos spotted in Newport Beach and San Diego so far. Where will they appear next?…
The Avatar Point Of View Of Phoenix Comic Con
While Brendon and I were at MCM London Expo, Avatar were at Phoenix Comic Con. This is very much an Avatar Booth point of view…
Warren Ellis Surrounded By Cosplay – The Weekend At MCM London Expo
So I took the kids to Comic Con. They loved having photos taken “with princesses”, they drew on the Artist tables and they charmed convention organisers into giving them Japanese sweets. My girls. Other highlights; Seeing Warren Ellis in the pub as men dressed as Alien xenomorphs walked by, and watching as he didn’t even…
Ghostbusters XXX Porn Parody People Spend Way Too Much On Press Pack
Thank you Hustler people for sending Bleeding Cool, via the Avatar offices in Illinois, this press pack for This Ain’t Ghostbusters XXX 3D. And looking at the press pack, including 3D lenticular Blu Ray cover, damn you must be making out like bandits on these things. Almost like you’re a proper film company. Of course…
Hawkman Movie Plans Revealed – A Bit Like These Other Popular Movies
Warner Bros. are in the process of hiring writers for a Hawkman movie, but already have their most basic of basic pitches for the film in place. All this just when we’d been asking “When will Hawkman get his movie?” Here’s the published logline: Part INDIANA JONES/DA VINCI CODE, part GHOST tentpole about the fictional…
The Hobbit Rushes Special
On the occasion of a new, official press release regarding The Hobbit, I thought I’d round up some of the bigger recent news breaks regarding Peter Jackson‘s return to Middle Earth. The new press release exists to confirm the two subtitles of the separate movies, and their release dates. New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures…
My Monthly Curse by Phill Hall #12 – Follow The Wolverine
Phill Hall used to be a comics retailer and the News editor for Comics International before launching the PDF comics magazine Borderline – then abandoning comics altogether. Now, however, he is going to look back on it all for Bleeding Cool. iii) comics – a history lesson, kind of. The arrival of the Internet allowed…
Lying In The Gutters – 30th May 2011
Now we understand what X-Men: Schism is all about. Picture from Rahzzah. Tomorrow Bleeding Cool is planning a number of pieces on what’s happening to the DC Universe after Flashpoint, starting at 1pm ET, 10am PT and 6pm BST. I do hope you can join us. Some you may have an inkling about. Some will…
Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh #103 – Cutey Horrors Kawaii!
When I was interviewing Alan Moore about Horror and Lovecraft last week, we touched upon the idea of horrific fantasies being tamed and domesticated in popular culture. There’s been a general trend in mainstream culture to re-imagine figures of horror into something cozy, lovable, even sexy, and that trend seems to be getting stronger as…
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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…
