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: June 2011
Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh #105: Hurrah For The Sexually-Ambiguous Swordswoman From China
I go out to see less and less of the latest blockbuster releases these days because I find Hollywood movies are getting more and more generic and dull even as they get more expensive and slick with increasingly elaborate but weightless CGI special effects. I was talking with my friend, the critic and author Roz…
Watch: Spike Jonze’s Scenes From The Suburbs
Somewhere between Fahrenheit 451 and Gulliver’s Travels but set in the midst of The Chumscrubber, Spike Jonze‘s new short film Scenes From The Suburbs was inspired by Arcade Fire’s album The Suburbs. That makes sense. The film might seem to have political inspiration but, officially, Arcade Fire have denied this. I’m sure you can judge for…
Second Trailer For Immortals
The marketing campaign for Tarsem’s Immortals lives on. It continues to look like… well, 300 really. Not to say it doesn’t have a few little tricks of its own, because it does, they’re obviously just embroidered onto a very familiar fabric. Rich and I saw that trailer a few weeks ago in a really loud…
Frank Cho Wins An Emmy. And Doesn’t He Look Pleased.
“Creating Frank Cho’s World” by Alexandra Garcia and Benedict de la Cruz from the Washington Post has won the Emmy for Arts/Entertainment – News Single Story Category. It was an online video documentary starring Frank Cho as he and the crew created a three dimensional Washington Post Magazine cover based on his Liberty Meadows work….
The End Of Writing For The Trade And The Return Of Stephanie Brown – DC Retail Roadshow Takes Manhattan
General Manager Mike Gendreau of Modern Myths of Northampton, Massachusetts, attended the New York DC Retailer Roadshow meeting last Friday. On the store’s Facebook page he reported on the events, with John Rood, Bob Wayne, Vince Letterio, Dan DiDio and Jim Lee. During which we learned; DC had taken a look at the comics industry…
Panini Lose Rights To DC Comics In France
Panini is a monster of a worldwide comics publisher, publishing Marvel titles in almost all territories, and DC rights in a number as well. Well, it appears that Panini will be losing the rights to publishing DC and Vertigo comics in France, one of the biggest and certainly the most prestigious comics markets in the…
US Supreme Court Rules Violent Video Game Law Unconstitutional In Brown v. EMA Decision [UPDATE]
The US Supreme Court has just affirmed that video games are a creative medium deserving of first ammendment protection in the Brown v. EMA (formerly Schwarzenegger v. EMA) case. The case has been widely watched by other entertainment industries, including comic books. Complete text of the decision here. As the CBLDF has pointed out, failed…
Dan Forcey Leaves Platinum Studios
With Cowboys And Aliens getting closer to a release date, Platinum Studios is losing one of their most visible faces. Dan Forcey, VP of Content Development sent out a mass email saying After 9 years of learning a lot and meeting some amazing people, as of today I will no longer be working at Platinum…
Wizard World Drops Out Of Canada Comic Con
You can still buy tickets. But there isn’t an actual Wizard World to go to, and they’ve been taking down pages that are only available in the Google cache. In November, Gareb Shamus announced he’d bought the Central Canada Comic Con, renaming it Wizard World Central Canada Comic Con, planned for the last long weekend…
Todd Nauck’s Avengers Mural For Extreme Makeover Home Editions
The Sharrock family home, as recreated by Extreme Makeover Home Edition, season eight finale in May. And this is the mural created by Marvel creator Todd Nauck for a wall on a playroom for Patrick Sharrock, a nine year old boy who suffers from brittle bone disease. It was all a Marvel Custom Solutions production…
Mark Romanek On Style, Sci-Fi And Catharsis
Mark Romanek’s pensive Never Let Me Go is a film for the ages, a timeless love story and fragile yet supple tragedy that speaks to the one unchanging truth of human life: that it’s finite. This adaptation, by Romanek and screenwriter Alex Garland, preserves all of the gentleness and subtlety of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, while…
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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…
