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…
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Barnes And Noble Comics A “Failed Experiment”? (UPDATE)
Word comes to Bleeding Cool that Barnes & Noble, previously moving into periodical American comic books in a big way, may be performing a bit of a reverse ferret. One Barnes & Noble senior figure told a Bleeding Cool source after San Diego Comic Con that the program has been a “failed experiment” and hadn’t…
Marvel Counting Down To New Ultimate Spider-Man – Will It Be A Black Wednesday?
Okay, so this is how they are playing it. Counting down till the revelation of who the next Ultimate Spider-Man will be after the death of Peter Parker. The character will be revealed in next week’s issue of Ultimate Fallout and probably, given the anthology feel of the issues so far, putting on the costume…
SPY REPORT: Alex Reid Researching GI Joe – Looks Like He’s Up For A Role In Retaliation
We Brits didn’t have GI Joe, so much, until the 80s cartoon crossed over to our breakfast TV and opened the way for a transatlantic toyvalanche. Before that, we just had Action Man instead. He was taller, better looking, and definitely more capable of moving his gaze left and right on the horizontal plane. So…
Exclusive Interview With Olivia Colman: Arrietty, Tyrannosaur And More
If you have even a smidgen of taste in comedy then you’ll already be familiar with Olivia Colman, who played Mark’s on-off (mostly off) girlfriend in Peep Show, PC Doris Thatcher in Hot Fuzz and harassed mum-of-many Harriet Schulenberg in Green Wing. Lately, however, Colman’s career has begun to move into more serious drama with…
Michael Avon Oeming Sketches The Filming Of Powers
Powers, the comic by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, has been filming its pilot episode. And artist Van Oeming, has been sketching the scenes being filmed, images then tweeted by Bendis. Comic-to-film-back-to-comic again?
Whatever Happened To… Steve Uy?
Steve Uy was an acclaimed Marvel and DC comic book artist on books such as Uncanny X-Men, Avengers Initiative and Eden’s Trail, the latter of which was a creator-owned book that Marvel not only gutted but brought Chuck Austen in to rewrite. So, no, he hasn’t been in comics for a while. Instead, he’s been…
Comics, War, Garth Ennis And Pat Mills
My second-to-local university is involved with the Comics And Conflict conference being held at the Imperial War Museum in London in August. Conference speakers and guests include Pat Mills of 2000AD, World War III and Charley’s War, Martin Barker and Roger Sabin on Doonesbury, Garth Ennis of Troubled Souls, War Stories and Crossed and Francesca…
Thursday Runaround – When Batgirl Came To Town
BeanoWatch: This week’s Beano is a special National Trust issue… This week’s special issue of The Beano comic is the first time the National Trust has given fictional characters keys to all of its 300 homes and access to the 617,500 acres of land it cares for. National Trust chiefs hope The Beano gang will…
SCOOP: Eleven Years On, The Fast Show Is Coming Back With Fosters
Do you miss the nineties? Things not so funny for you these days? Lucky for you that every star from that particular heyday of Ha-Ha seems to be coming around again. Following up on the return of Alan Partridge and Vic and Bob, the next big names of UK comedy to line up for an…
Wednesday Trending Topics: Aquamania
The New-52 Aquaman by Ivan Reis and Geoff Johns seems to be sneaking up on more than a few people. There’s been quite a bit of optimism for the new series in response to today’s preview pages, and it sounds like readers who were not previously fans of the character will be giving this one…
Kurt Busiek And Pat Olliffe’s Untold Tales Of Spider-Man Omnibus Coming Soon
Untold Tales Of Spider-Man was a comic by Kurt Busiek and Pat Olliffe (and a few friends), that told early stories of Spider-Man, all for an industry-discounted 99 cents an issue. It ran for twenty-six issues and a couple of annuals. Now, Tom Brevoort and Kurt Busiek have been tweeting back and forth. Kurt: Nice!…
Amazing Spider-Man #666 – A Deal With The Devil?
So Amazing Spider-Man #666 hit today. The beginning of the Spider-Island mini-event. And a chance for retailers to get their store on the front of the comic. Of course retailers could always get their name in the comic buy buying a paid ad. And it seems that these days they may get a little more…
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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…
