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: August 2011
Kevin Sampson On Powder – Such Stuff As Rock And Roll Is Made On
This week, Soda Pictures are releasing the hard-edged rock and roll drama Powder to UK cinemas. We’ll let the film’s trailer do the set-up, then I’ll hand you over to Kevin Sampson, on whose novel the film is based. I sent Kevin some questions by e-mail. Here are those questions, and his replies: Are there…
Superman Citizenship Question Revisited In Final Action Comics (SPOILERS)
***SPOILERS ***SPOILERS ***SPOILERS ***SPOILERS ***SPOILERS ***SPOILERS *** I get the feeling there’s going to be quite a lot of this kind of thing today. The final Action Comics before the DC Comics relaunch is published today. We get the big end to the Return Of The Doomsdays plot, and it doesn’t end well, as the…
Win! Tickets To See Kill List Early With Director Q&A
I’ll be seeing the much-lauded Kill List this weekend and if I’m anything like my fellows and peers in thge film blogosphere, won’t be shutting up about it for months afterwards. To follow in my footsteps and catch up with a screening next week, alongside a Q&A with – at the very least – director…
Unboxing The Ultimates #1 (VIDEO)
Ultimate Comics The Ultimates #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic is published today. But it’s in a sealed bag. Possibly with chase signatures and the like inside. Not this one though. Sshame, it took longer than I expected to open it…
Wednesday Runaround – Strip For Marriage
WatchWatch: In the movie, One Day, look for a mysterious trademark note in the credits for “Watchman” as i it were a singular superhero. HorrorWatch: Are you sitting comfortably? Here’s a Korean comic digital comic book. No you don’t need to read Korean. Just scroll down. Maybe put down that cup of coffee first. And…
Tuesday Trending Topics: 52+
I was a little surprised to see DC coin the New 52 phrase during SDCC, seeming to lock that number into place even as news of additional October and November titles was surfacing in the same spirit of the reboot. But looking back on reboot history, as we often have in recent months, it does…
Tuesday Night Revenge Of #52splash
DC Comics New 52 creators have been previewing loads of artwork on twitter hashtag #52splash recently. We showed you a big batch of it this morning, and… used quite a bit more bandwidth than we should have. But they’ve kept it going all day long, so here’s an update on this nifty bit of social…
And Finally… Comic Con XXX
With all the porn parodies of comic book-related properties of late, I guess it was only a matter of time. In Los Angeles this weekend, there’s something called the Exxxotica convention. No I’m not linking to it. Anyway, Vivid are putting on a Star Wars XXX Experience at the show. Come get your picture taken…
Actually, ILM Told Me The Star Wars Films On Blu-Ray Haven’t Been Altered
There’s a story going round that George Lucas has, once again, been making digital nips and tucks to his Star Wars saga. It started with Bill Hunt at the brilliant Digital Bits, who attended a preview session with the discs and, in his most impressively comprehensive report, said: Once again, George has apparently added a…
Rushes Gets Epic – More Film News Than It’s Fit To Print, Part One
That’s Emily Booth in the picture. More of her in a moment. Unfortunately, I got rather sick at Big Screen last weekend and I haven’t fully recovered. One of the repercussions of this is a big backlog of stories I wanted to write about, so now I’m going to mix those up with lots of…
Preview: 6 Pages Of Ultimates 1, 6 Pages Of Ultimate Hawkeye 1…
There doesn’t seem to be a corresponding article or anything. Not yet. But USA Today have run the following previews of Ultimate Comics The Ultimates #1 shipping tomorrow and Ultimate Comics Hawkeye #1 shipping next week from Marvel. You know, the ones that ship in their polybags to avoid spoilers. Enjoy.
Marvel Fires Some Of Their Marketing People
Nikki Finke is headlining the news that “Disney Fires Marvel’s Marketing Department”. Which isn’t exactly true. Not quite. What is true, as she reports is that Dana Precious, EVP of Worldwide Marketing for Marvel’s LA Studios was let go by Disney yesterday, as well as Jeffrey Stewart, VP of Worldwide Marketing and Jodi Miller, Manager of Worldwide…
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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…
