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
The Rob Granito Hockey Jersey, Signed And Sketched By Chris Sprouse, Khoi Pham, Leonard Kirk, Richard Pace, Agnes Garbowska, Ty Templeton, Ethan Van Sciver And Dale Keown
Currently up on eBay for $49 with no bids is a special one off Rob Granito design hockey jersey that has been sketched and signed by the following folk. Who, in Rob Granito style, have all signed the sketches of each other. Scarlet Witch by Khoi Pham (signed by Chris Sprouse) Hulk by Ethan van…
A Comic Show: This Week’s Relaunch, Next Week’s Relaunch
We’re back with Aaron and Tri-Force Mike from A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida. One week before their midnight release party for Justice League #1 and Flashpoint #5. But they are still excited for this week’s relaunch, for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And they are serious, too. Then there’s the Ultimate relaunch with Ultimate Comics…
Digital Delights: DC, Device, DRM, David, Dawn, Departure And Date
DC Delight: Comixology has announced that their Digital Retailer Storefronts have gone live, with comic book stores hosting Comixology digital comic download services on their own websites. Participating comic retailers have gone live with their deployment of a comiXology-powered store and reader, enabling them to prosper from the sale of digital comics from top comic…
All About Books And Comics And/Or Samurai Comics Step In For Atomic Comics Customers
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported on the closure of all four Phoenix branches of Atomic Comics earlier this week, after owner Michael Malve declared bankruptcy, to the shock of the industry. It also came as quite a shock to its customers, especially with the DC Relaunch imminent. Local Phoenix store All About Books And Comics has…
How Comics Reacts To An Earthquake
Just as David Macho was posting the last piece of his jigsaw for some advance art from Grifter #1 by CAFU, the east cost of North America responded with 6.0 tremor. Naturally comic book people turned to Twitter… Stuart Immonen: Anyone else just feel that? Heidi MacDonald: HOLY F**K my building was just shaking. Felt…
Baltimore Comic Con In My Pants by Joshua Lazarus
Joshua Lazarus writes for Bleeding Cool; Fans gathered at the Baltimore Convention Center at Maryland’s Inner Harbor this year to celebrate the 12th annual Baltimore Comic Con. For me, it’s my fourth year in attendance, and this convention in particular holds a special place in my heart. It was four years ago that I was…
Kind Hearts And Coronets – Deliciously Callous Comedy
“The most sensational criminal endeavour of the [20th] century” remains one of its most deliciously callous comedies. If there’s more to nobility than kind hearts, there’s more to vintage Ealing comedy and its enduring vitality than nostalgia; it’s the attitude that sells it. Ealing, in its heyday, understood that you could undercut almost any form…
And Havok Makes The Set – X-Factor On X-Men Gold Team
Looks like we have brither-at-arms, Alex Summers will be joining Wolverine, philosophically, and taking X-Factor with him on the “gold” side, as Scott Summers and his crew are defined by the “blue” half of the X-Men Schism/Regenesis thingy. This has to be the final part of the “quadriptych” doesn’t it?
Two New DCU Books From Palmiotti, Gray… And Amanda Conner
Spinning out of Baltimore Comic Con came the word that there’s a new one the way from Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Connor. Now I hear there’s two. Comics that is. For the DC Universe. Sometime. Jimmy Palmiotti already has worked on the new line with Justin Gray on All Star Western, but he hasn’t worked…
Big Tracking Shot From Little White Lies, Unpacked
All narrative filmmaking, and that arguably includes documentary, is a series of little white lies; fibs told for the benefit of their recipients. Appropriately enough, the opening scene of Guillaume Canet’s Little White Lies is a very healthy string of deceptions, all intended to be for the good of the film’s audience. The scene is…
BBC Scotland Superhero Comic Documentary Papers Over The Cracks
This BBC Scotland film celebrates in a rather overblown overhyped fashion, the influence of Scottish creators on modern superhero comics. Everything is positive, obsequious an unquestioning. And Mark Millar, Grant Morrison and Alan Grant are never seen in the same room. Otherwise, we may have had a very different documentary. Grant Morrison has a real…
Do You Still Need To Buy The Comics? DC New 52 Art Dump…
The #52Splash hashtag has been used by a variety of DC artists to official show off some of their artwork from the upcoming Relaunch. But with 52 books, that’s 1040 pages a month churning out. So these new pages, even with previously released artwork, is only giving us 5% of what will actually be released……
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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…
