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
New Muppets Music Video Is Like An OK Go Best Of
Blending the odd classic Muppet maneuvre with ducking and weaving on loan from OK Go’s string of YouTube-domineering music videos, the official video for the Green Album version of The Muppet Show theme is something like a best of… without really being the best of anything. I’m checking the Cute and Fan Service boxes, but…
Tuesday Runaround – DESTROY MARVEL
KidWatch: How to turn your kid into a Super Adaptoid, courtesy of Amazon. Nice touch with the domino masks. EventWatch: DESTROY! by Carlo Pagulayan. Coming from Marvel. AZWatch: Tom Spurgeon criticised a Comico comic from 1988. Gerry Giovinco countered; So to answer Tom Spurgeon’s quote: “The question that many of us near comics ask — if only…
Monday Trending Topics: The Best Of Times, The Worst Of Times
A lot of people are pointing out the puzzle of the conflicting signals the business of comics is sending out today, and it’s pretty hard to ignore: recent days have brought us extremely successful comic book conventions, yet notable comic shop closures. Monthly industry numbers have continued to trend down this year, yet now comes word that…
The New 52 Set To Rock Marketshare: Justice League #1 Over 200,000 Copies, Six Other Relaunch Books Over 100,000
A big piece of news just dropped in this Hero Complex piece about the DC relaunch. We knew the New 52 would have some big numbers, but the question was just how big, with so many titles launching at once — and of course, subsequently the question will become how much of it can be sustained….
Danger Girl Movie Has Milla Jovavich, Kate Beckinsale And Sofia Vergara Attached – UPDATED
Various Tracking Boards have today been awash with stories of a potential Danger Girl movie, derived from J. Scott Campbell and Andy Hartnell‘s comic book series about three lady spies in a sort-of gender-inverted Bond meets Charlie’s Angels mold. As far as I can gather, the project is currently being shopped around studios by producer…
Why Not Play Bingo With All The DC New 52 Logos?
Courtesy of Newsarama (and 4chan where I actually found it), all the new logos for the DC Relaunch in September. And also perfect for playing bingo with. Don’t say “House” when you win. Say “Batcave”. Makes it more “comicsy” you see.
Tron Gets Sticky In New Commercial
There’s something very appealing about stop-motion renditions of Tron action sequences, meshing as they do the early-cinema lo-tech approach with the nostalgiacally dated futurist aesthetic. I know this because I’ve seen a few of them now, and they all hang on that tension. Fair play to Duck Tape for exploiting it in their new TV…
Reel Steal Video Explains Something Of How The Robots Work – On Screen And Off
It’s always a bit tricky writing copy to go with these video featurettes as they are, by design, quite self contained and easy to follow. I’ll just say that I’m readying a personal preview of Reel Steal to release on the site here a bit later in the week, sharing some of what director Shawn…
New Harry Potter Film Isn’t Quite What It Seems… Troll Fans Rejoice?
It’s not quite copyright squatting, but there’s a bait and switch in this story that might just beat any stunt ever pulled by those mockbuster merchants at Asylum. So… if you recall, there was once a story about a young boy called Harry Potter. He was but a a wee lad ripped from his mundane…
Why John Byrne’s Next Men Is The Comic I Look Forward To More Than Any Other – 7 Page Preview Of Issue 9
It may not be fashionable to admit this. But bloody hell, this is comics. Fashion can go swivel. Throughout 2011, I’ve discovered that the comic book I’ve learnt to turn to first, every month, is John Byrne’s Next Men. A truly unpredictable time travel romp with a wide cast and a tendency to diverge onto…
This Is The Way The Marvel Cookie Crumbled
One of our little bleeders, Allen Fan, went to a branch of Williams Sonoma on Saturday with his friend Annie to take part in the Create-A-Superhero-Cookie charity event with Marvel Comics. And found themselves the only adults in a sea of five-to-eight year olds. Aside from Spider-Man that is. And took a few photos while…
Identity Crisis, “What The Fuck Is This?” – Grant Morrison, Rolling Stone Magazine
Grant Morrison said a lot of things in his Rolling Stone Magazine interview (and more comic-specific outtakes). Here are five things from the latter. There’s plenty more where that came from. When I wrote Superman, it was like contemplating Buddha,” he says. “I really felt elevated. Everything seemed more beautiful, more precious. Batman’s different. I…
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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…
