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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Terry Dodson’s Muse… In English
Muse is a new original hardcover graphic novel by Terry Dodson and SP Filippi… that’s not so new after all. Originally published in 2008 as Träume, the book tells a rather raunchy story of Coraline, “a beautiful young lady who comes to serve as governess to a wealthy and very mysterious young man.” However in…
Greg Baldino Looks At Habibi By Craig Thompson
Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool. The fuzzy gray border between language and image is no more apparent than in comics. From sound effect to the logotecture of Will Eisner’s splash pages for The Spirit, words and pictures stand in for each other creating a language unique to the form. But the idea of language…
Who Is The New Scarlet Spider? We Have The Answer… Somewhere
Now I’m not one for spoilers, you all know that. But it seems I have in my possession, the knowledge of exactly who is under the hoodie, the new Scarlet Spider, appearing in Point One and spinning out of Spider Island. But there’s no fun in just telling you. Not when the reveal is such…
George Peréz Leaves Superman Behind
Newsarama is reporting that George Peréz will leave the ongoing relaunch Superman comic after issue 6 as writer/layout artist, to be replaced by Keith Giffen and Dan Jurgens. They suggest Peréz may stay on, as in inker or finisher. The DC books seem to have been planned in six issue chunks, certainly when it comes…
Buy A Comic Shop… In Australia
Are you Australian? Would you like to live in Asutralia? How abojut owning and running a comic shop there, in Albury New South Wales? Because that’s the location of bordering-on-twenty-years-strong Comic & Games Cafe, and owner Chris Luke is selling up to raise a family. And it’s yours for $50,000 ONO (Australian dollars, which is…
Marvel Launch Another Specific Retailer Cover Variant For Avengers: The X-Sanction
While IDW and Avatar run interesting retailer cover variants, from Godzilla squashing your store, to a retailer appearing as a Ghostbuster or entirely original pieces of War Goddess art specific to one store, Marvel appear to have taken a step back. Their customer variant saw a number of comic readers pony up for two thousand…
Action Comics #2 “Goes To Backorder” (UPDATE)
I’ve been told that orders for Action Comics #2 have “gone to backorder” on Diamond Comic Distributors’ site, which means retailers are currently unable to increase their orders for the title without being sure they’ll get copies. All available copies have been snapped up by stores increasing their orders,. While this won’t include copies that…
Age Of Apocalypse In New Marvel Point One Teaser
Marvel are teasing David Lapham and Robert De La Torre’s upcoming work on the Point One oneshot next month that’s meant to look forward to various events and comics next year. And this one seems to be spotlighting a variety of citizens of the Age Of Apocalypse alternate reality….
The Funeral Of Sergio Bonelli
Yesterday, in Milan, the funeral of seminal comics creatror, editor and publisher, Sergio Bonelli, was held in Milan. The comics industry across Europe, as well as family and friends, turned out for it. Here’s a look, courtesy of the Tex Willer blog and Italian newspaper The Sun.
NBC Loves Doctor Who
Two references to Doctor Who in two weeks on one TV network. It must be love. Here’s this week’s episode of the US do-over of Free Agents. It stars Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn in the roles not made famous by Steven Mangan and Sharon Horgan in the UK original. Not to spoil anything, but…
Grant Morrison To Write Batman Marvel-Style, And Other Animals
Laura Sneddon write this interview with Grant Morrison for the Independent newspaper. But it was short and mainstream, and missed out all inside industry stuff as a result. Thankfully, she posted the full experience online . Here a few snippets. On Action Comics artists and schedules: I can talk a little bit about it. Well…
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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…
