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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Wanted 2 Brings Original Writers Back, And Mark Millar Hints At More Adaptations
The sequel to the 2008 adaptation of Mark Millar‘s graphic novel Wanted has been floating around in the aether for a long time. At one point it was supposedly canned after Angelina Jolie refused to return, mainly because [INSUFFICIENT SPOILER ALERT SPACE] her character died at the end of the first film. Jolie cited this…
DC Superhero Board Games For 2012 To Look Back Forty Years
Warners and Wonder Forge are to make DC Super Friends and Justice League board games, with Super Friends aimed at preschool children in time for Christmas 2012 and Justice League games for kids 8 and over to follow in 2013. It may seem odd to aim a seventies-associated brand as Super Friends at the youngest…
Marvel To Publish Defenders/Avengers: X-Sanction Preview Books In November
Marvel will be previewing the upcoming Defenders and Avengers: X-Sanction comics for December to comic store buyers in a new preview flip book shipping free to retailers for November 2nd. They’ll be allocated to the size of the store, with the smallest getting 25 copies, the largest getting 200. However stores can order more in…
Work-In-Progress Trailer For The Lorax
The characters and worlds created by Doctor Seuss seem perfectly suitable to CG animation, what with its facility in rendering surreal images as though real, and bright colours as even brighter. So far, though, results have been mixed. The loud zaniness has come easily, the wild invention less so and the sincerity and heart have,…
Johnny English Invades Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia
This is a current advert running on the motion ad screens on the London Underground…
Wednesday Comics Reviews – Aquaman, Justice League Dark, Voodoo, Firestorm, Dark Knight, New Guardians, Blackhawks, Superman, I Vampire, Hawkman, Flash, Teen Titans, All Star Western
Voodoo #1 by Ron Marz and Sam Basri Bleeding Cool reviewed Voodoo #1 here, yesterday. Teen Titans #1 by Scott Lobdell, Brett Booth and Norm Rapmund. It’s a total reboot as Red Robin plays Ozymandias, monitoring the world, and in a race to recruit teenage superheroes to his cause against that of the N.O.W.H.E.R.E. crew,…
Here Comes Ultron War
All this week, Marvel will be posting these teasrs for their Point One oneshot, publishing in November, teasing that it will lead into Marvel’s big stories for 2012. Here are the first two. Now, remember the Marvel wall chart of the future? The one we BleedingCooled a little? Time to do it again… because as…
DC Comics Hires Nielsen To Survey Its Readers. Heaven Knows What They’ll Discover
For a long time, many complain that there has been no real research into the comic book buying public by publishers. Well, as a result of the New 52 DC Relaunch, that may be about to change as well. DC Comics have announced they have hired the rather respected monitoring company Nielsen NRG to survey…
The Final Thirteen Appearances Of The Strange Woman Of The DC Universe
“I’m gonna find that bitch”. Not the words of some serial killer, or a gangsta rapper, but my lovely wife, poring through today’s comic books from DC, helping me look for appearances of Strange, the mysterious hooded women appearing in all the new 52 comics first issues. First identified by Bleeding Cool, we’ve been following…
Absolutely Fabulous To Get Christmas, New Year And Olympic Episodes
Round at my place, we’ve been waiting for the new series of Absolutely Fabulous pretty keenly. Well, I say series. Turns out that they’ve produced not a new series at all, but three new specials to be scattered over the next year. Joanna Lumley was a guest on This Morning earlier this week, promoting her…
Wednesday Runaround – Return Of The Buggernaut?
XWatch: Wolverine hits the AP. Wolverine is heading up the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning that will not only educate young mutants, but hone their powers, too. He’s being helped by Kitty Pryde, Iceman and Beast, among others. JapanWatch: This Saturday at the Theater of Arts Arena Stage in Hollywood sees We Heart Japan…
Tuesday Trending Topics: …50, 51, 52
It’s time to call it, I think: Comic Day is back, and not just for DC. Big interest in weekly reviews, big anticipation for what’s coming out on Comic Day every week, and readers and pros are locked into that weekly cycle like we haven’t seen in awhile. And after tomorrow, we get to find…
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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…
