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: October 2011
Art Of Alex Ross Puts On Weight
In a world where comic books are having their pages regularly salami sliced, it’s nice to hear about one book that is adding pages, without adding cents on the cover price. The Dynamite Art Of Alex Ross, a collection of Ross’ cover work for Dynamite along with acres of sketches, design and commentary, has moved…
Simon Pegg Gets His Hair On In First Photo From Horror Comedy A Fantastic Fear Of Everything
Not too long ago Brendon was lucky enough to visit the set of A Fantastic Fear Of Everything, the directorial debut from Crispian Mills and Chris Hopewell, and he got a sneak peek at Simon Pegg‘s interesting new look that he sports in the film. Now you can too, with the first official photo from…
The Censors Finally “Pull Back” On Pulp Fiction And In The Realm Of The Senses
Amongst the multitude of options in censoring a film, besides the obvious removal of footage or the re-dubbing of dialogue, is the use of image cropping or artificial zooming. A shot can be re-framed throughout to remove part of the original information, or it might be subject to a “Ken Burns” style push-in that changes…
Bill Jemas Gets Into Bed With Wizard
There’s a name I hadn’t heard from in a while. Last seen retranslating the Bible and painting peace symbols onto the bodies of naked women, Bill Jemas used to be the President of Marvel Comics. He formed the Ultimate imprint, co-wrote Origins and in many ways helped bring Marvel back from the brink of bankruptcy,…
Another Trailer For Aardman’s The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists Is Unveiled
I always get excited when Aardman release footage from their newest project, and this one is particularly exciting because the modelling and creative process for The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists differed in several ways from everything that Aardman had worked on before. I was lucky enough to visit the set of the film…
Shonen Jump Going Digital Only For 99 Cents Was Only The Start
It is one of the best selling comic books in the world and has featured the serialisation of countless manga titles that have gone on to conquer the media landscape. and in the US, it sells 125,000 a month. But now even Shonen Jump has heard the call of the digital siren. To the extent…
A View Of NYCC From The New York Anime Fest
David Doub writes for Bleeding Cool; Actually I didn’t have a table at NYCC, I was at New York Anime Festival technically. ReedPop used to have the two events separate, but since last year, the two have become one event. I thought I was being clever by getting in on the Anime side of the…
All Winners Squad Is Not Just Cancelled – It’s Unfinished
The eight issue mini-series All Winners Squad: Band Of Heroes by Paul Jenkins and Carmine Di Giandomenico has been cancelled at issue 5. Although the official notice states… ALL WINNERS SQUAD BAND OF HEROES #6 & #7 (OF 8) (SEP110549 & OCT110637, $2.99, FOC 10/24/11 & 11/14/11) are being canceled. It is now a five…
Advance Review: The Incredible Hulk #1 by Jason Aaron and Marc Silvestri
There are some who loved Greg Pak’s Planet Hulk. Who wish that the exiled Hulk had never returned to Earth. That he had continued his world conquering, fighting, ruling exploits in some Game Of Thrones-esque fashion forever, well away from the confines of the Marvel Universe. That he had never gone back. And there are some…
Netflix Launches In The UK And Ireland Following Plummeting Stock Value And Loss Of 800,000 Subscribers
Netflix have just sent out a press release announcing that the service is readying itself for a UK and Ireland launch in early 2012, so that movie lovers on this humble isle will finally have access to the streaming subscription service that our North American brethren have been enjoying for years. Of course, this news…
Tuesday Runaround – An Electric Thrill
ThrillWatch: Leah Moore, John Reppion, Emma Vieceli and the Windflower Studio sees their Hat Trick/Channel 4 webcomic The Thrill Electric launch on Thursday. Expect to see a big splash at the MCM London Expo this weekend too. I’ll be there… will you? IndiaWatch: Aalok Joshi on the future of Indian language comic books, at Comic…
Monday Trending Topics: The $130 Superman Line Item
The check that DC Comics used to buy Superman has to be one of my favorite bits of comic history to surface in quite some time. I have a hunch we’ll be hearing learning more about this in the days to come. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Fanboy Rampage: Comic Con Vs Mens Fitness It was…
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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…
