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
Peppa Pig Confronts Her Inevitable Doom
In this time of trouble, sometimes you just need a little lift. Here’s a full page from today’s Daily Mirror, courtesy of Mirror editor Daniel Silver; As Tesco says, every little helps.
Another Week, Another Podcast – Potter, Avengers, Zombies, Tintin And More
The second Bleeding Cool podcast in as many weeks. How’s that for consistency? It’s something I can manage without any typing or the need for much dictation too, so my arm says thanks. This time we discuss: The Harry Potter documentary When Harry Left Hogwarts The trailer for Chronicle The Walking Dead and Romero’s new…
Thursday Trending Topics: The Marvel Layoffs
News of several people being let go from Marvel Comics today cast a shadow over the entire industry, just as it had been catching its breath in the wake of an eventful New York Comic Con. There will certainly be more on this story in the days to come. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: The Return…
Bradley Cooper Is Steven Soderbergh’s Man From UNCLE
Now, only one of our spies is missing. Bradley Cooper has been offered the role of Napoleon Solo in the upcoming Man from UNCLE movie. Steven Soderbergh is still shopping for an actor to play Illya Kuryakin, Solo’s Russian counterpart. The film is scheduled to shoot in the spring, before Soderbergh closes out the current…
New Battlestar Galactica Film From Bryan Singer And John Orloff To Co-Exist In TV Show’s Universe
Bryan Singer has been wanting to make his own Battlestar Galactica for a good while now. A decade ago, he was planning for it to be a TV show, though this was stymied by 9/11 then superseded by Ronald D. Moore‘s popular do-over. A couple of years back, it became clear that he was still…
They Lied To You: The Trailers For Paranormal Activity 3 Are Mostly Scenes Not From The Film
From the banal to the spectacular, the majority of footage in the various trailers for Paranormal Activity 3 is absent from the film itself. Perhaps the most significant, or at least the most obvious, omission is the Bloody Mary scene, in which a dark silhouette makes a supernatural appearance in a bathroom (see the image…
Who’s Who In The Christmas Doctor Who – The Lion, The Witch And The TARDIS?
Shelly Horwitz writes for Bleeding Cool: As piping hot from the latest Doctor Who Magazine, the cast for the Christmas Special and their characters: Madge Arwell: Claire Skinner Alexander Armstrong: Reg Arwell Holly Earl: Lily Arwell Maurice Cole: Cyril Arwell Bill Bailey: Droxil Arabella Weir: Billis Paul Bazely: Ven-Garr Bill Bailey was recently on Danny…
The Marvelcution List 2011
The Comics Beat, CBR and Bleeding Cool have been reporting a series of dismissals at Marvel Comics, as cost-cutting becomes the big new Marvel event. Talking to numerous Marvel sources, this seems to be the current list of very recent dismissals, though you’ll find more from before, here, as well as a look as to…
Thursday Night Catch-Up Rushes – Oddball Avengers Factoid, Muppeteers Get Miffed And What The Wachowskis Are Planning
Here’s quick sweep of just a few of the stories gathering buzz tonight. I feel the need to sweep some stuff up, at least, before I can get on with some bigger things. Some images from The Lorax were published in Entertainment Weekly. Look: Incidentally, the navigation on their site is kind of fritzed at…
Captain Underpants’ Tighty-Whiteys Set For Big Screen
Shelly Horwitz writes for Bleeding Cool When I was really little, I thought Dav Pilkey‘s Captain Underpants book series was fun. It starred two Calvin-esque mischief-makers who, through a series of wacky coincidences, turn their stern school principal into Captain Underpants whenever he hears someone snapping their fingers. Captain Underpants… well, he saved little old…
Marvelcution 2011 – The Spinning Pennies Of Isaac Perlmutter
I recently wrote a piece called The Spinning Plates Of Dan DiDio, looking at issues inside DC Comics, concern about the micromanagement of many of the New 52 comics, Dan’s personal exposure over the relaunch and the likelihood of creators leaving certain comics because they can’t take the current management style. Well, with NYCC having…
Derren Brown Recreates The Matrix In Real Life
In this meaty excerpt from Derren Brown’s new series The Experiments, you’ll see that the wicked imp is taking some cues from artificial reality films like The Matrix or World on a Wire and fake memory movies like Cypher or, to some extent, Blade Runner. There’s a good whiff of my beloved Vanilla Sky too….
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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…
