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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Occupy London At St Paul’s Cathedral With Mr And Mrs V For Vendetta
In London to meet friends, I took a trip to St Paul’s Cathedral where the Occupy London protest has been camped out for the last week-and-a-bit. And I met a few people from Anonymous wearing the Guy Fawkes/V For Vendetta mask. So I asked them about it…
Avenging Spider-Man #1 Gets Orders Of Over 100,000 As Marvel Extends Free Digital Comics Download Codes
Marvel has announced they will continue the free download of digital copies of Avenging Spider-Man by Zeb Wells and Joe Madureira through the first arc to issue three. And with the first issue topping six figures in orders from comic store retailers, we may be about to see how well the ComiXOlogy servers will cope…
Five Misfits “Power Up” London Tube Ads
Misfits comes back to E4 this Sunday. I’ve seen the first episode and it’s aces. And there’s plenty of publicity around the place, cinema ads, bus sides and these funny moving London tube ads… but which powers will the returning ASBO kids have this year after that visit to the power broker?
Wizard World Pulls Back In 2012
A PR piece purporting to announce a location change of Wizard World Toronto Comic Con to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre for April 14th to 15th also managed to disguise a number of other changes to the 2012 Wizard World Schedule. This is how it stood a couple of weeks ago November 11-13 – Austin…
Into The Nitty Gritty Of Performance Capture With Tintin’s Joe Letteri
What is this performance capture thing anyway? Is it all it’s cracked up to be? And what needs to be made better?
A Simpler Tintin For America
French magazine Le Figaro has reported on how Tintin covers to a number of books are being recreated for the American market in the light of the new movie. They report that publisher Little Brown has given them a “more immediate to the link between the film and album” Which means that Tintin must be…
Remake/Remodel: Little Nemo In Slumberland
Si Spurrier’s instructions: LITTLE NEMO Little Nemo was quite simply one of the Best Things Ever. Quite apart from being an early explorer of the narrative medium, the amount of sheer invention, humour and creepiness pumped into it by Winsor McCay means it’s still a rollicking read today. And it’s fucking beautiful to look at….
When Bleeding Cool Met Emma Stone
Emma Stone recently came to London to premiere The Help and talk to the press. Luckily, I got to sit down with her, and talk about a lot of good, chewy stuff. Not only is she the most consistently engaging young actor in studio films right now, Stone gives great interview too. As The Help…
Ivan Brandon Leaves DC Comics’ Men Of War After Issue 6
Bleeding Cool understands that Ivan Brandon has chosen to leave the new 52 book, Men Of War, after issue 6. The book, despite internal leaks to the contrary, is not cancelled and will continue. This revamping of the Sgt Rock character in modern day warfare in a world of superheroes was possibly one of my…
Swipe File: Jonah Hex And Eva Herzigová
From All Star Western #2, out today. From a classic Wonderbra advert that was purported to have caused traffic accidents near where it was positioned. What? They’re exactly the same! In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, jokes, coincidences…
Top Five Favourite Panels From Wolverine And The X-Men #1
Well that’s the most fun I’ve had reading an X-Men comic in an age. Wolverine And The X-Men #1. It smacks of everything from Lobdell’s Generation X, to Claremont’s X-Men in Australia, to Peter David’s early X-Factor. Headmaster Wolverine and Headmistress Kitty Pryde taking school inspectors around the new Jean Grey School For Higher Learning….
Fifteen Thoughts About Fifteen New DC Comics Today – Flash, Superman, Voodoo, I Vampyr, New Guardians, Blackhawks, Teen Titans, Hawkman, Firestorm, Aquaman, Dark Knight, Legion, JL Dark, All Star Western… And Spaceman
1. The Flash #2 moves from physical speed to mental speed and gives us a Flash learning to tap the Speed Force with his brain – and Manapul gives us a seemingly Frank Quitely influenced look at how that actually works. 2. The vampires of I, Vampyr #2, preparing for war against humanity see themselves…
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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…
