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: November 2011
Amazing Fantasy 15, Action Comics 252, and Jerry Siegel’s Hair
Wednesday morning, there were a few auctions I spotlighted outside of the obvious Action Comics #1 to watch for Wednesday night. Here’s how those comics did, along with a few additional noteworthy sales. In two previous sales of Action Comics #6, the first appearance of Jimmy Olsen, in CGC 5.0, we saw prices of $3,450…
Andrew Stanton Tells Me It’s On His Agenda To Completely Change The Way Movies Are Made
A couple of weeks ago I got to see almost twenty minutes of John Carter and take part in an energetic and sometimes pretty intense discussion with co-writer and director Andrew Stanton. At the end of the session, I threw him a question that really – and I mean really – got him worked up….
Videogame Documentary Gets Great Sundance Trailer – Meet Indie Game: The Movie
This one is, if you’ll pardon the expression, really pushing my buttons. On the occasion of their film being announced as part of the 2012 Sundance Festival competition selection, the folk behind Indie Game: The Movie have released a new, and very attractive trailer. Maybe its because I spend a lot of my time staring…
The Powerful First Trailer For Kirby Dick’s Sundance Selection, The Invisible War
I can’t imagine Kirby Dick‘s new film is going to be an easy watch, but judging from his previous pictures, like This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Sick and Chain Camera, it’s certainly going to provoke some useful debate. Dick posted the first trailer for The Invisible War earlier today, and made it public when…
Good Quality Versions Of The Prometheus Images, Informative Notes And All
Prometheus images last seen online in scruffy scans from Entertainment Weekly have now been given a new lease of life in better quality. So far they appear to have popped up only at Making Of, who have run them with some informative captions. I’ll share those nugget-lets with each image below. Note the Weyland Yutani…
The First Comic To Break The $2 Million Barrier: Nicolas Cage Action Comics 1 Sells For Record $2,161,000
It has become the most famous individual copy of any comic book in the world. And now, the Nicolas Cage copy of Action Comics #1, graded CGC 9.0 and the best copy ever evaluated by the industry’s third-party grading service Comics Guaranty Corporation, has sold for the highest price ever paid for a comic book….
Nifty First Trailer For Wrong, The Follow-Up To Rubber
Quentin Dupieux‘s Wrong has been selected for competition at Sundance, as I noted quite excitedly, just a while ago. In a rather timely fashion, Dupieux has shared his first trailer for the film. “Why?” is the perfect book-end to Rubber‘s “No reason.” Lots more on Wrong as it comes along, I’m sure.
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Soundtrack To Come On Six LPs, Feature Bryan Ferry Cover
The various twitter accounts of Trent Reznor and company have been a little leaky today. Around an hour ago, new info was released through both @trent_reznor and @destroyangels, the official feed for his band How To Destroy Angels. The Bryan Ferry song in question originally featured on the soundtrack to Ridley Scott’s Legend. Now, if…
How Digital Effects Helped With The Muppets’ Comeback
If you don’t notice a lot of digital effects in The Muppets, that’s because the CG was on “Captain Dan duty” – ie. being used to take things away far more than it was to put things in. Amongst the items needing deletion were rods, strings and puppeteers, all to create the illusion of self-supported…
Occupy Comics Recruits The Man Who Gave Them A Face – V’s David Lloyd
The Occupy Comics project have added more names to their significant roster of talent. In the latest batch of recruits are Invincible‘s Ryan Ottley, Madman‘s Mike Allred, Too Much Coffee Man‘s Shannon Wheeler, Flood!‘s Eric Drooker, American Splendor‘s Dean Haspiel, and the painter Guy Denning. Though the most notable, perhaps, is David Lloyd, the man…
Morning Glories, Evening Disappointment
For those of you who bought your copy of Morning Glories HC Vol 1, out today, the remedy will be simple. For those who used Amazon, you may be in for a wee wait. The volume in question contains a page with no lettering. As a result, retailers are asked to withdraw the book from…
Sundance Announce Their Competition Films For 2012
The films selected for next year’s US and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions at Sundance have been announced. There’s way too much here to annotate fully and still post by the time the festival starts on January 19th, so I’m going to give you the press release version of events, then pop back at…
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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…
