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
DC Comics To Make Wayne Casino Chips Available In Comic Stores
It was the genius giveaway of convention season this year. Debuting at San Diego Comic Con, each day you were able to pick up from the DC Comics booth a free fake casino chip, tied into Wayne Casinos, as seen in the Flashpoint Batman title. The Preview Night chip was pretty rare in comparision, but…
Did Anyone Demand Avengers: The Crossing Omnibus?
For some it’s up there with the Clone Wars. Considered a creative nadir. The moment when the comic didn’t so much jump the shark, as pirouette above it naked, wearing nothing but a cold fusion powered jetpack. It’s called The Crossing, it was an Avengers crossover and it was originally published in 1995. And now…
The Stock Exchange – Golden Oldies
This week, the focus is on the Golden Age, where we had quite a few interesting sales this past week to report in our look at sales from the week of November 14-20. First up, we have a gem from Fiction House, Wings Comics #56. Fiction House had evolved from a pulp publisher in the…
Superior Kapow World Record Special Hits $13 On Day Of Sale
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool talked about the Superior Kapow World Record #1 comic, a comic created in 12 hours by a group of big name and small name comics creators at the Kapow Comic Convention earlier this year, to raise money for charity. And how, for some reason, it was limited to 10,000 copies, causing all…
Has Flashpoint Become Fiction In The New DCU?
A couple of panels in the new issue of Justice League Dark #3 may be rather revealing. They appear to show the Flashpoint comics Secret Seven and Deadman And The Flying Graysons that starred Shade and Deadman, existing in the new DCU. Do they reveal the fact that, when caught in Flashpoint flux, The Flash…
Now Is The Time To Buy Oldboy, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance And Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
Pallisades Tartan are selling Blu-rays of Chan Wook Park’s superb Vengeance Trilogy – Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Sympathy For Lady Venegance – from their Amazon store at the wonderful price of $17.99 for the set. That’s less than $6 per film. I’m head over heels with Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, to this day;…
When Avengers Academy Is Spoiled… By The Editor-In-Chief
*** SPOILERS *** SPOILERS *** SPOILERS *** SPOILERS *** SPOILERS *** SPOILERS *** *** SPOILERS *** SPOILERS *** SPOILERS *** SPOILERS *** SPOILERS *** SPOILERS *** *** SPOILERS *** SPOILERS *** SPOILERS *** SPOILERS *** SPOILERS *** SPOILERS *** There’s been quite the discussion of spoilers of late. Dan Slott seems to think they’re fine…
Astroturfing Season Continues With The Hunger Games And Twilight
Quick recap for those of you not familiar with the term “astroturfing”. This is when someone (usually someone with a vested interest in seeing a movie do well at the box office) posts comments in public forums masquerading as an unbiased member of the viewing public, proclaiming how much they’re looking forward to seeing the…
Dredd Pics And Video – Fast Moving Action (Ahem) And MegaCity Glimpses
A number of behind-the-scenes pictures and videos from the shoot of Dredd, Pete Travis and Alex Garland‘s Judge Dredd movie, have been posted online. They come from the collection of Lone Wolf Grips, the company providing all of the camera rigs, tracks and grip services for the film. These two videos show the camera rigs…
Private Eye On BBC, Doctor Who And Steven Moffat
In many ways, fortnightly British magazine Private Eye is the spiritual inspiration for Bleeding Cool. And now that they have started covering Doctor Who, it’s even better. Bleeding Cool has reported on previous articles that have had a tendency to be contradicted by the BBC, and then mostly come true… The Eye gives some context…
Thursday Runaround – Occupy, Destroy, Aggregate
FFWatch: Jonathan Hickman talks Fantastic Four #600. MervGriffinWatch: Twelve years of Evan Dorkin’s Milk And Cheese get collected by Dark Horse this week. And USA Today is on the case! “In some ways the business is in worse shape than when I first started making comics — comics have been ‘doomed’ for as long as…
Doctor Who Is Going To Send A Dalek To Get You… In Real Life
One of the BBC’s R&D labs has been showing off a novel new idea that might sell a truck load of toys. As you’ll see in these videos, they’ve used metadata in the the AV to rig a relationship between an off-the-shelf Dalek and an episode of Doctor Who. When the Extermination! begins on screen,…
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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…
