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
XIII Mystery Goes Year-Ahead-Digital
You could wait till the time next year to buy the print version of the XIII Mystery volume, Steve Rowland, by Guérineau and Nury published by Dargaud. Or you could pay 5 Euros and rent it to read digitally for ten days, now. Day-and-date digital is clearly for those weak willed Americans…
North England Comic Shop For Sale..
These kind of opportunities don’t come along too often. So it’s worth making a feature of it. Simon Shaw of Legacy Comics in Halifax writes; Legacy Comics has been open since May 2009, situated inside the historical Piece Hall in Halifax. Over that time I’ve had many varied events in my store; from the annual…
Rian Hughes Talks Typography Tomorrow
Tomorrow, Rian Hughes is lecturing for the Typographic Circle at JWT London in Knightsbridge tomorrow. Leading designer in the comic book field (including the likes of The Invisibles, Flex Mentallo and Forbidden Planet). He’ll be talking about his designs, their origins and his creative choices through the decades. Tickets are £16 if you’re not a…
The Real George Osbourne Launches – The Os-Bourne Identity
“You can’t jazz tap your way to Number Ten” Somewhere between Alan Partridge and Yes Minister comes The Real George Osbourne, a new internet sitcom about the Chancellor Of The Exchequer and his ambition to be Prime Minister, that looks good enough to be on television. Even though it isn’t. Probably because it’s just a…
Tuesday Runaround – Getting Into A Right State
ThanksWatch: Give thanks to Bill Mantlo. “Mail is required by law to be delivered immediately to residents. For someone like Bill, who may not have a lot of personal interaction with staff, an extra visit a day by a warm bodied person delivering mail has a big impact. It becomes an even bigger deal when…
Now Image Comics Has Their Own Comic Con Just Down The Road
You can see the thinking, sat at the Image Comics booth at a variety of comic conventions across North America… all that travelling, all that fuss, all that money – and then you have to share attention with Marvel, DC, Twilight, Robert Downey Jr… what would it be like to have all that attention for…
Monday Trending Topics: Two Scoops Of Marvel
To the surprise of no one following this year’s October surprise, the marketshare race heats up in earnest next year, as Marvel has a pretty huge slate of releases set for February. Market watching should be pretty interesting in the weeks leading up to the release of The Avengers in March. Most-Read Comic Stories Today:…
Get Ready For Fantastic Four #600 Spoilers
Not here obviously. No spoilers for Fantastic Four #600 here. But I understand that Marvel is looking to get a little publicity for this comic when it comes out on Wednesday. Which means, anytime from Monday midnight in New York, there could be big, wacky, massive spoilers going large all over place. So turn off…
Geek Girl On The Street Reports: Geek Girls Unite by Leslie Simon
Kate Kotler writes for Bleeding Cool; I feel almost guilty slagging off (in any way) on the book Geek Girls Unite, How Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks and Other Misfits Are Taking Over the World by Leslie Simon. I feel guilty because I don’t want to be one of those women who hates on other women….
Marvel Double Dipping Like Never Before In February
They may be ridding themselves of some of the lower selling titles at Marvel in an attempt to raise profitability. But don’t think that means Marvel will be publishing less comics. Of late, and especially in five-week months, Marvel has been running extra issues of their monthly comic books. Not just the Point One introductory…
The Continuing Success Of Tony Daniel’s Detective Comics
I’ve said it before, pre-relaunch, I was not a fan of Tony Daniel’s Batman. I’m not a Batmanologist of any sorts, but a love a good dark knight story as much as the next comic book fan. It’s probably in the blood. And, until recently, a Tony Daniel Batman book became synonymous to me as…
Joseph Kahn Reveals His Pitch For Transformers And Storyboards For Neuromancer
Joseph Kahn is the director of Detention, one of the most extraordinary films I have seen in quite some time, a kind of pop-culture headbutt with more ideas in an hour and a half than you’d normally want to have to parse in a whole weekend. He was also the director of Torque which I…
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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…
