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: December 2011
Wednesday Runaround – X-Men As Bacteria
SignWatch: Danny Fingeroth and Dennis O’Neil will be signing The Stan Lee Universe at Midtown Comics Downtown, 6pm to 7p, tomorrow. IndiaWatch: Don: The Origin is a new graphic novel, that works as a prequel to the movies Don and Don 2, written by the films’ director Farhan Akhtar. “A lot of people like reading…
Tuesday Trending Topics: Shifting Sands Of Superman
Ah well, it was still fun speculation. And the original Sand Superman saga from 1971 is still my favorite 70s-era Superman story. I stumbled across a cache of this part of the run when I was a kid and read them to tatters. Who could resist a Superman story by Denny O’Neil, Curt Swan, and…
First Trailer For The Hobbit – UPDATED With Teaser Image
For the couple of minutes you spend watching the first trailer for The Hobbit, you might feel like a long, long wait is over… …shortly afterwards, you may remember that a long, long wait still lies ahead as The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is almost a year away. And the second film in the series,…
Jonathan Ames Invites You To Join Him For A Drink – Literally – And Toast His Dearly Departed Show, Bored To Death
Bad news came on down from HBO today with Bored to Death today receiving its final notice after just three short seasons of eight episodes apiece – barely more than, say, Yes Dear churned out in each one of its six years on air. But the show’s creator and chief writer Jonathan Ames does not…
VIDEOS: The Lorax Wants You To Discover The Forest
In both the original book and the upcoming movie adaptation, Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax is a spokesman for the trees, standing up against the forest-felling Once-ler. In these new videos, he brings his campaign to us, the real people, outside of his fiction. These are PSA clips from the USDA Forest Service, seeking to connect…
Star Trek Sequel: Shot In 2D, Possibly IMAX, No Room For More TV Cast – But Pike Is In
Though it will be eventually post-converted and released in 3D, JJ Abrams has decided to shoot his Star Trek sequel on film and in 2D. And while it still sounds to be up in the air, he also says that there have been discussions about using IMAX large-format film for the project.
And Finally… The Washington DC Relaunch
Ward Sutton looks at the current political players for the Village Voice, via the iconography of DC Comics, and asks if they can be relaunched as well?
Shop Talk – Walking Dead, Avengers: X-Sanction, & New 52 Month 4
Rather than simply relying on sales figures, which never tell the full picture, we ask retailers what is, and what isn’t, moving for them, and here’s what they had to report this week, on some of December 14’s new releases. This past week saw three of the lesser-hyped New 52 titles – Demon Knights, Grifter,…
Sean Penn Is A Nazi Hunter Goth In The Trailer For This Must Be The Place
The first trailer for This Must Be The Place didn’t make it to the front page of Bleeding Cool during the summer, but there’s a new, Australian edit with lots of alternative footage so let’s pig out and indulge in both at once. I don’t know how much Sean Penn you can take, definitely not…
Four Generations Of The Ray
This past Wednesday, DC released The Ray, Volume III, #1, bringing us the fourth incarnation of the Ray, this one a Korean-American named Lucien Gates. Despite having been around since 1940, three of the four, and all three volumes, have all come within the last 20 years. So who is the Ray? The Ray (I…
What’s Christopher Nolan Actually Going To Do About Bane’s Mumbling?
On Saturday I asked: Will Christopher Nolan Have To Fix The Dark Knight Rises Prologue Before Releasing The Full Film? referring in particular to the muffled, accented voice of Tom Hardy’s Bane. There was a pretty broad consensus amongst the first audiences of the 6-minute IMAX prologue for the film that some (if not all)…
Marvel Omnibi On The Way For 2012
Thanks to Amazon, we have a glimpse of upcoming Marvel plans. Lots of the usual collections of current and classic comics, with a few surprises. In July 2012, at 904 pages we have the Secret Warriors Omnibus, collecting all issues of this Brian Bendis/Jonathan Hickman series with Alex Maleev, Stefano Caselli, Alessandro Vitti, Ed McGuinness,…
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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…
