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
Simon Pegg Likes The Screenplay For The Boys But Fears He’s Too Old To Play Wee Hughie
The character of Wee Hughie in Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson‘s comics series The Boys was modeled on Simon Pegg, at least in terms of facial features and ginger beard, and he knows it. In fact, it was Rich who broke it to him in the first place. So, as the comic started on its…
Amazing Spider-Man Building Blocks Confirm A Spoiler Rumour
It’s not Lego but Mega Bloks, their legally permitted imitators, who have scooped the Amazing Spider-Man licensing deal. Here are the box designs for three of the sets due to launch ahead of the movie. This set… …replicates this scene from the movie… Just with a slightly less handsome Peter Parker. And this next set…
The Ballad Of Halo Jones – The Play
In January, The Lass pub in Manchester will be debuting a stage play version of the Alan Moore/Ian Gibson 2000AD comic strip, The Ballad Of Halo Jones. Halo and her friends live on the Hoop – a repository for the unemployed in the 50th century, but she won’t be beaten. She dreams of getting out…
Preview: Warriors Of Mars #1 by Robert Place Napton and Jack Jadson
Here’s a preview of Warriors Of Mars #1 from Dynamite Entertainment, written by Robert Place Napton, drawn by Jack Jadson and a cover by Joe Jusko – telling the story of the first meeting of John Carter and Lt Gullivar Jones. Apart from in League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol II. But we’ve already been there……
What Exactly… Does John Byrne… Mean?
John Byrne was posting about years and Roman Numerals today. On the John Byrne Message Board, he wrote; “Even as far back as 1972 — MCMLXXII — I had been giving serious consideration to making my planned and (hopefully) gracious exit when I was in my 66th year — MMXV — but I’m lately rather…
The Marvel $5 Digital Coupon FAQ
Earlier this year, Bleeding Cool told you how Marvel was to launch a $5 comic store voucher for anyone who bought a Marvel digital comic, for 99 cents or more. While many are worried about how digital comics will affect comic shops, this at least is an attempt to get new digital readers to see…
Cliff Chiang Draws Cover To Sacrifice #2
I don’t know what poses the curent Wonder Woman artist Cliff Chiang is pulling in the photographs Sam Humphries has of him – and with who – but they must be pretty spectacular. Anyway, Humphries has got Chiang to do a cover for his six issue self-distributed series, Sacrifice. His cover for the Jade edition…
Marvel Liquidates More Hardcovers In The New Year
Clearing out their backlist, Marvel are offering the following titles to direct market retailers at a massive discount, which will be hard for many of them to ignore. At which point the titles will then suddenly disappear in this form and, if recent history is anything to go by, will then proceed to sell for…
Gary Friedrich To Appeal Ghost Rider Legal Case
Bleeding Cool told you this morning that the court had found against Gary Friedrich, the creator of Marvel’s Ghost Rider character, and in favour of Marvel Comics over the movie rights to the character, citing the cheque backs that Friedrich had signed in order to cash them, as well as subsequent contracts. However his lawyer,…
The Secret In Catwoman’s High Heels And Other Bits Of Dark Knight Business
So, why does Anne Hathaway‘s Catwoman wear those heels? Is it to tighten her calves, push her bottom backwards and her bosom forwards, accentuating the most notably female facets of her form? Yes, of course it is. But that’s not all. This Sunday, The LA Times are to print a preview of 2012′s bigger movies,…
It’s Not Rocket Science by George Peter Gatsis – Going Digital For Less Than $200
Getting my comic onto the AppStore. I have been producing/publishing Canada’s first computer generated comic book ( The Black Diamond Effect ) since 1990. It is also the first comic book to be produced with nearly 100% vector based graphics! Unlike everyone else at the time who was generating bitmapped graphics of various quality… vector…
Shop Talk – Batman Incorporated, New 52 Fourth Printings, And More Uncanny X-Force
The holidays certainly threw things a little out of whack when it comes to last week’s new books, but here are some of the books we talked about with retailers, from books shipped December 21, 2011. We start off with Batman, Incorporated: Leviathan Strikes! This one-shot had a few things working against it right out…
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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…
