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
New York Times Put Real Life Superheroes On The Front Page
Today the New York Times has put Real Life Super Heroes on the front paage of their paper in an article talking about Salt Lake City’s own Utah saints, Black Monday comprised of Red Voltage, Asylum, Nihilist and more. “Red Voltage, who in mild-mannered daytime life is a 23-year-old residential leasing manager named Roman Daniels,…
Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh: The Girl With The Remade Tattoo
I was planning to write about how TV shows that started out good tend to go to shit past their third seasons this week, but found myself more curious about the box office failure and cultural impact (or lack thereof) of David Fincher’s adaptation of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO. To the surprise of…
Boxseting Day – The Anglophile DVD List 2011
You’re American. You like British stuff like Doctor Who, The Office and Being Human. You’re looking forward to The Fades. But you want more. Stuff that your peers might not have heard of, so you can lord it over them, lend them the box set, and get kudos back. Stuff that even BBC America won’t…
Review: Dotter Of Her Father’s Eyes by Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot
Trying to join lines between one Bryan Talbot project and the next is nigh impossible. Heart Of Empire, Alice In Sunderland, Grandville, each occupies very different worlds, styles, genres, approaches to the form. And now it’s time for him to do it again, this time working with his wife, Mary Talbot, in creating Dotter Of…
How To Shoot And Edit An Action Scene, With Elite Squad’s José Padilha
José Padilha‘s film Elite Squad: The Enemy Within is released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK today. I got to speak with the director about the film (and his Robocop remake) a couple of weeks ago. What particularly interested me was the specific way in which Padilha shot and edited the action sequences. Here…
New Vertigo Sci-Fi Series From Scott Snyder And Sean Murphy – And American Vampire: London
March sees a flurry of new series from DC Vertigo… but it seems there are more to come. In an podcast interview with Orbital Comics (whose half price sale starts today), Scott Snyder revealed that he is writing a new sci fi mini series for DC/Vertigo for Joe The Barbarian artist Sean Murphy planned for…
The Biggest Box-Office Flops Of 2011
Where do Green Lantern, Sucker Punch, Cowboys & Aliens and more rank in the list of this year’s biggest money-losers?
Boxing Day Runaround – From The Ashes
WatchWatch: Some people seem to have noticed a story we ran yesterday. What fun! PhoenixWatch: Another story we ran ages ago comes to fruition. The BBC report on the return of the British comic the DFC under the name The Phoenix. “Comic novel writer, Kate Brown is serialising her story called The Lost Boy over 35 weeks in The Phoenix. She…
Sunday Trending Topics: Ghost Of Comics Future
Not too long after the last present is opened and Christmas dinner is eaten, it’s time to start thinking about the New Year and what it will bring. But will you see a dire warning of the wrong path chosen, or the confirmation of a year full of promise? That’s for you to decide,…
A Bleeding Cool Video Christmas
Here are some videos of Christmas Past, featuring contributions of some sort by Richard or myself. I’m not sure what the Christmas number one is this year, but I know what it isn’t. The Twelve Days of Christmas kick off… today? Or was it yesterday? Either way, you might be advised to not celebrate them…
Merry CROSSEDmas: Jacen Burrows Talks Crossed With Preview Of Crossed: Badlands #1
Today is a day during which we traditionally find out who’s been naughty and who’s been nice, and that’s all well and good. But in 2012, there’s going to be another day which celebrates the difference between the naughty and the nice in a very different way. Avatar Press has designated March 12, 2012 as…
Merry CROSSEDmas: Garth Ennis Talks Crossed
Keith Davidsen: It’s been four years since you launched CROSSED, telling the fantastic first story before allowing others to play in your sandbox. How did it feel to return to the CROSSED landscape for your BADLANDS story? Garth Ennis: It felt cold and bleak and bad and dark, which is exactly how I hoped it…
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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…
