The upcoming Warner Premiere and DC Entertainment release of The Dark Knight Returns has been a long time coming, though I believe you heard about it here first. Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s comic has been divided into two films for this adaptation, the first of which will be released later this year, the second…
Phonogram: The Singles Club, the second volume of the series from Image, by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, has now hit digital. The first issue is free, downloadable on ComiXology, but we also took this opprtunity to make it available free on Bleeding Cool as well, below. Open publication – Free publishing – More bleedingcool…
Joseph Glass writes for Bleeding Cool; So, this Sunday just gone, a question was asked at Kapow Comic Con in London; a convention that aims to be as big as the US conventions, but over in sunny old Blighty (though I did notice the sun pretty much eluded us this year). It’s a good show,…
At Kapow in London, during the Avengers Vs X-Men panel with Kieron Gillen, CB Cebulski and Joe Quesada, they showed off some upcoming Avengers Vs X-Men pages… one of which seems to show a certain Professor X returning for issue 6… We also got a teaser that Illyana and Black Widow will star in an…
Aaron brings back Tri-Force Mike this week, as the staff of A Comic Shop in Florida look through today’s comic books and makes their recommendations. Do you agree? Or do you think Aaron loves Green Lantern just too much? Is such a thing even possible? Or could Sacrifice be the third wheel?
Top Books
SCARLET SPIDER #1
You know how X-Force is a darker X-Men? Well, Scarlet Spider
is a darker edgier Peter Parker! And it’s written by former X-Force scribe
Chris Yost! (Did I mention enough things you like to get you to try it?)
CARNAGE USA #2
Uncle Carnage wants you to want him, he needs you to need
him, and he’d have you believe he’s symbiotic that way.
GREEN LANTERN #5
No one really asked GEOFF JOHNS to redeem Sinestro, but this
good cop/fascist cop team-up actually has me warming up to Space Hitler!
WOLVERINE AND X-MEN #4
JASON AARON! Two new students join (FROM X-FORCE), someone
from the future comes and gets all judgey (NOT CABLE), and someone is pregnant
(TEEN MOM?)!
INCREDIBLE HULK #4
JASON AARON! Banner vs. HULK! And the Leader behind the
separation revealed?!
WOLVERINE #300
JASON AARON & ADAM KUBERT! Wolverine goes to Tokyo to
fight the new Silver Samurai and/or his daughter!
Indy
SACRIFICE #2
SAM (OUR LOVE IS
REAL) HUMPHRIES! A Suicidal goth kid with epilepsy is somehow thrown back into
Aztec times and he totally loves all their bloodletting and death cult antics! Aztecsforever.com
LAST OF THE GREATS #4
JOSHUA
HALE FIALKOV! He’s mankind’s last hope, but he hates us! For some reason he
likes making sweet love to Oprah, so maybe he’ll save us from himself.
Graphic Novels
INVINCIBLE VOL 15 GET SMART
ROBERT KIRKMAN! Mark Grayson stops fighting battles head-on
and instead uses the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People! He’s proactive,
begins with the end in mind, seeks first to understand…then be understood, goes
for a win/win over a compromise, AND it’s way more awesome than it sounds! A
fresh take on a teen hero becoming his own man!
UNWRITTEN VOL 05 ON TO GENESIS
Tom has traveled the world, to all the places in world history
where fictions have shaped reality, but is he ready to learn about his father’s
activities in the Golden Age of comic books!
Yesterday, Fox News decided to suggest that because DC have plans to reintroduce one of their iconic characters to the New 52 as a gay man, that meant that Superman might be gay. Today, the closest (and I originally mispelt that as “closet”) thing the UK has to Fox News, the Daily Mail does the…
What would you do if you met a visitor from another time? Michael Moran finds out when he sees a movie sequel that’s at least a decade overdue. Has time been kind to Earth’s shadowy guardians?
“One of the major iconic DC characters will reveal that he is gay in a storyline in June” That’s the comment DC’s Senior VP Publicity Courtney Simmons gave to ABC News from Burbank when asked for comment on the story we ran yesterday, that DC were to reintroduce a preexisting character into the New DCU,…
Thanks to Fox for this one. Honchos at Superman’s comic book home, DC Comics, said this weekend that one of their most identifiable (but as of yet unnamed) straight characters will soon be coming out of the closet, according to a report. No, and I was there. Dan DiDio, DC Comics co-publisher said that a…
It seems an age since C2E2. But an interview conducted by CBR with Dan Slott at the show has only just gone online. In which Slott stated that Marvel Editor-In-Chief Axel Alonso has been contacting other creators on other Marvel books to ensure they reflect… whatever change is coming with Amazing Spider-Man #700 towards the…
Just as DC Comics is turning the headlines purple with the news at Kapow that a previously established character would be rebooted as a gay person, so Marvel Comics announced they have their own headlines in mind. Tune into ABC at 11a/10a E/C tomorrow as the hosts of ABC’s The View exclusively reveal a major…