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…
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“Graphic violence and sex, that’s what you’ll find in the pages of DC Comics today.”
That’s how the Fox 5 News in Washington DC report began, taking on Catwoman, Red Hood and Detective Comics. But see if you can find the disconnect here.
“Today’s superheroes would make Archie and Veronica blush” – Sherry Ly, Fox reporter.
“They more or less darkened the characters, today they introduced a lot of more reality, homosexuality, adultery” – Joe Blackwell, comic reader.
Like showing Archie married to Bettie and then Veronica, or a gay marriage on the cover? But that’s a topic for another Fox 5 News report. This time they are concerned with
“Batman and Catwoman having sex on the rooftop. A drunken Bruce Wayne. Blood splattered battles with heads whacked off!…”
I don’t think it’s heads being whacked off that Neil Bernstein PHD, child psychologist, is worried about. He tells the station that it’s
“fictionalised playboy for kids at its worst… too many kids would be put in harm’s way, or at least at risk… it’s a misrepresentation of reality. It sends the wrong message.”
Jared Smith of Big Planet Comics goes to lengths to explain that these comics are labelled and targetted for teenagers or adults. Which leads to possibly the most hilarious line from Sherry Lee
“The comic books are rated Teen and Teen plus which means they’re not meant for younger children. So we went to a middle school to see what the kids here thought.”
That would be ages 11 to 15. And Sherri Ly decided to show these kids comics labelled for 16 years olds and over to get their reaction.
DC Comics wouldn’t comment (tell me about it). But Big Planet Comics is also the store that DC Comics has been using as an example for their Free Comic Book Day retailer cover editions…
The CBDLF has also just launched an article on how to respond to a media attack inspired by the Bleeding Cool’ original article over a trailer for this report.
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…
