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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Collectors Cornered is a weekly video column, filmed inside Collectors Corner in Baltimore. Join us every week as we discuss comic book news from a different point of view and get instant feedback from real customers on New Comics Day, as we literally corner them and and ask questions about comic books and related topics. Unscripted, reality CC.
This week we ask our customers what they think about the Before Watchmen announcement and follow it up with few photos from our team up with a local food chain on Kids Night, giving away Free All Ages comics.
Owner of Collectors Corner, in Baltimore, Maryland, Randy Myers on Before Watchmen:
My favorite series and favorite character, Rorschach being utilized by a company to maximize profits on a property they own, I am fine with that. I really feel it works best when you fill in the blanks of the past and what may come with Watchmen,but if DC Comics wants to make money and place quality creators and industry veterans on these books to at least guarantee they are more than a cash grab it is totally fine with me as comic reader and retailer. The statues are of course a cash grab, but again I will place that Rorschach right alongside others on my shelf at home.
I understand a lot of people are posting about integrity and honoring the original works, but Alan Moore of course has written many characters that had previously existed in some form or another like Swamp Thing, Batman, GL, and notably revised the original Charlton line to mold them into Watchmen’s cast of characters as we all know them. He changed the way many of us looked at comic books with Watchmen, for that i thank him and respect the work as it exists. I do feel however that claiming that no one should add to or prequel-lize it is silly, after all it’s fiction and Moore himself (Yes I am going there too) revised and twisted many literary characters in both Lost Girls and LOEG to his own ends. The one I am looking forward to most is Minutemen, Cooke can do no wrong. Can’t wait.
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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…
