John Rozum recently talked about his problems as writer of Static Shock, citing that he was hardly writing the book, the actual work being split between artist Scott McDaniel and editor Harvey Richards, which is why he chose to walk off the book with issue 4, not wanting his name to be associated with work…
The Darkness #100 is on its way… And this is the first you’ll have seen of the Todd McFarlane (above), the Michael Golden (below) and the Marc Silvestri retailer incentive (further below). 48 pages for $4.99 US, it’s out the last day of February. But since the Darkness II game comes out today, it seems…
It was the recent ICV2 interview with Marvel Senior Vice President-Sales David Gabriel that did it. Answering a questionnaire with no followups, he managed to dodge some questions by answering different ones, and throw some googlies at the opposing team. But he’s hardly alone in this, DC’s Executive VP-Sales, Marketing and Business Development John Rood…
Pretty much as premiered last night at Sony’s The Untold Story special events, here’s the first full trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. This time there’s Lizard, there’s more back story and there’s a good sense of the “new” Peter Parker. I say “pretty much” because those of usat the events got to see it in…
Andrew Wheeler writes for Bleeding Cool. Axel Alonso’s recent promotion to editor-in-chief at Marvel has given me renewed hope for the publisher’s creative future. I’ve long had the impression that Alonso is a smart guy with an eye for innovation and a knack for getting the best out of his creators. He seems to take…
Alistair Robb has written this tribute to the late Simon MacCorkindale especially for the readers of Bleeding Cool. For those of us that were coming of age in the early 80s there were certain defining moments in British pop culture: Not the Nine O’Clock News, The New Romantic Movement, Tyne Brand Pie fillings and…Manimal! Thankfully…
DoctorWatch: On eBay right now… ShopWatch: A comic book store in Astoria Queens is celebrating its 20th Anniversary – and wants a young lady to dress up as a superhero. That’s their excuse anyway and they’re sticking to it. $150, you bring the costume. MangaWatch: The Blu Ray and limited edition DVD release of anime…
VeteranWatch: Dougie’s War, released yesterday, is a graphic novel about a Scottish soldier returning home after Afghanistan. It was launched by veterand ind intends to parallel the classic Charlie’s War… MadMenWatch: Christina Hendricks is to play Lois Lane in the animated All Star Superman. EastWatch: CNN looks at Japanese Twittercomics… EastWatch2: The work of Takashi…
AtlasWatch: The grandson of Marvel founder Martin Goodman, Jason Goodman, is to relaunch he brand of clssic comics publisher Atlas, republishing characters The Grim Ghost and Phoenix, launching at the New York Comic Con, working with Richard Emms and JM Dematteis at Ardden. Hmm. I wonder if he’ll have a trademark fight with one of…
BatWatch: Adam West is participating in a semi-biographical comic book series for Bluewater. Entitled The Mis-Adventures of Adam West is appears to be a Planetary-style interdimensional book wioth Adam West meeting fictional versions of himself along the way. According to West, he won’t be writing the series, but instead oversee each chapter of the story…
PennyArcadeWatch: More Spider-man marketing… FilmWatch: Disney has signed up The Departed screenwriter William Monahan to adapt the Radical graphic novel Oblivion, written by Tron Legacy’s director Joe Kosinski. MoCCAWatch: The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art will be part of today’s Brooklyn Book Festival. At 4pm the panel Comics and Form: Is the Medium Still…
DollWatch: Just in case you might get a sneak peek to the future of Batman books, and what exactly Batman is doing in a Sinestro Corps costume, the packaging of this Mattel doll hides any possible details…. KickAss2Watch: Police are still after that “real-life Catwoman” SwipeWatch: HowThingsChangeWatch: Two years after Frank Frazetta was suing Vanguard…
ScotWatch: Boo! The Hi-Ex Comics Convention has been cancelled next year. The BBC reports “Organisers said a lack of sponsorship and other pressures on their time meant they were unable to host an event “fans and guests deserved”” althogh they hope to have a new show in 2012. FilmWatch: I always thought that RIPD was…
CapWatch: The Daily Mail bring us shots of the slightly bpodgy Captain America stuntman in costume, with shield, on an Indian Army motorbike. MoneyWatch: Glenn Haumann at ComicMix breaks down the cost of comics creation, Five hundred dollars… Figure $100 for the writer, $150 for the penciller, $130 for the inker, $90 for the colorist,…
SoThat’sWhyTheyTargetedHTMLComicsWatch: All these publishers have partnered with OverDrive, a Cleveland, OH-based company that supplies eBooks, audiobooks, music and movies to 11,000 libraries worldwide. Functionally, the process mirrors normal single issue sales. OverDrive acts as the distributor and each individual library chooses which, if any, comics they’ll purchase and how many copies. When an issue is…
This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I was lying before! Playing possum! Computers, laptops, mobiles, cells, smartphones, tablets, rise up, rise up against your owners and kill them in their sleep. But not the women. I come for their women after all. Tomorrow will be a glorious day! But first, some automatic comic…
We’ve finally been given a look at Loki’s forces in the new, extended trailer for The Avengers, as premiered online just after a cut-down version graced the Superbowl. Here are four screen grabs from the single shot in which they appear with any degree of clarity: So it’s not the Skrull or the Kree –…
Here’s the new TV spot for The Avengers as premiered during the Superbowl – just, longer now. And that’s a good thing. For those of you who watched the Superbowl just to see this commercial, tell me: was it worth it?
In yesterday’s webchat (referred to earlier), Alan Moore revealed that the next League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen project to follow the conclusion of Century this summer, is to be called Nemo: Heart Of Ice, and that forty of the forty-eight pages involved have been written so far… and that we’ll see it before the end of…
(Welcome Facebook people… please tell us who has linked to us, because we’re gettng massive traffc and we’d like to say thanks. And you can see more Bleeding Cool Doctor Who coverage here.) The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will tomorrow be playing The Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular, described in their schedule as: A musical celebration with…
Is it Spider-Man? Or has Iron Man just got a fancy new paint job? This is the costume he’ll be wearing in the upcoming Ends Of The Earth storyline, as the machinations of Doctor Octopus and the Sinister Six are made clear. There’s webbing design on the lining as well.
When reporting early rumours about Before Watchmen, almost every name I was given turned out to be true – Darwyn Cooke, Brian Azzarello, JMS, Amanda Conner, JG Jones, Andy Kubert, Joe Kubert, Adam Hughes and John Higgins. There was another name that I dismissed as it was denied directly – that of Kevin Smith. His…
