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…
Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool Questionable Content is many things: A webcomic about a haphazardly adjusted group of twenty-somethings in New England. A serial narrative set in a context of kitchen-sink science fiction. Perhaps most importantly, it’s one of the most impressive webcomics accomplishments, updating five days a week in full color with a…
PoliticsWatch: Ostensibly a kids comic, the rather successful Spirou in France goes rather political with its upcoming issue, declaring that in the midst of political uproar, France needs saving. The last time it did this was when Belgium was without a government… NovelWatch: Darkroom, is an autobiographical graphic novel by Lila Quintero Weaver about growing…
Bleeding Cool has been reporting this past few months on the rise of high profile micro-distribution of comics across the US, focusing on certain stores more likely to sell their content. Specifically the work of Sam Humphries with Our Love Is Real and Sacrifice, and ComixTribe with their books Scam and Red Ten. Well…
I was having a conversation with a retail clerk today, who expressed the opinion that DC Comics were defending comic stores while Marvel were trying to drive their customers to digital instead. I disagreed – pointed out how DC were pushing digital first ahead of Marvel, that Marvel’s AR was pushing digital users to print,…
Bleeding Cool does not condone comic book piracy. I do find the thought processes behind those that facilitate it fascinating, however. We ran a piece last week, interviewing the semi-retired pirate Archangel. As a result, a current operating pirate, going by the name CCA_Scanner, wrote the following;. I happened to be hanging out with some…
Hi there. I’m Geoffrey D. Wessel. I write a series called KEEPER, a crime thriller about a serial-murdering soccer player. Greg Rucka, Ian Rankin and Phil Hester, among others, have said nice things about it. You should read it: http://keeper-comic.com. The artist of KEEPER, Jeff Simpson, and myself are at Table O1 (that’s Letter-O-1, not…
We’re pretty obsessed with ShiftyLook over here at Bleeding Cool. At the C2E2 panel that’s just concluded in Chicago, this Japanese company looking to translate less well known video games into comics, with an eye to reviving the games as well have announced two more webcomics to join the party. The first is Wonder Momo:…
She’s been cited by David Steinberger of ComiXology, Mark Waid and Reilly Brown of being a digital pioneer in the new kind of digital comics now gaining popularity from the likes of Marvel and Thrillbent. And now, the ultimate accolade for a such a digital groundbreaker… print. De Campi has announced that her digital comic…
Matthew Diener writed like a mother for Bleeding Cool at C2E2. Seriously, if you see him, throw some ice water on the man. The Comixology panel was a Q&A with Comixology CEO David Steinberger introduced by a few slides about the current state of Comixology. The Comixology app is currently available on the iPhone, iPad,…
Matthew Diener writes furiously at C2E2 for Bleeding Cool. You go, Matthew, you go!!! The Marvel: House of Ideas panel at C2E2 was the first Marvel panel of the show and the company pulled out the big guns for it. One stage for the discussion was Marvel CCO Joe Quesada, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso, Marvel…
Cody Walker and Taylor Ramsey are writing for Bleeding Cool from C2E2. Cody attended Mark Waid’s panel last night while Taylor Ramsey had a quick word with the main man before hand. Cody Walker: It was a large crowd considering the late hour. Mark Waid took the stage along with Peter Krause. Throughout his presentation, as…
The fuss around day-and-date digital seems almost quaint by now. It’s expected that most publishers will put out a digital comic alongside its print equivalent. Well, time for a new fuss to begin. Archaia, who have developed a reputation for publishing high end graophic novels with a pop culture appeal, are to release new material…
Ame-Comi Girls, based on DC’s manga-style statues of Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Catwoman and other superheroines, will be a new digital comic published by DC and written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray. It will join today’s new Bryan Q Miller Smallville Season Eleven digital comic, and the existing Beyond and Arkham Unhinged digital comics. And…
“Currently, DC Comics are no longer available for purchase on our Fire app.” - ComiXology representative to a Bleeding Cool reader After making such a furore by signing their most popular hundred graphic novels exclusively to the Kindle Fire last year, and seeing Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million boycott those titles in protest, you’d have…
The new chapter of the Crossed webcomic Wish You Were Here by Simon Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine is now out, after last week’s smaller interlude… and a rabbit hunting expedition comes across some unusual prey…
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…
