Category Archives: Do Anything. Thoughts on Comics and Things by Warren Ellis

Leinil Yu To Draw Avenging Spider-Man #5

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As Stephen Wacker tweeted today; Here’s a “scoop”! Issue 5 has another huge artist! Just as we planned! He didn’t say who though. I think that’s Bleeding Cool’s job. Leinil Yu, fresh from finishing his run with Mark Millar on Superior. Joe Maduiera will return for a later arc, just as Steve Wacker promised. Not…

Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh #111: Riots In The Head

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Coincidences where pop culture reflects real events are unpredictable and fascinating. I finished last week’s column before the riots in London escalated and spread north, but it seems the riots weren’t about to leave my head alone for a few days yet. Watching the news footage and hearing the wildfire-spread of the riots beyond London…

DC Comics Relaunch: Batman And Robin, Dark Knight… And Batgirl!

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IGN has been handed the full details of the Batman relaunch by DC Comics. Bleeding Cool has already shown you the covers to Batman #1 and Detective Comics #1, but IGN also has covers for Batman And Robin #1 and Batman: The Dark Knight #1 Batman #1 is written by current Detective Comics scribe Scott…

Cannes 2011: Programme Unveiled

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This year, the official competition at Cannes will see its first 3D entry, Takashi Miike’s Harikiri. That’s just one of the many surprises in what looks like a very exciting line up of films. Presiding over the selection juries this year will be Robert De Niro (feature films), Michel Gondry (shorts), Emir Kusturica (Un Certain…

Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh #94: New Nightmares For The Japanese Dreamtime?

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I was talking to animator Jesse Norton after he showed me his comic about his friend Koga surviving the earthquake in Japan, and as we went over the latest news about the reactors in Fukushima Dai-Ichi, there wasn’t a lot of good news there. Bad news: Really bad news: Godzilla pix: As the entire Northeastern…

Two Good Reasons To See Gareth Edwards’ Monsters This Weekend

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This weekend, Gareth Edwards’ Monsters finally reaches UK cinema screens. I’m sure many of you are already planning to see it, but here are two good reasons to make the effort this weekend. This Friday evening, a screening of the film at London’s Curzon Soho will be followed by a Q&A with writer-director Gareth Edwards. He’s…

Forty-Five Minutes To Go?

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Just as Bleeding Cool posted yesterday, today certain New York folk seem to be tagging DC’s Big Announcement To Move West as happening today. But, naturally, it’s not going to be a clean and easy break. The announcement is expected to be made at 12:30 ET/ 9.30 PT – in less than an hour’s time….

Look! It Moves! #51: When The Old Collides And Becomes New

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Let’s talk about thriller comics. Thriller comics tend to run counter to juvenile vibe of superhero comics, since the thriller genre tends to carry a more, I don’t know, “respectable” or “adult” vibe compared to stories about men in long underwear beating each other up. But then the idea of the non-superpowered costumed vigilante was…

Do Anything 0026 by Warren Ellis

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026 “Heroes” is playing through my desktop speakers. And stops. Moves on to “Clay Bodies” by Zola Jesus. The robot head of Jack Kirby, set next to the speakers on my desk, has stopped talking. The web of connections that gauzed the room have faded. The lights in its eyes have gone dead. I take…

Do Anything 025 by Warren Ellis

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025 Engineer Tony Visconti has set up three microphones in front of David Bowie, with volume-triggered gates on them. It was a huge room in Berlin, previously used to record symphonies during World War 2. (Private Jack Kirby: “I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.”) One…

Do Anything 024 by Warren Ellis

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024 Down into the streets, the creases of Jack “King” Kirby’s face, trapped by what could easily be the canyons of New York city avenues, the grey confines of the Depression streets that Jack Kirby ran and fought in. They’re like walls, imprisoning a generation. And somewhere, there’s a tannoy on a street corner, on…

Do Anything 023 by Warren Ellis

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023 Deceleration, as the canyons become skyscraper-walled New York streets. We pass the office window that Alex Toth, who never drew a story worthy of his talent and today is known only to specialists in the medium, attempting to defenestrate editor Julius Schwartz because “Julie” refused to pause his lunchtime card-game to get Toth paid….