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…
The history of comics is rampant with legendary creative teams, but few team-ups have produced such off-color hijinks as the combined might of Garth Ennis and John McCrea. Their early mainstream success at DC Comics with The Demon and Hitman gave way to a collaboration known ’round the world as Dicks. To quote Ennis himself:…
Although Before Watchmen wins the story of the week, if you count up all the separate articles, it’s Doctor Who that wins the day by busting through them all. Go Doctor! Woo! Top Twenty Traffic Posts Of The Week 1. Moffat Sets Up Doctor Who Season Seven And A New Companion. 2. BEFORE WATCHMEN…
This weekend, Alan Moore engaged in his first mass webchat, to help promote the Kickstarter appeal to raise money for a tribute statue to the late Harvey Pekar. The two-and-a-half hour video has been made available on Vimeo, and those who enjoy it are asked to consider making a Paypal donation towards the fundraising effort…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
