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…
I’m currently travelling around Southeast Asia, stopping by Bangkok, the Laos border, and Singapore, away from the familiarity of First World Problems in the West. Contrary to what a lot of Westerners like to think, it’s not primitive here. They have wifi, fibre-optic cable, coffee bars and Western food. Gaming culture is big in Asia,…
I’m travelling, so in lieu of a regular column, here is the treatment for a movie adaptation of Arthur Machen’s late 19th Century horror novel THE GREAT GOD PAN. I really doubt Richard and I ever really expected to pitch this thing or that it would ever be produced. It was a palette-cleanser for us…
I’m travelling, so in lieu of a regular column, I’m going to run something different. Below is the treatment for a movie adaptation of Arthur Machen’s late 19th Century horror novel THE GREAT GOD PAN. It’ll be run in three parts over the next weeks while I’m on the road. Looking over it again, it…
The last big video game to be released this year is the MMO STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC. Too bad the actual game doesn’t look like those trailers. It looks like this: I’m not a games journalist or reviewer, so I don’t look at games with the same criteria they do. I tend…
It’s lurking, always lurking. Peeking out from the corner of my attention like a Goth wallflower that knows I’ll notice sooner or later and finally pay her some attention. Then I’ll see that she’s completely mad and smart and totally horny and even then I’m still not sure she’s such a great idea. But…
There was a minor upset in the world of publishing last week: a debut spy novel had to be withdrawn by its publisher for plagiarizing James Bond novels. ASSASSIN OF SECRETS by QR Markham was meant to be the first novel in a series about a new superspy character who will protect his country “at…
Tezuka Osamu was probably as much a part of my cultural landscape as Disney was when I was young. My first love was ASTRO BOY when I saw the anime syndicated on TV at the age of three. I don’t remember a single episode of the series, but I still recall a lot of the…
In the spirit of Halloween, here’s something a bit different. BLACK LIGHT is a horror novel about Buck Carlsbad, a detective with a particular psychic power: he exorcises ghosts by eating them. This is not an ability that makes for a particularly happy life, and while he tries to trace his family to find out…
Wine! Comics! Wine manga! Two good tastes that taste good together! DROPS OF GOD is what you never knew you always wanted. Knocking around New York Comicon last week, it was nice to see all the enthusiasm for comics as ever, though one very large elephant in the room (other than videogames) was the central…
Welcome to part 2 of my reminiscing about writing JLA: AGE OF WONDER. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin some commentary. SPOILER WARNING: You really should read the book first, otherwise you won’t understand a damn thing I’ll going to spend the rest of this column talking about. Designing the Steampunk Justice League Other…
So DC’s reboot has kicked off with the first batch of first issues, hitting the shops with plenty of promotional hype and media coverage. Just about every comics site, including Bleeding Cool, has been reviewing and assessing the new books, which gets them hits and in turn generates reader interest in the books themselves in…
Adi Tantimedh writes for Bleeding Cool In REALITY IS BROKEN: WHY GAMES MAKE US BETTER AND HOW THEY CAN CHANGE THE WORLD, Jane McGonigal proposed that games have the potential to improve people’s social skills, self-esteem, motivation, and on a broader scale, can be used as strategies to improve social problems. While I don’t agree…
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…
