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…
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…
Having a grand old time playing DEUX EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION this week on the Xbox. It fills my craving for intricate Bladerunner-style Science Fiction stories and the opportunity to arse about in that world in an interactive way. I’ve always liked the idea of story-based role-playing games where you play a simulation of a space…
I love the way pop culture has a tendency to coincide with the times in ways so coincidental nobody could possibly foresee. Take this week. We have the world economy going into meltdown with a Depression looming, but they’re calling it a double-dip recession because they don’t want to admit it’s a Depression and causing…
So I’ve been reading Grant Morrison’s SUPERGODS: WHAT MASKED VIGILANTES, MIRACULOUS MUTANTS, AND A SUN GOD FROM SMALLVILLE CAN TEACH US ABOUT BEING HUMAN for the last few weeks and also following the reviews, which ranged from awed to respectful to surprised and slightly frightened, as in the New York Times’ Dave Itzkoff’s rather square…
We don’t talk about TORCHWOOD quite as much as we talk about DOCTOR WHO round these parts, probably because people like Rich and I were not so tolerant of the terrible, mawkish directions the first two series took in the writing department. We wanted to like it, but it wasn’t as inventive or funny or…
The most entertaining news this past week has been the phone-hacking scandal in Britain leading to News International shutting down one of the country’s most vile – and bestselling – tabloids The News of the World. It was American crime journalist (and expert on the Japanese underworld as shown in his excellent book TOKYO VICE)…
Adi Tantimedh writes for Bleeding Cool: US cable channel Starz were holding preview screenings of the first episode of TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY in cities across America on Tuesday evening, and I went over to the one in Downtown New York at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema, a rather nice Cineplex showing independent and arthouse films like…
Rich has covered SPANDEX before, briefly, but I don’t think Bleeding Cool has actually talked about it much. Since we’re in the midst of superhero coverage, I thought I’d chime in, since I finally got round to reading it. It’s been awhile since I wrote a column about comics, because I haven’t actually had anything…
I go out to see less and less of the latest blockbuster releases these days because I find Hollywood movies are getting more and more generic and dull even as they get more expensive and slick with increasingly elaborate but weightless CGI special effects. I was talking with my friend, the critic and author Roz…
Do we call them Noodle Easterns? No, because it sounds rubbish. Anyway, this week I’m talking about Asian movies tackling the Spaghetti Western. Since 2007, we’ve had Japan, Korea and China each make a major movie that that takes off from the Spaghetti Western. Takeshi Miike made SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO, Kim Ji Woon made THE…
For once, I say “magpie” like it’s a good thing. Time to stop and take stock of DOCTOR WHO now that it’s taking its mid-season break, the first of its kind as it adopts an American-style scheduling model. Steven Moffat had said he took this approach this year to give BBC1 a ratings hit during…
When I was interviewing Alan Moore about Horror and Lovecraft last week, we touched upon the idea of horrific fantasies being tamed and domesticated in popular culture. There’s been a general trend in mainstream culture to re-imagine figures of horror into something cozy, lovable, even sexy, and that trend seems to be getting stronger as…
LA NOIR is being hailed as a remarkable achievement in games and a watershed in the evolution of video games. Even Charlie Brooker live-tweeted that he was blown away by it and has devoted his Guardian column this week to it. It was the first video game was previewed at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival…
Three bits that caught my attention this past week: Makes Ya Wonder… In a rare burst of good sense, NBC has chosen not to pick up David E. Kelley’s WONDER WOMAN for a series after they got mixed reactions from a market screening. In this instance, “trust the market-test” was the right thing to do….
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…
