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…
Comics don’t get to the UK until tomorrow this week. Thankfully, I do have someone on hand to give me the inside track. 1. This week, Voodoo brings us tentacle porn. And will give those offended by an overabundance of black shapeshifters something new to interpret. 2. Superman is again more of a prose novel…
Dynamite Entertainment seem to have a bunch of new comics out today. Here, along with an extended preview of Game Of Thrones #4 is a previewish look at them all, with solicitations and stuff. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN’S A GAME OF THRONES #4 32 pages FC • $3.99 • Mature Written by GEORGE R.R MARTIN Adapted…
Mason Cook is an an independent comic creator based in Brisbane, Australia, releasing a new comic book, Dwarf And Gnome, in January. I thought this five page preview might make a festive treat for you all. Enjoy…
The Samurai’s Blood trade paperback by Owen Wiseman and Nam Kim , published by Image, produced by Benaroya Publishing, is on the 29th of February. Which is nice. But before that, why not read the full first issue, right here, right now. And here’s the solicit; Set in feudal Japan, an era when lineage defined…
Bleeding Cool already mentioned the horror comic book that Joe Harris is creating with Ethan Van Sciver at DC Comics, Bastardized. Well, we also know about his upcoming comic from Image with Martin Morazzo. With the title Great Pacific its an environmental disaster adventure comic. And there are visuals and designs… Again, that’s about it.
The penultimate issue of David Lapham and Raulo Caceres’ Crossed: Psychopath is out today, issue seven. That’s it up above. Here’s the solicits and covers. Yes, covers, this is an Avatar book. Harold Lorre has started showing his true colors and proven to be the most sadistic of predators. But with two Crossed clans locked…
Brad Bird shot some of Mission:Impossible – Ghost Protocol in IMAX. Rather than sort out the unconscionable punctuation in the film’s title he’s recorded a short piece to camera telling you how great it is. Thing is, he’s right.
Fresh from Kickstart, from the Bleeding Cool favourite team of Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood, comes Danger Academy. Harry Potter-meets-James Bond, that kind of thing, with a certain subtle family tree of international espionage. The first book is out in December, but here’s a sizeable preview to whet your appetite. Say, Brella couldn’t possibly be…
Title: Healed #4 Writer: George O’Connor Artist: Griffen Publisher: Homeless Comics Concept: In a moment, all life-threatening disease and illness are “healed”. And everyone, from large corporations to small families, are trying to navigate through this new reality and asking the bigger question, “Will we be healed forever?” “This book will change your mind about…
We really didn’t learn a lot of see a lot about Raffaele Ienco’s Epic Kill coming from Image next year, save that it’s a bit like Kill Bill. Well, here’s a little more. And there’s even a video! Here is how Raffaele describes the comic; The best hitmen and assassins from around the globe are…
Title: Gutter Magic Creators: Cover by Gabriel Iumazark; Writer: Rich Douek. Interior art by Jason Baroody, JC Grande, and Craig S. Yeung Publisher: Sixgun Comics High Concept: It’s sword, sorcery and sixguns: three intersecting urban fantasy stories set in Meridian, a city ruled by mages built upon the ruins of a New York destroyed by…
The Haunt comic from Image was very much definitely by Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo, whose work has a certain sympatico quality. The new team on the series however brings a very different sensibility. Artistically, somewhere halfway betweenMike Allred and Duncan Fegredo. It’s a radical jump for the book, but one that deserves to bring…
It’s called Buy Me! It’s a preview of a bunch of upcoming collections of recent new Image Comics books. It has sales information for retailers and tease information for customers. But it is not an official Image Comics sales tool. Not officially, anyway. That would need approval, signoff and consideration, and New York Comic Con…
Title: Dead Man’s Run #0 Creators: Greg Pak, Gale Ann Hurd, Tony Parker and Peter Steigerwald Publisher: Aspen Comics Available: Booth #1246 High concept: From acclaimed “Hulk” writer Greg Pak, legendary “Walking Dead” producer Gale Ann Hurd, and Tony Parker, penciller of the Eisner-nominated “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, comes this winter’s biggest blockbuster…
Debuting at New York Comic Con… Title: Dead Man’s Party #1 Creators: Jeff Marsick (Writer) and Scott Barnett (Art) Available: Booth #2950 (Small Press area) High concept: It’s known as a Dead Man’s Party: an assassin puts a contract out on his own head and a handful of peers have thirty days to fulfill it….
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…
