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…
Scott Snyder is a writer who came to fame working on American Vampire Stephen King for DC Vertigo. But then he was picked to write Detective Comics and then Batman in the New 52. He’s also writing the previously-Vertigoed Swamp Thing. But this week’s Batman #5 is vertigo on a different level. Back in the…
Okay, I like the new Uncanny X-Men. Entwined in inter-book continuity, it doesn’t need any new knowledge to pick it up. The Storm and Namor dialogue is possibly the very best in superhero comics right now. And we have a new Savage Land, an area of the country isolated and taken forward in evolutionary time…
This week, a number of the DC Universe books end with the maiming or killing or someone close to the main character – by one of the main characters. I won’t tell you which, obviously. Why not collect them all? Captain Atom #4′s artist, Freddie Williams excels this issue, his art style loosening up even…
This week brings five of my current favourite New 52 books. Guess which ones they are? I talked about the new Batgirl earlier and how smart it is, so there’s only one more thing I want to say about this issue. Want to commit a crime in Gotham? There’s an app for that. Batwoman is…
This week marks the beginning of the fourth month for the DC New 52. Thirteen of them on the shelf… Swamp Thing and Animal Man #4. Seriously, as I spoke about earlier, despite having two separate creative teams, it feels right to regard them as one double sized book. Both books mirror the other as…
I don’t believe in that ol’ Harry Potter magic, of course, but I do love illusions, particularly when I’ve fallen for them hook, line and sinker. I love feeling like I’ve just seen something magical. I don’t mean, necessarily, a woman being cut in two, or a man teleporting from one box to another, but…
Morning folks! The DC Relaunch keeps on relaunching. This is technically the last week of November’s relaunch titles, next week looks rather barren – more on that later. So let’s have a look at the last of the issue 3s, an issue 2 and a preview to boot. Voodoo #3 gives us the obvious crossover…
Yesterday, Image Comics published Mudman, a new superhero comic book by Paul Grist. And I thought it was out of this world. In a very in-this-world sort of way. Oh sure there is a super power involved, there is fantasy, there are dream sequences that seem to predict the future, or a future, there are…
***SPOILERS***SPOILERS***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS***SPOILERS***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS***SPOILERS***SPOILERS*** This comic book, published today, tries to have its cake and eat it. And it almost succeeds. Fear Itself #7.3 by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larocca, seeks to be the final endcap to the events of Fear Itself, specifically those encountered by Iron Man, which can be pretty much summed up as…
Fourteen comics, fourteen thoughts… Batman #3 from Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo takes the idea of Batman and an urban legend and applies it to a figure, or figures in Gotham, that really have remained secret for a long time. All the way back to All Star Western. And they seem to insist on keeping…
Alright, let’s get this out of the way. This is not a review of a comic book. It’s not a review of a film. It’s not even a television review, though we often consider TV to be within our jurisdiction because when you get right down to it TV is just film but shorter and…
Knowing how ComiXology likes to withdraw accidental sales of comics that go on sale early, ripping them from your very iPad, I decided to make a back up copy of this comic when I bought it yesterday. Looks like I was wise to do so. Much has been made of the eleven artists working on…
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…
