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…
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…
Mark Allen Haverty writes for Bleeding Cool; So much of the early history of the X-Men was rooted in politics. Professor Charles Xavier and Magneto were Martin Luthor King and Malcolm X with superpowers, and the political implications of both their dreams weighed heavily on the first 25 years of X-Men history. The defining moments…
Dr Manolis Vamvounis writes for Bleeding Cool; In which I bitch and moan about comics on a weekly basis, in broken english and syntax. Noone is safe! Follow my daily rantings on @theComicsGreek. For the week’s new Regenesis X-books, check out column #3.1. INCREDIBLE HULK #1 Yay! Following the events of Fear Itself (in a…
Mark Allen Haverty writes for Bleeding Cool; As an English major at the University of Vermont, I prided myself on completing the degree without having ever touched Shakespeare. There’s simply way too much overwrought dialogue for my interest. For the exact same reason, Red Lanterns does absolutely nothing for me. Let me start off on…
Straw Dogs isn’t just a remake, it’s a loving tribute to a classic movie that was notorious in its day. But do we need another siege at Trencher’s Farm? Even if it’s a pretty as this one?
1. The Flash #2 moves from physical speed to mental speed and gives us a Flash learning to tap the Speed Force with his brain – and Manapul gives us a seemingly Frank Quitely influenced look at how that actually works. 2. The vampires of I, Vampyr #2, preparing for war against humanity see themselves…
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…
