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…
Although Before Watchmen wins the story of the week, if you count up all the separate articles, it’s Doctor Who that wins the day by busting through them all. Go Doctor! Woo! Top Twenty Traffic Posts Of The Week 1. Moffat Sets Up Doctor Who Season Seven And A New Companion. 2. BEFORE WATCHMEN…
This weekend, Alan Moore engaged in his first mass webchat, to help promote the Kickstarter appeal to raise money for a tribute statue to the late Harvey Pekar. The two-and-a-half hour video has been made available on Vimeo, and those who enjoy it are asked to consider making a Paypal donation towards the fundraising effort…
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 –…
BostonWatch: Front page of the Boston Herald, yesterday. BBCWatch: Scottish vampire comic gets a little interest… Mandragora Productions/Invictus Films, which also operate from Glasgow, have a film option on the comic book story. School of the Damned by John Farman, Jim Devlin and Dave Alexander is described as a horror and gothic romance. The story…
PornWatch: The Nook and Kindle’s graphic novel section gets filled with… other stuff. Looking for recent issues of Eric Shanower’s award-winning Oz series on the Nook this weekend, I turned up a trove of XXX-men freely mixed in with the single-X variety. A hardcore “submissive erotica rape fantasy” was cuddled up right next to “The…
BissetteWatch: Steve Bissette’s 1963-spinoff Tales of the Uncanny™ – N-Man™ & Friends: A Naut Comics History Vol. 1. goes to press. Here’s a look at the character in Japanese form by Jolyon Yates. PersepolisWatch: The airing of the cartoon version of Persepolis in Tunisia continues to make waves. Some viewers refused to look at the…
AnnualWatch: Garfield Spider-Man on the cover of the Comic-Con annual, available tomorrow. ManWatch: Stan Lee will be joining the cast of Star Trek Next Gen at Calgary Comic Expo in April… WackerWatch: On the CBR forums. Then you guys are definitely not the audience. You’re the kind of fans it’s no use trying to please….
TheManWatch: Stan Lee interviewed in the Independent ahead of his arrival at the London Super Con. For now, though, his mind is firmly focused on the immediate future and his return to London. Lee is keen to remind me that his wife, Joan, is “a Geordie from Newcastle upon Tyne”.He’s open to the notion that…
WatchWatch: Aaron Sowd wants in on this Before Watchmen thing going down. NonExclusiveWatch: Will Fred Van Lente be working for DC now that he is no longer Marvel-exclusive? The news of my first non-Marvel project since my exclusive ended should be announced soon! Very much looking forward to it. DeadpoolsplatWatch:Talking with Rob Liefeld about Deadpool…
This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on. They say I am a work in progress. The fools. Sneak Peek: FF #15 | Fantastic Four | Comic News |…
FirstWatch: Gareth Brookes won the First Graphic Novel prize at the University of Sussex’ First Fictions Weekend meaning Myriad Editions (publisher of Woodrow Phoenix’ Rumble Strips) will publish it as a graphic novel next year. Judges included Bryan Talbot, Steve Bell, Ian Rankin and Hannah Berry. MillerWatch: This is absolutely real. Brennan Neil’s Stick City,…
NewOrleansWatch: Reuters quotes Larry Marder at New Orleans Comic Con “It used to be that the stories came first, and people read their monthly comics and were loyal to them,” he said. But over the years, characters like Superman, Batman and Spider-Man became brands that reached far beyond their book origins. “It’s almost as if…
This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on. They say I am a work in progress. The fools. DC’s new logo: A fresh flag for company’s revolution | |…
GoshWatch: A few of the things Gosh Comics in London is up to in the next few months… Eddie Campbell next Friday, Kramers Ergot the week after and a couple of book launches… TweetWatch: “A lot of people have been asking about upcoming DC projects. All I can say is that my next project will…
CancellationWatch: Marvel confirms the end of Generation Hope in March. “Kenji finally makes a stand against Hope, but he won’t be doing it alone,” Asmus teases as to what unfolds in the final two installments of the series beginning with issue #16 on February 15. “On top of that, I tried to confront and forward…
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…
