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…
MotherWatch: Alison Bechdel talks to Salon about Are You My Mother? You know, I can’t even think about that. Whenever I do interviews I just have to assume that she’s not going to see them. She really is not interested to that extent, and I’m pretty sure she doesn’t seek stuff out online. So I…
PekarWatch: “Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland” by Harvey Pekar and artist Joseph Remnant is to have a Cleveland book-release party at 7 pm on Tuesday at Big Dog Theater in Cleveland Heights. DiamondWatch: Want a job at Diamond? Tom Mason has found five open positions… PVPWatch: Scott Kurtz sees Mark Waid’s Thrillbent as the future of comics….
FreeWatch: Free Comic Book Day stores start to step up their publicity. 4 Color 8 Bit Comics And Games, Jetpack Comics, Keith’s Comics, Night Flight Comics, Chattanoogan Downtown Library and more find it an easy pitch. DevilWatch: David James Kelly is to rewrite the new Daredevil movie for David Slade to direct. SlottWatch: Dan Slott…
BackWatch: Heavy Metal Magazine needs three back covers. Think you’re up for the job? Dave Elliott writes; We need three pieces of artwork from three different artists one for each of the three different editions that are going to press at the end of May. This is a real chance to show off those mad…
BeforeWatch: Heidi MacDonald takes on Before Watchmen. M&G were so on board with the idea that a DC film crew went and interviewed them for HOURS about Watchmen. These interviews were edited down into an hour long version which lopped continuously at the DC booth at San Diego in 2000. I was working for DC…
StanWatch: Stan Lee doesn’t know why Jack Kirby would get a credit on The Avengers movie. TeamWatch: Phil Hester and Todd Nauck are reviving the Kirkman/Benito Cereno series Guarding the Globe, and will launch in a story in the Image Free Comic Book Day issue. ReprintWatch: Lots of Batman and Batman-related comics are being reprinted….
As it’s in the Philippines, it’s out of the reach of HERO and the like. But Tony DeZuniga is in need of your help. His wife writes; It’s really tough since Tony doesn’t have insurance here. The medication is very expensive and hospital bill is paid cash 90% Our daily bill is around $1,500 even…
GoldWatch: Fringe‘s Andrew Kreisberg has handed in his pilot script for Booster Gold to Syfy. KoreaWatch: What are the Top 100 most popular comic books in Korea? The Korea Manhwa Contents Agency has compiled a list. The top three are (spoilers) The High School Baseball Team by Lee Hyun-se, Le Grand Chef by Huh Young-man and…
PoliticsWatch: Ostensibly a kids comic, the rather successful Spirou in France goes rather political with its upcoming issue, declaring that in the midst of political uproar, France needs saving. The last time it did this was when Belgium was without a government… NovelWatch: Darkroom, is an autobiographical graphic novel by Lila Quintero Weaver about growing…
TranslateWatch: Thanks to Reddit for the translation of (right) though we probably didn’t need it… 1 Robin: Ahahahaha Banana: … 2 Robin: Ahahahahaha Lemon: … 3 Robin: Ahahaha Chicks: Pyu pyu 4 Batman: Knock it off already!! 5 Batman: I’m gonna try too~~ Chicks: Pyu pyu Green Lantern: Iyaaaa (kinda like “noooo!”) BeforeWatch: Today, at…
AvengersWatch: Everyone seems to like it. OwlWatch: So where did the Night Of The Owls idea come from? Just replace Bruce Wayne with Simon Cowell and… InsaneCommentOfTheWeekWatch: From the Morgan Spurlock Comic Con documentary… “When a woman tells you to grow up, it’s God’s way of telling you to get a new woman,” he advises…
AvengersWatch: Taking the wife to the premiere of Avengers Assemble tonight. Am reminded of the time I went to the Iron Man premiere and took some very silly photos. Doubt I’ll get the chance tonight though. RossWatch: Jonathan Ross writes for the Evening Standard who crown him the King Of Comics. When I had my…
SuperWatch: Variety reports that US appeal courts have ruled that Warner Bros can use documents stolen from Marc Toberoff in their case against him over the Superman legal fight, because he handed copies over to police when requested to, when they were investigating the crime. WalkingWatch: Walking Dead Issue One Page Two sells for over…
FrontierWatch: From the New Frontiersman, a new image of The Comedian from Before Watchmen. This is called viral marketing. Funny, I thought that’s what I did over Christmas. Got it top trending on Twitter as well… TeenWatch: The Huffington Post gets a teenager to pick her top upcoming comic books of the year. TaxWatch: CNN…
WatchWatch: A better shot of that Before Watchmen montage. CupWatch1: At Cup ‘O Joe last night, Joe Quesada confirmed the Bleeding Cool story that Bendis and Oeming are relaunching Powers as Powers FBI. CupWatch2: At Cup ‘O Joe last night, Joe Quesada confirmed the Bleeding Cool story that Matt Fraction and David Aja are launching…
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…
