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 –…
If you’re like me, you will watch the first 30 seconds of this trailer and start questioning whether it is actually a trailer for a Dario Argento movie or whether it’s some kind of weird parody. Luckily, I was able to question Brendon on the matter and he confirmed that yes, this is actually a…
BrainFart: I know I’ve reached middle-age because I’ve just bought six bottles of wine and don’t intend to drink any of them, because they look better in the rack. Actually, stop: I know I’ve reached middle-age because I have a wine-rack in the first place. The AutoCue Says Keep Filling: Important! News! From Scandinavia! Pity…
BrainFart: All-righty-then. Let’s talk POPE. His pointy-headed Holiness descends upon these fair isles (there’s got to be an “aisles” pun there, but this is SACRED and PURE and NO LAUGHING MATTER also I can’t think of it) on Thursday 16th September. He’ll be rattling-about in his funny little popemobile from Glasgow to London, spraying Blessings…
The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Okay… Back to last week’s ongoing Super-Heroic Super-Ramble. CATCHUP CORNER: You’ll recall we concluded — using the triple-pronged spear of Logic, Axiomatic Truth and Si Shouting Nonsense Until We All Nod And Agree — that the modern archetype of a Crime-Fighting Super Hero is occasionally hamstrung by the sheer unbelievability…
The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Steroidal Science-Powered Archetype of Teenage America’s Wishful-Vision-Of-Perfect-Adulthood seeks new role, new challenges, new costume. No cape-work, no call centres, no Nazis. Action and excitement a MUST!!! Call 555-DECONSTRUKT-COMIX. That’s pretty much how my brain runs when I get the opportunity to write Superhero Fiction, these days. It’s the same for…
News From The SpurSphere: Forgive me dipping oh-so-briefly into the horrors of Social Politics — specifically that least divisive of all issues, ho ho ho, the Police — and accept my promise to be as juvenile and reactionary as possible. BRACE BRACE BRACE. It’s nothing new at any rate; I’ve written before about the Creeping…
The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: “Mind the gap!” So shrieketh the subway-based baddie in underrated 70′s schlock horror flick Death Line, which is on my tellybox right now and therefore relevant, and coincidently acts as proof that lumpy-faced cannibalistic B-movie bastards have more than a little in common with Accountants. Why? Because “mind the gap!”…
Kultcha: Terrible movies can save us all from an Evil Future. Behold My Tortured Logic: See, a couple of Interesting Viewing Experiences this week have hacked-open a rambly contemplation in the viscera of my Culturegut, on the subject of Indefensibly Bad Stuff Being Defended By People Who Should Know Better. We have all seen this…
Kultcha: Overheard conversation between Angry Teacher and Smarmy Little 8-yr-old Schoolkid Bastard, during school-trip to Cultural/Historical Motherlode The British Museum. AngryTeacher: Bradley! Bradley! How dare you? I heard that! I heard what you called Ashoke! Come here! SmarmBastard: But sir! AngryTeacher: At once! SmarmBastard: Sir, you don’t understand! You don’t get it! AngryTeacher: You do not…
The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Like a sluttish protein syruping itself into the Primordial Cell, Google continues to invade my Working Routine. “I’m vital to your evolutionary complexity,” it smarms, “but I’m only looking-out for myself. How did you ever manage without me?” This time round the Nonsensically-Named-Infopire made its presence felt — by which…
This Week I Have Been Mostly Hating: …Having the cruel wobbly knife of gender inequality rammed-home with a corkscrew twist. During a recent visit to a Businessman-Gravitating, Baby-Squealing, Fuckwit-Attracting Noisegasm (cf: “Starbucks“) — about which I believe I may have Vented previously — my sixteenth cup of coffee finally worked its way through my Herculean…
BrainFart: Much has been made, in recent years, of the ubiquitous MetaFiction Movement. Technically that’s any piece of narrative which wears its Not Really Real-ness on its sleeve: often reminding readers of its own fictionality, sometimes deliberately muddling them in layers of Oh-So-Very-Post-Modern self-awareness, and generally preventing the poor thrill-seeking fucks from getting too engaged…
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…
