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…
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…
I Fakt You, Right In The Face: Amazing and Helpful news from the world of Real Actual Science! We’ve all seen crazed labfreaks forcing innocent animals into the twisty tortures of a Maze, right? We’ve all seen Octopi splooching through narrow doors and cunning turns to reach Tasty Fishhead Win. We’ve all seen rats cautiously…
The Keyboard Continues To Be My FuckMonkey: COMICS! Convention season, I’m reliably informed, is In Full Swing. Here then is a ludicrously tangential Brainmake intended to Explain A Few Things about the types of people — specifically Industry Professionals — you might meet at these crawling, swarming, cosplay anthills; and why they’re The Way They…
(Back By Popular Demand, You Fuckers) — This Week I Have Mostly Been Hating: …the subconscious propensity for the human brain to absorb external sensation and shit it — like some thoughtless post-jalfrezi sphincter — into whatever it’s been trying to do. Like when you’re attempting to talk to your missus, for instance, and some…
BrainFart: Dear Fatties Of A Certain Kind: it is my sad duty to inform you that wearing Sportswear doesn’t actually mean you’re Doing Sports. Weight loss, under these conditions, is unlikely. I’m not looking to blame, you understand — perish the thought — but somehow this misapprehension of yours has transformed the expensive-yet-fuckugly label-branded outpourings…
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…
