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…
It may not be a totally obvious one, but there apears to be some homaging going on here… gun, cigarettes, reading material, bed,… In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox. We trust you,…
From that X-Force splash to the more recent Deathstroke cover, to the inside pages of Hawk & Dove, Rob Liefeld makes his love known here. I’m thinking that Rob Liefeld is basically courting Frank Miller through his comics. They’d make a lovely couple. From Hawk And Dove #6. From The Dark Knight Falls In Swipe…
While some have noted the resemblance of the new Captain Marvel to Marvelwoman/Miraclewoman, as portrayed by John Totleben below, there’s one of the released images of the new Ms Marvel that bears another resemblace to the World War II poster image, now associated with Rosie The Riveter. Rosie The Riveter first appeared in wartime US…
Steve Wacker recently tweetd a number of covers for The Omega Effect crossover with Spider-Man, Punisher and Daredevil. Let’s have a closer look at that logo. Isn’t that Kenny? Oh my god, they killed Frank Castle’s family! You bastards! Hmm. Here’s how that logo is meant to look. Yeah, still looks like Kenny. In…
On the left, the Rob LIefeld cover to Hawk And Dove #7. On the right the Frank Miller cover to Rom The Space Knight #17. Frank Miller has often been a point of reference for Rob Liefeld, especially on X-Force. It’s nice to see that tradition continue… In Swipe File we present two or more…
One hangs around with talking, martial artist reptiles. The other is best friend to a superpowered dog (sort of). But they have the same fashion sense. And a certain amount of the same DNA.
This is the cover to the new edition of Leviathan from Rebellion, by Ian Edginton and D’Israeli, a new take on the Titanic story, a ship lost in a strange ocean, and the murders that take place on its deck… …and below the poster to 2002′s Ghost Ship, in which a salvage crew discovers a…
On the top, a scene from the beginning of Fear Itself #7.3, by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larocca, showing the statued citizens of Paris. Below an meme image known as “scared girl”, and very Googleable. Thanks to Dusty… who’s a little more judgmental than this column likes to be. In Swipe File we present two…
I met JK Woodward at the London Super Comic Convention last weekend. And once I established that he hadn’t done the Fallen Angel cover that featured in Swipe File the other week, he confessed to his own unconscious swipe. His cover design for two separate Star Trek covers, years apart yet looking rather similar indeed…
We’ve all become familiar with the X-O Manowar “talking” posters and cover, using the iPhone to create a talking narrative from the central character. And while I’ve been a bit silly, some have been sillier. But how original is this idea? This is a campaign for Reporters Without Borders. Press ads in which the reader…
You can thank Avatar’s Keith Davidsen for this one. These panels are from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: SEASON EIGHT #36, from 2010. Angel is having a conversation with a supernatural entity, which has possessed a passing dog in order to talk to Angel but can’t fully overcome the dog’s natural instincts. And the below is…
One of these days, Wonder Woman is going to stop running into the wide gaping mouth of some monstrosity looking for a bite. Or some dental work. But not any time soon. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations,…
From early morning… …to sunset. Goodnight America. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox. We trust you, the reader, to make that judgment yourself. If you are unable to do so, please return…
On the left, the cover to The Secret Service #2, the new series from Mark MIllar and Dave Gibbons, entitled Basic Training. On the right, a Chinese bodyguard undergoing training. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or…
Dave Johnson famously reviews the designs of covers, and can be rather brutal at times. I wonder how he’ll react to the cover of upcoming comic Protocollo Omega issue 1? In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, jokes, coincidences…
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…
