John Rozum recently talked about his problems as writer of Static Shock, citing that he was hardly writing the book, the actual work being split between artist Scott McDaniel and editor Harvey Richards, which is why he chose to walk off the book with issue 4, not wanting his name to be associated with work…
The Darkness #100 is on its way… And this is the first you’ll have seen of the Todd McFarlane (above), the Michael Golden (below) and the Marc Silvestri retailer incentive (further below). 48 pages for $4.99 US, it’s out the last day of February. But since the Darkness II game comes out today, it seems…
It was the recent ICV2 interview with Marvel Senior Vice President-Sales David Gabriel that did it. Answering a questionnaire with no followups, he managed to dodge some questions by answering different ones, and throw some googlies at the opposing team. But he’s hardly alone in this, DC’s Executive VP-Sales, Marketing and Business Development John Rood…
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…
Jay Tablante from the Philippines is an absolute legend. We’ve featured his work at Bleeding Cool before, here are some comic book characters brought to life wonderfully, through his camera… and a little work. Dazzler: Make-up: Ara Fernando / Marie-Claude Bourbonnais Styling: Marie-Claude Bourbonnais Art Direction: Jay Tablante / Raffy Tesoro Digital Imaging: Ghani Madueno…
Diamond Comic Distributors is launching a new award, for comic book stores, to be presented at the Diamond Retailer Summit before C2E2. The Best Practices Awards will be given to the stores who win the following; Best Window Display Best Counter Display Best New Comics Section Best Graphic Novels Section Best Kids Section Best Toys…
This month sees DC Vertigo launch four new comics, Fairest, Saucer Country, The Deadwardians and Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child, in something that no one else but me is calling the Vertigo Relaunch. And while it may not be as glamourous and newsworthy as the New 52, DC are still doing what they can to back…
After the news broke that Jane Goldman has been tasked to create a screenplay adaptation of Nate Simpson‘s so-far so-extraordinary comic series Nonplayer, Simpson himself took to the Bleeding Cool forums to shade in some more details. But I still thought there were a few points worth clarifying. Kindly, Simpson has done just that, dotting…
The Tenacious D website has become an animated unveiling of their new album The Rize of the Fenix, its cover and a title track, of sorts. It’s all looking and sounding… much as you remember from last time around. Rize is due out in May, and The D, as I understand they like to be…
Bleeding Cool’s Grace Randoph and Newsarama’s Alan Kistler discuss the comic industry’s week of news in this Between The Pages edition of Think About The Ink… so that means Watchmen. And I find myself disagreeing with every word. Divergence of opinion! Plurality of views! Hell, I publish Darin Wagner, don’t I? Must… reign… in… temptation…
We told you this morning that DC would have the highest unit share of sales in January, and Marvel would have the highest dollar share. We also said that DC would have a lock down on the top ten in January. Well now we know which books. Justice League, Batman, Action Comics, Detective Comics, Green…
Comics and graffiti artist David Choe, who was inspired by the likes of Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee and Todd McFarlane, is about to become richer than all of them. His graphic novel Slow Jams is a much desired item, selling for around $200… but that’s not the matter at and here. Rather his work for…
The Diamond Comic Distributor statistics for January will be released soon, and you can expect some kind of update then. But Bleeding Cool can tell you two things now. That DC Comics have taken the top unit marketshare for January, the number of actual comics sold. While Marvel have taken the top dollar marketshare, for…
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…
I’ve just come back from the rather convivial launch party for Dotter Of Her Father’s Eyes, by Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot, published by Dark Horse and Jonathan Cape. Man At The Crossroads, Paul Gravett led the speeches, followed by Lee Harris, Bryan’s first comics publisher in the seventies. Hosted at Orbital Comics in…
The past year has been a good one for The Avengers and all of the team’s members — particularly when it comes to vintage comics sales. The lastest record to fall is for the first appearance of Thor in Journey Into Mystery #83. A CGC 9.4 copy of the comic was sold by Pedigree Comics…
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…
