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…
This kind of article seemed to be popular for Point One and Fantastic Four #600. So let’s do another for the finished Defenders #1. Out in December, this is the last day retailers can order it to guarantee getting it on release day, so it seems opportune. Here are six very non spoilery tastes of…
In late 2012 comes Messenger: The Legend Of Joan Of Arc by Tony Lee and Sam Hart… That is all. As you were. Hope they don’t miss out the aerobic classes.
Th3rd World, the publishers of Stuff Of Legend have a new all ages comic they’re putting out from Activision games designer and webcomic creator David Rodrigiuez (Shadow Girls) and webcomic creator Sarah Ellerton (Phoenix Requiem). Gossamyr. “When a brilliant young boy named Denny solves the most perplexing puzzle in the history of mankind, he and…
Welcome to the filming of Dark Knight Rises in Newark, New Jersey today. And on the spot for Bleeding Cool was Scoop Klein from Setoin Hall University’s Cross Examiner!
Grand Theft Auto made kids shoot at passing cars. Marilyn Manson caused the Columbine High School massacre. Now Star Wars is causing impressionable young nudists to slaughter animals and use them as a sleeping bag. Yes, if you’re a bit sensitive about animal cruelty you should probably turn back now. Jasha Lottin, a 21 year…
Back in March this year, Marvel Comics had a 40% share of money spent on comics through Diamond Comic Distributors, and a 45% share of the number of comics sold. DC had only 27.62% and 31.5% share respectively. Well what a change half a year can make. After taking Marvel on marketshare for the month…
Marvel are offering a number of trade paperbacks that are about to go out of print, to retailers for extra discount. The company are renowned now for not keeping their backlist in stock. One rumour states that Isaac Perlmutter has threatened to fire any editor who keeps more than five volumes of any series in…
It was only a month ago we had one of the DC New 52 editors, Janelle Asselin, leave DC for Disney Magazines to work on Marvel comics for kids. Now we hear that DC editor Rex Ogle (competitor with Randy Queen and Pornsak Pichetshote for the best name in comics) has also left the company…
It was the talk of NYCC in the bars afterwards – that Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire had just done an interview with MTV Geek where the interviewer was under the assumption that they were the founders of Vertigo Comics – an imprint which was actually started at DC Comics when they were kids. Sadly…
Yesterday, Marvel published Uncanny X-Men #1, their very first issue of Uncanny X-Men to bear the #1 numerical, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s version, and al those #1 since have all been Uncannyless. And just as I did with Wolverine And The X-Men I’m picking out my five favourite moments. 1. Postcards from sunny San…
We reported last week how Seattle’s self-styled superhero, Phoenix Jones had been arrested by police, and then publicly outed his identity as one mixed martial artist, Ben Fodor. There has been much criticism of the police’s actions, and video footage does appear to back up Jones’ case that he was attempting to prevent a violent…
Fan anticipation for the May 2012 debut of The Avengers film has already been building for months, and here’s the latest sign that the popularity of Marvel’s own all-star team is currently on a rapid rise: A CGC 9.6 copy of Avengers #1 was sold for $250,000 by Metropolis Collectibles last week — a record…
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…
