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…
Changing genders in the Xbooks has always been a bit of a theme. And I don’t just mean Mystique. But one CBR poster, timberoo, has taken this to a new science. Posting on those forums and his own DeviantArt page, he’s created a CG galley of X-Men as X-Women and vice versa.
Bleeding Cool previously ran the story of how Diamond and Marvel managed to miss Kick Ass #5 from its November retailer order form, adding it as a “retro-solicitation” in its December Previews, for November, but coming up as an “order again” issue by mistake. As a result a number of retailers ordered no copies or…
What if the hero in every action movie had a sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who? Why that would be brilliant. Or not… Welcome to a new semi-regular video feature for Bleeding Cool, Afterwards They Will Explode from the superb Patrick Willems. Patrick Willems decided the logical thing to do with his film degree was to…
You know when you’ve been Granitoed. Such as Rob’s Nightmare Before Christmas prints he’s signing on eBay… That bear some resemblance to the following works somehow without his signature. At least the Harley Quinn images, albeit it traced from the Bruce Timm originals, seem to show some kind of transformative decisions. Of course that just…
Marvel has announced they will continue the free download of digital copies of Avenging Spider-Man by Zeb Wells and Joe Madureira through the first arc to issue three. And with the first issue topping six figures in orders from comic store retailers, we may be about to see how well the ComiXOlogy servers will cope…
Emma Stone recently came to London to premiere The Help and talk to the press. Luckily, I got to sit down with her, and talk about a lot of good, chewy stuff. Not only is she the most consistently engaging young actor in studio films right now, Stone gives great interview too. As The Help…
Bleeding Cool understands that Ivan Brandon has chosen to leave the new 52 book, Men Of War, after issue 6. The book, despite internal leaks to the contrary, is not cancelled and will continue. This revamping of the Sgt Rock character in modern day warfare in a world of superheroes was possibly one of my…
Well that’s the most fun I’ve had reading an X-Men comic in an age. Wolverine And The X-Men #1. It smacks of everything from Lobdell’s Generation X, to Claremont’s X-Men in Australia, to Peter David’s early X-Factor. Headmaster Wolverine and Headmistress Kitty Pryde taking school inspectors around the new Jean Grey School For Higher Learning….
1. The Flash #2 moves from physical speed to mental speed and gives us a Flash learning to tap the Speed Force with his brain – and Manapul gives us a seemingly Frank Quitely influenced look at how that actually works. 2. The vampires of I, Vampyr #2, preparing for war against humanity see themselves…
Fresh from Kickstart, from the Bleeding Cool favourite team of Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood, comes Danger Academy. Harry Potter-meets-James Bond, that kind of thing, with a certain subtle family tree of international espionage. The first book is out in December, but here’s a sizeable preview to whet your appetite. Say, Brella couldn’t possibly be…
Amongst the multitude of options in censoring a film, besides the obvious removal of footage or the re-dubbing of dialogue, is the use of image cropping or artificial zooming. A shot can be re-framed throughout to remove part of the original information, or it might be subject to a “Ken Burns” style push-in that changes…
There’s a name I hadn’t heard from in a while. Last seen retranslating the Bible and painting peace symbols onto the bodies of naked women, Bill Jemas used to be the President of Marvel Comics. He formed the Ultimate imprint, co-wrote Origins and in many ways helped bring Marvel back from the brink of bankruptcy,…
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…
