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…
Benedict Cumberbatch, the preferred Sherlock of this Parish, has reportedly swooped in and taken the lead villain role in the new Star Trek movie. This was the part that Benicio Del Toro turned down and that Edgar Ramirez had auditioned for. It looked, for a while, that JJ ABbrams was only seeing hispanic actors for…
At one point in 2011, DC Comics was lagging Marvel’s marketshare by 18 points. Then the DC Relaunch was announced. And even in the months before September, DC’s share was rising. They took both dollar and product marketshare in their relaunch month, and in October, buoyed by second prints, went on to grab over half….
Here’s the cover to The Goon #39 by Eric Powell, from Dark Horse Comics. Something tells me it was designed with Bleeding Cool in mind. And also why it just turned up in my inbox.
Here are Diamond Comic Distributors’ nominations for their annual Gem Awards. Retailers are invited to vote on the following, and in the following categories; 2011 Comic Book Publisher of the Year – Over 4% Dark Horse Comics DC Comics IDW Publishing Image Comics Marvel Comics 2011 Comic Book Publisher of the Year – Under 4%…
A very fine welcome to the first of Grace Randolph’s Think About The Ink video blogs of 2012. Grace has a new series coming from Boom! this year, entitled Supurbia, but don’t expect any blase, world weary attitudes from Grace now that she has her own creator owned comic, she’s still just as excited about…
In September, DC Comics took back marketshare from Marvel Comics. This gave DC the lead in both dollars spent and the number of comics bought in the North American direct market. And October and November only consolidated that position as market leader. In December, however, Marvel seem to have clawed some of that back. They…
Amazon has a Price Check App, allowing customers to scan the bar codes of items in stores and then buy them from Amazon there and then, rather than the retailer. Naturally, this is not popular with many shops. Well, Mike Wellman of The Comic Bug of Manhattan Beach, California is swiping back. And calling on…
Idle Hands, as part of their roundup of current DC comic books (and, really, they give Catwoman short shrift),run a couple of scans from what appears to be a DC New 52 promotion of sorts. Showing the new designs for Captain Cold (and he really will be cold without any sleeves), as well as a…
Jonathan Ross has tweeted “Morning! New year and a new beginning! Am beyond excited to announce that Bryan Hitch and I are publishing new comic with Image this spring…America’s Got Powers” Full on superhero angst and action as Americas most gifted superpowered teen wannabes slug it out on tv for a place in the worlds…
Architects #13, the final chapter in Top Cow’s universe-redefining book is out this week (and we have Bleeding Cool’s crack TopCowologists rereading the series in preparation). But until then, why not see the New Year in with an exclusive look at some of Dale Keown’s grey linework for the final issue, featuring a little Darkness-on-Witchblade…
There’s a conspiracy theory going around courtesy of one Mike Mozart that alleges that the very backers of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation actually created the very piracy they are now trying to combat, as some nefarious money making/power grabbing scam. And while I think that is a little too much in the direction…
Bryan Hitch has been counting down for a while now, with lots of speculation as to what the countdown might be for. In covering the countdown, Rich wondered if the countdown was to “News that he’s going fully independent from Marvel?” Hitch himself confirmed that this is indeed the case, as he tweeted earlier today…
John Byrne was posting about years and Roman Numerals today. On the John Byrne Message Board, he wrote; “Even as far back as 1972 — MCMLXXII — I had been giving serious consideration to making my planned and (hopefully) gracious exit when I was in my 66th year — MMXV — but I’m lately rather…
Earlier this year, Bleeding Cool told you how Marvel was to launch a $5 comic store voucher for anyone who bought a Marvel digital comic, for 99 cents or more. While many are worried about how digital comics will affect comic shops, this at least is an attempt to get new digital readers to see…
SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, has been prominent in certain parts of the news of late. Introduced in the USA House Of Representatives back in October, it attempts to curb the actions of internet pirates by, it seems, curbing the actions of pretty much everyone. Or that’s what its critics would have you…
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…
