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…
The following comes to you via the miracle of a whispering Chinese telephone, passing information from Bleeding Cool bothans embedded at NYCC to my laptop, through my eyes, back out through my fingers, into the laptop again and sent, like Mike TV, into your homes, phones, offices and porno dungeons – anywhere, in short, that…
We really didn’t learn a lot of see a lot about Raffaele Ienco’s Epic Kill coming from Image next year, save that it’s a bit like Kill Bill. Well, here’s a little more. And there’s even a video! Here is how Raffaele describes the comic; The best hitmen and assassins from around the globe are…
It’s a superhero comic written by a rising star in the industry. Writer Joshua Hale Fialkov told the NYCC today that he’s spent ten times as long on each issue as on his other work. It’s a comic that could be described as Fantastic Four meets Miracleman, the last of the superhero family team that…
It was strongly hinted at in Action Comics #2. But from the Superman panel at the New York Comic Con, panellists confirmed it. In the DC relaunched universe, Krypto, now Jor-El’s dog, did not make it to Earth alive. Weep, dog lovers, weep. He will join Laika in spacedog heaven. But you will get to…
Marvel already announced a Scarlet Spider #1 by Chris Yost and Ryan Stegman spinning out of the Point One oneshot in January. But it’s not the only book. Alongside the previously announced Defenders series and the Ultron War in Avengers, we’re also going back to the mother of all alternate universes, in Age Of Apocalypse…
Marvel are bringing a lot of attention to bear for their Point One oneshot next month, as the Final Order Cut Off point for retailers approached next Monday. But why should the readers care? Well here’s seven stabs… 1. The framework of the comic focuses on the Watcher and what he see, now and in…
Real life super hero, Phoenix Jones, after revealing his secret identity, Ben Fodor, has also revealed he has a sidekick, called Nightstick to patrol the streets of Seattle with him. Foder befriended Nightstick in the mixed martial arts world and, according to Fodor, has phsically broken up criminal behavior and handcuffed a drug dealer to…
Skullkickers was a major fantasy comic book launch by Jim Zubkavich and Edwin Huangfrom Image last year that Bleeding Cool played a small part in popularising. Munchkin is a major fantasy card game with a game Munchkin Skullkickers will launch next year, as the lead characters fight their way through the World Of Munchkin. It…
Three books. Hell Yeah from Joe Keatinge and Andre Szymanowicz, Mind The Gap by Jim McCann, Rodin Esquejo (Morning Glories covers) and Sonia Oback, and Fatale from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (previously Bleedingcooled back in September) We were shown the Hell Yeah tagline, “If you see something say something” seems to be the tagline…
John McLaughlin, one of the four credited writers of Black Swan, is to revamp Youngblood with Rob Liefeld as part of Image’s Extreme relaunch/revamp Bleeding Cool first mentioned this summer, based on the characters Liefeld first used to publish at Image Comics. Announced at the NYCC, they are: Youngblood by John McLaughlin, Jon Malin and…
The New York Comic Con has been justifiable boasting about its sellouts for the weekend, with only Friday tickets available this morning. Odds are they will be a bit on the scarce side as well. Well, the owner of Bleeding Cool, William Christensen on Avatar would like me to point out that there are Avatar…
Bleeding Cool reporter Josh Kopin lets us know the news from the floor of New York Comic Con that Fred Van Lente And Ryan Dunlavey’s next book will be Action Presidents!, a thematic sequel to their Action Philosophers. Basically imagine this, but with top hats, combat jackets and wheelchairs.
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…
