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…
Enjoy this selection of cosplayers from Phoenix Comicon. My apologies for those that came out a bit on the blurry side; I’ll endeavor to get many more pics with much greater clarity tomorrow!
Rich has heard from some of his sources about which iconic character will be reintroduced as a gay man: If my assumptions are correct, we will learn of Alan Scott’s sexual orientation and his role as a Green Lantern of Earth Two in Earth Two #2, out next month. I’ve seen plenty of other theories on…
Phoenix Comic Con is now open. But I had a little wander around the queue ninety minute before it did open, and a peek inside the venue itself. Why not join me?
Yesterday saw the release of the second trade in writer Charles Soule’s Image series 27 (27: Second Set), but that’s not his only story out this week. Over on the Trip City website, sort of an online literary salon set up by stalwart indie creator Dean Haspiel, he’s released Sal & Chrys, a short fable…
One Million Moms, the pressure group with a lot less than a million members (almost a million less) failed spectularly targeting Archie Comics from depicting a gay wedding on its cover. Buoyed by that lack of success, they have now moved on to target Marvel and DC Comics encouraging members to email the companies because…
Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool A different kind of comic con came to Chicago this past weekend as the University of Chicago hosted Comics: Philosophy and Practice, a three-day academic conference that hosted the biggest names in the history of alternative comics and graphic novels. The roster of guests is literally the Who’s Who…
Next week in comics… a new, long awaiting, volume of Adam Warren’s Empowered hits the shelf. It’s fifth week time for DC Comics, with Animal Man and Batman Annuals, and Ravagers and DC Nation begins. IDW brings us the Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover, Image starts Grim Leaper, brings us the second issue of America’s Got…
Another look at what is burning up retailers attempts to increase their orders on comics before they ship. And, well, the ending of Avengers has seen a certain Silver Surfer graphic novelk rocket to the top, followed, as in the last two weeks, by a Before Watchmen book. Retailers are catching on to the fact…
The vintage collecting community has been salivating this morning as word has spread that Doug Schmell of pedigreecomics.com, widely known as one of the most avid collectors of high-grade Silver Age Marvel comics in the world, is selling his painstakingly-assembled collection. Most of the comics in the collection are the highest graded copies (or tied…
Wow. This is a blast from a past. “Compgate”, the supposed scandal at DC Comics that saw the accepted practice of staff selling or trading their comp copies of comics to comic stores or on eBay to supplement their oft-meagre incomes, become a hot political topic within Warner Brothers, with tax liabilities, firings and a…
DC is to rush-solicit the DC Sandman slipcase above for its recent reprinting of the Sandman volumes, in time for Christmas, containing all the books, for $200. And for those who have them already, they will also be releasing a version with just the new reprinting of Sandman volume 10…. You know, with the success…
Here’s a portrait of Batman by Jim Lee as part of a Darkness and Light exhibition held at DC’s new Burbank offices, featuring work by DC creators and others based on DC characters. The exhibition will travel to promote their We Can Be Heroes charitable program, including the The Michael J. Wolf Gallery during San…
Understand that this is not a firm story. Not like DC Comics renumbering all their New DCU comics to issues zero through September, say. This is based on a number of well sourced people and involves considerable hearsay. It does however make a lot of sense. Who is the, as yet unknown gay character being…
The day before the Phoenix Comic Con, Phoenix baseball team the Diamondbacks played the Los Angeles Dodgers, and won. But also had quite a lot of cosplay action to deal with…
As of yesterday, I heard reports that Astonishing X-Men #50, better known as the “proposal issue” hadn’t exactly been selling gangbusters. This cover for issue 51, shown by Rolling Stone, might help.
Wonder Girl, Batgirl and Supergirl in many aspects, courtesy of Lauren Faust. There’s another episode of Super Best Friends Forever on the DC Nation block this weekend.
Start adding all of the Iron Man 3 casting stories together and you might see something like a plot forming – and I don’t mean that of Extremis, the Warren Ellis strip that has provided a lot of the story elements. There’s something else going on here too, something that will require a lot more…
From the director of Rubber and Wrong, though not a sequel to Wrong but definitely featuring copness, here is Wrong Cops: Chapter One, a short film that will, soon enough, be the first portion of a feature film. The short was premiered at Cannes just today, and then Quentin Dupieux shared a number of tweets…
While Disney won’t comment at all on the casting, Mads Mikkelsen has started negotiating a contract to play a villain in Thor 2.
Yes, that Exorcist.
I won’t be crossing Bleeding Cool’s Brendon Connelly any time soon, not since I discovered that he has telekinetic powers to amaze and astound even the most hard-headed realist.
All that stands between Anthony Hopkins and a role in Red 2 is Thor, Norse God of Thunder. Or, perhaps more properly, Thor 2, Marvel sequel of inevitable riches. According to Deadline, director Dean Parisot and the producers of the second Red picture want to bring in Hopkins to play their villain, one Edward Bailey….
Red by band, but not really by nature. The desaturated, stylised colour scheme of this trailer tends towards the colder and harder. Like a vampire I suppose, so here’s hoping that the film is also as blood thirsty and unrelenting. But… was there really anything in that trailer that needed to be marked up as…
“We haven’t had an adventure in ages.”
We reported yesterday that the release date for G.I. Joe sequel Retaliation has been moved back nine months to March 29th 2013, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has just confirmed that alongside digital post-conversion to 3D, there are also reshoots taking place to create scenes specifically catered to a 3D release. The reasons behind this…
The Dictator has just spent it’s first week of release perched atop the UK box office, raking in millions of infidel dollars. Well… pounds. What better an investment for this new found pocket money, then, than to pump it into prizes, and then give these to me, to give to you. We have five sets…
This stuff is happening ALL OF THE TIME.
This decision is puzzling people all over the internet today: But why the delay at all? Hasbro’s CEO says it’s because they want to “bring fans an even more immersive entertainment experience” by digitally creating a 3D version. I wonder if the recent underperformance of Battleship had anything to do with this? Read it all….
It hasn’t become clear just what David Cronenberg‘s next feature will be, now that he’s delivered Cosmopolis in time for Cannes. He does have a TV pilot called Knifeman on the cards, but beyond that, all I can see are a number of in-development projects that go way back, and which have been lying so…
