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…
Mind The Gap #1 by Jim McCann, Rodin Esquejo and Sonia Oback comes out this week from Image Comics. I’ve read the first issue already… and something strikes me. Jim McCann has said that the comic started out as a TV pilot. Well, it feel very much like the first two acts of a pilot, with…
Jesse James is attending C2E2 for Bleeding Cool. But got some questions in early. The last two years I have been able to watch Rob Guillory grow into a AWESOME artist. I have also been able to work with him at a convention and spend time with him at several other cons. He is one…
Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory, is due to finish with issue 60. Still around three years away. But in today’s issue, as promised by Layman, we flash forward to that scene in a rather amusing and metatextual way. Chew has already run one issue completely out of order, issue 27, which we are…
You’re a retailer, enjoying the success of The Walking Dead in your store. The comics disappear off the shelf, the collections won’t stay in stock, it’s like a licence to print money. But what happens when your customers have burned through them all? And there are simply no more collections to buy? Are you resorted…
John Layman tells Bleeding Cool; Some dude, “Mr. Retro”, is selling “Chew Art Prints” for $29 on Amazon, and we’re asking people NOT to buy them. Not only are they not authorized, they are not even art prints. The are ripped-up pages of CHEW Omnivore edition, and they are signed by Rob and I, but…
Is it me or are Image really stepping up? Can you think of a comic book publisher that has quite so many critically acclaimed books than Image Comics right now? They’re basically what Vertigo used to be… but their subject matters are far more varied. I’ll be interviewing Eric Stephenson again soon… I’ll try to…
From Jon Layman’s interview with USA Today in May last year. The writer has found two characters with whom fans have fallen deeply in love: Colby, Tony’s partner who was turned into a cyborg of sorts after getting that hatchet embedded in his face, and Poyo, the karate-kicking chicken that works for the USDA. Layman…
Here are the comics published within the last thirty years that have been burning up the top of the charts and selling over $200. All raw copies, no slabbing here, no variant covers, no artificial collectibility, just the standard books that, if you have them in your collection, could pay your rent for a few…
John Layman and Rob Guillory ended the second day of Image Comics Expo with a panel on their sleeper hit title, Chew. Layman began the panel by preemptively answering the three questions he knew would come up. He doesn’t know where he came up with the idea for Chew. There’s no special reason why he…
It’s one of those comic convention… conventions. Getting a convention exclusive edition of a comic book and maybe getting it signed by the creators who happen to be there. Usually that signature is free…but there is also the suspicion that you may only be getting that comic signed so you can flip it on eBay…
The writer of Chew, John Layman, and the artist in Dicks, John McCrea are working together on a new version of Mars Attacks from IDW, coming out in June. Both are known for creating absolutely outrageous atrocities poured upon their characters for maximum comic effect, and I have to say, it makes for a rather intriguing mix….
It is easy to get carried away during the holiday seasons. When people spot the perfect gift they sometimes can get dialed in on obtaining it and will go to any length to add it to their stash (even if the gift is for said buyer themselves). Well, the bidding on Friday night’s auction…
It was one of the hotter items at this year’s San Diego Comic Con. The glow in the dark variant cover for Chew #19. Bleeding Cool covered it at the time. And it now goes from anywhere from $24 to $50 on eBay. No wonder some people tried to hoard them… But in November, I…
You find yourself in all sorts of conversations at San Diego Comic Con. Last night I was introduced by Tony Lee to adult movie actor Evan Stone and the posse of Exxxquisite Films, one of the companies currently enjoying success creating “porn parody” versions of popular comic books-turned-movies-and-TV-shows. I’m in two minds about such productions….
Title: Hero Comics 2011 Creators: Richard Starkings, Dougie Braithwaite, John Layman and Rob Guillory and Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg and Sam Kieth. Covers by J. Scott Campbell or Adam Hughes. Publisher: IDW/Hero initiative Available: Booth #5003 High concept: The new fundraising book features 32 pages of all-new material, including an exclusive “Elephantmen” story by Richard Starkings…
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…
