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…
One question asked at the DC panel today at the Kapow comic convention in London, was about DC co-publisher Dan DiDio’s interview with The Advocate. Specifically over the decision not to change any character’s sexual orientation when relaunching the DC Universe. At the time Dan stated they would introduce new LGBT characters rather than switch…
At Kapow’s Image Comics panel this morning, with Eric Stephenson, Nick Spencer and Bryan Hitch, Jonathan Ross stated that he had plans to launch a comic book podcast, because of his contacts in media and comics. He also talked about planning new comic books with current collaborators Bryan Hitch and Tommy Lee Edwards but also…
Kapow, the London convention run by Mark Millar and his family, and funded by Titan, has been criticised both this year and last for having no announced female comics guests, namely a “sausagefest”. Last year, there were actually female comics creators at the show, but some people didn’t realise the same thing would probably happen…
The next issue of CLiNT Magazine accidentally shipped to comic stores three weeks ahead of schedule, requiring Diamond to request that shops not sell the comic. Even thought it had already been on sale for days at Forbidden Planet and in a number of bookstores. Nevertheless, most seem to have complied. Most. I’ve been sent…
I understand that certain stores in the UK have received CLiNT Magazine #15 three weeks a week earlier than intended – including part of the final chapter of Kick Ass 2, before the final issue is published by Marvel next week. It also has a special Supercrooks “prelude” that won’t appear in the Marvel version….
There is a Doctor Who book edited by TV media guru Steve Berry and illustrated by Ben Morris, raising money for Alzheimer’s Research UK. It features a number of celebrities and their thoughts about Doctor Who. Some people have worked on the show, some people have just watched it and one cancelled it. They include;…
It took the global recession to make this comic happen. Writer Gordon Mclean took his redundancy cheque and, along with selling off his Playstation games collection, hired an artist, Caio Oliveira, to do his idea justice. Now Gordon has published No More Heroes, a comic about superheroes, suicide and personal responsibility. With just a little…
A big slate of upcoming 2012 books are being announced at Image Expo tonite, including the already mentioned Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl. Here’s a very quick roundup: Happy by Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson. iFanboy has more on this one, with Morrison saying this may be the first of several Image books: ”Beyond that, there…
I’m… not sure if the folk at Titan Magazines actually get what a Super PAC ad entails. In this parody of American political advertising to relaunch CLiNT Magazine as CLiNT 2.0 that you may have read about at Bleeding Cool last week, they seem to have made some basic errors. While they do attack both…
Mark Millar has set up a competition so that the the store that orders the most copies of Supercrooks #1 from Marvel will get him for a signing. He’ll fly his way there and put himself up, but the winning store has to order a shed load. And if they don’t win, are stuck with…
I’ve long covered Mark Millar‘s grip on media, able to twist and turn them to his own ends, and building his career in the process, much to his chagrin. However it’s rarely a critique, it’s generally in admiration. Initially he used the observation that, thanks to the internet, the world doesn’t see a difference between…
On the left, the cover to The Secret Service #2, the new series from Mark MIllar and Dave Gibbons, entitled Basic Training. On the right, a Chinese bodyguard undergoing training. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or…
Since our earlier story on Mark Millar I’ve learned that the guy has made a bit of a habit of exaggerating the truth. Which is why it’s a relief to have one Millar tweet that we can confirm with photographic evidence. Director Nacho Vigalondo is currently in Glasgow for the premiere of his latest sci-fi…
Less than a year ago Matthew Vaughn was implying that we’d never see a sequel to Kick-Ass. Last month it was confirmed that, while the film is definitely going ahead, neither Matthew Vaughn nor Jane Goldman will be onboard to write or direct. The producers already have a new writer and director onboard, and according…
CLiNT Magazine from Titan Publishing has had an interesting run. Initially launched as a Mark Millar-themed way to get comic books into news stands with high profile names such as Jonathan Ross and Frankie Boyle for the UK mainstream market, the magazine lost supermarket and independent news stand distribution, though remains prominent in national chain…
Bleeding Cool ran an article yesterday on accusations that the upcoming London convention, Kapow, was a bit of a sausagefest when it came to comic book creators, based on the observation that every announced comics guest was, again, male. We also pointed out that, as last year, they would be female creators at the show,…
Story now updated with a “smoking gun” image.
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…
