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…
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…
While Disney won’t comment at all on the casting, Mads Mikkelsen has started negotiating a contract to play a villain in Thor 2.
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…
This is rather interesting, Despite the appeal of the Olympics, and demand for the British pound this will bring, financial forecasts are for the pound to dip dramatically against the dollar. Look. US Dollar to UK Pound Currency Exchange Forecast U.S. Dollars per one British Pound. Average of Month. Month Date Forecast Value 50% Correct +/-…
In a podcast interview from Alt3red Egos with Steve Engelhart, describing his career in comics, he talked openly about his work on the Ultraverse for Malibu – and what happened when Marvel bought the company and closed down the comics line. Englehart says that in 2004, Tom Brevoort approached him to integrate the Ultraverse into the…
Marvel have let retailers sell Astonishing X-Men #50 one day early. Featuring Northstar asking for his boyfriend’s hand in marriage. Not much of a surprise for many. But what happens next… may be. However it resolves, we know that somehow Northstar, better known as Jean-Paul Beaubier and Kyle Jinadu will be getting married next month….
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…
One Marvel movie, one DC movie, two different outcomes.
So… who wants to be a Marvel editor? Including “Direct Management of at least 2 to 3 titles a month”? “Develop new series ideas and initiate projects, which includes the creation of stories or event-driven concepts to increase sales of the titles”? “Maintain communication with freelance artists and writers”? Apply here. Job Posting Title Assistant…
Lots of interesting stories surfacing from Kapow this weekend, with Marvel and DC news drawing a bunch of interest today. And really, sounds like a pretty good comic con weekend just about everywhere, as I’ve heard good things about Motor City, Dallas, and Big Wow over the past couple days as well. Speaking of…
Kieron wanted me to call this article “A Little Whine”. I didn’t. Anyway, here is the writer of Uncanny X-Men, Kieron Gillen, whoi has just bought a glass of red wine at the Hilton hotel bar, next door to Kapow, and he is trying to get anyone who will listen to guess how much his…
Coming at some indeterminate point, an X-Force Omnibus collecting Rob Liefeld’s run on New Mutants and X-Force. And this is how the recolouring is going by Thomas Mason…
What is Item 47? Which scenes are getting longer? What do we now know about the alternate ending?
Picked up at George at Asda, the local supermarket’s clothing section, this week, for £7. And to be totally worn tomorrow at Kapow…
The word has come down. Starting with the 7/4/12 On-sale items, all 32 page Marvel Universe comics, including those that contain a digital code, will be printed with 50# Coated interiors and will be Self-Cover. Marvel has already given all their $2.99 books this new format, now it switches to the $3.99 books too. All…
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…
