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Neil Gaiman, Angela, Age Of Ultron, And Guardians Of The Galaxy – Thursday Trending Topics

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Mark Seifert

It’ll be interesting to see where this one goes: After Age Of Ultron, Angela will then become a cast member in the Guardians Of The Galaxy series for issue 5  at least, written by Brian Bendis… and now co-written by Neil Gaiman, representing his …

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Spawn Movie Has “Academy Award Winning Actor” Attached, Says Todd McFarlane

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Brendon Connelly

And there’s 90 minutes of new Spawn animation completely finished… apart from the animation. And post production.

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Todd McFarlane Settles With Al Simmons, DC Try To Get Their Costs From Toberoff

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Rich Johnston

We reported on what appeared to be a rather ridiculous legal suit earlier this year, when Todd McFarlane sued Al Simmons for representing himself as the inspiration for Todd’s creation Spawn. Despite Todd McFarlane’s publications often describing Al Simmons as… …

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Fan Review of The Art of Todd McFarlane

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Rick Verbanas

Jeffrey Sutman writes for Bleeding Cool I pre-ordered The Art of Todd McFarlane : The Devils in the Details  on August 16, 2010 from Amazon.  So when I got confirmation that it had shipped; and finally received it in the …

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Thursday Trending Topics: Spawn’s Election Redo

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Mark Seifert

Rich is right that this would have been a lot more effective if it had come out the Wednesday of election week, but I still think the cover parody combined with the theme is rather amusing. Then again, a little …

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Spawn #225 Gives You The Election You Actually Wanted (SPOILERS)

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Yes I know Spawn has a reputation for being a late comic, but this was originally timed to come out on the day after the Presidential Election. The votes may not have been counted, there could have been a legal challenges, …

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Some More Todd McFarlane “Original Art” Not To Buy

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Some poor folks are bidding for a very misleadingly described print of the recently auctioned cover to Batman #423 by Todd McFarlane. It seems to be a colour printout of the scans provided by Heritage. They even swiped the description …

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A Mexican Home For Transformers, GI Joe, Walking Dead And Spawn Comics

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Here’s how it is being divvied up. The Mexican printing company has won the license to publish Spanish language versions of Boom! books by Mark Waid Irredeemable, Incorruptible and The Traveler. It also has the rights to the GI JOE …

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Todd McFarlane Sues Al Simmons For Being Spawn

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Okay, this is just surreal. Todd McFarlane is suing Al Simmons, his former friend and employee, after whom who he named the secret identity of his character Spawn. And who he then employed to dress up as Spawn and appear …

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38 Studios In Trouble

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Originally Green Monster Games, 38 Studios is a game company in trouble. But it may bring down a lot more than just itself. Founded by Curt Schilling, his games company received a $75 million loan guarantee from Rhode Island if …

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Who Reorders The Watchmen?

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Well, the word is getting there, and I think Bleeding Cool played its part. Retailers have finally worked out if they don’t make an advance reorder of Hit-Girl #1 then they aren’t getting any copies, as Diamond missed the comic …

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Image Comics July 2012 Solicitations

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Rich Johnston

July in Image Comics means a bunch of new titles from Revival to Wild Children, the hundredth issue of Walking Dead and a bunch of celebratory covers from A-list artists, Todd McFarlane swiping Amazing Fantasy #15 for the cover of …

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Todd McFarlane Recreates Youngblood #1 For Spawn

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Rich Johnston

For Spawn 220, the twentieth anniversary edition of Spawn, Todd McFarlane is doing variant covers aping his fellow Image artists. We’ve seen his Savage Dragon #1-styled cover, now have a look at his version of Youngblood #1 with a variety …

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Those Image Solicitations For June 2012 In Full

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Rich Johnston

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 …

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Todd McFarlane Officially Writing Spawn Again From #220

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Recently, Todd McFarlane came clean – the man credited as writing Spawn for the last couple of years, one Will Carlton, was actually Todd himself. We’re heading into the 20th anniversary of Spawn.  That’ll be issue 220.  I’m going to …

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Todd McFarlane To Pay Neil Gaiman $382,000. Plus Interest.

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Thanks to Daniel Best who pulled out a bunch of legal papers on the Neil Gaiman/Todd McFarlane case over owed moneys, showing that as part of the lawsuit, and the subsequent bankruptcy of one of Todd McFarlane’s companies, he had …

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Gaiman And McFarlane Settle Over Spawn And Angela

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Sorry for that folks. Bleeding Cool went down for around twelve hours – we’re not sure what it was. A DDOS attack from the Chinese because we ran a positive story about Taiwanese comics? Warner Bros exercising their mighty power …

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The Cover To Spawn #216 – Seventeen And A Half Years Late

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Rich Johnston

This is the cover to Spawn #216, by Todd McFarlane. But not this Todd McFarlane. This is the Todd McFarlane back in the early nineties. Originally planned (and solicited) for #19, featuring The Freak, it was never used – and …

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