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…
RIPT Apparel put out a t-shirt design by artist Ninjaink titled Voice of a Generation featuring Optimus Prime voiceover, Peter Cullen, pulling the Superman pose. But was it really Superman who was being referenced here? Remember this pic from Alex Ross? Could be! In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each…
While some have noted the resemblance of the new Captain Marvel to Marvelwoman/Miraclewoman, as portrayed by John Totleben below, there’s one of the released images of the new Ms Marvel that bears another resemblace to the World War II poster image, now associated with Rosie The Riveter. Rosie The Riveter first appeared in wartime US…
On the left, the Rob LIefeld cover to Hawk And Dove #7. On the right the Frank Miller cover to Rom The Space Knight #17. Frank Miller has often been a point of reference for Rob Liefeld, especially on X-Force. It’s nice to see that tradition continue… In Swipe File we present two or more…
One hangs around with talking, martial artist reptiles. The other is best friend to a superpowered dog (sort of). But they have the same fashion sense. And a certain amount of the same DNA.
One of these days, Wonder Woman is going to stop running into the wide gaping mouth of some monstrosity looking for a bite. Or some dental work. But not any time soon. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations,…
This is Jessica Steele Allen as Chloe Frazer. She likes to Cosplay. She likes Uncharted, obviously. This is the last page of the first Uncharted comic, out this week from DC Comics (though it still feels like Wildstorm). That looks… familiar… In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to…
Some people, including Bleeding Cool, made note of the racebending of bad guy media mogul Morgan Edge in the new Superman comic, switching from a white man to a black man. But is there something we missed? As well as the skin change, he also lost his head hair and gained a little facial fungus….
It’s not only Michael Bay who reuses old shots. A good look at the new trailer for The Avengers will reveal a bit of recycled footage from the first Iron Man movie. Sure, they’ve been fiddling with the colour grading, his eyes have been lit up and they’ve altered the background a little, but mark…
Rich has run a lot of Swipe File posts at BC, and a few of them have resulted in quite a bit of controversy. And the farther we get into the internet era, the stranger the concept of swiping becomes. It has become far easier to find sources to swipe from, and more importantly, far…
This is a vampire from the most recent X-Men #1, by Victor Gischler and Paco Medina. And this is a vampire, Mr Dark, from Bullet & Justine by Mauro Padovani. 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…
This video makes it clear. Michael Bay appears tp have used scenes from Warner Bros/Dreamworks’ The Island in Paramount’s Transformers: Dark Of The Moon. Here are some screencaps to make it clear… In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations,…
Here’s a screencap from the anime series Tsubasa, with one of Clow Reed’s Magic Circles. You can see a clearer version here. Which was recreated by a deviantARTist, Just invert it and turn it anti-clockwise a little… Add a few DC characters… And bingo, you have a variant cover for Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search…
This is Rio Ferdinand, world famous English football player, playing for Manchester United and the national team. And this is Kenji, on the cover of Generation Hope #5, by Greg Land, from Marvel In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic…
It’s a sunny summer’s day in London, the mind drifts into odd places. 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 works of the lightbox. We trust you, the reader, to make that judgment yourself. If you are…
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…
