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…
Mario Coleman writes fro Bleeding Cool; It has almost been a year and a half since Apocalypse Comics, the comic shop that I built from the ground up, closed its doors for the last time, and I miss it like crazy. We had moved into a new premises in the March of 2010 with hopes…
Thank you to Diamond Comics for sending me all these Free Comic Book Day comics in advance. I now no longer need to take my children to Free Comic Book Day tomorrow. But I will. So what do we have? And can I mark them out of ten for desirability, newness, content and general appeal?…
Everything Paramount, under one roof.
The Gary Friedrich situation caused much furor amongst comic book artists, wondering if they were at risk of any future action by any publisher for drawing and selling sketches of their chatracters at a comic convention. Marvel tried to placate such fears but without any blanket statements that Marvel or Disney would not legally target…
Rich Johnston:This Silver Snail exclusive variant cover for Dreamwave’s Generation One (ongoing) issue 1 commissioned from you and credited to you. Who actually drew it? Pat Lee: I can confirm that it is not my artwork and I’m not quite sure who contracted or agreed that I would illustrate it. I do not even recall…
Warren Spector has been developing his new Mickey Mouse videogame, a sequel to the much-hyped Epic Mickey in relative secrecy, but the mouse is out of the bag now, with the first details appearing in The Washington Post today. Spector says that he made several mistakes with the first game, and has addressed them in…
More Doctor Who/Star Trek, new KISS comics, Groo The Wanderer as an Artist’s Edition, there’s plenty to choose from, from IDW’s offerings in June. And then of course there are those 55 covers for Mars Attacks… and the box set if you’re a glutton for punishment. MARS ATTACKS #1 (W) John Layman (A) John McCrea…
Before he embarks on the next round of robot wars, Michael Bay is getting to realise one of his dream projects, the crime film Pain and Gain. The first casting had The Rock and Mark Wahlberg set as a pair of bodybuilders who hatch a kidnap scheme. John Turturro then entered negotiations for the role…
According to an unnamed source with good working knowledge of the Transformers films, early plans for the upcoming fourth installment are set to shake up the tone and style of the series, yet still structure it as a sequel to the three previous pictures. So, while you can expect the same robots, and imagine they’ll…
Michael Bay has decided how he’s going to spend the rest of his year. Brace yourselves, because he’s going to be … making action movies! A new press release from Paramount pictures states that action thriller Pain And Gain is first on the production schedule, with shooting commencing in the next couple of months. Then,…
No new Transformers movie this year (unless you count Battleship and I can see why you might be a touch confused) but there is a new theme park ride based on the franchise, and that got trailered instead.
On the left is the cover to Voltron #1 by Eagner Reis. And certain Transformers fans saw similarities with a certain representation of Optimus Prime as seen in the Transformers movies. And pointed out the highlighted bits below for comparison… In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other…
Would you vote for Transformers: Dark of the Moon at the Oscars?
IDW are now advertising brand new series digital only Transformers series, Autocracy by featuring it on the iPad and iPhone. Tranformers: Autocracy will be published in a week’s time, a biweekly eight page comic written by Chris Metzen and Flint Dille and drawn by Livio Ramondelli. It will tie in with Transformers concepts such…
Before Christmas, the Institute For Global Labour And Human Rights made a number of allegations regarding shoddy labour conditions for a Chinese factory used by Hasbro to manufacture Transformers toys, quoting workers, and documenting photographs throughout. Today, Hasbro has responded to these allegations after what it describes as an unnanounced nine hour inspection of the…
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…
