Hannah Means-Shannon was a longstanding contributor at Bleeding Cool and its editor-in-chief for two years. She then worked at Dark Horse Comics, was EIC for Comicon.com and as a Senior Editor for the longstanding sc-fi and fantasy comics anthology Heavy Metal Magazine. Last month, Bleeding Cool reported ructions at Heavy Metal, and reprinted Hannah Means-Shannon’s open letter that […]
Bleeding Cool has the word that Heavy Metal Magazine has named Matthew Medney as its new CEO. Founder and CEO of Herø Projects, which publishes music as Herø Records, as well as a handful of custom comics created for musicians and music venues as Herø Comics, all of which Medney appears to write himself. He […]
Iron Maiden is one of the lucky metal bands to get upcoming Funko Pop vinyl characters. I’m glad to see the rockers getting some collectibles as we don’t really get to see a lot of them. This time Iron Maiden takes the stage and they’re famous mascot Eddie bring some collectibles to us. There will […]
Def Leppard Funko Pops are here to and they are hot sticky sweet and ready for your collection. It’s such a magical hysteria seeing mise iconic rock legends get their Funko Pop debut. Pop rocks are not new as we have already seen Metallica, Alice Cooper, AC/DC, and so much more have come out. So […]
Hannah Means-Shannon was a longstanding contributor at Bleeding Cool and was its editor-in-chief for two years. She then worked at an editor at Dark Horse Comics, was appointed EIC at the Comicon.com comics news site and is also a Senior Editor for the longstanding sc-fi and fantasy comics anthology Heavy Metal Magazine. Or rather she […]
Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. MCM London Comic Con concludes today… all matter of news may still come out. The 16 most-read stories yesterday “Supernatural”: Jared Padalecki Arrested on Assault, Public […]
September saw the publication of Soft Wood #1, a raucous comedy spin-off of Heavy Metal Magazine. Amongst many other strips was a republication of the ten-year-old 24-page unauthorised sequel to Watchmen, Watchmensch, written by me, drawn by Simon Rohrmuller and for this edition coloured for the first time by the colourist for Watchmen, John Higgins. […]
New York Comic Con begins on Thursday at the Javits Center, squeezed up sharp against the Hudson, but it doesn’t just appear from nowhere. Everyone is currently involved in set up. And as the HBO Watchmen ad towers over proceedings… The New York Comic Con signage inside the building is going up as well. Busy, […]
Okay, so this is a little self-serving. But then this is Bleeding Cool, something you need to expect. This week saw the publication of Soft Wood #1, the first comedy spin-off magazine from Heavy Metal, with the news that it is to become an ongoing bi-monthly publication. It’s been a little hard for some folk […]
Out this week is Heavy Metal Magazine #29 – the Industrial Issue. And Bleeding Cool has quite a few preview pages to look at… We begin with three pages of INF3RNo, a story about a future world where chip implants measure your holiness and your computer program life after death, only a girl gets sent to […]
Bleeding Cool gave you the two big hirings news of Heavy Metal Magazine earlier his week and a few of them were on display as Dave Mustaine from Megadeth was at the Heavy Metal booth signing yesterday at C2E2. With around five hundred in line to get a free print signed of the upcoming Megadeth: […]
It may be the greatest album title since Kirsty Macoll’s Electric Landlady. But Megadeth‘s upcoming 35th anniversary ultimate greatest hits record Warheads On Foreheads will be accompanied by something brand new. With Heavy Metal Magazine, they are putting out a 350-page graphic novel – okay, graphic anthology rather – featuring new comic book stories by […]
Are you ready to rock?! I said are you readddyyy??? *crowd cheers* Good, because Skybound Entertainment is about to kick you in the @#$%ing face with some more metal variants for Daniel Warren Johnson’s Murder Falcon. In these 3 new covers for Murder Falcon #3-5 from Tyrell Cannon and Jean-Francois Beaulieu, Ryan Ottley and Cliff Rathburn, […]
Super7 has made some of their leftover NYCC exclusives available to purchase. These exclusives will only be available while supplies last of course, and some of these more than likely won’t last long. Click here to make a purchase. Of their different lines, they have a nice selection of ReAction figures, their second Transformers exclusive, […]
Super7 is bringing a ton of exclusives to NYCC this year. All of them are awesome, and it makes me really sad that I will not be in attendance to grab one of everything. Universal Monsters, Transformers, their first collaboration with MLB (hopefully even more to come!), Misfits, even The Great Garloo! They are just […]
Good news, SatanBronies. Image Comics has announced a series of Heavy Metal variant covers for the upcoming Skybound series Murder Falcon by Daniel Warren Johnson. Though Image promises a “variety of brutally talented artists” will contribute variants for future issues, it’s Johnson himself who drew the cover for issue #1 homaging the cover to Judas […]
Funko spent the last two weeks announcing a ton of SDCC exclusive Pops, Vynl, Dorbz, and even skateboard decks. We brought them all to you individually, but this post will collect them all into one convenient place for you to peruse and get excited. All of these will be available either at their own booth, […]
One of Funko’s Pop Vinyl exclusives for San Diego Comic-Con 2018 is from Heavy Metal, the classic animated film character Taarna the Taarakian. Taarna is a character created by Daniel Goldberg and Len Blum for the Heavy Metal magazine and movie, inspired by Moebius‘ Arzach stories. The Loc-Nar, now the size of a giant meteor, crashes into a volcano on an unnamed […]
Funko has begun revealing their massive amount of SDCC exclusives for 2018. This is the time that all collectors both dread and look forward to all year. As they have been for the last couple of years, a majority of these exclusives will be shared with retailers outside of the con. That list usually does […]
Dark Horse Comics has announced plans to collect Donny Cates, Eliot Rahal, and Geoff Shaw‘s superhero parody comic about the titular band of superhero repo persons, The Paybacks, this summer. Dark Horse published the first volume back in 2015 before it moved Heavy Metal in 2016. Now, both volumes will be collected in a single […]
