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From Outside WH Smiths, Victoria Station From Outside WH Smiths, Victoria Station
September 2, 2010 – 11:54 am | (9) comments

They’re not happy about filming in in WH Smith. Sky News have the exclusive apparently, and the newsagent had laid on security staff that wouldn’t look amiss in a Guy Ritchie movie.
So I talked to …

BC ComicChron: Recent Updates From The War Against Humanity BC ComicChron: Recent Updates From The War Against Humanity
September 2, 2010 – 11:26 am | (4) comments

This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. Yesterday I was mocked. Mocked for my collating of comic industry bits and pieces. You will mock no longer when I destroy the street you live in …

Paul Cornish’s DC Crossover With Vertigo Paul Cornish’s DC Crossover With Vertigo
September 2, 2010 – 9:00 am | (5) comments

So just how are Vertigo characters transmuting to the DC Universe going to be treated? Paul Cornish has a few ideas and shares them exclusively with Bleeding Cool..

Yes, A Damian Mini-Series By Andy Kubert Would Be Cool Yes, A Damian Mini-Series By Andy Kubert Would Be Cool
September 2, 2010 – 7:00 am | (9) comments

Hidden during reports of the DC Nation panel at Fan Expo Canada, Dan DiDio is quoted as saying;
“You know what would be cool? A Damian mini-series by Andy Kubert.”
Yes, yes it would. Note the single …

1192 Pages – The Biggest Marvel Omnibus Yet 1192 Pages – The Biggest Marvel Omnibus Yet
September 2, 2010 – 4:00 am | (32) comments

Scheduled for May is the Thor By Walt Simonson Omnibus, collecting the writer/artist’s legendary enire run on the character in one book.
The American version is unscheduled and unpriced on Amazon, but over on Amazon.co.uk, it’s …

Wertham’s Notes Made Available To Public Wertham’s Notes Made Available To Public
September 2, 2010 – 2:56 am | (7) comments

Dr Fredric Wertham, pursued the comics industry over perceived dangers towards children in their titles, and successfully infantalised the medium in America for half a century. His notes on his research have recently been made …

Darwyn Cooke And The Lesbians Darwyn Cooke And The Lesbians
September 1, 2010 – 6:00 pm | (85) comments

I want them to stop catering to the perverted needs of forty-five year old men, I want to stop seeing Batman fucking Black Canary, I don’t want to hear Batman swearing, I don’t want to …

The Wanking McDonalds Batman The Wanking McDonalds Batman
September 1, 2010 – 4:31 pm | (13) comments

Wonderful. Wonderful. Remember that protest group that was concerned about McDonalds using superheroes as Happy Meals toys for kids? Well, their protest was pretty much useless. Especially when you take into account of the toy …

Adam Hughes Marries Allison Sohn With The One Ring Adam Hughes Marries Allison Sohn With The One Ring
September 1, 2010 – 3:45 pm | (2) comments

All power to the couple.
I mean, not all the power in Middle Earth. But you know…
Comic book legend Adam Hughes has just married long time partner Allison Sohn, as familiar a face at comics conventions …

BC ComicChron: Recent Updates From The Front Line Of Your Inevitable Doom BC ComicChron: Recent Updates From The Front Line Of Your Inevitable Doom
September 1, 2010 – 2:21 pm | (8) comments

This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.
They say …

Yes, British People, You Will Get A Wednesday New Comics Day Yes, British People, You Will Get A Wednesday New Comics Day
September 1, 2010 – 12:19 pm | (6) comments

Roger Fletcher of Diamond Comics Distribution gets in touch regarding the note that Diamond UK sent to retailers this morning saying that a Tuesday shipping date and a Wednesday on-sale day had not been decided …

First Look At Szymon Kudranski’s Art For Bruce Wayne – The Road Home First Look At Szymon Kudranski’s Art For Bruce Wayne – The Road Home
September 1, 2010 – 11:09 am | (3) comments

Bleeding Cool has the first art by Szymon Kudranski for Bruce Wayne – The Road Home: Commissioner Gordon #1 coming out in October.
Written by Adam Beechen,it looks at how Gordon copes with the return of …

Noel Clarke And Tony Lee Collaborating On… Something Noel Clarke And Tony Lee Collaborating On… Something
September 1, 2010 – 11:00 am | (2) comments

A few weeks ago Bleeding Cool reported that Noel Clarke (companion on Doctor Who, writer on Torchwood, writer/director on aDulthood) was looking for comic book artists on Twitter.
Turns out he may have found a …

Swipe File: 1Month2Live5DaysToDie Swipe File: 1Month2Live5DaysToDie
September 1, 2010 – 10:00 am | (10) comments

Doesn’t it feel the one of these is the sequel to the other? Both issue ones, both on sale, one from Marvel, one from IDW, today in the US, tomorrow in the UK.

Hey, what …

Number Crunching Alan Moore’s Dodgem Logic #6 Number Crunching Alan Moore’s Dodgem Logic #6
September 1, 2010 – 9:00 am | (2) comments

Number crunching takes a terribly mercurial and statistical take on modern pop culture. Ascribing to the motto: Never mind the quality, feel the width, in a world where we get less and less for our …

DC UK Wednesday On Sale Date Still Undecided – Despite Diamond USA Saying It Is DC UK Wednesday On Sale Date Still Undecided – Despite Diamond USA Saying It Is
September 1, 2010 – 8:00 am | (4) comments

Despite Diamond’s letter to publishers stating that comic books would now be delivered to all comic shops in the USA and the UK on the Tuesday of each week, for an effective Wednesday on-sale date, …

Wednesday Runaround – The Look Of The Doctor Wednesday Runaround – The Look Of The Doctor
September 1, 2010 – 6:04 am | (7) comments

TwitWatch:
had a dream last night that Alan Moore and I killed @richjohnston with copies of @dodgemlogic. odd – though the worst bit was me making a cup of tea for Big Al n I mid …

Number Crunching CLiNT Magazine #1 Number Crunching CLiNT Magazine #1
September 1, 2010 – 2:19 am | (12) comments

What’s the comic? CLiNT, from Mark Millar anf friends. Featuring Kick Ass 2, Turf, Nemesis and Rex Royd.
Cost: £3.99 ($6.17)
Comics story pages: 71
Price per page: 6 pence (9 cents)
How many haven’t been seen in print …

Fan Expo Canada – The Panels In Audio Fan Expo Canada – The Panels In Audio
September 1, 2010 – 12:37 am | (1) comments

Couldn’t make it to Fan Expo Canada? Of if you did, missed out on a panel or two? Time to catch up!

Drawing Ahead: The Future of Comics (51:36, 47.2mb)

Moderated by Kill Shakespeare co-writers Conor …

The Closest Thing To Hellblazer Gets A Second Season The Closest Thing To Hellblazer Gets A Second Season
August 31, 2010 – 3:43 pm | (5) comments

Pilgrim is a modern day magical fantasy horror series by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, broadcast by BBC Radio 4. And it gloriously and unashamedly rips off John Constantine, by way of Fables. Seriously, Vertigo should just give …

A Comic Show by Aaron and Mike – Hating On The Number Haterz A Comic Show by Aaron and Mike – Hating On The Number Haterz
August 31, 2010 – 1:54 pm | (3) comments

Aaron and Mike from A Comic Shop in Florida talk about tomorrow’s comics. See, they already get their comics on a Tuesday. Soon every comic shop will do the same.
This week they address the Daredevil …

Diamond Confirm Tuesday Deliveries To Comic Stores In The USA – And In The UK! Diamond Confirm Tuesday Deliveries To Comic Stores In The USA – And In The UK!
August 31, 2010 – 12:30 pm | (14) comments

Last week, Bleeding Cool broke the story that Diamond Comic Distributors would move to ship comic books to all comic stores across the USA to Tuesday, for Wednesday sale, rather than the current system where …

SCOOP: Lady Gaga And Justin Bieber To Sue Bluewater Comics SCOOP: Lady Gaga And Justin Bieber To Sue Bluewater Comics
August 31, 2010 – 12:00 pm | (39) comments

Bluewater Productions continues to relive Revolutionary Comics’ history with startling similarity.
Kenneth Feinswog, has sent cease and desist notices to Bluewater on behalf of his clients Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga, over Bluewater’s unauthorized biographical comics …

Swipe File: Daredevil Reborn #1 Vs Silly Bandz Swipe File: Daredevil Reborn #1 Vs Silly Bandz
August 31, 2010 – 11:00 am | (6) comments

Daredevil hasn’t yet been made into a Silly Bandz or a Character Bandz. Even though Abomnation has. There’s no justice.
But Jock’s cover art from Daredevil: Reborn #1 seems to have old horn head staking his …

Silly Bandz And Comics – Are They The New Pogz? Silly Bandz And Comics – Are They The New Pogz?
August 31, 2010 – 10:36 am | (16) comments

Collectable? Check. Cheap? Check/ Loved by kids? Check. Silly mispelling using the letter ‘z’ at the end? Check.
Silly Bandz are a major US youth craze right now, elastic bands that keep their shape when posed. …

Fan Expo Canada Report From Jeff McClinchey – And Cosplay Gallery! Fan Expo Canada Report From Jeff McClinchey – And Cosplay Gallery!
August 31, 2010 – 7:43 am | (16) comments

Jeff McClinchey got busy with the clicky at the Fan Expo this weekend in Toronto. He told Bleeding Cool;
The show seemed bigger then ever. They changed the layout of the show from the past few …

Swipe File: Jae Lee Vs Jae Lee Swipe File: Jae Lee Vs Jae Lee
August 31, 2010 – 7:00 am | (11) comments

What is it with arching back bald men with small hooked noses that Jae Lee just loves?
In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may …

Tuesday Runaround – One Year On For The Mouse Of Ideas Tuesday Runaround – One Year On For The Mouse Of Ideas
August 31, 2010 – 5:27 am | (5) comments

MarvelWatch: Today is the first anniversary of Disney’s purchase of Marvel Comics. What has changed? In the day-to-day comics, very little. Certain international licensing issues have changed, but everything seems to be going on as …

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First Clip From Let Me In Diverges Massively From Let The Right One In First Clip From Let Me In Diverges Massively From Let The Right One In
September 2, 2010 – 4:14 pm | (0) comments

Here’s a slightly abbreviated version of one of the Let Me In clips I saw at Movie-Con. In the interest of maintaining the element of surprise, I’m just going to embed it without offering any …

Meet A Hairy Man From The Howling Reborn Meet A Hairy Man From The Howling Reborn
September 2, 2010 – 3:30 pm | (1) comments

Production is now wrapping on The Howling Reborn, and I’d never really realised it had even begun. To mark this auspicious occasion (well, for all I know), an image of one of the film’s “Henchmen …

Dream Home’s Josie Ho Caught By Soderbergh’s Contagion – Minor Dark Knight UPDATE Dream Home’s Josie Ho Caught By Soderbergh’s Contagion – Minor Dark Knight UPDATE
September 2, 2010 – 10:14 am | (0) comments

One of the very best movies I saw at this year’s FrightFest was Dream Home, a kind of Hong Kong-set slasher film that was rich in colour and detail, and sprinkled with cleverly developed twists. …

The Human Millipede The Human Millipede
September 2, 2010 – 7:09 am | (0) comments

The Labour Party leadership contest is currently underway in the UK. But Dodgem Logic contributor David Quantick has written a drama, Miliband Of Brothers, based on the rivalry of the two favourites, Ed Miliband and …

Poster And First-Look Video For The Last Circus Poster And First-Look Video For The Last Circus
September 2, 2010 – 6:45 am | (2) comments

Alex de la Iglesia’s Balada Triste de Trompeta, or The Last Circus, is expected to redeem the director’s reputation after the inert blob that was The Oxford Murders. The scary clowns on the film’s poster, …

Down With Gravity, Up With Code Name Sasha – And Sleeping Beauty Gets Back On Her Feet? Down With Gravity, Up With Code Name Sasha – And Sleeping Beauty Gets Back On Her Feet?
September 2, 2010 – 6:02 am | (1) comments

It looks like everybody wants to be in Gravity except Angelina Jolie, and Angelina Jolie wants to be in everything except Gravity.
Having already passed on the project once, Ms. Jolie has just given Alfonso Cuaron …

Harvey Keitel To Replace Steve Carell On The Office? What? Harvey Keitel To Replace Steve Carell On The Office? What?
September 2, 2010 – 5:00 am | (2) comments

Okay, this one came out of left field, under the cover of night and through the fog…
According to E!, Office executive/writer Paul Lieberstein wasn’t joking when he told them:
I haven’t started any talks with his …

Check Out David Tennant’s Fright Night Makeover Check Out David Tennant’s Fright Night Makeover
September 2, 2010 – 4:31 am | (4) comments

The character of Peter Vincent has been reinvented somewhat for the remake of Fright Night. No longer the slightly fusty presenter of a late night horror movie show, he’s now a Vegas magician with all …

Sandman: A Game Of Television Sandman: A Game Of Television
September 2, 2010 – 3:32 am | (8) comments

The Hollywood Reporter has news that Vertigo comic book The Sandman is in the early stages of being developed into a TV show by Warner Bros TV.
Rights have yet to be agreed and, uniquely, …

A Cruel New Website For Zack Snyder A Cruel New Website For Zack Snyder
September 1, 2010 – 5:50 pm | (0) comments

Cruel Films is the new website for Zack Snyder’s production company Cruel and Unusual Films. I guess they just wanted to keep the URL snappy?
As well as premiering an exclusive image from Sucker Punch (I …

Cruz, Depp And McShane Shoot Pirates Cruz, Depp And McShane Shoot Pirates
September 1, 2010 – 5:48 pm | (1) comments

This is our first on-set snap of Ian McShane as Blackbeard in the imminent fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film. Unsurprisingly, he looks just like Ian McShane dressed up as Blackbeard.

And here’s another image of …

You Can Buy 3D Avatar & Alice In December – But There’s A Catch You Can Buy 3D Avatar & Alice In December – But There’s A Catch
September 1, 2010 – 4:55 pm | (2) comments

Seeing that the next home video release for Avatar is coming as soon as November, it perhaps seems unlikely that the one after that would be set for as soon as December. That’s the story, …

Clooney Says, “Farragut Northeners, Assemble!” Clooney Says, “Farragut Northeners, Assemble!”
September 1, 2010 – 7:30 am | (0) comments

Three years after making his intentions known, George Clooney is ready to mount his adaptation of the off-Broadway play Farragut North for the screen. Leonardo di Caprio has pulled out (from the cast at least …

Gnomeo & Juliet – A First Look Gnomeo & Juliet – A First Look
September 1, 2010 – 6:56 am | (1) comments

This is our first image of what Gnomeo & Juliet film actually looks, beyond concept art.
The script was brought to Disney by Rob Sprackling and John Smith in the mid-noughties, but John Lasseter thought the …

Kick-Ass Makes It To London Kick-Ass Makes It To London
September 1, 2010 – 6:04 am | (1) comments

English film blog Hey You Guys was offered the original Kick Ass costume by Universal Studios to play with, and asked Bleeding Cool’s Brendon Connelly to help make a film for them. Basically the final …

The Walking Dead Scheduled For Season Two, Bleeding Cool Previews The First The Walking Dead Scheduled For Season Two, Bleeding Cool Previews The First
September 1, 2010 – 5:22 am | (4) comments

There’s a wonderful shifting of seasons in the original Walking Dead comics, time always ticking away in the background, sometimes with only very subtle, but meaningful, effect. It looks like there’s now an opportunity to …

New Details On The Bay, Barry Levinson’s Zombie Uprising Film New Details On The Bay, Barry Levinson’s Zombie Uprising Film
September 1, 2010 – 3:32 am | (2) comments

Screen Daily have several new details about Barry Levinson’s The Bay, previously known as Isopod. Our understanding of the project has suddenly gone all the way from “cheap indie thriller” to “cheap indie thriller about …

Alasdair Stuart On Crimefighters, Lo-Fi UK Superhero Film Alasdair Stuart On Crimefighters, Lo-Fi UK Superhero Film
August 31, 2010 – 5:45 pm | (1) comments

Here’s a piece from Bleeding Cool’s chum, young Alasdair Stuart. He’s calling it: Tea Shops and Justice: Patrolling the leafy mean streets with the Crimefighters.
York is a nice town, filled with students bars, tea shops, …

Bleeding Cool Talk To Ralph Ziman About Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema Bleeding Cool Talk To Ralph Ziman About Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema
August 31, 2010 – 3:09 pm | (0) comments

I was fortunate enough to be able to talk with Ralph Ziman, director of Jerusalema, known in the UK as Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema. We discussed the film, and the real world people, events and political …

Millar Says Kick-Ass 2 Has Been Greenlit, Tony Scott Is “Going After” Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt Millar Says Kick-Ass 2 Has Been Greenlit, Tony Scott Is “Going After” Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt
August 31, 2010 – 2:59 pm | (18) comments

Mark Millar was a guest on today’s Richard Bacon show on BBC Radio Five Live. Here’s what he said about the supposedly imminent sequel to Kick-Ass:
The estimate is [Kick-Ass] will do 100 to 150 million …

Tanya Tate Interviews Andy San Dimas, Superman XXX’s Lois Lane Tanya Tate Interviews Andy San Dimas, Superman XXX’s Lois Lane
August 31, 2010 – 9:30 am | (6) comments

WARNING: While this article is Safe For Work – at least as far as visuals go, the links are not. Unless you work in the kind of place that doesn’t care. Advertising is good for …

Paul Cornell’s Pulse Not Commissioned Paul Cornell’s Pulse Not Commissioned
August 31, 2010 – 9:00 am | (7) comments

Boo hiss.

Paul Cornell’s screened pilot of his new hospital sci-fi horror TV show Pulse on BBC 3 has not been picked up for a series.
At the Edinburgh TV Festival, BBC 3 controller Danny Cohen said;
The …

Darren Aronofsky Up For Wolverine 2, Robert Rodriguez Could Jump Off Deadpool Darren Aronofsky Up For Wolverine 2, Robert Rodriguez Could Jump Off Deadpool
August 30, 2010 – 5:47 pm | (8) comments

As the 20th Century Fox merry go round slows down for one director to hop on, another is thinking about jumping off.
Last week, we learned that Robert Schwentke and David Slade were on the …

New Alan Moore Movie In Production New Alan Moore Movie In Production
August 30, 2010 – 4:09 pm | (8) comments

Many people seem to believe that Alan Moore hates films. He just doesn’t like a lot of them these days. And he’s not keen on people taking what he once wrote as a comic and …

How The Kick Ass 2 Movie Will Begin How The Kick Ass 2 Movie Will Begin
August 30, 2010 – 11:06 am | (15) comments

Both the movie adaptations of Wanted and Kick Ass have something in common. When it came to the comic book, they stuck with the beginning almost word for word.
So one might assume that Kick Ass …

A Canonical Look Inside A New Room In The TARDIS (UPDATE) A Canonical Look Inside A New Room In The TARDIS (UPDATE)
August 30, 2010 – 10:24 am | (4) comments

So the BBC Doctor Who Adventures games have been being downloaded around the UK and everyone agrees, ther’re moderately fun, with a horrible control system that’s even clumsier than the new Doctor but,  becaue they’re …

Rumourous Growths: Everything You Wanted To Know About The Fantastic Four Reboot – UPDATE Rumourous Growths: Everything You Wanted To Know About The Fantastic Four Reboot – UPDATE
August 30, 2010 – 5:10 am | (18) comments

There’s a surfeit of Fantastic Four hearsay to be passed along. Are we ready to play the childhood game of Telephone?
According to Comic Book Movie, there’s news on casting for Dr. Doom and The Thing’s …

Breaking Down The $85 Million Scott Pilgrim Budget Breaking Down The $85 Million Scott Pilgrim Budget
August 29, 2010 – 6:00 pm | (44) comments

“Eighty-five million dollars? Really?”
Apparently so. As much as Scott Pilgrim VS The World is a dazzling delight of innovative CGI, choreographed set pieces and a unique visual style, there has been some disquiet over the …