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ESQUIVEL: Scotty God! His name alone is enough to strike fear into the quivering hands of lesser artists. No nancy boy middle initials, no gratuitously

Star of Grey's Anatomy, Patrick Dempsey, really wants to play a different kind of Doctor. Doctor Strange. And comics artist-working-in-Hollywood Arne

Megan Fox told her namesake news channel Fox News that she wants to play the character Rainmaker in any upcoming Gen-13 movie. Megan has a long

BoysWatch: So exactly how can the co-creator of a creator-owned book  be pushed off his own book against his will? FrankWatch: Just how does Frank Quitely

Real name Chris Sievey, Frank Sidebottom was an intentionally shoddy light entertainer who hung around in the fringes of British popular culture over the

We're told the future of comics is digital. We're told the comic store is a dying breed. We're told it's iPod uber alles. Someone disagrees. And is about

Picture - Eve Johnston (5). Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, a run down of the week in Bleeding Cool. Top Ten Most Read Posts Of The Week 1. Green Lantern

Thank you Cinema Today in Japan for these eleven stills from the new Studio Ghibli adaptation of the classic children's story The Borrowers.. It just

So England's performance in the World Cup so far as not been exactly stellar. Basically drawing with teams they should be expected to beat. It's all a bit

I was following the press conferences, announcements and trailers at E3 last week, noting how the vast majority of new games coming out are shooters.

Bleeding Cool previously reported that Josh Hutcherson was Sony's initial favoured candidate for the leading role of Spider-Man 4, but that he's

Okay, we've got a lot to get through, Settle down at the back. Saturday sees the final episode of this series of Doctor Who. Apart from the Christmas

BalloonWatch: For a man who's meant to be the master of spells, his contemporaries don't seem to be able to spell his first name. Though at least their

This is a first look at the character of Kitty, voiced by Salma Hayek, co-starring in the Shrek spinoff movie for next year, Puss In Boots. Selma has

DigiWatch: The Business Insider rave about the Marvel Comics App bringing in revenue. Ira even said there's anecdotal evidence to suggest the app is

Take a comic book character. Find a pressure group and/or charity desperate for publicity. Find a politician keen to be seen doing something. Mix. The

A while ago I ran a fun piece looking at a potential swipe file between Steven Moffat and Alan Moore, with Moore using a very similar narrative trick in

A number of comic shops are gearing up to open at midnight on Monday July 19th, to sell the final sixth volume of the Scott Pilgrim series by Bryan Lee

Over the past few months, I've covered the basics on obtaining an endorsement for your comic, the importance of getting the right logo and I've also

Bonham are doing another Doctor Who prop/costume auction. And pride of place is the TARDIS prop used on the first series on the revived show, starring

It's been on the books for a while. DC's plans to publish a DC Classics Archive edition of the famous Captain Marvel and The Monster Society Of Evil arc.

News From The Spursphere: I'm scum. I'm a wart-weasel of the very worst ilk.  I've deserted you, my plucky lovetumours, for three long weeks, and can only

As Marvel's Shadowland series and spinoff titles starts to kick off, with Daredevil seemingly being reinvented as a supervillain, pitted against Luke

A very Ryan Reynolds' Green Lantern in this poster, seen by one happy snapping Bleeding Cool reader on the Warner Bros lot. Who happily had his/her camera

DynamiteWatch: First looks at covers for The Boys: Highland Laddie #2 and Kato #2. QuitelyWatch: Next month at the Oxfam Comics Event 2010 being held at

Brian Bendis returned to the Word Balloon podcast talking with John Siuntres. They talked about many things, including a Dick Tracy strip that Bendis was

Sorry guys, some video from the Blue Beetle live action test footage was part of an SFX showreel for rommel S Calderon went live on YouTube for a few

The rumour on today's books is that Steve Wacker is to manage a new scheduling revamp of Amazing Spider-Man, currently a three-times-monthly title with a

Word reaches me that Michael Siglain, editor of Detective Comics and other related books, has left DC Comics for a new position at Disney Publishing. This

Here we go, here we go, here we go... fairly similar to the US, with a few differences - a voiceover, new footage and cool new jokes. Out here on the 25th