Never has a Separated At Birth article ever been so literal. At the end of last month's X-Men #14, we discovered the true nature of Piper Cobb, daughter of an anti-mutant activist, claiming to be a mutant, even though the X-Men could not detect that she was one. And that this was all down to […]
In 2011, Image Comics published the comic book Lovestruck by Dennis Hopeless and Kevin Mellon. "It's a love story, but not like you think. There's no boy meets girl or star-crossed soul mates. Love is a billion-dollar industry. Cupid's the megalomaniac CEO. And Kali Monroe gets paid to break your heart. Love is all around […]
Dead End, or Dood Spoor, is a new Belgian TV drama from Bad Sisters co-creator Malin-Sarah Gozin starring Peter Van den Begin and Elise Schaap about a man "who is able to see flashes of what happened to something in the past when he tastes it — be that tasting a toothbrush, sucking on a […]
Comic book retailers who order through Lunar Distributors got a little surprise on their Transformers orders for next week which started popping in yesterday. A "cover F" for Transformers #11, out next week, by James Harren. And here it is. Co-creator of the series Rumble, artist on BPRD, Thor, Hawkeye Vs Deadpool, Heralds, Conan, and […]
This week saw the publication of Phoenix #1 from Marvel's From The Ashes X-Men relaunch. And rather good it was, there was plenty of praise for Stephanie Phillips and Alessandro Miracolo for the first issue. But there has also been a drip, drip, drip notice that some of Alessandro Miracolo's artwork seems a little familiar. […]
From the new Poison Ivy #24 by G. Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara out from DC Comics today. And from House Of M, by Brian Bendis and David Finch… As Poison Ivy makes it back from the here-after in the all-together. Poison Ivy #24 is published today/yesterday… POISON IVY #24 CVR A JESSICA FONG (W) […]
Bleeding Cool previously reported about how Blood Squad Seven #2 by Joe Casey and Paul Fry, from Image Comics in June, featuring the Savage Dragon, set in 1992. And would include a swipe or homage to Savage Dragon #3, the first mini-series by Erik Larsen from 1992. Well, it looks like they are doing something very […]
Image Comics reminds us that the Savage Dragon character created and published by Erik Larsen, as well as taking part in a meta-public-domain-industry-baiting exercise with Mickey Mouse (more on that later today), is also having something of his own swiped. Or homaged. Blood Squad Seven #2 by Joe Casey and Paul Fry, also coming from […]
Sometimes life imitates art. And sometimes art imitates art imitates art imitates art. Earlier this month, Banksy painted a wall in Holloway in North London, in front of the stumps of a hideously cutback tree. It made headlines the world over. The green paint used matches Islington's own municipal green colour used on the council […]
Descender is a science fiction comic by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen, published by Image Comics in 2015. The story follows a young android, TIM-21, trying to survive endless bounty hunters in a universe that has outlawed all robotics and artificial intelligence.. The setup is that ten years in the past, planet-sized robots appeared out […]
Separated At Birth: Miracleman Vs BBC's Being Human. At some point, for reasons unknown, this article from 2011 was deleted. It has returned below in its original glory. Here lie spoilers. Massive spoilers. Spoilers not only for the ending of the penultimate episode of Being Human Series 3, but also, I suppose for Marvelman/Miracleman if you've […]
Separated At Birth! Gerry Duggan's Iron Man Vs James Tynion's Batman! During his run on Batman, writer James Tynion IV write a Bruce Wayne who had lost his fortune, taken by the Joker. And unable to operate from Wayne Manor anymore. Instead, the poverty-stricken Bruce Wayne took a "brownstone" property in the heart of Gotham. […]
Cartoon time! There's a bit in Doctor Who: The Husbands Of River Song when River enters the TARDIS with the Twelfth Doctor played by Peter Capaldi , in which she does not know he is the Doctor and he is not letting on. Walking into the TARDIS for the "first time" he mutters "it's my […]
Get ready for a small dive into online meme culture, including 4chan, soyboys, soyjaks, KFC and coming up in today's Blue And Gold #6 from DC Comics. Strap in. "Two Soyjaks Pointing" refers to the meme image below. Originating from a photograph of animal protection advocate John Oberg and another man standing in front of […]
Last week, Bleeding Cool ran a Separated At Birth feature over similarities between the work of Joelle Jones on the upcoming Trial Of The Amazons #1 and Pepe Larraz on X-Men #1. And we included this handy animated gif to make the point. We also pointed out that swiping has a long and proud tradition […]
Before Spawn, before Spider-Man, before Hulk, Todd McFarlane was an artist on Detective Comics for DC Comics, drawing Batman: Year Two in the mid-eighties. Which has a habit of constantly being reprinted, with new eyes upon it. On the Facebook group for Comic Swipes, Erik Larsen, co-founder of Image Comics with Todd McFarlane posted an […]
Epic Games teased the new Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 8 with the new-look unicorn men skins in a bright rainbow (or rainbow brite) variety of kin hues, with humanoid unicorns wielding heavy-duty weaponry, including one named Fabio Sparklemane. Which looked rather familiar to Garrett Gunn. the creator of the comic book Warcorns: Combat Unicorns For […]
One might not think it, but one of the hottest Spidey issues right now is Amazing Spider-Man #41. The first appearance of Rhino has always been a desirable debut. One of Spidey's most lethal foes, this issue is jumping off to new record sales all over the place. That is why all graded copies, like […]
Separated At Birth: Superman #243 from DC Comics published in October 1971 featured this cover by Neal Adams and Dick Giordano, with Superman in the embrace of Raja, an alien who had taken a form deemed to be pleasing to Superman. Put up against this page from Thor #328, from February 1983, published by Marvel […]
Josef Rubinstein is a comic book artist and inker, best known for inking Marvel Comics' The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, the Wolverine miniseries by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, working with Mike Netzer, with Michael Golden on Micronauts, Jim Starlin's Warlock and Aquaman with Don Newton. He also takes commissions from folk, and […]
