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 […]
Lerapi is an illustrator, who posted this image of her version of Marvel Comics character Spider-Gwen, for all to see, enjoy and maybe even comment on if they so wished. It's rather nice. And doesn't seem to be based on any other specific artwork I can find. Chinese firm Queen Studios created the following Spider-Verse […]
Separated At Birth: Last October, saw the release of Detective Comics #1029 from DC Comics, with the following cover by Lee Bermejo. But does anyone else see the similarity with an upcoming cover by Mark Bagley to Giant-Size Amazing Spider-Man: The Chamelon Conspiracy #1 from Marvel Comics for June. But the Spider-Man cover itself was […]
Comic book cover artist Derrick Chew posted the following upcoming cover to Twitter. My upcoming cover for Harley Quinn Issue #2, on sale 4/27/21. Trying to get a more psychedelic colors/feel to the whole piece, the reflection is challenging to paint haha hope I got it somewhat right. #dccomics #HarleyQuinn Mark Brooks posted in response, […]
The story of Cocaine Bear is a simple one. A photograph of a grizzly bear in the snow was posted anonymously on Copypaste.ru back in 2009. In 2010, it was used as part of the then-popular "I F-cking Love Cocaine" meme images and gained considerable inline presence and notoriety. In early 2011, actor Charlie Sheen's […]
This is a comic book panel from Simon Williams. From the British-originated Marvel UK comic book Spectacular Spider-Man Adventures #100. And here's an Etsy listing from SuperheroWallArt. And a reply by the lister to someone complaining – that suggests he's already been contacted by others as well… First Sale means that you can buy something and […]
UPDATE: Harley's Joker has been in touch with Arthur Suydam here. The original article continues below. Comic Hero University is advertising their new DCeased variant for issue #4, by Arthur Suydam, a 1500 print run for $15 each. It is meant to be a zombie-style homage to Brian Bolland's famous cover for The Killing Joke. […]
Richard Sala has been publishing a new horror comics anthology called The Creeps Magazine under the Warrant Publishing Company label that… bears a passing resemblance to the Warren Publishing anthology horror comics magazine of old, Creepy Magazine. And that resemblance is not coincidental. So with Vampirella on the rise again, what could be more natural […]
Over the weekend, we looked at John Gallagher's work on a variety of Transformers comic book covers, that appeared to be filtered shots of the Transformers toys, or other Transformers artists work. But it goes further than the plastic-and-metal toy set. Gallagher also did a run of covers on the Chapterhouse comic book Captain Canuck, […]
