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Amy E Genkins Gets In Touch Over Amanda Conner Watchmen 2 Artwork
I wasn't sure whether or not the Amanda Conner and Paul Mounts Silk Spectre II piece we ran yesterday was from the Watchmen prequel mini-series rumoured to be published by DC Comics or not. I'm sure it is now, of course. Yours and my favourite DC legal representative, Amy E Genkins has been on the e-mail this[...]
Silk Spectre Art By Amanda Conner – Happy New Year
UPDATE: This artwork in question has been moved, after a legal letter from Amy E Genkins of DC Comics Bleeding Cool has complied with her request. So I get another late night phone call "Look in your inbox" The phone goes dead I only went to bed two hours ago, but I grab my iPad and[...]
Did The Parent Companies Of Marvel And DC Create The Piracy They Now Condemn?
And that includes both Marvel's owner Disney and DC's owner, Time Warner And calls for these companies to be prosecuted for distributing software in the knowledge it would be used for piracy, rather than focus on the end user. It's a compelling case… if you can get past the conspiracy.   There's a conspiracy theory going around[...]
The Ultimates #1
I keep my eyes on my own paper and don't ask for info about other stuff DC is doing unless I think I want it But gee This line is weird: "Boy Ate They Something." B.A.T.S (don't know why "ain't" is "ate", but whatever.) It would be nice to have Bryan over here drawing Batman,[...]
DC To Support Vertigo Relaunch With Ordering Incentives And Variant Covers
The backbone of the success of the DC Relaunch was the publisher offering retailers incentives to order more of the comics, so they could be easily bought off the shelf when the media promotions hit Variant covers, extra discount, returnability, it enabled retailers to take more of a risk, and in some cases reap the[...]
Watchmen Art They Can't Stop Us Posting
On Christmas Day Bleeding Cool posted art from the upcoming Watchmen prequels from DC Comics – and we received a cease and desist note from DC Comics on the same day Possibly a first I blame Bob Wayne. Anyway, while we have been asked not to show JG Jones' Comedian or Andy and Joe Kubert's Nite[...]
DC Books Return To Barnes & Noble's Shelves
Bleeding Cool broke the story and provided the photographic proof back in October that Barnes & Noble was to remove 100 DC Comics graphic novels from their shelves a few months ago, over DC's decision to make them digitally exclusive to the Amazon Kindle Fire – excluding Barnes & Noble's Nook Books-A-Million followed suit, as[...]
Wildstorm Invades Superman As Helspont Appears In Superman #8
Nothing can make the prescence of the Wildstorm Universe, truly rebooted within the new 52, quite as clear as the cover to Superman #8, to be published by DC Comics in April While the cover to Action Comics #8 features Superman and the Collectors, messing around with Bottle cities and Bottle people, the cover to[...]
DC Entertainment Demands Removal Of Watchmen 2 Artwork, Bleeding Cool Complies
Who Watches The Watchmen rumours? At DC, it seems their legal department do, even on Christmas Day. Yesterday, Bleeding Cool received the following letter from DC Entertainment; Gentlemen: It has come to our attention that you have impermissibly and without authorization posted assets containing unpublished intellectual property owned by DC Entertainment  We do not need to belabor the[...]
Lying In The Gutters – Boxing Day 2011
Watchmen Prequel Artwork: The Comedian The artwork of which has now been deleted, on the request of DC Entertainment Which basically means it's all true More on that later, 4 Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Katy Perry And Madonna Go Back To School In Batman: Leviathan Strikes 5 A Closer Look At The Hobbit Trailer 6 A Very Close Look At[...]