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Daredevil: Unleash Hell – Red Band by Erica Schultz and Valentina Pinti, is a new five-issue series launching from Marvel Comics in January 2025 Which denotes increased levels of violence, and a plastic bag to protect the kiddies Who are all, naturally, clamouring to buy Daredevil and Elektra comic books… note the Daredevil logo using[...]

Wolverine: Revenge #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Greg Capullo was published this week by Marvel Comics in both a standard and Red Band edition The latter was polybagged, cost an extra dollar and promised gorier exclusive material So what did you get for your additional buck? Well, it started with a different colour scheme for[...]

Image Comics PR people have clearly seen how Marvel Comics' use of the Red Band bagged extra violent versions of comics have pushed sales of the likes of Blood Hunt – with more Marvel titles such as Werewolf By Night, Blade and Wolverine to come in that format And have decided to tie their PR[...]

We have been comparing the differing scenes, issue by issue, for Marvel's standard issues of the Blood Hunt mini-series by Jed MacKay and Pepe Larraz, and the bagged Red Band versions as it kicks off a major Marvel event That began with Blood Hunt #1 and Doctor Strange being stabbed in the back in the standard[...]

Marvel Executive Editor and SVP Tom Brevoort's response as to how in Blood Hunt, Doctor Strange being stabbed in the back in the standard version, but ripped asunder in the Red Band version would this affect this going forward? And in Blood Hunt #2, you basically had  Schrödinger's Doctor Strange As of Blood Hunt #3 by Jed[...]

Yesterday, we looked at Marvel Executive Editor and SVP Tom Brevoort's response asking how Blood Hunt continuity was going to be affected by the Red Band more violent versions Specifically how in Blood Hunt #1, Doctor Strange was stabbed in the back in the standard version, but ripped asunder in the Red Band version And[...]

"Another specific example are the Red Band versions of Blood Hunt These versions will ONLY appear in print comic form for the foreseeable future, Mr Gabriel forgot to mention this yesterday, to get these bloody takes, fans will need to pick up the comics in your stores." Blood Hunt is the new Marvel summer event with the[...]

What we weren't expecting it to have was a violent, funny, violently funny, and disturbingly wacky at just the right time vibe (think Preacher)- but that's what we're getting from the truly fun "red band" trailer for Utopia. (Image: Amazon Prime) Just to be clear? The following "red band" trailer is uncensored and contains graphic violence (pretty[...]

But don't take our word for it (at least until after our review drops), check out the newly-released "red band" trailer that shows you why the series is listed as an "adult animated series": In Roiland and McMahn's adult animated series, a team of four aliens who escape their exploding homeworld only to crash land into[...]

Which is good for the Predator, but – as we see from the recently released red band trailer (and new official poster, above) for the Shane Black-directed film  – it's a pretty bad thing if you suddenly find yourself on the business end of a sniper red dot: https://youtu.be/WaG1KZqrLvMVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled:[...]

The first video Swipe File on Bleeding Cool. And I doubt it will be the last... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cul8ted-AU&feature In Swipe File we

I've spent most of the day variously writing comic reviews, writing TV reviews (Last Resort is brilliant  and so very, very doomed) and watching trailers and the thing which made me giggle the most? It was the Red Band trailer for Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunterswith Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton. Okay, not just because it's steampunk[...]