Comic Book Wins and Losses, Week of 03/28/18: Highest of Houses and Doomiest of Clocks

Get ready for another Comic Book Wins and Losses list, this time for the week of March 28th, 2018. This was actually a great week for comics reading — or at least the chunk of content I read was great. That made it a little harder to find what really stood out from the week, as much of it...

Doomsday Clock #4 Review: An Unneeded and Unwanted Origin Issue

No review found! Insert a valid review ID. Rorschach wakes up in Arkham Asylum, and, true to his title, battles the other inmates almost immediately. His stay in Arkham is interspersed with scenes from his last stay in a mental institution, which was shortly after the New York City Massacre...

Watchmen's Damon Lindelof Renews with Warner Bros. TV

Looks like Damon Lindelof is pretty happy with the folks over at Warner Bros. TV with news that the Lost creator will be extending his overall deal with the studio. Credit: s_bukley / Shutterstock.com Working with the studio since 2012, the deal extension doesn’t come as a huge ...

Doomsday Clock #2 Review: The Two World Meet

No review found! Insert a valid review ID. We are given the reason why Ozymandias chose the Mime and the Marionette for his hunt for Doctor Manhattan with a tale of a bank robbery. Then, the four use the Owlship to follow the trail left behind by Manhattan. They arrive in a similar world....

Doomsday Clock #1 Review: Amazing Art, Slow Yet Intriguing Plot

No review found! Insert a valid review ID. So, here it is. The big beluga itself: Doomsday Clock. This is the story what will marry the regular DC Universe to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ legendary Watchmen continuity.           I mean, I’m assuming that’s the end goal. DC Universe: Rebirth and T...

Doomsday Clock #1 Review: A Strong, Gorgeous Piece Of Set-Dressing To Start

No review found! Insert a valid review ID. Naturally, everyone is talking about Doomsday Clock #1, from DC Comics by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Brad Anderson and Rob Leigh. There’s a whole heap of reasons for this comic to have so much discussion, from the fact that DC are placing such...

Warning - Doomsday Clock #1 Press Embargoes Lift In Five Hours

Review copies of Doomsday Clock #1 by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank published by DC Comics were sent to press earlier this week. Some with pancake mix, some without. Reviews have been embargoed until Sunday night at 11.57pm PT or Monday morning at 2.57am PT or 7.57am GMT. Now, these are just for s...

Dave Gibbons On Doomsday Clock: I Wasn't Told Anything, And I Won't Be Reading It

Dave Gibbons made an appearance at a Madefire panel at New York Comic Con tonight, and this reporter was able to grab him briefly for a few quick questions about his thoughts on the Watchmen sequel, Doomsday Clock, and his other current work. To start: “I wasn’t told anything at all – I...

A Queer Reading Of Rorschach And Watchmen, At Nine Worlds

The first panel I went to at Nine Worlds was presented Dr Katherine Hubbard who has been examining the use and understanding of the Rorschach Test in modern culture – and how Watchmen has played a major role in that.

Former Vertigo Editor Karen Berger Launches Initial Line-Up Of Berger Books At Dark Horse, With Dave Gibbons, Ann Nocenti, David Aja And Anthony Bourdain

Time was, Karen Berger was a name synonymous with Vertigo and DC’s game-changing slate of creator owned projects released via the imprint within the major publisher. After all, she founded the imprint in 1993 and she is the editor that made the likes of Sandman, Y: The Last Man, Preacher,...

The Rocketeer: High Flying Adventures Review: Charmingly Classic Stories Of Heroic Antics

No review found! Insert a valid review ID. The Rocketeer: High Flying Adventures doesn’t waste any time in dropping the reader right into the action. We open with Betty rightfully scolding Cliff for being late to rescue her, and Cliff doing what he does best: winging it. The Rocketeer is...

Dave Gibbons Wants To Show You How Comics Work

Do you want to know how comics are made? How about learning it all from the artist behind the iconic Watchmen series? Dave Gibbons, Britain’s first Comics Laureate, has put together a new book, with writer and pop culture expert Tim Pilcher, called How Comics Work. The book ...

On This Day In Pop Culture For April 14

Welcome to This Day in Pop Culture History, a daily look at important events, birthdays, and other oddities in pop culture! History is important, and we aim to educate here at Bleeding Cool, so without further ado, here are some things that have happened on April 14, the 104th day of the...

Third Time's The Charm: An R-Rated Animated Watchmen Is On The Way

It’s been a motion comic with all the parts hilariously acted out by one dude. It’s been a major motion picture that controversially did not feature a giant alien squid monster. Announced today by the capable PR team at Warner Bros (because there’s nothing else going on this ...

See First Look Photos From Not-A-Sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Entertainment Weekly has a batch of photos offering us the first glimpse of Kingsman: The Golden Circle, the follow-up to 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service, which was itself based on the comic book The Secret Service by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, a big break for Millar who isn’t...