Rich Johnston Archives

Marvel Rising: Alpha #1, the all-ages series from Marvel spinning out of the animated series was solicited with art by Marco Failla.  Instead, it will now

Stars of Henry Danger will be appearing together at a convention for the first time at Comic Con Revolution in Ontario, California, later this month.

In DC Nation #0, DC Comics previewed the first issue of the ongoing free PR magazine for DC fans, to follow up on the aborted DC Direct Currents magazine, which only managed one issue.

Well, this is a new experience for Brian Michael Bendis. He has been used to his launch books at Marvel getting massive amounts of variant covers, as well as retailers getting added discounts if they order high and match orders with previous issues. But at DC Comics, they do things differently.

And so it begins. Diamond has announced their exclusives San Diego Comic-Con in July this year. The list includes comic variants, a two-pack of Superman ViniMates vinyl figures and an assortment of PVC and PX statues,

Check out these upcoming DC Comics covers for June and July 2018 shipping titles. As ever, you may have seen some of them – but you won’t have seen most of them…

Okay, so you may have seen a certain film last week. And in that film, somewhere, you may have seen a certain logo. And you already know that another

I get the word that, internally at DC Comics, some editorial wisecracks are placing bets on exactly how many pages of each issue of the six-weekly Man Of

Infinity Wars is the new series by Gerry Duggan, Mike Deodato and Frank Martin that will be launching three months or so after the movie that it is meant

Unlike Marvel Comics, who offers retailers the chance to commission exclusive covers from in-demand cover artists for several titles every month, DC

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported that DC Comics had but the Free Comic Book Day version of DC SuperHero Girls up on ComiXology... for free, Three days

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

Tim Pilcher, previously of DC Vertigo, Humanoids and Tundra, has been nominated for two Eisner Awards. Only thing is, he lives in Brighton, on the South

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop, Orlando, Florida, writes, Hey Fandom! It's the Wednesday before Free Comic Book Day and excitement's in the air! The

Marvel has an Eternals movie in the works. And so Celestials fill their pages. And now, courtesy of Avengers #1, something that can kill Eternals. Apart

As it stands, no one else at DC Comics is allowed to use the Legion Of Superheroes, the Justice Society of America or Captain Marvel until Geoff Johns is

Babs Tarr is to draw a Judge Dredd story for the 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special, set for release in June, written by Emma Beeby, the first time Dredd has had an all-woman writer/artist team.

Boom! Studios has hired Jeanine Schaefer as the new role of Executive Editor and will oversee a new yet-to-be-revealed line of titles.

It was only the other day in Action Comics #1000 that we noticed that someone had chiselled the trunks back onto the statue of Superman in Centennial Park, Metropolis.

We are all familiar with the dog, shaking water off its fur. And how effective it is at getting that water off the dog and... onto everything else.  

DC Comics appears to have pulled digital download codes from their comics. In recent months, they had had a fairly steady standard when it comes to

So I was reading Batman #46, as it seems most of comicdom will be doing today. That and DC Nation #0, anyway. A present-day alternate reality in which

Today's DC Nation #0 spells out the Justice League teams we can look forward to in the No Justice series and the New Justice promotion. Team Entropy with

Today sees Spider-Man #40, Brian Bendis' final issue with Oscar Bazaldua and Sara Pichelli telling the stories of Miles Morales, as he left Marvel for DC

Ten years and two weeks ago, I was invited to the premiere of Iron Man in London's Leicester Square. It was my first movie premiere, and for some reason I seemed determined to make it my last. Why? Because I took an iron with me.

From this side of the pond, I have been utterly baffled by the reaction to Michelle Wolf's speech to the White House Correspondents Dinner. It's a roast,

We teased this yesterday, but now we've been to the comic shop. At the back of today's X-Men: Gold #27 has an unsolicited one-page story by Ed Brisson and

Upcoming issues of Brian Bendis' weekly series The Man Of Steel has had a few Lois Lane fans worried. With phrases such as these in the solicitations...

In the back of DC Nation #0, out today, there is a tease for DC Nation #1, the new in-house print-and-digital magazine, we get a sneak peek at Jim Lee's

Today's DC Nation #0 sees the Joker waiting patiently for his invite to Batman and Catwoman's wedding, at a complete stranger's house who has no reason to