Rich Johnston Archives

Amazon: The Return of Darkhold to Marvel Comics in October?
The Darkhold is Marvel's version of the Necronomicon. Meant to have existed through the aeons, it sometimes turns up. Of late that has included in the Carnage series, in Secret Empire, and was a major feature of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD TV show.
spider-man: into the spider-verse
So there's the Multiverse. Parallel universes where different things happen, where different versions for characters exist and they all keep crossing over all of the time. And the subject of the upcoming animated movie, Into the Spider-Verse, with Miles Morales as the Spider-lead.
venom collections amazon
More Amazon fishing sees Marvel Comics double down on Venom ahead of the release of the Sony movie later this year. As well as a brand-new Venom #1 for Marvel's Fresh Start, all sorts of books are being dug up, collected and published, or reprinted. Here are a few we found.
My Lady's Choosing… to Read Bleeding Cool
The Chicago Reader has just run a feature on My Lady's Choosing, a new choose-your-romance novel by Chicagoans Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris — with a mention of yours truly.
Fantastic Four comics returning 2018
Today, Marvel Comics announced that they would be publishing a new Fantastic Four monthly series beginning in August -- the first of the sort in three years. Here's a history of how Bleeding Cool broke the story on why there wasn't one -- and found all sorts of implications.
Dark Nights: Metal #6
DC Comics' big event series Dark Nights: Metal was initially edited by Eddie Berganza and assistant edited by Rebecca Taylor. When Berganza was fired, Rebecca became the full editor of Metal. Now, one of Rebecca's editorial notes caused a few comic book creators to contact me -- because they'd heard it before.
doom patrol #11 delayed and more
Comics sometimes come out later than they were intended to. It happens. Few remember that Watchmen was late. Quite a few folk right now know that Gerard Way's Doom Patrol is late, but they will forget. The work is, in the end, what matters. Still... it's useful to keep an eye on such things.
Justice League
DC Comics rarely offers retailer exclusive variants. While Marvel pumps out seven to 17 a month, probably devaluing the appeal in the process, DC Comics puts out one every three months or so and makes it a little more special. And now the publisher will offer exclusive retailer variant covers on Justice League #1.