Umami is the story of a kingdom in trouble, and two cooks that are going to save the day by using their cooking skills. It’s a crazy adventure story that combines high-fantasy, cooking, and lots of absurdity.
Rich Johnston Archives
Unfortunately, due to several extenuating circumstances, the time has come to close down the retail side of Meltdown, and take the next change head on. As of tomorrow, we will no longer carry new weekly titles.
Aaron Haaland of A Comics Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom! Today's Thor #705 was intense, the arc is named 'Death of Thor', and it delivered
June brings the return of the comic book that was a breakout hit at Black Mask Comics for Magdalene Visaggio and led to her current mainstream success. Oh
Where's Wolverine? That's the question that will be asked in the upcoming Hunt for Wolverine coterie of mini-series. Today he pops up in Incredible Hulk, kicking off World War Hulk II with the Amadeus Cho firmly in the back seat. Or boot.
Bingo Love, the original graphic novel created by Tee Franklin, Jenn St-Onge, and Joy San published by Image Comics has gone to a third printing. It will
Who remembers Immortal Iron Fist from January 2007? By Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, and David Aja, it was a seminal comic of the age -- a returning round
But if you are missing his Presidential parlay, this June may bring you partial recompense. With a new comic book from Brian Denham recreating Obama as a familiar superhero... the Barack Panther... and up against a certain Donald Trump.
Longstanding comic convention mogul Brian Powers has seen his company Number 6 Enterprises sign up with DC Comics for The DC Boutique, a new vendor booth appearing at over 18 comic conventions in the United States, Canada, and the UK through 2018.
Christopher Priest wrote for what many see as the definitive run on Black Panther. Much of the good stuff in this year's Black Panther movie was based on
Today, sees the publication of nine collections from Marvel Comics priced from $8.99 to $19.99. And each one has, inexplicably, been priced at 99 cents on
Today sees the release of Avengers #685, with the big Red Iron Hulk vs Revived Banner Hulk fight. Plenty of fists are thrown, though my attention was most
Boom! Studios and Saban Brands have been teasing the debut of a mysterious new Power Ranger in Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #9, on sale in May. They've
Today sees the publication of Batman #43, the final part of Tom King and Mikel Janin's Everyone Loves Ivy storyline. A sequel to her portrayal in his
At the end of Thanos #16, we saw the Silver Surfer of the future confronting the Thanos of the future - and the present - holding Mjolnir. It seems to be
This is the cover to Super Sons #14, out today. It features the prone body of Jonathan Kent, Superboy, with Damian Wayne, Robin and his mother Talia
Natasha Romanova is a Russian secret agent, first appearing as The Black Widow in Tales Of Suspense opposite Iron Man in 1964 at the height of the Cold
Batman writer Tom King has crafted fake Batman solicitations for DC Comics before, in order to hide the truth of what he is planning. To hide the proposal
The shout sheet from this Friday's Marvel's Agents of SHIELD... no hyphen yet? MARVEL'S AGENTS OF SHIELD Air Date: Friday, March 23, 2018 Time Slot: 9:01
The upcoming April Previews catalogue from Diamond Comic Distributors, for comics shipping in June, features the new Thor #1 by Jason Aaron and Mike Del
We've been noting one or two (or three or four or five or six) retailers showing off their exclusive covers for Action Comics #1000. Well it appears there
Superwoman, Supergirl, and Super Sons are coming to an end. And in June we get conclusion specials for Teen Titans and Titans. What's next?
Here's a little bit of Brian Michael Bendis's script that Jim Lee turned into the page below. As Superman crashes into a high-end delicatessen in Metropolis...
We mentioned how DC Comics will be putting Chuck Dixon's Batman run on Knightfall back into print, recut and released, and here's where it concludes.
Aside from what we already knew, Christian Ward starts a King Thor Saga in the back of Thor #1. Cullen Bunn and Mark Bagley have a new Deadpool mini,
The Batman Who Laughs was created for Dark Nights: Metal by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, playing on one of the inspirations of The Joker, The Man Who
There's a worrying trend, at least for me, of kids not playing video games. I know, it's a strange world we live in. Instead, they are watching videos of other people playing video games -- in which Ready Player One should fit in perfectly, as we are an audience watching people watching other people play video games.
Let’s put together a bunch of Marvel Comics solicitations for June 2018 from what’s already out there.
With a Batman Wedding coming up, it looks like there's some rejigging of the Batbooks, as there has been with the Superbooks after Brian Michael Bendis jumped on.
In June, Nightwing and Suicide Squad will be joining Aquaman switching from twice-monthly to monthly -- and as a result get the price rise from $2.99 to $3.99.