Rich Johnston Archives

So Professor Charles Xavier is back! As revealed in last month's Astonishing X-Men #6, he has returned from the death at the hands of his first student,

Comic store 7SI Games, Comics, Collectibles has just closed. It will reopen on the 1st of February as 2nd Player Video Games - Columbia, a second store

Today sees the publication of Captain America #697 by Mark Waid, Chris Samnee and Matthew Wilson. It's a stonker of an issue, it may lead into a longer

One Punch is a comic book meme that originated from a scene in Justice League International by Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire., when

On January 12th to the 13th, DC Comics is descending on Washington DC for "DC In DC", timed to coincide with Martin Luther King Jr's holiday weekend. They

This one has been coming a long while. Tom King talked about Batman #38 originally being planned as something separate, outside the Batman twice-monthly

We've spoken of admiration before of Priest and Pete Woods' work on the current Justice League comic, with the storyline The People Vs. The Justice

On the 29th December, the Facebook site for comic book store and gallery Pop Culture Utopia of Des Moines, Iowa, saw store owner Andrew J. Thimmesch post

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom, happy first new comic book day of 2018! This week we got Adam Warlock back in GotG

Today, Bleeding Cool's Jude Terror published the Top 5 Marvel Screw-Ups of 2017. But, like Fox News, we are fair and balanced. So here's how it's looking

Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the comics industry. We revealed the list over a number of days in December, and now we've compiled it in one handy post for your convenience.

The Southeast Auction House of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, holds monthly auctions for boats, travel trailers, motor homes, vehicles, equipment, mowers ATVs,

Comic Odyssey of Quezon City, Philippines is going to be closing one of their three stores and expanding one of the others. Their Alabang Town Center

UPDATE: The store's website will still be working and is about to be updated, in the interim. After almost three years, the rather well-regarded comic

Soaring Penguin Press is the graphic novel publisher literally at the bottom of my road. With a collection of translated and original works, they are

A gunman in suburban Denver is suspected of killing a policeman and wounding others in a shootout on Sunday morning. Five sheriff's deputies and two

Back in January last year, Bleeding Cool ran a story about the exclusive variant cover of Justice League Vs Suicide Squad #1 that an employee of Islander

Challengers Comics + Conversation of Chicago is a comic shop that has won the Eisner Retailer Award in 2013, as well as a number of local Best Comic Shop

K Lynn Smith is the creator of acclaimed webcomic Plume. Dirk Manning has done some stuff as well. Together they have created a new superhero comic book

January 31st sees the final issue published of Invincible, the superhero comic created by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker and published by Skybound

Looks like DC Comics also fancies an end-of-quarter digital sales boost, the kind that Marvel Comics have specialised in of late, with up to 75% off a

In recent months, reading the twice-monthly Batman comic book (plus annual) has been like watching the San Junipero episode of Black Mirror. Or the

Brian Bendis introduced the character of Miles Morales to the Ultimate Universe, in the wake of the death of that universe's Peter Parker. A similar

It’s a long long time since the very first one of these. I was 28 when I decided that an annual look back at the rumours and scoops of the year would be a

Well, that was a way to end 2017. Nick Gazin, comic book editor and critic for Vice, ended his year on December 29th with a top ten comic book list of

That was the year that was, it's over let it go. And these are the fifty most read posts of the year. Did you have a favourite? Surprised to see that some

2017 was a year of marches. Supergirl herself, Melissa Benoist, went on the Women's March against Donald Trump, with a challenge for him to grab

That was a big one, When popular A-Lister artist Ardian Syaf went on a funtamentalist Islamic march in Indonesia, calling for the deposition of the

This wasn't our story. Okay, it kind of was our story, we had been running the story that Marvel Chair Ike Perlmutter had cancelled the Fantastic Four

This was the story that went everywhere. One I had been chasing for over a decade and it all came out after a senior employee at a rival publisher tweeted