Rich Johnston Archives

Every year, the International Toy Fair in New York delivers a score of toy-related images onto the Internet, many of them items that are being seen for

Not every comic book comes out of time. At least retailers keep retailers up to date on when comic books are delayed. As opposed to Marvel who kept Brian

Yesterday saw a tonne of Mister Miracle prints hit comic stores. Mister Miracle #1 Fourth Printing, Mister Miracle #2 Third Printing, Mister Miracle #3

Al Ewing is writing You Are Deadpool, a five-weekly series for May that's a choose-your-own-adventure-style story. With dice. Which you can even cut out.

Basically, when 2000 AD publishes a 48-page 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special on 20th June with an all-female creator list, it will probably have more female creator credits than in the entire history of 2000 AD.

Amazing Spider-Man #795 was published today. Already it is has sold multiple copies on eBay from $10 to $15, from a cover price of $3.99. But why?

Professor Jim Kakalios is the Taylor Distinguished Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota who wrote The Materials

I miss Al Ewing on Ultimates, Contest of Champions and US Avengers, where each week he would try and remake the Marvel Universe post-Secret Wars, The

If they can't keep politics out of superheroes, what about religion? Superman #40 manages to mix both with Superboy, Jonathan Kent, kicking it off in an ironic fashion.

Last year, Bleeding Cool pointed out that upcoming Amazon solicitations were suggesting that Rachel Summers/Rachel Grey (depending which comic book you are reading) was going to get a new superhero name to replace the current "Prestige".

Today's The Walking Dead #176 introduces us to a brand new Big Bad. Or potentially a Big Good. Much is undecided. And we're getting Hillary Clinton vibes, people.

In 1942, William Moulton Marston and H.G. Peter brought giant kangaroos to Paradise Island in Sensation Comics #6. Amazons were shown riding giant

Next Wednesday is Valentine's Day. So how are all the DC superheroes' love lives? Let's take a look here — spoilers ahead!

Yesterday, we posited the possibility that, with Loki: Sorcerer Supreme popping up in today's Amazing Spider-Man #795, we might be due a revisit to the favour that Loki granted after saving his daughter's life.

The Marvel retro ads for Marvel Legacy continue in today’s titles. Multiple-title ads, mixing of fonts, splashes and stars, and even text in arrows, it all makes for a heady mix.

The BBC have announced a new remastering of the recovered and restored classic Doctor Who adventure Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World starring Patrick Troughton as The Doctor on DVD.

The man who brought you Eltingville is back, with a murder mystery set in a school of sorcery.  Evan Dorkin and Veronica Fish have Blackwood, a new comic

Tomorrow sees the publication of The Amazing Spider-Man #795, guest-starring Loki now in his Sorcerer Supreme guise. You know, trying to play the good guy

Sean  Hannity is an American talk show host, author, and conservative political commentator. Host of The Sean Hannity Show, a nationally syndicated talk

BATMAN #40 (W) Tom King (A/CA) Joelle Jones "SUPERFRIENDS" part four! Since the beginning, the friendship between Batman and Wonder Woman has stood at the

When Brooklyn's much-loved Bergen Street Comics closed in September 2015, comic fans Cade Schreger and Davey Kourtesis opened their own store. Mama Says Comics Rock opened on Degraw Street in the spring of 2016. Sadly, it doesn't look like it will last two years.

GLSEN, which formerly stood for the Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network, is an organization founded in 1990 in the United States that seeks to

There was a lot of chatter regarding whether or not Thandie Newton is playing Sana Solo, neé Sana Starros, in the trailer to the new Solo: A Star Wars

Tee Franklin and Nick Pitarra and will both be attending Image Expo 2018 in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday, February 21st. Expo attendees will be the first to learn of Pitarra’s, Franklin’s, and the rest of the lineup of new projects from Image Comics.

Usagi Yojimbo, the story of a rabbit Samurai in an anthropomorphic feudal 17th century Japan created by Stan Sakai and told over almost 25 years, has been optioned by Gaumont to be an animated TV series.

Diamond Comic Distributors have announced the categories for their Spring 2018 retailer Best Practice Awards, rewarding comic book stores who excel in certain areas.

Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner recently quit the Harley Quinn comic book that they had made their own. Jimmy chatted to Bleeding Cool about recent changes.

Over the weekend teaser images appeared on social media showing the first in a series of character treatments for the comic series which will be making

he “Batman Effect”: Improving Perseverance in Young Children by Rachel E. White and Emily O. Prager is the report os a study into the benefits of "self-distancing", taking an outsider's view of one's own situation, on young children's perseverance.

Ryan Reynolds is Deadpool. And Ryan Reyolds is Deadpool 2. But did you also know he was also Flashdance? Here's the new poster he teased...