Rich Johnston Archives

In 2016, Patrick Gleason and Peter J. Tomasi gave us a Rebirthed Superman with Superman #1. Now the team supreme have moved on to other projects. But before they go, a chance to look back at what was, with tomorrow's Superman #42 -- which may look a little familiar.

Comic book retailer Dennis Barger of Wonderworld Comics in Taylor, Michigan, is getting a little annoyed with late comic books. And he doesn't mean Doom Patrol. Well, not specifically.

Another issue of Amazing Spider-Man #797, published from Marvel Comics tomorrow, and another runaround on eBay with people hoping it's the first

Expect this as a poster in comic book stores, but also across your DC Comics titles tomorrow. Bendis Is Coming.

Polygon has been rewarded for their takedowns of Marvel with a PR-arranged announcement of the new series, Deadpool by Skottie Young and Nic Klein. And they report that Deadpool was all that Skottie Young wanted.

Valiant Entertainment’s longtime VP of Marketing & Communications, Hunter Gorinson, has elected to leave the company effective at the end of this week.

Marvel throwback character Sentry who returned recently in Doctor Strange, is getting his own series again, from Jeff Lemire and Kim Jacinto. In a

Bleeding Cool has been reporting on the current situation regarding Marvel Universe creator Stan Lee, seemingly housebound and isolated from his friends and work colleagues. Neal Adams and J Scott Campbell have already spoken out about the situation from their perspectives, and more are doing so.

Okay, so it's a bit like that moment when you discover that George R R Martin is working on a series of documentaries into the history of the

Over five years ago, DC Comics ran a line-wide event called One Year Later. They later ran Future's End: Five Years Later. Well, anything DC Comics can

Mike Perkins has drawn a lot of comic books for Marvel over the last decade and a half. Thirty-one issues of Stephen King's The Stand. Twenty-one issues

Marvel has announced the full creative team of Tony Stark: Iron Man, the new series that will relaunch Iron Man after Brian Michael Bendis leaves the comic: Dan Slott, Valerio Schiti, and Edgar Delgado.

A female booth worker claims she was sexually assaulted by her boss when walking from the Pensacola Bay Center toward the Grand Plaza Hotel parking lot during Pensacon.

Announced at the Lion Forge panel at ECCC, Managing director of Lion Forge Comics, David Steward II had an idea for a comic. And coincidentally, happened

Last week, Bleeding Cool reported concern from the comic book industry regarding Stan Lee's current situation. Lee's friends and acquaintances report

In Malaysia, illustrator and graphic designer Fahmi Reza has been sentenced to a month in jail and fined for drawing a sketch of the Prime Minister as a

Announced at the Lion Forge panel at ECCC, Hunters is an original graphic novel with a bit of a twist. It's being created by... everyone. Or pretty much.

We saw that Forbidden Planet has a Jock exclusive cover, and Uncanny Comics are to get a Tony S Daniel cover, but who else for this most landmark of

In June last year, a fire broke out in Grenfell Tower, the twenty-storey public housing flats in North Kensington, London. 72 people died and an inquest

Quincredible by Mildred Louis and Selina Espiritu is an ongoing series starting in August, following a 15-year-old superhero who is invulnerable but a bit of a weakling. So being a solo superhero needs creativity.

Toshiyasu Morita is a cosplay photographer who attended the Afro Comic Con, a non-profit organisation who held the show at the SAE Expression College in

And DC Comics launches with a bang with The Terrifics, by a long way, the most successful New Age of Heroes title. Avengers also managed to beat Detective Comics, something unheard of, of late. And Saga monsters up the chart on its return ahead of its 50th issue.

Weird Al Yankovic drops The Hamilton Polka, we have a new image of Lagertha from Vikings season 6, why Michael B. Jordan really wanted to play T'Challa in Black Panther, and more geeky news from the past week!

The Vertigo panel at ECCC promised much, but it was basically what you read in that Entertainment Weekly article last week. And on Bleeding Cool two years

As 'Goes Down Swinging' is Dan Slott's final storyline on the Amazing Spider-Man comic book, Slott has only so long left for the teasing and tantalising of the Spider-Man audience over the cosmically annulled Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson marriage.

San Diego is more than just Comic-Con. It is also home to comic book publisher and multi-media operator IDW, behind comics such as Locke & Key, Transformers and Star Trek, and TV shows such as Wynonna Earp and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. And they are hiring.

Ben Quinlan writes: In writing comics, we are given an opportunity explore situations and options that we couldn’t in real life. In my current project, Black and Blue (live on Kickstarter now), one of the main characters, Mattaya, is conscripted into the underwater army, the Aquamarines.

Diamond Select Toys have a number of silhouetted statues of toys from Avengers: Infinity War up on Diamond's website, silhouetted so as not to spoil any visual reveals or plot points from the upcoming movie. But a silhouette can only hide so much.

Announced at ECCC yesterday, Shelly Bond's Black Crown imprint from IDW has two new titles to its bow: House Amok and Euthanauts.

At the Diamond Comics retailer meeting yesterday, Diamond's Chris Powell told retailers that they had all but sold through on the new Comic Book Spinner Rack they'd recently made available to retailers. But would be getting a lot more in.