Rich Johnston Archives

Metal takes the top spot, Action Comics and Teen Titans get a boost from lenticular Oz reveals, and more from this week's Bleeding Cool Bestseller List!

G.I. Joe comic writer in hot water, baby Darkseid makes his debut, Hydra cosplay banned from Rose City Comic Con, and more geeky news from the past week!

True Believers is a line from Marvel Comics, reprinting classic issues for $1, often to promote a new series or event. And in December, that event is the

There's always a runt of a litter than gets ignored, isn't there? Warrior Magazine had Marvelman and V For Vendetta from Alan Moore - but The BoJeffries

We’ve been taking a look at new books and comics coming out at the upcoming Thought Bubble Comics Festival, a week-long celebration of creativity and

DC Comics has prepared a motion comic ad to advertise the release of The Dark Knight III: The Master Race. It is slated to run in US national distribution

We’ve been taking a look at new books and comics coming out at the upcoming Thought Bubble Comics Festival, a week-long celebration of creativity and

Bleeding Cool has been in love with the Vision comic by Tom King, Gabriel Hernandez Walta, Michael Walsh and Jordie Bellaire. And have noted it as a

This is a graphic that illustrates the lenticular cover for Action Comics #988 by Dan Jurgens and Viktor Bogdanovic. This new cover features art by the

We’ve been taking a look at new books and comics coming out at the upcoming Thought Bubble Comics Festival, a week-long celebration of creativity and

The Heroes & Villains Fan Fest came to London earlier in the year, strangely planned for the same day as MCM London Expo, albeit on the other side of

I used to go to a club called Paradiso when I was a student, somewhhwere off the Bigg Market in Newcastle-Upon Tyne. It really was the rankest place, but

Being offered to comic book retailers from Elephant Gun, as an exclusive through Diamond Previews, is this set of Stark Industries decal stickers with

Retailers wanting to participate in Local Comic Shop Day 2017 on November the 18th have only until Monday to register as a participant or it will be too

Now, one can't read anything into variant covers, especially retailer exclusive covers, they can be quite distinct from the contents of the comic books in

When looking at the original Marvel Legacy covers and title, Bleeding Cool's Joe Glass got quite excited: "Generation X will have an arc called ‘OG Gen

In the most recent issue of Action Comics #987, we discovered the identity of Mr Oz. Or, at least, the identity he wants Superman to believe.

This December sees a crossover event between the titles that sit together alphabetically on the DC Comics shelf: Superman, Super Sons, and Teen Titans.

During his run on Justice League Taskforce, Christopher Priest coined the term "tuna sandwich", which became a euphemism for someone of low intelligence.

Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil is the big Black Hammer spinoff launching this autumn — here are some covers and a short preview!

Dennis O'Neil, often referred to as Denny O'Neil, is one of the all-time classic Batman contributors, as editor and writer. As well as well known runs on

Marvel Comics has announced a few more printings to retailers. First that next week's Generations Ms Marvel & Ms Marvel #1 will be going to a second

Parsons Green is towards my neck of the woods in London. I cycled past there on Wednesday, heading home from the comic shops. My eldest daughter's school

We've been taking a look at new books and comics coming out at the upcoming Thought Bubble Comics Festival, a week-long celebration of creativity and

By Abdulkareem Baba Aminu Come Saturday, on the 16th of September in Lagos, Nigeria, fans will throng the annual Lagos Comic-Con. About 5,000 attendees

We've been taking a look at new books and comics coming out at the upcoming Thought Bubble Comics Festival, a week-long celebration of creativity and

Ten years ago, BBC World Service broadcast an hour-long radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods spinoff Anansi Boys, featuring Lenny Henry who had

A few upcoming DC Comics covers for October shipping titles. As ever, you may have seen some of them. You won’t have seen most of them… and the Supergirl

Boom! Studios' new Rugrats comics launch next month—written by Eisner-nominated Box Brown and drawn by Lisa DuBois - and this Monday is the FOC date for

The upcoming Marvel Legacy titles will each have an extra three page back-up strip written by Robbie Thompson and (mostly) drawn by Mark Bagley. But while