Rich Johnston Archives

The gender ratio of writers and artists credited in the lineup of DC's New Age of Heroes may shock you... or not shock you at all, in the slightest.

Doomsday Clock #2 takes the brunt of advance reorders as retailers rush to up their numbers in the wake of issue #1's success.

The first part of Old Man Logan's Marvel Legacy kickoff story, The Scarlet Samurai, has sold out from Diamond and so is getting a second printing.

As more people turn digital, original comic book artwork is getting rarer. Prices on sketches at comic book shows or commissions are also going up in

We mentioned a couple of Grant Morrison Omnibuses coming from DC in 2018, and a reissue of Infinite Crisis Omnibus and Frank Miller's Ronin getting new

Every month, Marvel offers retailer the chance to commission exclusive covers for certain titles, as long as they order thousands of copies. It’s an

  Before DC Comics published Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns, they also published Frank Miller's Ronin. The series was written and drawn by Frank

This week saw opening statements in the trademark court battle between San Diego Comic-Con and Salt Lake ComicCon over the ComicCon trademark. Callie

  The longest running comic book convention in Britain is Caption. It used to be in Oxford, then it was sent to Coventry, now it's in Brighton, and

The DC Comics Infinite Crisis Omnibus has been out of print for a while now. Which is why the cheapest you can buy it on Amazon Marketplace is for around

We mentioned that some copies of Monsters Unleashed #8 were printed with pages for Luke Cage #167 in the middle instead of the intended monstrousness. And

Royals, the comic that sees the Inhumans head to the stars, written by Al Ewing with artists including JonBoy Meyers, Alvaro Lopez, Thorny Silas and Kevin

In 1995, Outbreaks Of Violets – Random Acts Of Kindness was a portfolio of prints that told a story by Alan Moore.

Here's a preview of the first issue of Amazing Spider-Man: Venom Inc. Alpha #1 by Dan Slott, Mike Costa, and Ryan Stegman... out next week.

Courtesy of Marvel's Legacy Previews, here's a preview of the first issue of Marvel Two-In-One #1, with the Fate of the Four by Chip Zdarsky and Jim Cheung.

Courtesy of Marvel's Legacy Previews, because it seems quite a few folk didn't get them, here's a preview of the first issue of Phoenix Resurrection #1,

Check out these upcoming DC Comics variant covers for January 2018 shipping titles. As ever, you may have seen some of them, but you won’t have seen most

It was news when they said they were going to do it. Continue collecting the Vertigo Doom Patrol series past the Grant Morrison and Richard Case run, and

Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose... Publisher's Weekly in 2005, in an article by Calvin Reid, exposed that Kurt Hassler, the then Borders and

Last year, Lebanon banned the Wonder Woman movie because its star, Gal Gadot, had served in the Israeli forces under the country's national service.

Fried Pie Comics is a variant cover sub-brand, featuring variant covers for popular comics by well-known industry artists and exclusively distributed

The Justice League movie launches in China a couple of weeks ago. And just as in the USA, they're doing a promotional tie-in with McDonalds and giving

Bleeding Cool has received word that one retailer was offered $20 if they would take a Batman Annual #2 out of the pull box of another customer and sell

2018 brings two new Omnibuses for Grant Morrison's DC superhero work, collecting his Seven Soldiers series of series on one oversized volume, and his

From the back of today's X-Men Blue #16, a tease of something to come... At least two new ongoing series from the Xbooks? Well one of them, possibly the

I did rather enjoy this scene in today's Secret Warriors #9 by Matthew Rosenberg, Javier Garron, Will Robson, and Israel Silva. To all accounts, a

The following contains final page spoilers for Batman Annual #2 out today. And it may be one of the reasons it has become a sudden collectable. It tells

In the Twilight of the Superheroes crossover pitch that DC Comics bought from Alan Moore but never published (and I will continue reminding them of that

Previously on U.S.Avengers, Cannonball managed to land on one of the Kral systems of the Skrull Empire, worlds in which the culture is modelled on that

So, The Immortal Men by James Tynion and Jim Lee has been delayed well into 2018. The official reason is so it can tie into Metal better. I think we all