Rich Johnston Archives

With the release of Redneck #2 (and initial Bleeding Cool Bestseller List charts indicating that it has made it onto the top ten of some stores), writer

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported that as well as Justice League #22, the team of Bryan Hitch and Fernando Pasarin would be off #23 and #24. Well, the

A few upcoming DC Comics covers for June shipping titles. As ever, you may have seen some of them. You won’t have seen most of them… Superman #25 by Ryan

The new storyline Underworld begins in Aquaman #25, on Final Order Cutoff this week. The issue written by Dan Abnett and painted by Stjepan Sejic. In this

This week we learned that Lisa Spoonauer, one of the stars of Kevin Smith's Clerks, had died, aged 44. Her brother, Mike Spoonauer, is running a

Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you that DC Comics were changing the creative team of Justice League #22 from Bryan Hitch and Fernando Passarin to

DC Comics has informed retailers that they will be allowed to sell Dark Days: The Forge #1 at midnight on Tuesday June 13th, instead of their normal

From Action Lab Entertainment and Action Lab - Danger Zone, for August 2017. The launch of Marty LeGrow's Toyetica and the Dollface/Vampblade/Zombie Tramp

Here's your first look at Black Mask Comics' solicitations for August 2017, beginning with Kim & Kim... KIM AND KIM LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD #2 (MR) (W)

Totally Awesome Hulk #19 by Greg Pak, Robert Gill and Nolan Woodward, the prelude issue to the Hulk/Wolverine event Weapons Of Mass Destruction has sold

Batman is DC's best selling character by a long, long way. Month in, month out Batman tops the sales charts, especially since the Scott Snyder and Greg

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

Justice League Of America #7 promised us that it would be "all capped off with a moment fans have been waiting for since DC UNIVERSE: REBIRTH!" I'm not

You know that trope in comic books, where a featured guest-star is introduced using their logo as part of something's speech balloon? You know, like this,

At the Valiant Summit last month, they teased that Shadowman would get a new series in March 2018...and that the road to his big comeback would start in

From IDW in August 2017... and it begins with a first strike from Hasbro, a Dimension X for Turtles and, yes, Donald and Mickey, a brand new crossover

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool brought attention to the amount of Ultimate Universe characters currently running around the Prime Marvel universe, ramping up

When the Hydra Villain variant covers by Dan Mora were released by Marvel, each showing one of the Hydra-ised villains of Secret Empire, Magneto was one

Valiant has already announced artists who will contribute to their new X-O Manowar series  over the first year, beginning with Tomas Giorello and

Dan Jurgens has been a Superman creator, on and off, for thirty years, give or take. So when he got the chance to rewrite a new Superman in Superman

From Archie Comics in August... though we start with Marvel (digest-sized Avengers), a promised return of Sabrina (and something about Madam Satan's grand

Coming from Titan in August, a new comic based on the upcoming game Quake Champions, by Black Mumba's Ram V and Dark Souls' Alan Quah. The game itself is

Was First Strike announced by IDW at the Diamond Summit in Chicago? The jury is still out. But IDW did tell CBR that it had been ahead of their

Recently, Dave Sim brought back the character of Cerebus the Aardvark as a series of gag strips in Cerebus In Hell, with the late departed Cerebus

The new series/event from Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, Dark Nights: Metal hits the cover of next week's Diamond Previews, with a little tip in from Tom

In the current DC Comics, Superman and Lois Lane are a married couple, with a son, Jonathan. They have been aged compared to their recent appearance but

Okay, I just ran a certain Liam Sharo Wonder Woman story and I was previously told by someone wise that if I'm going to run a story with that much female

  Wonder Woman #23 by Greg Rucka and Liam Sharp is out tomorrow. Why not contrast the coloured, lettered art with Hi-Fi and John Wynne, compared to

Dark Horse Comics have plenty to share for August 2017... and with American Gods taking the lead with comic books, pint glasses and shot glasses. As well

As Doctor Who starts ist Four Doctor crossover - and by the look of it there's a fifth in there as well, we get all of Titan Comics Doctor Who solicits