Rich Johnston Archives

Detective Comics #956 was published this week. Reviewers for outlets that DC Comics refer to as their media partners received digital copies the previous

With the new Doom Patrol by Gerard Way and Nick Derington for Young Animal/DC Comics making a splash, DC Comics has been reprinting the Grant Morrison run

John Odum writes for Bleeding Cool, At age 77, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont is the senior member of the United States Senate, having served since

Zombies Assemble, the English translation of the Japanese licensed Avengers Vs Zombies comic, was published this week - and has seemed to cause some

As Secret Empire sets the good guys and the bad guys on the run to find the fragments of the cosmic cube to change reality one way or the other, Marvel

This is the cover to the Spawn #1 Directors Cut, out next Wednesday. A homage by Todd McFarlane to the cover of Ultimate Spider-Man #1. Todd includes the

With the second printing of Heathen #1 by Natasha Alterici hitting stores this week, it appears that Heathen #3 is also going back to print with a new

There is a post being spread around from The Federalist website, that is described as "influential in alt-right, conservative, and libertarian circles."

In a widely shared piece on the blog, The Shallow Brigade, writer Kim O'Connor has continued to look at the current reputation Nick Spencer is gaining

Courtesy of the rather wonderful Mr. Howard Porter... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQRB2za5Mw Out next week... FLASH #22 Writer: Joshua Williamson |

In 1992, Spawn #1 by Todd McFarlane debuted to 1.7 million copies sold. In 2017 it sells... not quite that many. But it's still going. And on Wednesday

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

Batman #24 was solicited with art by David Finch and Danny Miki (who also drew the cover above), and now Clay Mann has joined them on the book. Nightwing

DC Comics has cancelled the upcoming Sandman Mystery Theatre third trade paperback, which would have collected Vertigo's Sandman Mystery Theatre #25-35 by

You may have seen this on Bleeding Cool a few weeks ago, as well as the press release it caused Adult Swim to issue, but on May 17th, comic book retailers

Mile High Comics is the largest back issue seller of comic books in the USA by far. So when a hailstorm burst through their warehouses in Monday, it was

Marvel Comics is running a three-week sale to retailers from their collection stock, hardcovers and tradepaperbacks, at very large discounts to retailers.

Stanley "Artgerm" Lau is a regular favourite at comic conventions and for cover variants. But how does he do it? Maybe you'll be able to discern from the

Ethan Van Sciver is a popular comic book writer and artist, currently working on Hal Jordan And The Green Lantern Corps, but he has worked on New X-Men

Yesterday, we told that iZombie TV show co-creator/producer and Veronica Mars alumni Diane Ruggiero-Wright was behind the new US remake of Misfits. Today,

This is how Justice League #22 was solicited for June. Written by BRYAN HITCH • Art by FERNANDO PASARIN and OCLAIR ALBERT • Cover by BRYAN HITCH • Variant

Space City Comic Con held in Houston last year, was a rather controversial comic convention. Lots of things went wrong, people got angry claiming

Misfits is probably the finest example of the superfiction story on the screen. Created by Howard Overman for E4 on what has been described as one day's

Image Comics will be publishing eleven variant covers for titles coming out in June for "Pride Month", celenrating the LGBTQ community and the progress

Those on tenterhooks from last week's Superman #22's impersonation of Hot Fuzz will just have to wait to see if any swans get involvd. Don't worry though,

Veronica Cale first appeared in Wonder Woman #196 in 2003, created by Greg Rucka and Drew Johnson. Rucka stated his intent as creating a "Lex Luthor for

In Amazing Spider-Man #26, Spider-Man dedicated Parker Industries to joining mercenary Silver Sable in an attempt to depose the government of Sokovia, in

With Kurt Sutter's Lucas Stand coming out in trade paperback today, Boom! Studios suggested we make the first issue of the comic book available to you,

Two Marvel comics with ties to Secret Empire, out today. One overtly so, Secret Warriors #1 by Matthew Rosenberg and Javi Garron and one less so, Uncanny

When asked about his favourite Sentinels stories, Cullen Bunn told Marvel.com, The Nimrod stories in UNCANNY X-MEN #194, #209, and #210: “Nimrod—and later