Rich Johnston Archives

Look, it's a theory, okay? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqwJ96OLmTo Oh, please yourself...

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The Elementals was a superhero team written and drawn by Bill Willingham and published by Comicon in the mid-eighties. A dark superhero story, it was very

By Todd Allen Ever get tired of decompressed storytelling and comics that can be read in 5 minutes that barely move the plot forward? Me, too. So I

Okay whom, a year ago, would have pegged Flash as one of the consistently best-selling titles of the direct market? And you can't totally blame it on the

Frank Gogol writes This anthology wasn’t supposed to be an anthology at all. About a year ago, I wrote the first story from this collection (the last in

Yesterday we ran the story that George Pérez would not attend the East Coast Comic Con as previously arranged, with reports of a trip to the hospital over

By Jason Borelli A small town is destroyed instantly by an unknown cause. Everything remains intact, but since the cause of the disaster is anything but

A few thoughts after watching tonight's episode of Doctor Who. Yes, spoilers, obviously. Come on now. 1. Frozen In Time It's the third time he's been here

It's been a long-standing complaint within the comic book industry that so-called "ancillary" comic book creators are credit-deprived or

Call it the zeitgeist. Call it idea space. Call it parallel evolution. But the comic industry has history of simultaneous similar creation, the British

Thanks to the Calgary Reddit for this one... The Calgary Sun newspaper that isn't quite sure who publishes Wonder Woman on the front page of their

Legendary comic book creator George Pérez was due to appear at the East Coast Comic Con this weekend (and is still planned for Crash Comics in Florida for

Jeff Herron attended C2E2 for Bleeding Cool. Once upon a time, comic conventions were relatively small affairs—held in modest venues with a handful of

Chris Callahan writes, A two year long journey to finding a niche “People don’t buy mixed media digital stuff. I mean I kinda dig the cover. You’re like a

In France, comic book storytelling has been dubbed "the ninth art". But in Sanford, Florida, they are less sure. SMASH Comics Games Toys are being forced

https://twitter.com/mooncalfe1/status/858066073580687361 Indeed! https://twitter.com/WNFIV/status/857744138019753984 So Fyre Festival is a glamping music

Charlie Adlard used to draw X-Files comic books. Now he draws Walking Dead comic books. And that is the tenuous way I am drawing a link between this

It was two years ago that a senior DC Comics executive sat me down at a New York diner and explained that digital comics had reached a plateau. That

This could get confusing. America is the new series from Marvel Comics by Gabby Rivera, Ming Doyle and Joe Quinines featuring Ms America Chavez in her

Shield Comics And Games of Ames, Iowa, has announced that May 6th, Free Comic Book Day, will be its last day. I blame Hydra. It has joined fellow Iowan

Boom! Studios have given two of their comic books extra variant covers, to be ordered by retailers around the time of Final Order Cut-Off. The first is by

As the Spider-Man Homecoming movie lands in July, Marvel and Archie Comics are launching a new digest-sized Spider-Man comic book aimed at the general

Titan Comics are publishing a new Doctor Who story for Free Comic Book Day, a Four Doctors story where the iterations of the Doctor never meet, but the

Marvel are sticking with only releasing five retailer exclusive variant cover opportunities in July, as they have for June. In contrast, both this month

Skottie Young has never been shy of biting the hand that feeds him. He even spoiled the big plot twist for Marvel's Civil War II last year. But his I Hate

Previously, Bleeding Cool told you about a printing error in some copies of Secret Empire #0, a blobby, blotchy inkblot on page 2 covering up some of the

In the movie Avatar by James Cameron, one of the turning points is when Jake joins with the great dragon Toruk Makto. We see him leap, we see him join, we

Spider-Man: Homecoming is out at the beginning of July. Starring my fellow Kingstonian Tom Holland. And, alongside the likes of the launch of a new Peter

Thanks to Secret Empire, alternate evil versions of our favourite, most trusted characters are all the rage. Or something. Will anyone react badly to the