Rich Johnston Archives

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Fissure is a comic book published by Vault about a world behind a wall, inspired directly by the plans of the current presidential administration. And you

Art by Phil Cho. The question was asked... https://twitter.com/JLavengersGhost/status/833418736266838024 ...who knew where it would end up?

Michael Davis writes, Part I of this ran on Comicmix Part 2 is first-run on Bleeding Cool. Part 1: The Black Panther comes to Marvel. The Black Panthers

There are many issues that are causing comic book retailers problems today. Increasing cost prices, a static market, increasing rents, reducing store

Okay, it could be argued Kieron Gillen has always written a James Bond comic. But I was looking through Kieron Gillen's twitter history to find any James

In May, Marvel Comics is cancelling the Rocket Raccoon series after five issues and relaunching it as Rocket! I don't think a title has ever been

Futurama #82 is scheduled to be published this Wednesday. Except it won't be. In the latest Simpsons Comics #237 letter column, they mention that issue

A few more retailer variant covers from our friends at Fried Pie - notice no DC Comics covers, they seem to be increasing their restriction on multiple

At ComicsPRO, F1rst Comics/Devil's Due teased a new fantasy comic book series for 2017 by Bill Willingham, his first since the end of Fables - but without

Courtesy of Diamond Daily,the daily retailer newsletter. there are a few ComicsPRO announcements which didn't make it to Bleeding Cool's 52 Story List...

What if a fascist, autocratic President took over the United States? And what if that President lost California, the sixth largest economy on Earth, by

A few DC Comics variant covers I haven’t seen around the place yet. You may have. But you probably haven't seen all of them... Scooby Apocalypse #11 by

Are you planning to pick up the new Captain America-centric event Secret Empire that Bleeding Cool has been telling you about since July? But where does

The March 2017 theme for the core subscription box Loot Crate is "Primal". As they say "That roar in the distance is a call. Will you answer it? This

Thanks to Ray Flook and Alejandra Bodden for Bleeding Cool, Day Two at New York Toy Fair 2017 - and catch up with Day One and the LEGO Special right here.

Thanks to Ray Flook and Alejandra Bodden for Bleeding Cool, the look of LEGO at New York Toy Fair 2017... and catch up with Day One here!

Anthony Ruttgaizer writes, The comics and movies I grew up loving didn’t feature many characters who looked like me.  I was 6 when my dad took me to see

It's not just comic stores biting the dust. Organisers of the Cincinnati ComiCon posted the following to Instagram, closing the show after four years.

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what

Top Twenty Traffic Of The Week Batfleck No More?! Ben Affleck Reportedly “Wants Out” Of Batman Role Are Marvel Teasing The Deaths Of Two Of The Lead

Here are the top 100 ordered comics and graphic novels by comic stores in North America through Diamond Comic Distributors. An asterisk * denotes a comic

By Tim Hanley The year closed with DC's overall percentage of female creators dropping slightly while Marvel's rose, though DC's was still the higher of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXFVoV0hrFw Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of

Gaston is a gag-a-day comic strip created in 1957 by the Belgian cartoonist André Franquin in the magazine Spirou. The series focuses on the everyday life

Olly MacNamee writes Just as all teenagers who have sex, or smoke dope in horror films are targeted for a brutal and bloody ending, anyone of a certain

Ray Flook and Alejandra Bodden took to New York Toy Fair for Bleeding Cool yesterday with cameras in hand, and brought you back 88 photos and a number of

Well, that was a busy few days in Memphis, Tennessee. Here are 52 stories from ComicsPRO - mostly covered by Bleeding Cool but there's more besides. And

A few pretty covers to gaze upon... Red Sonja #3 will get a Mike McKone spot colour variant, 1:15 Vampirella #1 Jimmy Broxton spot colour 1:15  

Friday, February 24th sees a red carpet screening of Logan in New York City. And pour friends Midtown Comics have tickets to give away for anyone willing