Rich Johnston Archives

There I was thinking Image Comics were above that sort of thing these days. But apparently not! Well, they do have their twenty-fifth anniversary coming

Marvel has got in the habit recently of sending one-per-store bonus variant covers to stores Tomorrow that will be The Mighty Captain Marvel #1 Ross

Ten years ago, in 2007, Dark Horse did something new that would be imitated by many other publishers and TV franchises. They took a television show that

Artist and writer Tessa Hulls has been visiting Hong Kong and Shanghai to work on her next graphic novel. She told Instagram followers "My graphic novel

RESIST! is a pro-female, anti-Trump cartoon anthology, created and published in time for the inauguration of President Trump on Friday. Created and

Eleanor & The Egret is a new comic from Aftershock Comics for April 5th, by John Layman and Sam Kieth described as "A slightly surreal tale of an art

Superman is getting a new costume redesign. Again. And, as has been traditional (since 2011 at least), he doesn't have the red shorts. The trunks. The

A preview for Clone Conspiracy #4 by Dan Slott and Jim Cheung runs below... ...with Peter Parker Spider-Man and Ben Reilly Jackal transporting the remains

The CBLDF has joined a coalition led by the National Coalition Against Censorship to protest against H.B. 103, a New Hampshire bill that would require

This is how the Flash and Batman lenticular covers by Jason Fabok will look, as you flick from left to right. But what was the process? He's been breaking

To add to the previous Frankensteining of DC Comics solicitations for April 2017, here come the remaining Batbooks and Vertigo titles from  CBR and

It was meant to come out in the autumn of last year. But Black Cloud from Jason Latour, Ivan Brandon, Greg Hinkle and Matt Wilson is now coming out from

Russian authorities are using comic books to explain to migrants how they should behave in Moscow. The universality of comic books when it comes to

  This is a first. Collector's Paradise in LA has commissioned not only an exclusive cover variant of the upcoming X-O Manowar #1 but also exclusive

The Hollywood Reporter is engaging in what Bleeding Cool like to dub "Mindless Speculation." Though they seem less willing to headline it. Reporting on

Archie Comics has published comics based on the Sega video game Sonic The Hedgehog since 1992, and it has remained a remarkably successful comic book

The Walking Dead #163, already just 25 cents, and launching on February 1st, Image Day, the 25th Anniversary of the publisher, now has a little extra.

Cover to cover, it's only sixteen pages long. But the Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story comic book may be the most influential comic book of all

Comic book inker Dan Panosian has been talking about the widely and varied role of the comic book inker . And led by reinking a colouring book

Pat Mills is the creator of the controversial cancelled Action! comic as well as 2000AD and co-creator of Judge Dredd. Kevin O'Neill's is the co-creator

UPDATE: The piece below ran early UK time today, based on reports from UK retailers and senior management at chain stores, sourced from the UK side of the

Netflix has just sent over three new-look images at the forthcoming Marvel’s The Defenders, landing later this year. We have Jessica Jones (Krysten

The end of House At Pooh Corner, by AA Milne; He laughed and jumped to his feet. "Come on!" "Where?" said Pooh. "Anywhere," said Christopher Robin. * * *

Dad & Kid: Dad is Spencer Ellsworth, who has written for BC & many other sites, and whose space opera trilogy Starfire is coming from Tor Books in

Going to make this as spoilerless as possible. But in the credits to the final episode of this series of Sherlock, there was one name that stuck out in

This week, the President of the United States will be inaugurated. And with concerns about mounting national debt, her's a visual example of that from one

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

A recent study made by the Brigham Young University in Utah suggests that rather than superheroes make for poor role models for children. Pow! Boom!

Two videos, one of the cosplay, one of the show itself, courtesy of Ray Flook, attending the Fifth Annual Black Comic Book Festival at the Schomburg

We've just seen President-Elect Donald Trump attack the graphic novelist Congressman John Lewis on Twitter. But what if Trump's own words were themselves