Rich Johnston Archives

Were we all mislead by covers? Or is this a shoe yet to drop? In today's Secret Empire #1 by Nick Spencer and Steve McNiven, we see Scarlet Witch joining

Todd Allen, occasional contributor to Bleeding Cool wrote for The Beat, A funny thing happened at C2E2, or at least it made me laugh when I found out.  It

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes,Below,  I talk about the biggest books you can get free at your local comic shop, as well as a

Okay, so if people kicked off at Magneto possibly being a member of Hydra, because he's a Holocaust survivor and Hydra are Nazis, despite his having a

In yesterday's A Comic Show, Aaron Haaland recommended you stay offline today if you intended to read the new Walking Dead. And I guess he has a point.

Hot Fuzz has to be one of my favourite films and it seems rapidly becoming one of Britain's, with a little help to ITV2 who seem to play it most weeks.

Batman #21, written by Tom King and Josh Williamson and drawn by Jason Fabok was an exercise in formalist structure. A smiley face in some form or other

The Oval Office. The Hydra curtains. Captain America sitting there. The beginning of Secret Empire #1, out today. And yes, there are spoilers. Come on. Do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBfc-GJp7V8 Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes, Hey Fandom! It's the week before Free Comic Book

With the launch of Secret Empire #1 tomorrow, comic stores will have free promotional lenticular backing boards to give away, with the Captain America

As the Eisner nominations were announced, Steven Scott of IDW Publishing posted his reaction to the Love Is Love comic anthology, the volume jointly

July Solicitations already? And so it begins... Space Goat Productions has let loose it's offering for San Diego Season.... THE HOWLING: REVENGE OF THE

So I like politics in my storytelling. How can there not be, I ask, when Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water, I am concerned about

Chris D'Lando used to report from comic conventions for Bleeding Cool. Then, one day in 2013, he joined Marvel Comics in their marketing department. As

I was totally in the middle of an article entitled "In Defense Of... Secret Empire" when this dropped. Wary of outside media, Marvel's owner's own TV

It's the 25th anniversary of the release of Youngblood #1. And, so, we get another Youngblood #1 - without Rob Liefeld. But with Chad Bowers and Jim Towe.

Legendary British cartoonist Leo Baxendale died last week. Five years ago, Bryan Talbot drew this panel, for the upcoming fifth volume of Grandville, the

The launch of Street Fighter Vs Darkstalkers #1 in two weeks time has just added a couple of reasons for folk to pick it up. The first issue now includes

Yesterday, we ran 19 comic book stores big plans for Free Comic Book Day this Saturday that go above and beyond handing out the freebies. Here are the

Why not take a break from your busy schedule and watch Hate For Sale, a stop-motion animated short film created for the Visible Poetry Project 2017 based

Steve Bissette is looking to raise money to help Swamp Thing co-creator Bernie Wrightson's widow, Liz Wrightson at this difficult time. Later in May, with

By Tim Hanley After topping Marvel's overall percentage of female creators for a lengthy run, a sizeable drop at DC has put them behind Marvel for the

The Superman books continue to explore the mysteries regarding their new origins, and the people around them that seem to tie in a msyerious way. Such as

From All-New Guardians Of The Galaxy #1 by Gerry Duggan and Aaron Kuder, out tomorrow from Marvel Comics, ten pages of preview, some lettered, some not,

This week sees Josh Williamson take over the writing on Batman #22 as Tom King throws his hands up at the whole Button crossover thing. As the Flash sees

Today saw Gorillaz, the fictitious supergroup band formed by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett announce the dates for the new Humanz tour across Europe.

Over the weekend, Bleeding Cool ran a couple of reports regarding the health of legendary comic book creator George Pérez, as he headed to hospital rather

Today, Latonya Pennington posted an open letter to Marvel Comics on BlackNerdGirls in protest against recent storylines and treatment of characters in

Marvel launched X-Men Gold and X-Men Blue as a pair of twice-monthly ongoing X-Men central team comic books, alongside the monthly Astonishing X-Men. So

Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is out on May 26th. But on May 6th, it will be dominating Free Comic Book Day with back page or inside