Rich Johnston Archives

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

Spider-Man: Homecoming features plenty of recognisable characters. Spider-Man, Aunt May, The Vulture, Iron Man, Happy Hogan, Pepper Potts, Flash Thompson,

Savage Dragon #225 seems to have taken something directly from Sex Criminals, the bagged variant cover.

Rob Liefeld will appear at Comic-Con International 2017 in San Diego, CA on Thursday July 20th for a special Panel and Q&A with Walking Dead creator

Yesterday saw Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev bring us a new chapter of Infamous Iron Man, the one in which Doctor Doom is swanning around pretending to be

Hermes Press has announced two exclusives for San Diego Comic-Con 2017, one from the late great Bernie Wrightson, another from Garfield's Jim Davis.

Rick Shea & Sam Smith of Famous Faces & Funnies write, With his star on the rise after the giant success of God Country and Redneck, Donny Cates

Casting Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman - or just Zendaya - in Spider-Man: Homecoming caused all sorts of fuss. The belief was that she was playing Mary

It's the lot of a comic book anthology to be believed not to perform well in comic book stores. Despite many fine stalwarts of the form from Dark Horse

Jack Kirby would have been 100 years old this year. Creator or co-creator  of the X-Men, Captain America, The Fantastic Four, The Silver Surfer, The New

All's Faire In Middle School is a new graphic novel for September from Victoria Jamieson, the Newbery Honor Prize-winning author of Roller Girl, the smash

Three weeks ago, Bleeding Cool told you that as part of Marvel Legacy's launch, Marvel would start to distribute its Marvel Previews catalogue to stores

Organisers of the Salt Lake Comic Con have been informing the press that talks with San Diego Comic-Con over the use of the Comic-Con trademark have

From today's Suicide Squad #20. When Amanda Waller has the duty of appointing a new team leader for the Suicide Squad. Spoilers... Dum dum.... Dum dum....

Below you can find the Greg Capullo Midnight Release variant cover for Dark Nights: Metal #1 by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, available to any retailer

  The third printing isn;t out yet. But that doesn't stop DC Comics it seems. With Batman #24 still selling for up to $20 on eBay, thanks to a

No one needs to call Benedict Cumberbatch for this one, okay? Shirtless Bear-Fighter #1 by Jody LeHeup, Sebastian Girner and Nil Vendrell may or may have

Superheroes have often arrived without their cast of characters ever having to have had sex. Or if they had, they were punished. Superman, Batman,

Last year, a class action lawsuit was filed with the King County Superior Court. It came from those who volunteer for the Emerald City Comicon held in

Since the modern day superhero film began with Superman: The Movie, the films have been more likely to show their superheroes with a sex life than the

How many origins has Eobard Thawne, the Reverse-Flash had? Originally it went bad after the time traveller obsessed with the Flash, saw the Flash destroy

Eric Heisserer and Raul Allen’s first collaboration, Secret Weapons #1, is out today from Valiant Entertainment today. Heisserer, who is stepping back

Valiant’s new X-O Manowar title has seemingly deserted every stripe of the character's original status quo since the series began – stripping away Aric of

There's Nothing There #1, the new comic book by Patrick Kindlon and Maria Llovet from Black Mask Comics has sold out and gone to a second printing

Today sees the publication of Secret Empire #5 by Nick Spencer, Andrea Sorrentino, Rod Reis.  Marvel's blurb makes bold promises: "THE SECRET EMPIRE WILL

Okay, so yes, today's Action Comics #982 by Dan Jurgens, Jack Herbert, Jose Luis, Ray McCarthy and Hi-Fi sees all the big Superbads team-up to attack

A look through this week’s Secret Empire tie-ins to see which are essential to your Hydra experience and which are mere frippery that you can knock along

BBC Wales are currently filming the Doctor Who Christmas Special for 2017, the final episode with Peter Capaldi as The Doctor after this Saturday's series

In Suicide Squad #4 by Rob Williams and Jim Lee, General Zod had a message for all graphic designers that became quite popular amongst, well, people who

Gazillion publishes and maintain the online game Marvel Heroes Omega, based on a story by Brian Michael Bendis. They recently posted a now-deleted warning