Rich Johnston Archives

Early this month, The Walking Dead #163 sold over three-quarters of a million copies, as a result of being twenty-five cents, to celebrate Image's

Image Comics is definitely going through one of its biorhythmic peaks right now. Old Guard #1, out yesterday, by Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez has gone

Last week, Bleeding Cool ran Dynamite solicitations for Vampirella #3, including the subscription variant cover above. We also covered the negative

Champions, the comic series by Mark Waid and Humberto Ramos wears its politics on its spandex, and has created a superhero activist group aiming to win

It looks like Andrew Aydin, co-author of the March graphic novel trilogy with John Lewis and Nate Powell, will be speaking at New Trier High School's

As Milo Yiannopolous discovered you can say what the hell you like in America and get away with it. Unless you mention sex with kids and then it's a

Liberatore, the comic creator behind RanXerox has returned after a decade long absence from comics with a 7-page story titled, Ai Shiteru, premiering in

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund made headlines when they joined a number of free speech advocates expressing concern regarding a boycott against comics

US publishers of Alan Moore's second novel, Jerusalem, all 2/3 million words of it, Liveright have an offer available for comic book stores. But they'll

Here are Black Mask's comics, out in May 2017. And it begins with a Last Song, sung by Holly Interlandi and Sally Cantirino LAST SONG #1 (MR) (W) Holly

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

DC Comics has confirmed a Bleeding Cool story from a few weeks ago that, as well as Green Lantern: Hal Jordan Vol 2, the Justice League Breakdowns Vol 1

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… Action Comics #976 by Gary

After discussions with retailers at ComicsPRO, who feel that they could do with more copies of early issues of Dark Knight III: The Master Race, DC Comics

In March, five DC Comics titles will be polybagged with a free comic advertising the AMC TV show Into The Badlands, the second series of which premieres

We ran this preview of Heathen a little while ago. Well, Natasha Alterici's comic book published by Vault, going on sale and selling out from distributors

This morning, Bleeding Cool ran an article regarding considerable online upset at an upcoming cover to the Vampirella comic series by Jimmy Broxton, with

Jesse James of Jesse James Comics in Glendale, Arizona, posted the following to Facebook. It appears here with his (slightly reluctant) permission and

David Baron is best known as a colourist. But, in May, he will have a new comic coming out from 451 Media that he'll be writing instead. Stained #1, drawn

So today's Suicide Squad #12 by Rob Williams and John Romita Jr is pretty damn sure. Amanda Waller is dead. Shot in the heart last issue, she dies on the

We've been scratching out heads as to why Cyclops is meant to be the most hated mutant in the Marvel Universe. Compared to Hitler, hated, and reviled, the

It's that moment when you are reading Greg Rucka and Liam Sharp's Wonder Woman.... And suddenly it feels like Alan Moore and JH Williams' Promethea,

Valiant’s Harbinger Renegade, the series that promises to kickstart next year’s Harbinger Wars 2 event, looks like it has some dark times ahead of it. In

DC Comics recently renumbered Detective Comics  and Action Comics to their original numbering during DC Rebirth, collating all the various relaunches into

Another titbit spilling out of ComicsPRO last weekend, from publisher/retailer conversations, is that the Batman event showrun by Scott Snyder and Greg

There's no one fanfic likes to ship more these days than Steve Rogers, Captain America. With Tony Stark, with Bucky Rogers, with Thor, with Loki, even

AAaron Haaland twigged me to it in last night's A Comic Show video. That today's Infamous Iron Man could see the return of the Fantastic Four through the

It was the most critically well-received Marvel comic book of recent years and saw its writer Tom King snatched away as an exclusive writer on Batman by

In May, IDW are publishing Funko Comics Universe comics, as well as offering Funko variant covers of other titles... here are all the ones we can find! Oh

Today's Amazing Spider-Man #24 by Dan Slott, Christos Gage and Giuseppe Camuncoli is solicited thus: A CLONE CONSPIRACY TIE-IN! • Spider-Man has been