Rich Johnston Archives

There's often an item of mystery in Marvel's solicitations. Last month it was Secret Empire #0, which took weeks to be revealed. There was the Classified

Here comes AfterShock Comics solicitations for May 2017 - and we start with a little Pestilence before finding something more Normal... PESTILENCE #1 /

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk0AS8em68g Aaron Haaland of A Comics Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes, Hey Fandom this week of comics had some great

From DC Comics' solicits for May 2017.... and it looks like the very-alive Amanda Waller managed to find a use for General Zod in recent issues of Suicide

Marvel Comics doesn't like to announce that it has cancelled a comic book series. You just have to work it out in retrospect. When it disappears from your

Marvel Comics doesn't like to announce that it has cancelled a comic book series. You just have to work it out in retrospect. When it disappears from your

Rick Shea of Famous Faces & Funnies in West Melbourne, Florida, writes, After reading Marvel's out of touch comments aimed at retailers at ComicsPRO

Topps continue to create new topical Garbage Pail Kids cards as collectible items with accompanying comic books. And it seems that, after their second

So, we have been told that Logan has had three minutes added to its running time over the version that the press has seen. And that this will be a mid or

Bleeding Cool ran a report from ComicsPRO, sourced from several retailers, who talked about an address from Marvel SVP David Gabriel regarding poor

Welcome to the Marvel Comics solicitations for May 2017. With commentary in red. Note there is no Patsy Walker aka Hellcat, Power Man & Iron Fist,

Here's a look at the cover to All Time Comics: Atlas by Anders Nilsen, launching Fantagraphics new superhero line All Time Comics. Oh, and the May 2017

SDBATMAN66 writes, We had a blast at the SD COMIC FEST 2017. However, today's pics aren't that great. Tomorrow is sure to bring more and fabulous

DC Collectibles just debuted the 12 inch Wonder Woman statue based on Frank Cho's first Wonder Woman cover at New York Toy Fair this weekend.   No

Olly MacNamee writes And so, after a fair few months of celebrating already, we have the official 40th anniversary special dropping this week at all good

Here's a look at the solicits - and 7 advance pages - of the latest comic from AfterShock's stables. THE NORMALS #1 / $3.99 / 32 pages / Color / on sale

By Alejandra Bodden, Ray Flook, Jemal Flores At the New York Toy Fair 2017, Bleeding Cool got a chance to walk behind the walls of the LEGO booth to get a

Orbital Comics in London currently has a 2000AD gallery exhibition looking at original art for its 40th anniversary, comics and spinoff media. And a

Here's the Jae Lee cover that Boom! Studios has added for Jim Henson's Power of the Dark Crystal #2 as a Final Order Cut-Off variant. They also added a

Taking a look around, and sticking bits and pieces together... from Comic Book, Star Wars, Newsarama and probably some other places too.    SECRET EMPIRE

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...