Rich Johnston Archives

For the Robotech comic book launch in June, Titan Comics are including a Blue Line Sketch Cover. It hasn't been finished, that's meant to be your job. Or

So which books are going through the mill for another run around the comics direct market? Here are three that you'll be seeing again soon. Namwolf #1 by

Coming to comic book stores, free for those who want it, a DC Collectibles Essentials cardboard stand. Originally offered with the DC Collectibles Starter

Two or three amends from Marvel and DC Comics for upcoming issues in June, as they go through Final Order Cut-Offs... Superwoman #11 was solicited with

Last month at the Valiant Summit event in Los Angeles, Valiant trotted their entire line-up of books of 2017…with one exception: a “classified” series in

I note that IDW is listing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Prelude To Dimension X title that was free for Free Comic Book Day at the beginning of May,

On the 11th of May, Bleeding Cool ran the story about there being a hail-hydra.com domain name that redirected to the White House website. We would later

In 2011, DC Comics made available to comic book stores, a Green Lantern Neon Sign for $150. One per store, they were intended to be used to promote the

So... spoilers for the finale of Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD season four. You know, the one that just ended.

A few upcoming DC Comics covers for June shipping titles. As ever, you may have seen some of them. You won’t have seen most of them… Wonder Woman #24 by

Here's a look at Titan's crime comic books coming in August 2017... SHERLOCK: THE GREAT GAME #1 Writer Mark Gatiss Artist Jay Covers Sana Takeda (shown),

Benedict Cumberbatch just bought a book. But hen he buys a book, he really buys a book. His production company SunnyMarch and Hera Pictures have acquired

Bleeding Cool were first to tell you that Marvel was to provide promotional glow-in-the-dark cosmic cubes for retailers. Two bags of 25 for those who

Here's Tula Lotay's cover for Grass Kings #4, revealed by Boom! for Final Order Cut-Off schedules, alongside a new preview of the issue on sale on June

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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 does have a thing for lopping of a limb or two from its various characters. Here are a few of the more prominent ones, as well as the new one

Jamie Coville has one again done us proud, bringing together audio of 15 panels at last weekend's TCAF 2017 in Toronto and the Doug Wright Award Show. And

Jon Malin may be best known for drawing Thunderbolts and Youngblood, with other work dotted around the publishers. But he'd really like to write as well.

We have had comic con battles in London before. Kapow making fake claims, countered by MCM London Comic Con, with London Supercon getting in a fair few

In recent issues of Superman, we have seen the married couple of Superman, Lois Lane and their Superboy son, Jonathan Kent, discover that the smalltown

The new X-Men Gold #4 sees a few of the mutant members up against the Serpent Society. They don't take the encounter that seriously. I mean, look, they're

The redacted final page of the last issue of Detective Comics #956 originally referenced Tim Drake. The Batman character who was presumed dead in the DC

Once upon a time, I went to the wrong hospital for an appointment. Somehow I had mixed them up. Thankfully London bus routes seem to have been designed to

We have ragged on Brian Bendis a fair bit at Bleeding Cool for his references to British locations quite a bit. Cambridge being in London, Brits carrying

It must be getting closer to ordering time... here's a trailer for Titan Comics' new line of Robotech comics by Brian Wood, Marco Turini and Marco Lesko,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35EG7ZQlW24 Aaron Haaland for A Comic Shop, Florida, Orlando, writes, Hey Fandom! This is an awesome week of new comics!

Last week, an employee of Diamond Comic Distributors quit. Happens all the time. However, as he left, he emailed around a thousand stores to offer them

Tomorrow sees the publication of Secret Empire #2. And with it, the hope of a generation. We have seen Captain America turned into a sleeper agent of

Rick Shea of Famous Faces & Funnies in West Melbourne, Florida writes, I’ve been selling comics & toys for 27 years now, and I’ve loved almost