Rich Johnston Archives

The cameo appearance of a new Jedi Knight in Darth Vader #2, with his full appearance in #3, may have stoked orders on that title.

Before Donny Cates was God Country's Donny Cates, before he was Redneck's Donny Cates, before he was Baby Teeth's Donny Cates, he wrote a comic book

John Andersen of Soaring Penguin Press writes, Everyone likes free things: free food, free books, free rides. Even if they don't know what it is, if it's

Seven used to be the magic number when it comes to Marvel Comics and exclusive retailer variants. But for September, retailers now have eight

Action Lab has started to put Misbegotten, an ebook series they started publishing in 2014, into a seiralised print comic, beginning in September. They

John Tyler Christopher made a cottage industry for himself drawing/painting covers for Marvel's Star Wars relaunch, drawing characters as if they were

I'm off-line tomorrow. Family funeral. First day I'll have taken off Bleeding Cool in eight years. Which means it will be Saturday until I see what is so

Every issue a new number one! Dave Sim continues to republish his Cerebus online strips, with new stuff, with each issue parodying a classic comic book

Gendercrunching by Tim Hanley DC and Marvel posted notable losses in their overall totals of female creators in April, leaving both publishers well off of

The upcoming movie Thor: Ragnarok out in November is expected to include a number of aspects of the Planet Hulk storyline. That story by Greg Pak, Carlo

We wondered how Marvel would get around the restriction not to publish any comics called Fantastic Four, as placed upon it by chairman Ike Perlmutter

Titan Comics are publishing a new Fighting American series in October, the character created by the late Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack

Go to marvel.com/redeem. Type in the code ICEMAN. And get Iceman #1 free, digitally. And all six other of Marvel Comics' ResurrXion titles for free,

Marvel is telling retailers that seven recent comic books have sold out and will be reprinted, with Marvel second prints copies arriving on 26th July. The

Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, entertainment executive and co-founder of Milestone. He writes, This article processes some hard truths many

James Whynot is known for an art style full of heavy texture and black ink, with brilliant splashes of color, expressed in his comic Bolts published by

Torpedo (or Torpedo 1936) is a Spanish comics series created by Enrique Sánchez Abulí and Alex Toth - though mostly drawn by Jordi Bernet, which depicts

My most regular of comic shops, Orbital Comics in London, will be welcoming Jeff Parker to their store on Saturday 24th June for a signing followed by an

The June 2017 Loot Crate was just dropped off by Mr Postie. So why not slap up the phone, drag out the scissors, not even bother to brush my hair and get

The Rebel Alliance is a new play by John Finnemore for radio, part of his Double Acts series for BBC Radio 4, starring Tamzin Outhwaite and Una Stubbs

This was the solicitation for Super Sons #6 from DC Comics for July. SUPER SONS #6 “TEEN TITANS TANGO” part one! Robin has a new member in mind for the

This was the original solicitation for Justice League #25 from DC Comics for July. (W) Bryan Hitch (A) Fernando Pasarin, Oclair Albert (CA) Bryan Hitch

Who is Kirak Infil'a? Well, Darth Vader is looking for a fight. That is, to all sense and purposes, the plot of the new Darth Vader series by Charles

Once upon a time, Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham gave us Bat-Cow, courtesy of Damien Wayne, Bruce Wayne's son and the current Robin. Today, we may get

Today's Mighty Thor #20 has Thor Odinson discover who has been wielding Mjolnir of late, after he was made Unworthy. And that it was his ex-girlfriend

This is the solicited cover to The Mighty Thor #20. It features the new wielder of the Ultimate Thor Mjolnir hammer, The War Thor, the identity of whom

So we all know Iceman is gay now. Even Stan Lee does, these days. First Jean Grey read the mind of the young Bobby Drake and outed him to himself that he

The Mondasian Cybermen are coming. Bill is trying not to get killed. Black hole physics are effecting the inhabitants of a space station, who need

One of the jobs of the Secret Wars series was to do away with the 616 sobriquet for the Marvel Universe, created by Dave Thorpe/Alan Moore for Captain

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