Rich Johnston Archives

Secret Empire #1 was solicited from Marvel as $4.99 for 48 pages. You would expect around 32 of those pages to be story content. Well, maybe it's a few

Both in April and May, Marvel Comics is offering nine exclusive retailer variant covers, specific cover variants exclusive to each participating comic

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

As well as X-Men Prime, Captain America #15 and America #2, Marvel have more books hitting the second printing mill (which doesn't actually exist but I

Time to look at the figures from March 2017, of comics books ordered by comic stores in North America through the direct market served by Diamond Comic

It's out next week. And, yes, it's gorgeous. I was able to prise it away from Kieron Gillen's firm grip in the pub last night. I was immediately struck by

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI6m0axcFbg Robert Kirkman, creator of the Walking Dead is turning his attention to other Skybound properties with their

You run one story about Amazing Spider-Man #25 topping the March 2017 North American comic store charts and another about DC beating Marvel on sales

You run one story about Amazing Spider-Man #25 topping the March 2017 North American comic store charts and suddenly everyone wants to tell me things. The

In the now-infamous series of articles by ICV2's Milton Griepp surrounding the Marvel Comics retailer summit, last week, Marvel SVP Sales and Marketing

Titan Comics' Hammer Horror: Captain Kronos comic is debuting in Septmber. It's about that time... Based on 1974's Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter, the

  Emilie Badaboom wrote from WonderCon, With the next DC movie fast approaching, Wonder Woman has taken front and center at WonderCon and news

Arsenic Lullabies creator Douglas Paszkiewicz has announced on his mailing list, not only a new Tick comic book series from New england Comics but alos

Hallo my Breetish chums! Paul Paul Gautier has created a line of Superman and Wonder Woman branded products, alongside other cartoon brands.   But

Currently, subscribers to Marvel's Insider loyalty programme can get 200 points for each Marvel digital code they redeem, to a maximum of 2000 points for

I am spending the day reading the WildStorm Oral History published independently and unofficially to coincide with WildStorm's 25th anniversary. It's

  Lion Forge is the latest comic book publisher to join Diamond's Final Order Cut-Off scheme, in which retailers can adjust their orders up or down,

I've stated why, by logic alone, Olivia Colman could be frontrunner to play The Doctor after Peter Capaldi steps away from the role. But logic and casting

I am spending the day reading the WildStorm Oral History published independently and unofficially to coincide with WildStorm's 25th anniversary. It's

Extremity, the new Skybound/Image series from Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer has gone to a third printing for the first issue and a second printing

I don't know what you are doing on a nice sunny day like this, but I'm spending it reading the WildStorm Oral History published independently and

The WildStorm Oral History has been released. A massive collection of interviews with people who worked at or worked for Jim Lee's WildStorm Studios in

The WildStorm Oral History has been released. A massive collection of interviews with people who worked at or worked for Jim Lee's WildStorm Studios in

Last week, Bleeding Cool scooped the news that Image Comics was reversing its policy on allowing retailer exclusive comic book covers. I say, scooped, no

You know a superhero has made it big when their villains start forming revenge squads...a fact we see on full display in Valiant’s Faith #10 from writer

Put the kids to bed, give the dog a chew toy, pull down the shutters and browse through a few upcoming covers and variants covers for DC Comics titles.

The first issue of Ivan Brandon, Jason Latour, Greg Hinkle and Matt Wilson’s new comic, Black Cloud, from Image Comics has gone to second print. Zelda was

Mad Magazine is collecting many of its Trump-based cartoons and parodies into one 128 page book, Mad About Trump, $12.99, out in June. It also includes a

Emilie Badaboom wrote for Bleeding Cool from WonderCon. By the title of the new graphic novel out later this year, you can surmise there is anything but

This is Cameron Scott, an Air Force intelligence operative alias for Captain Atom, from the most recent issue of The Fall And Rise Of Captain Atom. Using