Rich Johnston Archives

This is Superman striking a police sergeant, from the opening of Action Comics #43. It's the kind of thing you don't walk away from. Or fly. The last

Those who read ComiXology comics on their iPad have discovered a slight problem. Usually you can access certain comics offline if you have downloaded

by Chris Thompson Following last week’s SDCC extravaganza with Nick & Zack Keller, Chris Emgard, Man Vs. Rock, Phil Kim and Jason Lenzi (which you can

This unlettered, and partially uncoloured, preview from Marvel Comics PR and given to StarWars.com of (breath in) The Journey To Star Wars: The Force

Sex Criminals #11 was sold in two varieties last week. Both bagged, one hid a 1:35 sketch by the creators, Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky, the other, a

Last month, Marvel Comics was June’s top publisher with a 40.86% dollar share and a 43.16% unit share, maintaining their over-15 point lead on DC Comics

Diamond will be holding their 2015 Diamond Retailer Summit in Baltimore from 23rd-25th September and has updated the names of the publishers sponsoring

Nerd Block are issuing free Welcome Blocks to any of their new subscriptions. I've just been sent one, as part of a promotional drive, so let's have an

John Romita Jr told Newsarama about his approach to drawing Superman. The very first promotional sketch I ever did was so bad. I had changed the face a

This is the word according to Doom. A preview of Secret Wars #5, out next week. Well, there are plenty of heresies abound. Including this variant cover of

Idle Hands have nailed down new Big Hero 6 toys coming from Bandai. They've basically had a repaint.   And they're all blacks and purples.  

When I wrote my review of the Fantastic Four movie, I tried to make the argument that there was a better film there, to argue that that latter third of

We've had the news that Blade has been moved from October release to an unspecified new date. And something similar has happened to Hopeless Savages

Blade is an All-New All-Different Marvel comic book launch for October, by Tim Seeley and Logan Faerber. Or rather, it was. Oh, the book is still being

Faster Than Light #1 is a new Image comic coming out in September by Brian Haberlin and Vandyke. Brian has sent us the cover and five internal pages - but

Marvel are pushing the relaunch of Miracleman, the Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham run, ahead of the Final Order Cut-off date.  And they have released the

Here are the November solicitations for Aspen - nice and early! That's more like it! other publishers, take note... LEGEND OF OZ: THE WICKED WEST #2 Tom

Next week, we have the launches of Adam 3, King Tiger, DC Bombshells, X-Files Season 11, Boy-1, Beauty, Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl, Archon, Fight For

We ran the good news about an opening comic book store in Oxford, England, earlier today. Well here's another, several thousand miles away. Aw Yeah!

Savage Dragon is one of the longest running series from a single creator/creative team in American comic book history, challenged only by the likes of

He's best known as Wordburglar, author of a number of well received comic and geek-theme albums, singles and videos...

A piece of promo art from the upcoming Paybacks series from Dark Horse, by Geoff Shaw. And the cover image to Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia, by JG Jones.

Image by Mark Fredrickson, out in two weeks, or available on the Mad Magazine App right now, here's the Hillary and Bill Clinton cover that so amusing San

Last night I ran a reduced spoilers review of The Fantastic Four. But I have been inundated with questions from people thinking about going to see the

The Ultimate Fantastic Four, by Brian Michael Bandis, Mark Miller and Adam Kubert launched in 2004, part of Bill Jemas' initiative to relaunch the Marvel

Once upon a time, there used to be both a Fantastic Store in the centre of Oxford and a Comics Showcase, down the hill, at the top of the Cowley Road. By

From the preview of Invincible Iron Man by Brian Bendis and David Marquez from CBR. A glimpse at what the new Iron Man suit can do...basically everything.

****WARNING: This is not a review filled with spoilers, just enough detail I believe to give you a flavour of what I thought about the film - and why. But

We have pointed out just how smart Jimmy Palmiotti is before now. How he uses Kickstarter to fund otherwise unlikely-to-be-published graphic novels. How

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