Rich Johnston Archives

Harley Quinn & The Suicide Squad April Fool Special is a comic by Rob Williams, Jim Lee and friends. Williams and Lee are on the new Suicide Squad

Pops can blather all he likes in Archie. You know he's the writer of the FreakingAwesome.com website, right? Well, here's his latest. Miles Morales'

So Negan came to the Walking Dead TV show finale this week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN7_4dKCFh4 While he is known in the comics of old. Except for

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a retailer in possession of an order for a first issue of a comic book will drop orders for the second issue

Steve Theodorou of New Jersey is applying to register the trademark for "Save The Walking Dead" shirts. Steve and Philip Theodorou also of New Jersey are

Two Marvel comics by Al Ewing are published today. New Avengers, part of Avengers Standoff (ish) and Contest Of Champions. But the latter also crosses

Yesterday Bleeding Cool ran a story about what we thought may be an editorial error in today's Spider-Women: Alpha, along the lines of an caption note in

We already talked about Batman Vs Superman coming out with a certain ending.... ...and then Justice League Of America following suit. And how while once

Today sees the much-anticipated release of Black Panther #1 by Ta Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze. Giving us a Wakanda at war with itself, citizens

He's been a member of Team 7. It didn't go well. He's led the Justice League Of America. It went worse. And he's been Wonder Woman's off again, off again

Today's Invincible Iron Man #8 continues Iron Man's Road To Civil War II. The one in which he will be  anti-Captain Marvel, opposed to the use of the

We've looked at concerns that a number of websites and individuals have had regarding the actions of the Wine Country Comic Con of Santa Rosa, California,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIGTdYuqty4 Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida writes, Hey Fandom, this week of comics is crazy huge! It's

Yesterday it was announced that Jonah Weiland had sold Comicbookresources.com to Valmet. No money was mentioned, but I was told it was a sizable eight

Stephen Amell and Robbie Amell from Flash and Arrow are crowdsourcing their new film Code 8 on IndieGoGo  It is currently on over $570,000 in two weeks.

We always like to keep an eye on the trademarks that the likes of DC, Marvel, Valiant and Mark Millar make. They can be quite revelatory for future plans.

By Abdulkareem Baba Aminu I read tons of superhero comics as a kid, mostly alongside Ibrahim Yakubu, my super-talented friend who should be up on the

Ian Melton writes for Bleeding Cool. And spoke to Steve Lieber about The Fix, out from Image Comics tomorrow. Steve Lieber:  I wish I had comics to hand

A while ago, Bleeding Cool predicted that Marvel was getting rid of the 616 nomenclature for the Marvel Universe. Created by Dave Thorpe/Alan Moore

Bleeding Cool scooped the news that the Brits would be getting the standard magazine size 2000AD Free Comic Book Day version while the Americans would get

We're nary a month away from Free Comic Book Day, May 7th 2016. Stores are gearing up a day of free comics, sales, signings and other events. Bleeding

Lying In The Gutters began fourteen years ago on CBR as the central repository of comic book industry gossip. I've been writing that column on and off for

As sketched by Frank Cho at South Carolina Comic Con... not even room on the cover for outrage...  

Jason Borelli went to MoCCA for Bleeding Cool. His Prologue and Saturday report ran over the weekend. Turns out I can handle colder climates. You have to

Matthew Rosenberg is rapidly becoming the most wanted creator in comics. Work for Marvel and DC Comics as well as his Black Mask line, hes joined by

  Kaare Andrews' new comic book, Renato Jones: The One %  being published by image has a new demographic for comics in mind, is launching an ad

Over the weekend, Bleeding Cool reported that the first issue of the Faith limited series has gone to a fifth print, the fastest for any comic book ever

It was Jonah Weiland of Comic Book Resources who first paid me for writing my silly bits of nonsense about comic books, for my column Lying In The Gutters

DCBS is the online discount comic subscription service that was banned from giving its discount rates in the regular ads that run in DC Comics titles -

Last week we told you how an upcoming issue of Daredevil had completely changed from its solicitation. Well Grayson #19 by Jackson Lanning and Collin