Rich Johnston Archives

These are Diamond's nominees for the Spring Retail Best Practices Award for comic book retailers, to be voted on by retailers... is your local store

Bruce Zick writes in the third person. Think of him like The Hulk. In 1992 The Zone Continuum, by Bruce Zick, was published by Caliber Press.  Though it

Building 7 was a 47-story skyscraper and was part of the World Trade Center complex. It collapsed at 5:20 pm on September 11, 2001. It was not hit by

The stereotype of a fat, friendless comic book reader sitting alone reading comics while eating Doritos has been ingrained over the years. And just as we

Ah, so that's why Marvel registered the trademark for Timely Comics last year. It wasn't just to do with 1872, it was this year's 75th anniversary of the

Everyone knows Benedict Cumberbatch by now, right? Sherlock, Khan (spoilers), Alan Turing and Dr Strange. All good? Good. So if I was to talk about a

I'm hearing here may be some movement on this situation... but if any publishers who enjoyed Watchmensch, Civil Wardrobe or the Avengefuls wants to get in

President of Top Cow Studios, Matt Hawkins, publishes three of his creator owned titles through Image Comics. Postal, The Tithe and Think Tank. And,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8sqnIl4YtA So I asked a few comic book creators who had been pitching for the DC Comics Rebirth relaunch who have been

It was probably my favourite movie released last year. Bill, a comedy about Shakespeare's missing years tells the story of how he moved from being a

In the Marvel Previews catalog for May-shipping comics this week, it lists Extraordinary X-Men #10, thus; Written by Rick Remender. But in the released

Last week, Bleeding Cool reported that Marvel had cancelled a swathe of their planned second printings of recent issues. Marvel Comics had made a big

This is how Green Lantern #49 ended. The Zero-Hour Hal Jordan Parallax Green Lantern reintroduced into DC continuity in Convergence, and last seen as the

Chris Eliopoulos wrote and/or drew a number of Star Wars stories for Dark Horse Comics. Well, this cartoonist creator of Cow Boy, is returning to the

Ian Melton attended Wizard World Portland Comic Con, Wizard World Portland has grown in size from its first two years in the Rose City and this year was

If anyone says that Harley Quinn is a fourth wall breaking comic book character who lampshades everything wrong with her character - well, now they may

At the London Super Comic Con last weekend, I was able to meet Steve Dillon and share my recent appreciation of his work on Scarlet Witch. A motor machine

https://twitter.com/sinKEVitch/status/703173385866489856 Can't really blame him, can you? But if you do see this piece anywhere... it's stolen.

From next week's Invincible Iron Man... Tony Stark needing to go to Tokyo, Mary Jane his potential new PA hire and his holographic A.I... He does! He does

Andrew Grossberg writes, Body shaming and bullying are very real issues for cosplayers at conventions. The sting of negative comments can carry over into

The question was posed in Star Wars: The Force Awakens but not answered. It was meant to be answered in Star Wars: 3-3PO Special in December. It was

Dark Horse is to launch a new comic book anthology set in the video game world of Halo. Halo: Tales From Slipspace will featuring all-new stories from

Last year saw the release of Seth's Dominion on the film festival circuit. This year we get the DVD. But because this is Seth, you don't expect any old

March's Loot Crate's monthly subscription theme is Versus.. and is promising items from Batman V Superman, Aliens V Predator, Star Trek and Marvel. I have

I don't think I've wanted to be on the West Coast more. But with the XSN Channel I guess I don't have to be. Bill Sienkiewicz, Jim Mahfood, Shawn

Wuvable Oaf was on a number of 2015 Best Of Comics lists. The Fantagraphics collection of Ed Luce's self published comics featuring an almost-naked hairy

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

There have been references to Donald Trump's campaign in current superhero comic books. But Hillary Clinton's run for President hasn't been touched on as

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The High School Years is a new series of graphic novels from Dark Horse Comics set during the first year of the Buffy TV show.

Sacha Baron Cohen talked to the WTF podcast about his life and his work, alongside the release of his new movie Grimsby. After talking about the many