Rich Johnston Archives

We have been waiting for this since Nick Fury whispered those words to Thor that saw him relinquish the hammer Mjolnir and his identity as the God Of

Here's a run down of the exclusive comic coming from Action Lab Comics at Booth # 2006 at San Diego Comic Con 2016 - including some exclusive covers, a

Aspen Comics also has a few exclusive covers and the like for San Diego Comic Con - some from Marvel, some from DC, some from themselves. Find them at

Hoo boy. These could be the T-shirts of the show. And could cause all sorts of debates over what happened to Watchmen being a creator-owned comic

If you are staying at one of the central hotels of San Diego Comic Con, your key card will look like this. Although, after they've been flipped on eBay,

Well... this should keep you busy. San Diego, the Wednesday and the Thursday in panel form... Right, I'm off down the pub. Wednesday, July 20 4:00pm

John Byrne's Stowaway to the Stars: A Graphic Album to Color is being published by IDW in November, priced at $12.99. It's on Amazon now in the US, Canada

  San Diego Comic Con sees the release of the exclusive-to-SDCC comic book, Doctor Who story, “The Long Con”, starring the Tenth, Eleventh and

Warren Ellis and Phil Hester have a new comic from new publisher AfterShock for October, Shipwreck. This is the first time both creators have worked for

Recently there was an incredible outpouring of concern over a plot twist in Captain America: Steve Rogers that saw the character revealed as a sleeper spy

The other day we ran a Swipe File article looking at the incredibly similar pitches for upcoming movie Supercon from Variety... Pic, which is currently

Pre-IvX? Marvel PR has given the scoop to Entertainment Weekly ahead of next week's Marvel NOW Previews catalogue. The new X-event for the fall, a

By Tim Hanley DC's overall percentage of female creators ticked up as Marvel's ticked down, but Marvel still managed to post the higher total in May,

Today saw the release of the Chilcot Report into the Iraq War and the British government's part in it. Longer than Alan Moore's upcoming novel, it will

Monthly subscription box Loot Crate and fangirl-focused fashion line Her Universe are to launch a new monthly subscription box, LOOT4FANGIRLS, with five

Bill Sienkiewicz is going to have a variant cover for every issue of the Rebirthed Harley Quinn.  Well, here's the first. Oh and here's Tim Sale's variant

Babs Tarr has drawn the cover to this year's Souvenir Book for San Diego Comic-Con, celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Wonder Woman. It's one of those

Jade Street Protection Services #1, the new Black Mask Comics series from Katy Rex and Fabian Lelay, has gone to a second print. While fellow Black Mask

The Walking Dead, as a long-running soap opera of a comic book, lives and dies on its twists and turns and issue 156 is the epitome of that. For the

Deadpool: Too Soon is the latest decampi comic from Marvel in their Infinite Comics digital line, with its first chapter out today, a locked house murder

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

Nine Culliford, born Janine Devroye, died yesterday at the age of 86. She was a close comics collaborator with her late husband, Pierre Culliford better

From Doctor Who, Matt Smith's first episode, The Eleventh Hour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XologeBUKmA "Is this world protected?" "Hello, I'm the

Time Magazine has, with Marvel PR, announced that Riri Williams is the new Iron Man. Introduced in recent issues as a genius-level 15 year-old working on

So what do today's Civil War tie-ins promise for the future? We're wondering which Hulk is meant to kill all the heroes, as foreseen by Ulysses for Civil

Today's Amazing Spider-Man sees Spider-Man fight Regent, with Mary Jane Watson wearing the Iron Spider costume and joining in. We'd looked before at what

From DC Universe Rebirth, The Pre 52 Superman is told by Mr Oz - someone we believe may be Ozymandias from the Watchmen comic book...  In Superman #1, as

From today's Civil War II: X-Men #2, by Cullen Bunn, Andrea Broccardo and Jesus Aburtov, sees X-Men fighting alongside Captain Marvel against a Brood

A few moe changes twixt solicitation and publication. Aquaman #2 was solicited with art by Brad Walker but is instead by Scot Eaton Arts Ops #10 will no

One day, every Marvel comic will be an Avengers comic. Yesterday we reported about Zac Gorman writing for the All-New All-Different Avengers Annual and