Rich Johnston Archives

Milestone Media was founded by Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis and Derek T. Dingle. A comic book publisher, that distributed its comics

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

In April, IDW are publishing a five issue mini-series, My Little Pony: Fiendship Is Magic, featuring the bad guys and gals of the My Little Ponyverse...

When IDW became a Premier Publisher, it was a big move. And now just to the front of Previews, it gave IDW a better deal distributing their comics through

ComiXology sent a survey out to lapsed customers asking why they lapsed so... If you haven’t bought any comics with us in a while, do any of these reasons

Dan DiDio gave two Convergence interviews to CBR and Newsarama, lined up to run while Marvel was announcing the details of Secret Wars. Both events

From Boom... to Marvel... to IDW... launching Uncle Scrooge #1 in April is kicking off a bunch of new and old Disney comics at IDW, including new Donald

Coming from Boom! Studios and all their little friends in April, and we begin with the launch of James Tynion's new comic book, Ufology... UFOLOGY #1 (of

It is possibly one of the most famous scenes in superhero comic books as, with a line, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons flipped a famous cliché in Watchmen and

The solicitations for next week's Vertigo Quarterly: Black #1 is listed as being written by  Mary H.K. Choi, Francesco Francavilla, Tom King, Jeff Lemire,

Let's just put that spoiler warning nice and big at the top, shall we? She starts, in All-New X-Men, with a bit of an ego boost for a parallel universe

This is your first look at the upcoming new League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen volume by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, Nemo: River Of Ghosts, published by

There are a few copies left at Diamond's warehouse if retailers are interested. But not many. By the time this article goes up, retailers may have wiped

The Washington Post has the news. The return of Milestone Comics. I'd heard that this may be coming back since the summer, though Washington Post dates

The organisers of both London Supercon and the MCM London Expo who both use the Excel Centre in London should race to get the use of today's The

With Alan Moore's Crossed +100 on the cover, today's Bleeding Cool Magazine, the fourteenth main issue (and the seventeenth if you count the zero and two

Today's Batman/Superman sees Superman pursued by an individual descried as "Superman's Joker", a man obsessed looking to destroy him through those he

These are the comic book nominations for the 2015 GLAAD Media Awards, recognising the portrayal "fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the

The front cover of the February Previews goes sideways for DC's Convergence event, but the back goes the right way up to launch Dark Horse's Rebels from

Today's Spider-Verse reading order for continuity and spoiler sake... Spider-Woman #3. Nice passcode. Scarlet Spiders #3. And you'll get an explanation of

Power Girl has had a problem. Cory Walker pointed out the problem, if applied to a 'Power Man'. Writers have had her make an excuse or give a reason for

Recently I had cause to revisit one of my favourite nineties comics, Muktuk Wolfsbreath, which appeared in Terry Laban's Cud, then in a series from

This is the latest cover to Fluide Glacial, asking if the Chinese influence in France is too much, and citing the racist phrase "Yellow Peril". The cover

Bleeding Cool noted that DC's increase in marketshare in December against Marvel Comics, beating them on the number of comic book sales in comic stores,

One week ago, someone bought a copy of Sleepwalker #1 on eBay. No one has bought an issue since. Today, eleven copies were bought. Something is up. I

It began when we ran this article The announcement of Time Runs Out on Bleeding Cool back in May. One of our most read articles of the year. Since then we

Calamity! The Marvel announcement feed has just crashed! And everyone is distraught! I am very jealous of everyone actually in store right now. Ah well,

While Secret Wars #1 launching in May will be a big comic book, #2 will be oversized. Also launching in May, it will feature all the possible Thors you

Later on Marvel.com/secretwars - an interactive Battleworld Map, which we will be able to use to explore all the different worlds.... Find out more from

Here it comes folks. Axel Alonso has announced the smashing and incursion of the main 166 Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe colliding. Tom