Rich Johnston Archives

It's MCM London Comic Con today! The UK's largest comic book event by far... at the London ExCel Centre. You know what to expect. Comics Village, lots of

I know, I know, we thought he was done with Marvel too. But Stuart Immonen still has a Marvel exclusive clause, and so Mark Millar has gone back to their

Sothebys is auctionng a new lot of original comic book art by Hergé, Uderzo, Jacobs, Alex Raymond, Hal Foster, Floyd Gottfredson, even a Windsor McKay

Imagine losing the one you love, only to find that everything you believed about them was a lie. That’s what happens to Cavalry Officer Lucas Wilson at

In one week we see the launch of Plants Vs Zombies: Garden Warfare, Art Ops, Sklylanders Superchargers, Black Magick, Angela: Queen Of Hel, Doctor

DC has cardboard-cutout masks, plastic rings and newspapers. Marvel has build-your-own cardboard Iron Man... Well, now Valiant is giving away full-blown

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

A famed and long-considered missing early Mel Ramos Batman painting, A Sinister Figure Lurks In The Shadows, 1962, has surfaced in southern California and

In January, DC Comics is giving fans the chance to colour their own comics covers with Adult Colouring Book variant covers. But what will they colour them

I have an awful lot of time for Eric Stephenson. Entering the comic industry during one of its most creative bankrupt periods and places (hell, he wrote

Back in 2011, I wrote a piece about he Steve Rogers Captain America being written by Nick Spencer as vehemently opposed to the allegoricalised actions of

Valiant's next ongoing series – Wrath of the Eternal Warrior by writer Robert Venditti and artist Raul Allen – picks up directly in the aftermath of their

It is one of the greatest British sitcoms of all time. And now it is being remade as an all-star movie with a brand new cast. Out in February. Here's the

I understand that the Paris branch of Humanoids will be at Paris Comic Con this weekend with a big announcement. It's all very hush hush, but word is that

Here's the final cover to Barb Wire, issue 8 by Adam Hughes for Dark Horse Comics.. And he's saying goodbye to her in style. Well. Barb Wire's style

Pedro Bouca writes for Bleeding Cool, I’ve just read the very first new Asterix book sold in Portugal (yeah, we got a midnight release here, Asterix is

Welcome to Boundless and their solicitations of comics for January 2016. And the successfully funded Belladonna relaunch of Belladonna, more Lady Death

We Can Never Go Home NYCC Exclusive Set First up... comics I know! Who would have thought that comics would have been so collectible at New York Comic

The Ashashi Shinbum reports that lawyers have accused prison officials in Tokyo of discrimination after an inmate was refused comics depicting gay sex.

We knew this was coming, We'd seen it teased back in May. And we saw the foreshadowing in previous issues with Wonder Woman, Lois and Superman's other

It was the day to sell it, I suppose. But the original prop from the Back To The Future II movie for the Pepsi Perfect bottle hit eBay today from a

  Another Wednesday, another brace of comic books published. But where do you start? Here are a few possible pointers..... Tony Stark said it folks,

So this is the cover to today's Titans Hunt, the comic threatening to bring back the original Teen Titans to the DC Universe. But which original Teen

We could start with "pretty brill". Or check the "bobbies" and wrong London buses from previous issues. Or how you can't have a glottal stop before the

A new Wednesday, a new look at the reborn Marvel Universe, even as Secret Wars still plays out. The new launch of Karnak by Warren Ellis and Gerardo

Let's take a look at what's coming from Titan Comics and Titan Books in January 2016... DOCTOR WHO 8TH #4 (OF 5) VAR EDWARDS (W) George Mann (A) Emma

Secret Wars may have until the end of the year to play out. But the spinoffs are coming to a close. But what secrets to they provide as to what is to

This is Strayer, the new comic book from new publisher Aftershock, by Justin Jordan and Juan Gedeon..... The world is full of monsters. Strayer kills

The stories I've been running recently regarding Marvel and Netflix have been sourced from connected individuals whose reliability I can ascertain. Those

IDW's solicitations for January 2016... Featuring the launches of Ghostbusters International, Amazing Forest, Angry Birds, Luna The Vampire and Victorie