Rich Johnston Archives

Crossed: Dead Or Alive has just released a new episode by Garth Ennis and Daniel Gete in its attempt to crowdsource money to launch a series of webisodes

It’s time for another look at the cold hard statistics of the North American direct market for comic stores, as supplied by Diamond Comic Distributors.

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

Forget your Green Lantern rings, your Morbius false teeth or your Original Sin eyes! The Black Vortex crossover promotional item is... the reflective

The first issue of Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt and Paolo Rivera's The Valiant #1, published this week, has sold out of its 22,000 print run, and has gone to

Adding to the list... an exclusive Star Wars #1 cover for Bampf by Mike McKone

No spoilers. Well, hardly any. If you want to remain virgin pure before watching Black Mirror White Christmas on Channel 4 next week, then stop now. But I

The closure of a comic store doesn't always make headline news. This may be an exception, however, as Laughing Ogre in Lansdowne is owned and managed by

I just attended the press screening for Black Mirror: "White Christmas". This time I made it through with my own black mirror intact, and am on the 170

Comic book creator Joshua Dysart, of Swamp Thing, Violent Messiahs, Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes and a flagship writer for Valiant, including the

This is the cover to Punks #3. It appears that some retailers have taken exception to the cover, as regards displaying it openly on the stands. Women in

A run through a few solicitation changes from Marvel and DC Comics of late, twixt solicitation and publication... including the new cover to Justice

At the Cup Of Joe panel at San Diego Comic Con this year, Brian Bendis told one questioner that Bendis told a fan that, as well as big plans for the

Was that a bit of a Rich Twitch? It was only half an hour... Image Comics have just announced, SUNSTONE artist Stjepan Sejic to team up with series writer

Stjepan Šejić is the creator of Image Comics title Death Vigil, creator of the Sunstone graphic novel recently published to record sales by Image/Top Cow,

We'll update as they come in... but with the help of Jedi News, but we have 68 covers identified so far for the Marvel launch of Star Wars #1 though we

It appears that, despite cutting the overall number of Free Comic Book Day titles for 2015, there are still twelve Gold books available for retailers to

Afterlife With Archie still surprises me. This week, it portrayed Betty and Veronica as a pairing with a not-very-nice history, closer to Heathers than

Here's a first look at Star Wars #1, the retailer exclusive version from Heroes Haven by Mike Perkins, modelled on the cover of Giant Size X-Men. $10

This is a variant cover for Amazing Spider-Man #11, being sent to comic retailers, one per store, featuring Lugz sneakers. A paid for promotion, it sees

DC Comics are rushing out Justice League Goes Inside The NBA All-Star 2015, a free comic book timed to the 2015 NBA All-Star game! The comic features the

Are They Going To Call It Savage Dragon #200? Or The Threesome Issue?

He may have a reputation for drawing Catwoman covers in the USA. But in his home continent, Guillem March is known as a graphic novelist. Here's a look at

So, while DC Comics make the move from New York to Burbank, they will be publishing an editorial band aid, 89 comic books prepared in advance to cover

There's plenty to love in today's Sex Criminals. As always. But special mention must be made of the porn-shoot-within-a-comic-book, as one adult actress

Some folks have asked why Marvel Studios have been playing all hardball with Fox over X-Men and Fantastic Four rights, but all happy-go-lucky with Sony

Bitch Planet #1 asks the important question in comic books today. It also happens to lead off with a great pull back and reveal that's reminiscent of the

You know I've missed this. There was a time when Negan had a fine line in swearing on The Walking Dead. But since he got locked in a basement and the

So, today's Axis will give you two big spoilers. You may already suspect both are coming. But they do have wider impact.... The first, occurring midway

Last night, Secret War #2, months ago a quarter bin comic book, then in recent weeks a $8 comic book, just sold for $30.