Rich Johnston Archives

Hang on, this isn't the way things are meant to work. Editors are meant to be leaving DC Comics for Marvel, to stay in New York rather than having to make

I understand that October comic book marketshare for North American direct market stores, to be revealed later this week, will reveal that Image Comics

Appearing in today's Gotham Academy, is a certain Mr Scarlett, working in the school library. Recognise him? Well you will if you watch your special

Bill Watterson is President of next year's Angouleme Comic Art Festival in France. For which he has drawn this poster. New Bill Watterson artwork is a

DC Comics has confirmed to retailers the details of how the Convergence event is going to work. There will be a Convergence #0 starting on April 1st and

I wonder if you'll see this fellow turn up in Marvel's Spider-Verse? Probably not, it's another of Image Comics' teasers for... something, along with

Appearing in today's DC Comics, I don't think I've seen this poster before. But it's pretty damn fine and does cement who this show is really about...

Is everyone excited about today's comics? Thank you Regular Show: Skips. Well, let's get on with it then! And... all the excitement has gone. Man, it's a

Okay t may cause a little subsidence, explosions or water to catch on fire. But fracking is the clearly only available solution to our energy crisis,

From the Marvel 75 Years From Pulp To Pop, as aired last night on ABC, a few clips of upcoming feature films, TV series and cartoons, being filmed and

Dan Slott told you that there would be all the Spider-Men you could think of, and then some, in Spiderverse. And from today's Amazing Spider-Man, we see

This is not the only time that Alfred Pennyworth has been played an utter badass in the Batman comics.  The character who began as a bungling figure, even

Remember when U2 did that deal with Apple and everyone with iOS suddenly found they had the new U2 album free, permanently on their device, whether they

Secondly it's drawn by Howard Porter who is soooooo much better at his craft than in is Grant Morrison JLA run, totally reinventing himself from the

As briefly seen on the Marvel "75 Years Pulp To Pop" puff TV show last night from ABC, the cover to Secret Wars #1 from Marvel Comics... Looks like

This was the last page of last month's Chew #43. Was it a hoax? A dream? An imaginary story? No. As seen from this panel from tomorrow's Chew #44. In a

Jeremy Dale, creator of the Action Lab comic book Skyward, has passed away. Working in comics for just over a decade, his comics included Popgun, GI Joe:

Last week Bleeding Cool ran the scoop that the number of titles being offered to retailers on Free Comic Book Day would be slashed back to fifty - and

If you think the pace of the BBC recent adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman is laborious, with three

Anything Marvel can tease, Image Comics can tease better. What - or who - is Luminary? Apart from the superhero identity of... Malia or Sasha? UPDATE: And

Warren Ellis writes in his newsletter, TREES issue 8 is finally complete. As soon as I've gotten PROJECT STEPNEY out of the way (and I'm fifteen pages off

January 8th. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. San Francisco Bay. Image Expo 2015. Lots of announcements and comic creators showing off their stuff. With

Well, we know Blue Beetle is coming back in Convergence. And, courtesy of Futures End, that Booster Gold will no doubt be involved. So why not get the

Posted to their Facebook page, the Rhode Island Comic Con has made a full statement regarding the weekend's "hiccup". On behalf of everyone at the 2014

They did this when they began teasing Time Runs Out for retailers at the beginning of the year. And they are not stopping now. Marvel Comics continues to

Forgive me if I am a little self indulgent here. But in the UK, our sales tax, VAT, is zero rated for books. Which is great, it means that books,

Okay, so Mad Men Series 7 Part One (because they are bastards like that) has just been released on DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK from Lionsgate. It's almost

In 2005, the British satirical sitcom, Nathan Barley, from Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris parodied the then-unfamiliar hipster movement, with epsiode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4vP2tkSUMs One of the more  famous, violent Italian comics of the sixties is set to return next year. Kriminal was

Here's a few of the extras coming in Dover Publications' reprinting of JM DeMatteis and Paul Jonson's Mercy original graphic novel, first published by