Rich Johnston Archives

Hermes Press, already bringing back Buck Rogers in comics form, are also looking to create new stories for another pulp hero of the past. Peter David and

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool broke the story that DC Comics' longest standing executive, Bob Wayne, would be stepping down from the publisher when it moves

    A quick look at Original Sin #4 then... With The Punisher pointing a rifle at Doctor Strange. Piff paff poof, he'll turn it into

Tomorrow I head east. The 85 bus to Putney, the train to Waterloo, the Jubilee line on the tube to Canning Town and the District Light Railway to Custom

At the Diamond Retailer Summit we had the results of their Best Practice Awards, for retailers for a number of categories. And the winners were from all

I wonder what he though of this week's issue's opening page after a three month wait? Especially using his fingers to feel for the ink... if that even

Appearing in this week's Original Sin #2... Exterminatrix. And appearing from IDW some years ago, courtesy of Gene Simmons...   But from Marvel Boy

  From the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, a break down of how Free Comic Book Day did, by the numbers...   Basically more comics ordered

Bryan Lee O'Malley used to be known as the author of Scott Pilgrim. But now he is rapidly being regarded as the guy who does variant covers for Kieron

Bob Wayne joined the Sales department of DC Comics at San Diego Comic Con in 1987. Previous to that he ran a chain of comics and science fiction stores in

Jaymes Reed is the letter on Crossed. But he has a more diverse past. As a comic creator, he debuted a character in the anthology comic, Best Cellars #1.

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. In August, Charles Soule will be the credited writer on: The Death Of Wolverine #1-4 She-Hulk #7 Inhuman #5

We ran this image on Monday, but with the back cover of Diamond Previews, we have it at far greater detail. So we can flip the bit at the bottom. And see

Thanks to The Mary Sue for the transcript of the Scriptnotes live audience podcast focussing on suprrheroes with Andrea Berloff, Christopher

One year ago, Mark Millar asked a question on a now-deleted Millarworld thread. In the middle of the next big Millarworld book, coming out at the end of

Yesterday, Marvel Comics announced that Gerry Duggan would be writing Hulk from issue 5, replacing Mark Waid, and we ran the solicitation this morning.

Here are Dynamite's new offerings for August. Plenty to choose from here... got to say Battlestar Galactica: 1880 is just a great high concept title...

At the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas, Marvel announced Time's Runs Out, a new Marvel event for May 2015 by Jonathan Hickman, spinning out of his

As Marvel solicits the childbirth issue of Miracleman #9 for August, over twenty-five years after it first caused such concern, so today’s Saga #19 opens.

Boom! Studiuos and Archaia's comics out in August (mostly)... Fairy Quest will always top my list. But what will you be looking out for? FAIRY QUEST:

StephanieBrownWatch: There is no Stephanie Brown comic today. Welcome to #BatWorldProblems in Batman Eternal. So where can you go for a little female

Futures End #4 shows us a future New York practicing full blown apartheid, between those from Earth One and those from Earth Two. And for some reason,

We haven't had a new Strangers In Paradise comic since the series by Terry Moore ended in 2007. Well, the stars of the new Strangers In Paradise comic

X-Men: Days Of Future Past is coming soon, with it's blast to the past of the X-Men, from the future. Now the comics are full of that already with the

And for Image Comics in August, the full list of new comics... the Rat Queens/Peter Panzerfaust crossover cover sticks out nicely, we have eight new

Marvel appear to have the cover to the new Previews... a rarity. But where exactly is AXIS in the August solicitations? Maybe they're just getting ahead

Once upon a time, in the eighties, under the John Byrne Superman revamp, Lex Luthor's computer systems worked out that Clark Kent was Superman. But Lex

So Superman/Batman #11 is out tomorrow, from DC Comics. And this is the cover, honest. Which does, for the first time we believe, give Krypto a full

As seen at the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas - The Wicked And The Divine #1 by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, coming from Image Comics. Just a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lErbGNyPMDM I don't know why I do these things. But I just can't help myself.