Rich Johnston Archives

I was chatting with Über writer Kieron Gillen, and it he let it slip that when originally writing Über, he saw it as the anti-All Star Superman. I don't

Yay! Free Comic Book Day! What a blast that was. Though there have been concerns. The guidelines for a comic book being published for Free Comic Book Day

Alex Wilson writes; Tim Seeley, the writer on books such as Revival and the artist on books like Ex Sanguine, is the rare combination of multi-talent in

One curious collector called Michael writes; I just picked up a couple of vintage Marvel ‘holy grails’ this past week: a 1965 Merry Marvel Marching

Batman And The Red Hood #20 is out today, with Carrie and all, but the cover does look a little familiar. Possibly because this one, from Age Of Ultron

Hannah Means-Shannon writes; Free Comic Book Day this year brought a bumper number of surprises out of the woodwork; there were more new series

Thanks to Marnie Ann Joyce for this stunning display of cosplay photography from C2E2. If you recognise yourself, or a friend, get in touch and we'll add

John Layman, co-creator of Image comic book Chew, has been tweeting. That always gets interesting. And this time it concerns the much-publicised option

Louis Falcetti writes; Would it be horribly dating myself to reference the REM album that bears the same name as this comic, from writer Mike Garley and

Fresh from the hot book Mind MGMT, Matt Kindt is joining Valiant with artist ChrissCross for Bloodshot #0. As we reported from C2E2, that will then lead

The new Suicide Squad #20 is a pretty decent comic, Ales Kot's debut working for DC Comics. Ales has a bit of a reputation as a hipster and started by

Natalie Reed writes; There’s been a lot of trans characters popping up in comics these past few weeks. Well... contextually “a lot”, anyway. Contrary to

From today's Batman #20. Sweet. And it looks like it won't be the only time we see this costume...

Uber #1 is a relatively slow book, at least to begin with. People stand around, talking a lot. Some of them talk a lot on a motorbike. Some behind a desk.

GRIMM #1 David Greenwalt, Jim Kouf (story) Marc Gaffen, Kyle McVey (script) José Malaga (a) Alex Ross (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Teen+ Set in the world

Avatar Press are publishing Uber #1 by Kieron Gillen and Canaan White tomorrow. Sold out from the distributor before going on sale at shops, this is what

Will Romine writes; Hello Friends! It's your old pal Will Romine here with a review of Batman #20. I just had LASIK surgery a couple of hours ago and my

  The woman pictured, dressed as The She-Hulk, is wanted after an assault on a seventeen year old woman outside a McDonalds in York.   The York

Dennis O’Neil has a long history in the comics industry as both a writer and editor. He’s best known for writing Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjz8S5XIxp4 Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Florida writes; Hey Fandom! I'm still not recovered from Free Comic Book Day!

Next week sees the debut release of Dream Thief by Jai Nitz and Greg Smallwood from Dark Horse. And also Dream Merchant from Image Comics. But more of

From The DC Entertainment Essential Graphic Novels And Chronology 2013, heading to comic stores, bookstores, libraries and the media, giving us what DC

Louis Falcetti Q&A'd with Riley Rossmo around the launch of his new Image comic, Dia De Los Muertos. And naturally he started with a Bleeding Cooly

Louis Falcetti writes; When I was a younger man I disliked performers who hopped across mediums. I felt like it wasn't fair (of course when you're 16,

Jim Zub reports on the sales bump given to Skullkickers by renaming it Uncanny Skullkickers for one issue, in light of Uncanny Avengers and Uncanny

Executive Director of Comics Pro and ex-comic retailer Amanda Emmert has stepped down from the position following this year's Free Comic Book Day. Though

They don't have a mailing list. So this may have to do. The second issue of Brian K Vaughan And Marcos Martin's DRM-free digital comic The Private Eye is

  IGN has been given a bunch of variant covers for the launch of Superman Unchained #1, taking the character through the decades, courtesy of the

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV2kgOZB31U Grace Randolph writes; Teen Titans GO is the new DC Nation show for 2013 on Cartoon Network, and I review

New York Post writer Reed Tucker is on a mission to explain what's wrong with the comics industry. Did you miss the good news? According to ComiChron,