Rich Johnston Archives

Blimey, there are lots of good free comic books out there tomorrow. I've already looked at Marvel and DC's offerings. Dark Horse, Kaboom, Top Shelf, Viz

Cameron Hatheway writes for Bleeding Cool; Hawkeye #10 by Francesco Francavilla Orange you glad Francavilla illustrated this cover? Simple, yet effective.

Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day. I'm not sure, we may have mentioned it. Dark Horse Comics have two free comics available. A Mass Effect/RIPD/Killjoys

A weekly bestseller list for comics! Tracking the comparative sales of the bestselling comics on a Wednesday and Thursday in the comic book stores below.

Budrus is an Israeli/US/Palestinian produced documentary movie following the history of nonviolent protest in a Palestinian village. Budrus, against the

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe-ovhKBHF8 I always thought celebrity was the way to go. Here's something we did three years ago. Yeah, they probably got

In a couple of weeks, Orbital Comics in London will be filling its gallery with pieces below, and more, comic book artists re-appropriating the works of

  It's Free Comic Book Day tomorrow! So let's look at three kids comics from three publishers showing off a number of strips. First up, Top Shelf

DC's offering this year is an interesting choice. Their Superman book includes a chapter from Geoff Johns, Richard Donner and Adam Kubert's Last Son Of

These Avengers 2 rumors continues to interest me.  People forget that Cap, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, and Quicksilver were the active team, for awhile, at a

Recently, Marvel gave away over seven hundred free comic books, digitally. It was rather popular. Today, digital comics subscription service, ComicBin, is

I confess, when I'm talking a party of kids round London's comic shops for Free Comic Book Day tomorrow, I will be keeping an eye on one specific

  The comic retailer alliance around Larry's Comics and Jetpack Comics has been commissioning and creating quite a lot of exclusive covers for a

Will the Queen partake in Free Comic Book Day? I only ask because The Mall Galleries, just up the road from Buckingham Palace, will be hosting an

Brian Bendis posts an internal Marvel document looking at the possible continuity effects of a worlds where Hank Pym is... removed at an early date. The

So, there's this film coming out in the US. Been out in the UK for a bit. It's quite fun. Anyway, Marvel are selling some of the comics it is based upon

Library Smash! The Northlake Public Library, in a Chicago suburb (just south of O'Hare airport, Wizard World fans) is running a crowdfunding campaign to

Next week, we get the debut of X, Chin Music, Damsels, Grimm and the first proper issue of Uber, we also get a new Buffy, Batman, Walking Dead, Avengers,

DC's What's New column has been spotlighting upcoming bits and pieces in their comics. But more often than not, they've been highlighting upcoming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJKHORBU3Co Patrick Willems plays with firefly. This is a very dangerous thing to do. Also, I totally think he's wrong. But

The Hastings variant of Max Bemis' Polarity #1 for Boom! Studios sells easily on eBay for $25 Buy It Now. On an Open Auction it has no trouble selling for

Dylan Sutcliff writes; When Thrillbent was announced I visited the site, read a few comics for free on my laptop and was largely unimpressed. The

Bleeding Cool has been reporting how the comics speculator market seems to have seized on the self published book Rachel Rising by Terry Moore and

Andrew Mertes writes; Not much in the way of change for the sales charts this week. Injustice: Gods Among Us continues its remarkable run at the top of

Watch_Dogs is a new supervillain game set in Chicago from Ubisoft,. Chicago resident Alex Ross designed the cover. He told Forbes; I went downtown to a

What's wrong with teenagers today? Fanta is launching a new campaign aimed at them, senior VP Wendy Clark quoted as saying "At its core, Fanta seeks to be

At just after seven pm last night, Acme Comics in Greensboro, North Carolina, had its first guy quueing up in line for Free Comic Book Day. On Saturday.

Artwork by Eisner-winning cartoonist Roger Langridge exhibited at last year's Treviso Comics Festival in Italy has gone missing. Sent back to that third

In case anyone missed Taylor Ramsey's interview the other day, Len Wein talked about exactly what happened with the Before Watchmen Epilogue that DC

Alex Wilson wrote from C2E2; When I was walking out of McCormick Place around 4:00 pm to catch a cab after the last day of C2E2 I heard a girl as I was