Rich Johnston Archives

There seems to be some issues with some of the Marvel AR content in recent comics. The Thanos's son AR moment in New Avengers #10 towards the end of the

That's Frank Cho's take on the new Lobo. He's still not happy. Though now he sounds like the guy in the pub in Withnail And I to me. Writer Magruerite

It is possible that some retailers have forgotten how issues of Sandman sell. Its final issue, 75, was fifth on Diamond's ordering charts. Since then, the

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

Years ago, I ran a vote on Lying In The Gutters. We knew Jim Lee was drawing the new All Star Batman book. But who to write it? We had our answer. Now

Comics Beat has the full run down of panels and programming on the Friday of New York Comic Con this year. But here are just the comics and comic-related

Superior Spider-Man #18 went on sale today, with various time twisting effects, including a future Tiberius Stone getting all Swiss-cheesed as his very

So, you're a comics retailer. You've been severely allocated on your 3D covers for Villains Month from DC Comics. But at least you now know what you're

From Hollywood Reporter... Take the cover to Unity #1, out from Valiant, November 19th. Use your smart phone to read the QR code. Rest the phone on the

Another week, another lovely pile of comics. We've already looked at Villain's Month and Infinity books, but what else is kicking around today? So...

Fourteen books. A record Villain's Month Week as a small amount of slippage occurred last week. Let's have a flick through all the 3Dness... Charles Soule

The Other Dead, a new comic book from IDW is published next Wednesday. A story about animals, reanimated, coming back from the dead as bloodthirsty

In a few days, we're going to have the first episode of Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Thecomic Secret Avengers, set amongst SHIELD's doings, has been

Dial H was originally a Vertigo series by China Mieville that was hijacked by the DC Universe and used as one of the New 52 launch comics. It launched

I confess, I am now wanting a Broadway musical entitled The Book Of Inhumans. Because in today's Infinity titles from Marvel, we learn a new secret

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CREM_Bdfh5U Aaron Haaland writes; Hey Fandom! It's me, Aaron, talking Ales Kot's Zero, DC Villains, and Infinity! First,

  This is the cover to Think Tank #13 by Rahsan Ekedal. He shares his process, and reference for colour, in this email to Top Cow. Hi guys, here are

A prelude to Miss Fury, this new comic, Noir, by Victor Gischler and Andrea Mutti for Dynamite has Black Sparrow.... well... When thieves steal from other

There's a famous cartoon, widely criticized at the time, by Philip Zec. Printed by the Daily Mirror during the second world war, it featured a sailor

In an article at Multiversity, Eric Stephenson, Publisher of Image Comics is quoted as saying, in response to a question about why so many bigger names

A few ch-ch-changes from solicitations to actual published comics, in terms of who's actually doing them... Fantastic Four #14 will now be drawn by

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDl03VUbH2E Courtesy of a friendly retailer, the look of DC's 3D Covers for Villain's Month - Week Three!

Bleeding Cool reported that DC would not have a traditional booth at New York Comic Con this year, but would have something to display Superman costumes

A few more New York Comic Con exclusives to showcase... DC Comics has a number of New York Comic Con comics variant exclusives. The include

DC Comics has launched a new Indiegogo crowdfunding initiative for its continuing We Can Be Heroes campaign, raising money for the humanitarian crisis in

At NYCC, the first big comic convention after the launch of the new TV show Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Marvel Booth (#1354) will have, from

Okay, I so I initially thought that this successful eBay sale is something of a fluke. An advance sale of  the 3D cover of Joker's Daughter #1, out in a

Walking Dead wants a spinoff. Breaking Bad wants a spinoff. Bleeding Cool has a suggestion for AMC...

Here's the trailer to new Dark Horse comic, Clown Fatale by Victor Gischler and Maurizio Rosenzweig. Sexy female clowns are mistaken for contract killers

Dan Panosian has worked on the likes of Captain America, Spawn, The Flash, Prophet,  Spider-Man, X-Men, Spelljammer, and Green Lantern, as well as the