Rich Johnston Archives

Robin Harman writes; Welcome to Episode 129 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we get locked up with Sex Criminals #1, suck it up with Superman #23.4

Dynamite have just launched Dynamite Toys and their own games line. Now IDW are doing the same thing, in a deal with Pandasaurus Games, creating IDW

Debut at NYCC: Available elsewhere in January. Title: World War Mob Publisher: New Paradigm Stories. Booth: Artists Alley E3 Creators: Vito Delsante,

Dylan Gonzalez writes; Beer: The Fear Brewery: Flying Dog October means a few things to me: Halloween and horrors movies, my birthday and the Oktoberfest

Wil Petty writes; Going it alone... Its not always advised, especially when trying to launch a kickstarter campaign. But that is just what Wil Petty is

I do enjoy the work of Freema Agyeman. I rather liked her in Doctor Who, playing against David Tennant and can't help feel she was a little short served

Mike Hogan writes; One unique aspect of the comics industry is how readers are able to see the future. With teasers and product solicitations, sometimes

The Zero #1 team work on something... Avengerish. Is this something Winter Soldierish? And if this is Secret Avengers, what was the Defend thing? Secret

Timothy Carson writes; The second issue of Forever Evil makes a solid debut on the North American charts, conquering the US, Canada, and Mexico, according

Okay, I'm a bit late to the party this week. But this week's Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. What's what? 1. It's A Magical Place Two episodes in, it's

All these Marvel comics are getting Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. variant covers in November. And just enough time for retailers to up their orders to qualify

Ian Melton writes; They are the men responsible for the Sixth Gun, Oni’s bestselling independent monthly book, and all three, Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt,

When compiling a list of Image releases this year for the Bleeding Cool Price Guide, I noted a changing pattern. In recent years, new comics from Image

Last month I reported on Diamond's new policy to list how many titles each publisher has put out alongside their respective marketshare. And how I was

Is Lee Garbett the new artist on Mighty Avengers? Or is this something new? Who do you trust??? And Chris Yost and Marcus To could be Scarlet Spider-style

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCTmfwHA04 Jock's fifteen-year-old son Aubrey has created a trailer for Jock's upcoming run on Savage Wolverine....

Last month, we said "in September, DC will crush Marvel as the 3D Covers lift their backlist considerably…" Well, in September , DC Comics' share of

It keeps on rolling, The original blog post by Mark Waid about the way young freelancers in comics are treated - and what they should do about it - keeps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQWoOeMHFw4 From The Gutters, a new YouTube series in which Jamie S Rich talks to comic folk. Such as, in their first

Ex-Saturday Night Live-er Norm MacDonald has a theory about the ending of Breaking Bad. Indeed, it's not to much a theory, he's convinced it's the only

A few pretty pictures to end the day with. Thanks to Timothy The 2013 Christmas Card for the Sherlock Holmes Society Of London, as designed and drawn by

Bleeding Cool Senior Cosplay Correspondent, Endymion Mageto, talked to Shelby ahead of New York Comic Con. How long have you been going to NYCC? 2010 was

Yesterday, Mark Waid wrote a clarion call for comic book creators, warning of the dangers of being too submissive in the face of editorial dictat. It had

Unity is the big Valiant event comic of the year, starting in November. And Valiant have just told retailers that they will only have one chance to order

Ian Melton writes; Joe Kelly is one of Man Of Action, a creative group that works together to create amazing stories, including Ben 10, Generator Rex, and

We learn that Julie Maroh is working on her third book and knows what the fourth will be. Chris Thompson will be hosting a discussion with her at Orbital

Clayton Henry, previously of Suicide Squad and Incredible Hercules, and now Archer & Armstrong and Harbinger Wars has signed an exclusive contract

In November, IDW are giving a bunch of their comics 1-10 variant covers designed to resemble their Artist Editions, as if they were the original artwork,

Next week sees the launch of Shaolin Cowboy, Coffin Hill, Superman/Wonder Woman, Forever Evil Arkham, Memory Collectors, Triple Helix,  Three, Rocket

A couple of months ago, the fabulously talented writer/artist Sean Gordon Murphy stated that he was considering an apprenticeship/internship scheme. He