Rich Johnston Archives

So, yesterday, I wrote a story about a rumoured upcoming Storm monthly comic from Marvel, without any word of creators. Lots of people got excited.

At Gosh Comics in London tonight, the release of Bleeding Cool's Tim Pilcher's Comic Book Babylon. You can read extracts he wrote for Bleeding Cool right

There's more X-stuff leaking out from last week's Marvel Retreat. The big one is word of a new Storm series. No idea of the creative team, but the last to

Bleeding Cool first started talking about Five Years Later last month. Which may have led to DC's decision to take a little bit of ownership of the rumour

That Superboy Dies! rumour is still running around willy nilly. Well folks, he still seems to be around in February 2014. You may have to wait a little

Okay, we're going to take a punt here. From the new February DC solicitations; EARTH 2 #20 Written by TOM TAYLOR Art by BARRY KITSON Cover by JAE LEE 1:25

It was meant to be the flagstone for the New 52, the comic in which Pandora's identity would be revealed and with Demon Knights as its past, made up of

The DC Comics solicitations for February 2014  are trickling out... and it's not looking good for Nightwing. FOREVER EVIL #6 Written by GEOFF JOHNS Art by

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New comic book creator, and previous Doctor Who actress, Jessica Martin is debuting her self published book Elsie Harris Pictures at Thought Bubble, the

The Deal there, from Moonhead Press. Will they get a DC deal out of it? Or will another publisher beat them to it? So what have you been reading this

It's Alan Moore's sixtieth birthday next week. For his fiftieth birthday, Gary Spencer Millidge put out the anthology Alan Moore: Portrait Of An

Bleeding Cool recently ran a piece on the possible downsides of returnable promotions in the comics industry, where a publisher will make a comic book

Image Comics will be coming to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on January 9th for their new Image Comics Expo. The event is open to all

Sandman Overture #1 came out in October, and each scheduled to come out every two months, with a special edition of the previous month's issue shipping

Adi Tantimedh writes; The 1960s were a boom time for Samurai movies, with studios in Japan churning out not just epics but popular series on a regular

The stats for October 2013 through the Northern American direct market via Diamond Comic Distributors is out. So what have we learned? Walking Dead kills.

A new Image comic. Probbaly for March. From the Wasteland team of Anthony Johnston and Justin Greenwood. There's a website. It will probably be updated

Ripped straight from the LA Times, a look at the new - or rather old - Batmobile, as seen in the upcoming Batman #25. It's got a bit of an Alfa Romeo look

Marvel Editor-In-Chief Axel Alonso revealed the makeup of last week's Marvel Retreat to CBR, made of up writers "Brian Bendis, Dan Slott, Jason Aaron,

FEMALE GAZE Heidi MacDonald attacks the Comics Journal's almost all-exclusive male credits and focus. And does a little Gendercrunching on a number of

Robin Harman writes; Welcome to Episode 133 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we exit light, and enter night with Sandman: Overture #1, saddle up with

Joseph Glass writes; This year’s NYCC saw the launch of Battling Boy for comics legend Paul Pope. I had the chance to have a quick chat with Paul about

Robert J. Sodaaro writes; “Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!” These are the

Joseph Glass writes; Last week saw the airing of Superheroes, a HBO documentary following the work of real life caped crusaders. Bleeding Cool had a chat

With the current increase in attention to Marvel's cosmic line with the upcoming Guardians Of The Galaxy movie and the current Infinity storyline, Marvel

Thanks to the wonderful Joel Harris for a rather unique take on the leading superheroes of our day. Man.. Or Super Manatee? DC Comics have started running

The Bleeding Cool forums. Famed as a den of iniquity the internet over. But among the flamewars, insults and general baiting, there is also high drama.

This is the solicitation for Wolverine #11 out this week. With the world on the brink of viral apocalypse, Logan and Kitty Pryde face down the Thirteen

http://vimeo.com/78325598 From Wolfgang Matzl who brought us the paper-cut-out version of Inception, this time a stop motion animation with puppets made