Rich Johnston Archives

The week after the big show... and Superior Spider-Man pushes past new launches and Trinity Wars to take the top spot alongside the second issue of

Kal-El Bogdanove writes; Jon Bogdanove has been gone a long time. Or at least that's what people think. And it's true that since his epic run on Superman:

Welcome to the front line of comic book retailing. Which comics are heating up so fast that retailers are having to play catch up, upping their orders to

Aaron Hale writes; It’s kind of a tradition for me that the first night of San Diego Comic Con my wife and I attend preview night then we go out for a

I missed this in the post-show kerfuffle. At San Diego, we broke the news that Justin Jordan had walked off Superboy but would remain on Green Lantern:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saSMOgi9bCQ That's a heat sensitive mug from DC Comics and Warner Bros that features their current Justice League crossover

Data courtesy of Bleeding Cool's Mark Seifert, based on some serious jigging around with Bleeding Cool page views. With the films and TV, Marvel won San

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ReaKbB06Bk Bleeding Cool’s Kickstarter Correspondent, Shawn Demumbrum has lead three Kickstarter campaigns to launch comic

Do you remember The Human Fly? A name used by many stuntmen, in the seventies it was adopted by Rick Rojatt, who inspired a nineteen issue comic series

By Hannah Means-Shannon Duane Swierczynski, who seems to be just about everywhere these days, has always had a big old soft spot for true crime and

By Chris Thompson I’ve just returned from the madness that is San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC), and that can only mean one thing … interviews! Now I must warn

It was a Bleeding Cool scoop from San Diego Comic Con that retailers were going to be asked not to stack Afterlife With Archie with their other comic

On July 19th, Marvel Comics registered trademarks for Age Of Ultron, just before announcing the name of the second Avengers film. On the 16th, Marvel

We mentioned at the weekend at San Diego that Titan Comics was reviving and reprinting Pat Mills and Tony Skinner's Accident Man.

When Teen Titans #1 came out, written by Scott Lobdell, we pointed out how he used it to burn down the X-Men's Mansion in Westchester. Almost as if

Welcome to the final set of coaplay photos from Bleeding Cool taken at San Diego Comic Con 2013, courtesy of Endymion Mageto, Devin Quin and Corey Hale...

Bleeding Cool’s Kickstarter Correspondent, Shawn Demumbrum has lead three Kickstarter campaigns to launch comic books, two successfully funded and one

Well, Wolverine lost his cowl in the X-Men movies. Now it looks as if Scarlet Witch will lose hers too for Avengers: The Age Of Ultron.

Two nights ago, I contacted both Marvel Comics and ComiXology regarding a story I intended to run, regarding Disney/Marvel's granted patent on technology

I was talking to a comics publisher on the train from San Diego to Los Angeles. Seriously, coming back from con everyone should do that. Free wifi,

By Hannah Means-Shannon DC’s “My Secret Origins” panel was held in one of the largest meeting halls of the con, but still felt like one of San Diego Comic

By Dale Lazarov. Illustration by David Shenton I used to feel I had a lot of common cause and patience for the whole "Y ur comics haf no gay??" complaint.

This isn't a direct Swipe File by any means. But it is a bit of a thematic one...

UPDATE: He's back... In the middle of a very large listing for a copy of Amazing Fantasy #15 from 1962, featuring the very first appearance of Spider-Man,

I don't get Scott Pilgrim Vol 1 In Colour for $2.99 on my Kindle because I live In the UK and it's not even available on a UK Kindle. So I can whine and

San Diego Comic Con Cosplayers, with just the right amount of slo-mo... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-I3h15VgyE Can you see yourself? Let me know if

At the weekend, Bleeding Cool reported rumours that the US Doctor Who comics licence, to conclude at the end of the year, was likely to go to either Boom!

ComiXology has grown as the principal distributor of digital monthly comic books, is regularly the highest revenue App in the App Store, and at San Diego

Cameron Hatheway writes; Last Friday the Eisner Awards happened, and quite a few lucky people went home with glory, praise, respect, and most importantly

Welcome to another week of Thoughts About Today's Comics. Limited by time and San Diego, look forward to a fuller selection next week.   I appear to be