Rich Johnston Archives

According to some trolls, you won't be able to give this magazine away. Well, some retailers have more confidence. HeavyInk.com is an online retailer who

Another Thursday, another weekly chapter of Crossed: Wish You Were Here by Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine. Or rather another interlude. Slow

The Fixer is the name of the Batman-replacement lead in Holy Terror. I got in an argument about that book in Phoenix Comic Con. I believe that it's a

Jesse James writes for Bleeding Cool. Like an unstoppable primal force. I was told when I first opened the store that part of your success will be on how

Okay, it's time to go over my notes from Phoenix Comic Con... it's amazing what you hear and then suddenly forget. Unless you write it down. I had Katana,

AwardWatch: Bleeding Cool hinted at a bit of a blowup of the Eagle Awards in our Kapow coverage two weeks ago. The Awards were held last weekend (Bleeding

Bleeding Cool understands that Ape Entertainment is about to launch a DreamWorks Animation Comics App for iPad and iPhone on Apple's App Store. The free

DC comics penciller Oliver Nome needs your help. He posts to Facebook and Twitter. hello friends and family..I'm gonna just get straight to the point,

Green Lantern Vol 3 #144. Might be worth a quick peek. If only for scenes like this, with Kyle Rayner and Alan Scott... Although scenes with his daughter

Next week it begins. Before Watchmen, with Minutemen. Though I'm told by DC sources that the one that comes out in two weeks, Silk Spectre, is really the

DC Comics are trying to increase the amount of copies MAD Magazine stocked by comic stores. To that effect they are going to overship the next four issues

That's certainly shows the power of a license. Not only is Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation 2 from IDW the first monthly comic to

Time to look at the chart of orders placed after the usual orders are due, which indicates rising trends just before on-sale date. Extra prints and

Before Watchmen begins next week, DC Comics continue to show off new variant covers from the likes of Jim Lee and Kevin Nowlan, below. One they can't show

This is totally a nineties revival. Three books out this week, one by Dave Sim, one by Jeff Smith, one by Terry Moore, all huge figures of the self

James Robinson is the writer of the Earth 2 comic book, part of DC's New 52 Second Wave. Issue 1 featured a new Alan Scott, originally the first Green

The New Deadwardians is rapidly becoming one of my favourite books on the market, and each issue cements it further. It is certainly my favourite work of

Nora Freis, the frozen wife of Victor Freis, and the inspiration for his transformation into Batman villain Mr Freeze, was introduced in Batman: The

And there I was thinking they'd be saving this kind of thing for The Walking Dead #100. But no. That's the thing about the comic book, you just don't know

The funding of an audio/visual/digital version of the Cerebus story High Society was received on Kickstarter even quicker than Sullivan's Sluggers... less

PoliticsWatch: WND looks at the history of the comic book, and recent cultural shifts under Obama. Traitorism, the death of America and sodomy, apparently.

Dr Manolis Vamvounis writes from Greece; SHOTGUN GAY WEDDING Everyone and their mother (even the mainstream blogs here in Greece) are reporting on this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYVV6pOoaxk Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Florida returns victorious from the Phoenix Comicon... Animal Man Annual has

Yesterday, we ran an article about a short program that had been written, designed to download ComiXology comics files that had been paid for, and keep

The Furry Trap is a new graphic novel solicited by Fantagraphics. Sounds like silly funny creatures ideally suited for a children's book. Ket's see what

He began working on the colours for the book. Then covers. And now, with issue 4, Argentinian colourist Diego Simone will be taking over from Robert Love

Bleeding Cool has been informed that Dave Bowen (Director of Digital Distribution), Jeff Dillon (Web Development Manager), and Lev Schneider (Programmer)

There must be a Lizard about to apear in a Spider-Man movie or something. Here is J Scot Campbell's variant cover to Amazing Spider-Man #688, starting the

One week ago, Bleeding Cool first reported the news that a DC superhero would be reinvented as a leading gay character. The rest of the news went

Next year, Fantagraphics are to publish the Last Laugh by André Franquin in English - the first new attempt in decades,  Franquin was a true master in