Rich Johnston Archives

During the Thatcher prime ministerial crisis in 1990, a TV drama series, House Of Cards aired on British TV. About how a frustrated senior politician

 A Little Bleeder wrote; Mitch Gerards told me there are talks to bring The Activity to the screen. Adam Hughes is entirely charming and another font of

War and comedy. They've always been bedfellows, even if the general public may have been offended to hear it. Soldiers have always used gallows humour to

Tim Pilcher, ex-Vertigo Comics editor, is serialising the first chapter of his new book Comic Book Babylon: A Cautionary Tale of Sex, Drugs & Comics

Joe Kelly, in 1999 about his decision to walk off the X-Men titles; "We'd write a story, work really hard on it, hand it in and it would get approved.

A Little Bleeder writes from FablesCon last weekend; Gene Ha repeatedly voiced disappointment about his DC exclusive contract and his desire to be done

A Little Bleeder writes from FablesCon; Saturday early evening I spent an hour with the stunning Lauren Beukes. She is constantly bothered by Shelly Bond

Tom Hanley writes; DC and Marvel were both down from their December totals for female creators but had strong numbers nonetheless, with Marvel maintaining

Andrew Mertes reports; Constantine #1 completely dropped off of the sales charts around the globe this week. There is still some good news for John

Uncanny Avengers #5: "So please, don't call us Mutants. The 'M' Word represents everything I hate." The X-Men comics have often used allegory to address

I know! Poland Spring! Who'd have thought! Thanks Jen. Don't do a Stan Lee on us... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehAkYxYze7M UPDATE: We find the guilty

A third list to go with the other two, with a bunch of DC Comics collections for late 2013 and early 2014. Mostly Vertigo. Not completely. Frank Quitely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epSc1VMfvr0 Deadpool will make amends.

Elin Winkler, publisher of Radio Comix, wrote; Due to a horrible oversight on the part of our (now former) accountant, we now owe a staggering amount of

Rob Liefeld tweets; The sales on Jupiter's Legacy are inspiring. Testament to the creative juice of Millar and Quitely! Should top the charts over 150k —

Quentin Blake is best known for illustrating many of Roald Dahl's best known books, but his career as an illkustrator of children's books expands far and

UPDATE: This and other prints can be bought from JK Woodward to help as deals with effects of Hurricane Sandy. Marvel doesn't have the rights to Rom The

This week's Advance Reorder chart as ever measures how retailers are reordering comics ahead of their pubication, through Diamond Comic Distributors. And

Time Warp from Vertigo is basically Vertigo's attempt to do 2000AD. Future Shocks, Time Twisters, they used to call them. Lindelhof and Lemire's initial

The concept of "political correctness" or as some people used to call it, "politeness", is that you don't set out to offend or use language that might

  Now, I can see how Walking Dead Risk might work. But Walking Dead Monopoly? Not a clue. Anyway, they're coming as some kind of Skybound/USAopoly

A look at a few Dynamite comics out today. Including extended previews of the work of a certain Mr Ennis... GARTH ENNIS’ RED TEAM #2 FC • 32 pages • $3.99

It was one of the Second Wave titles of the New 52. Originally planned as a Vertigo comic, then repurposed to the New 52 though still edited by Karen

Not a reference to an Italian translation of Wolverine And The X-Men, but instead the repeated use of rather entertaining English words in today's X-Men

So you may consider skipping Fantastic Four #5AU. After all, it ties into a crossover you may not be reading, and it's likely that any reality reset

Are you already missing Grant Morrison on Action Comics? Worried that Andy Diggle's truncated story may not satisfying you in the same way now that he's

Age Of Ultron was written and drawn a couple of years ago. It was meant to have been published last year. Now, finally finished, and being published

So, Damian Wayne. His life, his death, his funeral. Batman Inc #9. But someone else died in recent issues too, and he gets his own funeral. But,

Have an international trailer for Kick Ass 2... Out on July 19th in the UK, apparently. 16th August in the US. Oh, that's going to be interesting.

    Thanks to new Bleeding Cool cosplay correspondent, Anna Fischer, for these rather wonderful shots from PAX East this past weekend... heavy