Rich Johnston Archives

'TRUMAN STERLING' is the pseudonym of a semi-well known writer/artist (or artist/writer, whichever you prefer) whose work has appeared regularly from one

Ian Melton writes; The con season has officially begun for 2013, and amazingly Wizard World Portland, or Portland Comic-Con, whichever you want to call it

They began as digital comics, overseen by Chris Roberson and Allison Baker. But Image and IDW sees not to have been able to abide that. And now they'll be

One Million Moms has launched a new campaign targeting two advertising campaigns, one from Amazon for being too homosexual and one from Hardees and Carl's Jr for being, well... too heterosexual, I guess.

Five Weapons by Jimmie Robinson is totally and utterly Harry Potter with violence instead of magic. Oh and in America. There are five houses at the

Joseph Kyle Schmidt writes; Is Todd McFarlane returning to comics? Or video games? Or perhaps, a video game tie-in comic...? Yesterday, gaming blog Kotaku

Last month, the Image title Skullkickers #18 came out. Did okay. This week however, it has had a mini-relaunch a sissue 1 of Uncanny Skullkickers.

First of all, Hawkeye #8 by Matt Fraction is a great issue of Hawkeye. But one of the many things that makes it so super are the covers that homage a

Diamond Comic Distributors have announced their Diamond Gem Awards for 2012, voted on by comic book retailers in the direct market. The nominees are

Remember that diagram that showed the future of the Marvel Universe in Avengers #5 years ago? That included at its end, The Ultron War? It looks like

There are spoilers for comics published today and last week. below. So, yes. Fathers and sons. Suddenly that seems to be what my superhero comic books are

One prominent retailer told me yesterday that he only increased his order on Batman Inc #8 because he saw this story on Bleeding Cool. And appears to be

The final issue of Before Watchmen: Dr Manhattan is published today. As DC have warned retailers, the story pages do flip upside down to very literally

You read Bleeding Cool yesterday, so you knew to avoid the New York Post. And then you went offline. You didn't look at your tweets, you stayed off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKR6E_GG5OQ Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Florida writes; Hey Fandom! It's me, Aaron talking about New Comics Now!

Dynamite Entertainment have been doing a better than average job of attracting writers and artists more associated with Marvel and DC to create their

There are lots of Lokis. Lots of Robins. Lots of Captain Americas, Batmen, Supergirls. Wolverines, Hellboys, Ramona Flowers and a plentitude of zombies.

By Tim Hanley It was a second month of gains for the Big Two as both publishers put up strong overall numbers for female creators, with Marvel breaking

From a preview of Superior Spider-Man #6AU, part of the Age Of Ultron crossover thingammajig. Oh and then there's this little lot from Age Of Ultron

There are spoilers for this last week's Legion Of Superheroes below And a rumour about their future shape. Be warned going in, there be spoilers. Arrr.

First we got Marvel #1. Then we got 52 cuts. Each with a Marvel NOW logo. Earlier I suggested this was a nose tweaking for DC's New 52. One reader

So you know how this ends. It was rumoured certainly, especially when DC rang round retailers telling them to up their orders on this comic. And then when

So, Vibe #1 may have had a fair few first New 52 appearances of a number of characters, all locked away in government jars. Gypsy of course. Krakkl from

I haven't seen a lot of fuss about this. And chatting with big Alan More fans at London Super Comic Con realised that a fair few people hadn't actuyally

Patrick Willems visits the Marvel offices during their recent Creative Summit... and then everything explodes.

At the ComicsPRO meeting this past weekend, Marvel SVP David Gabriel told retailers that we would be seeing the return of the What If? title to Marvel

Here's a look at the Dynamite exclusive covers for ECCC, next weekend. One for Shadow Year One, another for Masks and two for the Red Team. ComiXology and

So we had this Marvel First thing. Now Marvel asks us to count to 52 with some suspiciously Wolverine-looking cuts. They really are just having a laugh

Roman Dirge, creator of the Lenore comics, has been hit by a car and is in hospital. He writes; So... Drunk driver in SUV hit me full force while crossing

Thanks again to Tom Huxley for his shots from the show last weekend.