Rich Johnston Archives

Diamond Book Distributors has launched their Diamond Graphic Novel Common Core List for teachers and librarians, with a series of graphic novels

Louis Falcetti writes; The scariest stories are always the most plausible. For instance the popular Saw franchise, which capitalized on the very

Colin O' Mahoney writes; IDW’s Half Past Danger #1 was announced last week as a sell-out that is going back to print. That printing will now also include

Tickets for Wizard World Comic Con this weekend cost $50 for Sunday. VIP tickets cost $80 respectively. Every attendee gets a Neal Adams-covered Walking

Marada The She Wolf by Chris Claremont and John Bolton is being collected and republished by Titan Comics for the first time, later this year. Initially a

Inspired by a profane, NSFW quote from Game of Thrones.

As Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins' kickstarter appeal for His Heavy Heart approaches the halfway funding mark.

Dave Dellecese writes; “Sorry, kid. It’s a tough business to break into.” With those curt words roughly ten years ago in response to my asking for advice,

T Campbell writes; It’s hard out there for a working-class fantasy hero. From a distance, the job looks like so much fun. You get to kill dragons, beat up

Robert J. Sodaro writes; Stephan Lapin has a dream; his dream is to crack into the extremely difficult of being a comicbook writer. He has been reading

There he is folks, proof positive of Professor Xavier's original role, pre-AVX, in Age Of Ultron, from the original art by Bryan Hitch. And then...

This is the poster by Sergio Grisanti being given away to people who book for first showings of Pacific Rim at an IMAX cinema. And below is a certain

The first issue hits in October, here's a look ahead to issue 2 of Death Sentence, out in November by Montynero and Mike Dowling from Titan Comics... The

Cameron Hatheway writes; Hawkeye #11 by David Aja Now either this dog is a stone-blooded killer, or he just accidentally walked through some raspberry

By Dirk Manning ITEM: My new one-shot flip-book Love Stories (to Die For) #1 from Image Comics/Shadowline is now in

Robin Harman writes; After a couple of weeks of specials, panels and extra curricular activity, the crew get back to the PG (that’s program, and it’s

Here's the latest Bleeding Cool Bestseller list, looking at sales in comic stores on Wednesdays and Thursdays of each week, measuring the sales of those

Next week sees the launch of Catalyst Comix, reviving Dark Horse's Comics Greatest World title, the Trinity Of Sin: Pandora title that goes back to the

Age Of Ultron was famously begun a number of years ago, but then delayed, Avengers Vs X-Men taking its spot on the schedule. Which meant, on its arrival,

Elizabeth Herman writes; There’s an old joke that every comic book fan knows exactly what Fredric Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent is about, despite

From this week's The Green Team: Teen Trillionaires... Actually... that is geek stuff. Brother Power The Geek, no less. Is this his first appearance, or

Justice League sells well for DC Comics. Justice League America also sells well for DC Comics. Justice League Dark, made up of the likes of John

By Cameron Hatheway A good writer can juggle several different titles at once, while making sure the quality never diminishes. A great writer can do all

Here are Mile High Comics variants for George R R Martin's Skin Trade and Max Brooks' Extinction Parade in mini-form.... And a bigger version for

That is Gromit, of Wallace and Gromit fame, painted as the Green Lantern by Zane Malik off of One Direction fame.  Though this hapless BBC reporter didn't

BKV writes to say ...the third issue of THE PRIVATE EYE, a comic about privacy I co-created with the amazing Marcos Martin and Muntsa Vicente, is

Well here's a thing. Since the beginning of the year, John Byrne has been playing with a project on his message boards. Taking the concept of the Star

Dynamite published Uncanny #1 yesterday and has sold through its 15,600 print run, made up of 5,500 of the Sean Phillips cover, 5,500 of the Jock cover

There we go folks. The trial over the ownership of Ghost Rider, between its creator Gary Friedrich and publisher Marvel Comics, will go to a jury trial on