Rich Johnston Archives

Cameron Hatheway writes; Fatale #14 by Sean Phillips Why did it have to be toothy Cthulu faces? I hate toothy Cthulu faces! The eerie use of black and

We've covered the attempt by Mort Todd to set up a fictitious comic book publisher called Zeus Comics going back to the fifties, as part of a new comic

Cameron Hatheway writes; Unfortunately whenever I see the word ‘nymph’ nowadays, I automatically think ‘nympho’ or ‘nymphomaniac,’ forgetting that it used

In the mid nineties, Jim Lee wrote and drew a comic book called Divine Right: The Adventures Of Max Faraday, about a computer science student who manages

Hannah Means-Shannon writes; The promo from Dark Horse for Dream Thief #1 warn you that “spirits of the vengeful dead” are going to “possess” John Lincoln

Cameron Hatheway writes; Hey remember last year when this category didn’t even exist because the judges cited there were ‘not enough contenders that

Chris Thompson writes; Welcome to Episode 112 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we get Kot off guard by Suicide Squad #20, put the needle on the record with

Here you go folks. The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys, coming to a comic store near you soon...

  Some people read Dave Elliot and Garry Leach's A1 anthologies when they came out. I wasn't one of them I was reading Silver Surfer. The closest I

A few days ago I was told that a DC A-list writer was leaving DC Comics and that the company were in a bit of a mad panic to replace them quickly.

Mike S Miller, artist on the current hit series Injustice: Gods Among Us, has an offer for you. Pay him some money and he'll put you in a crowd scene in

When I went to the Image Duplicator exhibition in London last night, I also walked past Foyles, the classic London bookstore, who have taking the

Cameron Hatheway writes; As many of you know, the 2013 Eisner Nominees were announced last month. Last year I wrote a weekly column on the nominees and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8_wdY5VSuo Grace Randolph writes; Michael Shannon is General Zod in Man of Steel 2013. Warner Brothers brings the Man of

Butcher Billy redesigns DC superheroes as post-punk pop stars. Check them out, as well as bill-posting them up on buildings, and sale as T-shirts, and

We've mentioned a few bits and pieces of note from the August solicitations for the comic book direct market. But there's lots more to get our teeth into.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0DwhOSb9j0 Now that nerds are cool, what is a jock to do? From Patrick Willems and the crew, guest-starring Andrew James

Tom Brevoort, answering a Formspring question, talked about Marvel's plans for the future... Yes. If all goes as planned, our big storyline for 2015 will

We saw just how fast Charlie Adlard can work and the pressure is on, to get the hundredth issue of Walking Dead out for San Diego last year. But since

Okay, I could have possibly phrased that less ambiguously. But, just as Avatar did with Fashion Beast at the London Super Comic Con, they are offering an

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmFa-flzE0I Death's Sentence is the original CLiNT serialised comic that shocked the world by being on time (and talking of

This is the new look for Buck Rogers In The 25th Century #1, courtesy of Howard Chaykin, and being published by Hermes Press in August. Buck Rogers, the

But that's okay, we can! Lords Of Mars, the six issue crossover of two Edgar Rice Burroughs creations, in a new series from Dynamite starting in August. I

Matt Fraction has art-directed a series of T-shirt designs based on the Hawkeye comic for WeLoveFine, and is donating his fee to Futures Without Violence.

Seriously, this is my thing. Hiding ANGELA in the first letter of each sentence in this article. Or hiding LOGAN KILLS ANT in this one. Hell, hiding

Here comes the Boom! Solicitations for August 2013 - a sequel to 2 Guns in 3 Guns - which will be handy when the movie comes out. Steven Grant adapting

BLEEDING COOL MAGAZINE #6 Retail Price: $4.99 US MR, Full Color, 104 pages Bleeding Cool Magazine talks to some of the most recognizable COSPLAYERS in the

Rian Hughes, holding his copy of the Image Duplicator catalogue, held behind his back. Hughes, designer of comics and much more besides, was one of the

You may already own some of the Siege tie thanks to all those free Marvel issue 1s on ComiXology. Well, on Friday, it looks like you n fill in some of the

  There we go folks. Proof that tomorrow the August solicitations will turn from a trickle into a flood. The release of the Adventure Time covers