Rich Johnston Archives

Those of us who fondly remember Garth Ennis and John McCrea's Hitman series, may also remember one of the members of the non-superhero superhero team

Dean Butters attended San Diego Comic Con. He travelled further than most people to get there. The last time I was at San Diego Comic Con was five years

  I was pretty much sold with the cover and premise. But now I've had a chance to read the final first issue of Damsels #1. And it totally works. There's

Archer & Armstrong #1, out in a couple of weeks on August 8th, has already burnt through its 26,000 strong print run and is going to second print -

Josh Hoopes is again trying to launch a series of scams across the comics industry, to try and rip off both new artists and small publishers. Over the

A Bleeding Cool reader writes "There are no websites that I can find that have all of Marvel's October solicitations listed in one place, including the

While most comic stores held copies of Batman Inc #3 yesterday, following DC Comics' instructions, many shops did not. Some chose to ignore the request,

There'a a new wepisode of Crossed: Wish You Were Here up by Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erkine hitting the interwebs. And slightly less of the

Marvel Comics are bringing you all some new initials for the weekly comic lists. Flushed with the success of splashing AVX all over lists, helping

You can never trust Scott Lobdell. Seriously, you can burn that on your forehead as a motto and never live to regret it. But yesterday, he did tweet,

In what seems eons ago (before San Diego Comic Con, basically), we reported the rumour that Esad Ribic and Jonathan Hickman were taking on The Avengers

In an interview with Dan DiDio and Jim Lee for ICV2, we started to get a feel for the seasons at DC Comics. A New 52 event in the autumn, and a non-New 52

These cartoon strips are created weeks, months in advance. But it is a shame it had to run this week...

Bleeding Cool’s  Kickstarter Correspondent, Shawn Demumbrum has lead three Kickstarter campaigns to launch comic books, two successfully funded and one

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; After three months in a row at the same percentage of female creators, DC Comics was up in May, which helped them

Here's a look at how retailers are rushing to increase orders on certain comics before they go on sale. As ever second prints are over-represented on this

Kate Kotler writes for Bleeding Cool; *Made you look. Yes, Bleeding Cool, I went there. I reached back to one of my most contentious columns for this

Lil Johna writes for Bleeding Cool from the MCM Manchester Expo. First of all I have to say this was my first con, and I loved it, even though I was on my

Here are a bunch of post-solicitation creative changes for Marvel and DC. Hmm, DC seem to be picking up quite a few traditionally-Marvel creators as they

Mark Robert Bourne write for Bleeding Cool from San Diego Comic Con. 20 years ago, working from the back porch of Dave Olbrich’s Southern California home,

I thought this panel from the new issue of Hit-Girl merited a post of its own. Apparently Kick Ass, in his secret identity, writes for Comic Book

The New Deadwardians has rapidly become my favourite Vertigo title (which usually means it will be cancelled shortly), written by Dan Abnett whose work,

We teased that this was coming. And now here it is, for free, A1 issue zero, from Dave Elliott and friends. The 60 page book contains previews and

The complete ten season box set of Smallville has a recommended retailer price of $339.88. Yesterday, Amazon wwas selling it for $208.19. Today, as part

This is the image teased by Valiant. And here it is brightened up a little. You lose some of the details, but it makes the character a little

  In Wolverine & X-Men, the artwork seems slightly off in places, Whilce Portacio anatomy put through a smoother filter, which doesn't quite work

AuroraWatch: Onrie Kompan writes; I recently posted a blog in order to help one of the victims from the Colorado shooting who doesn't have health

Dr Manolis Vamvounis writes for Bleeding Cool; "While you were in San Diego”... Here’s what you missed from the past two weeks’ worth of comics: THE DEAD

Little Bleeder Doc Hurt writes with the accompanied shots from Batman Inc #3, to be held at comic stores tomorrow for a month due to concerns regarding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swodjz_U1bw Aaron Haaland writes; First we want to say our hearts go out to the victims of the Dark Knight Rises tragedy