Rich Johnston Archives

"We were looking for a recommendation about comic books?" "I recommend you don't open a store and sell them." Ahead of last night's Big Bang Theory,

Dennis Hopeless and Kev Walker are taking over still on Avengers Arena in April. With some kind of board game thing. You know, I don't think these folk

We reported that Amazing Spider-Man #700 has sold a quarter of a million, bringing in a total of two million dollars (plus all the 1:150 Steve Ditko

Here's a look at the charts for 2012 for toys and games sold in comic stores and distrubuted in North America by Diamond Comic Distributors and Alliance

"I can't stand to look at a Superman comic book. It makes me physically ill. I love Superman, and yet, in my mind, he's been twisted around into some kind

Louis Falcetti writes; Sometimes life makes it easy for you. And in this case, life means the world's comiXology users and you means me. Looking over this

A preview edition of a new Gene Simmons' related comic boiok, the Simmons Comics Anthology will launch at London Super Comic Con next month. Created by

Another April tease from Marvel, this time featuring Sif and the cast of Journey Into Mystery by Kathryn Immonen and new artist  Matteo Scalera. You know,

With Justice League Of America #1 soon to launch, DC Comics are keen to try and capture a little of that lightning and inject it into other titles. Such

Comics Etc of Village Gate, Rochester, New York, will soon no longer be of Village Gate. The owber writes on Facebook; Comics Etc is being evicted from

A Big Two Comic Company editorial staffer got in touch with Bleeding Cool last night. She wanted to share her thoughts on the recent coverage Bleeding

This is massive. Early this week, we reported on the launch of Titan Comics, a new creator-owned line from British publisher Titan. Now it's stepped up a

J Scott Campbell is contributing covers to all the issue 2 comics from Aspen's Ten For Ten newly launched comics shipping this year. Such as their first

This is the cover of Chew #34. One of three covers. But you don;t have to buy all three, they all come bound around one version. And you get to cut along

So we haD two new Image comics out this week. The End Times Of Bram And Ben by James Asmus, Jim Festante and Rem Broo, and Repossessed by JM Ringuet.

So anyway, in Animal Man #16, out today, Animal Man and his crew go up against Blackfriar Thorn, who seems to have grown a little bit. As has his beard.

Batman's on Twitter folks! From this week's Detective Comics. Although he may be wrong... Drunk af going 120 drifting corners #FuckIt YOLO— 2.7.5

John Jackson Miller looks at the life of the Comics Buyer's Guide, announced as being cancelled by Krause Publications with issue 1699, above. Today, F+W

I understand that, across the New DCU line, we are to get some sort of "surprise" covers for April. Something that will really stand out on the comic

Or should that be disapproving of The Big Bang Theory? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNYl0TjWaq8 Yesterday, we ran an article on the trailer to

From Jason Aaron and Simone Bianchi in April from Marvel. Something involving a birth. And something involving someone purple. My best guess is a Thanos

We have the Diamond Comic Distributor statistics for 2012. But we don't have them for December 2012. But I do have a mouse, a hand and a cut and paste

Of the top 500 selling titles of the year, sold by Diamond to comic stores in North America, DC have 260 titles and Marvel have 219. However Marvel take

Bleeding Cool Magazine #0 came out this summer and, through Diamond Comic Distributor, outsold every other magazine this year in comic shops, including

From today's Earth 2 #8, published today, and yes, set spoilers to stun.

If you have any plans to read Superior Spider-Man #1 stop now. Because this is a post for people who have given up on Spider-Man after reading Amazing

Matt Fraction recently visited Leeds for Thought Bubble. (No, apparently not, my mistake) And it appears took a little of the lingo back with him in

Princess Leia. Okay, she's a sharp shooter when the Stormtroopers, and she'll strangle a Hutt in self defense, but what about when it comes to cold, hard

In today's Cable And X-Force #3, we get a new bad guy. Possibly. One Teresa Peyton. Wannabe world conqueror? Communist terrorist? Al Qaeda cell member? Or

Today's Action Comics #16 not only tells us that Superman did indeed die at the hands of Doomsday (and that it happened three years ago, two years into