Rich Johnston Archives

From Age Of Ultron #7. "Do or die". Or both...

It is one of the best selling comic books in the world. It possibly has a higher average sales per volume than any other published comic. And now, after

We told you there were plenty of creative changes coming at DC, but even we didn't expect this much. DC Comics is continuing its recruitment policy from

Well, I'm going to say that was unexpected. To me at least. Announced on the Huffington Post and Big Shiny Robot, two new New 52 comics from DC, The

Recently, DC Comics began making digital versions of their print comics available from around 3am on the day of publication several hours ahead of the

We mentioned there were big creative changes happening at DC. Well, they've now just been announced, ahead of this weekend's DC Comics creative conference

Injustice: Gods Among Us And The Fridging Of Lois (SPOILERS)

Okay, this is definitely insular. But it is also quite funny. Recently, Bleeding Cool ran an article including a discussion carried out with John Layman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV4cByCy85E Collectors Cornered is a weekly video column, filmed inside Collectors Corner in Baltimore. Join us every week

Here's the cover to Wonder Man #2, colours and inks. But here are the original pencils by Jeff Johnson. And here is Sherilyn Fenn in

Abby Denson writes for Bleeding Cool; With great pleasure, I attended Angoulême this year, exhibiting again with the Scarce group. Thanks for having us

I understand that The Legend Of Zelda: Hyrule Historia, which appears to have sold out of its quarter-of-a-million print run has, to date, received over

I've already received e-mails about this. Encouraging me to go nuclear on DC Comics' for hiring Orson Scott Card to write a story for the new Adventures

In this week's Avengers, we get the full background of Izzy, the new Smasher of the Imperial Guard, and member of the new, extended Avengers. We also get

This is the Neal Adams cover to the London Super Comic Con later this month. This is what it was previously. Apparently Marvel were not amused... I'll be

FOX ALONSO There may be no black writers of any ongoing comics at Marvel or DC. But there's certainly more of a latino prescence... Marvel editor-in-chief

"Anatomy Lesson" That reference to the classic issue of Swamp Thing when Alan Moore totally rewrote the basis of the character and comic, by revealing

Coming from London Super Comic Con later this month... I should be making it (possibly with girls in tow) but Bleeding Cool prescence will also be

Some silly Batman dubstep action from Patrick Willems; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z5Tg7GwaY0  

You'd have thought sharing an office building with Planned Parenthood in Manhattan would be excitement enough for Valiant Entertainment. But in today's

Another look at retailer reorders of comic books, both in advance of publication, and afterwards. Second prints and variants are often over-exaggerated on

I am seeing Kieron in the pub tomorrow. I know better than to ask him about any of this, because he'll just do his doleful eyes look, tilt his head

In the new Mudman comic out today, Paul Grist writes; In other news, the Jack Staff Action Figure, which I mentioned in a Jack Staff comic a few years

When someone at a comic convention wants to sell you $140,000 worth of Silver Age and Golden Age comic books, you might want to check their ID. When their

New Avengers #3 is full of lots of important Marvel Universe moments that will no doubt have implications for stories across the next year. But it also

Xavier Lancel is the editor-in-chief of famous French magazine SCARCE on US comics. the magazine has been running since 1983, making it one of the oldest

Forty-two years after co-founding Pacific and twenty-six years after joining the company, Bill Schanes, Vice President of Purchasing at Diamond Comic

by Chris Thompson Occasionally we miss stuff first time around (I know! We’re as shocked as you are), so this week Taylor & I take a look at the

Found in all New DCU comics today... the first Channel 52 report. Summing up plotlines from Death of The Family, Batwing and Green Arrow. Comics courtesy

This is a panel from the final page of today's New Avengers #3. This was a panel from the first page of Avengers #1. It was referenced again in New