Rich Johnston Archives

It's that time of the month when publishers start to let us know what's coming up in three months. It seems to come earlier each month... so here are

Few years ago, I pitched my return to the comics form with my version of Batman & in an innovative new format to Dan DiDeo. He rejected it! — Jim

Robin Harman writes; Welcome to Episode 117 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we rise up with Lazarus #1, don’t feel ruff over Hawkeye #11, get declassified

Marvel Comics maintained their marketshare in the direct market in June, slipping on dollars spent down from 33.36% to 32.77%, but putting on share of

Coming on Wednesday, more Fabulous Killjoys, the beginnings of Trinity War, more Superman Unchained, new Ghosted and Sheltered, more Walking Dead, the new

Okay, so what are Top Cow doing, that you can only buy if you go to San Diego Comic Con and line up for hours? There's the cosplay variant above! There's

The DC We Can Be Heroes - Superman Edition was looking as if it might not quite make it's $100,000 mark on Indiegogo, raising money for charities

Heritage Auctions are to put up for auction the original Frank Miller inked artwork for the cover to second issue of The Dark Knight Returns. A previous

Armie Hammer was to play Batman in George Miller's version of Justice League Of America.

Coming in October... Oh look, I happen to be in the same pub with the author. He expresses the wish that you return your country to the Queen, in the

Thank you David Morell.... My SPIDER-MAN: FROST comic-book project comes out in October as the first 2 issues of a new comic book called PETER PARKER:

Which do you prefer? Batman with a smile running around trying to find a way to just get rid of a bomb, of Superman punching Joker's chest out? that was

Tch, what's all this killing about? A couple of coincidentally posed images from Injustice, Gods Among Us and What If AVX alternate realities that got

Elizabeth Heyman writes; It feels odd, at this point, to be posting anything about Guardians of the Galaxy that doesn’t directly refer to the upcoming big

This is an image created by Russell M. Hossain, initially a line drawing, then digitally coloured. And this is a stained glass window created by Senator

I grew up in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, in direct view of the Ilkley television transmitter. At school we sang "Ilkley Moor Baht 'At", a local song in

Alex Wilson writes; Oh, yes. The most magical time of the year is upon us once again. Right now there is an optometrists convention at the San Diego

You'd watch a Downton Abbey with Alan Moore summoning butlers, summoning maids and summoning great demons from the imaginasphere, wouldn't you?

Dr Hurt writes for Bleeding Cool on the cover art of Damian: Son Of Batman; This appears to be pre-Flashpoint. If so, that's a HUGE step for DC to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vsocF3Qec4 Okay, it's more of a shuffle. But friend of Bleeding Cool, Khandie Khisses, is definitely in there... You can

Will Romine writes; Hello friends! It's your old pal Will Romine here and I'm a little sad. For the first time in 4 years, I won't be attending San Diego

Batman Inc #12 was solicited with something unusual. A 1:25 variant cover drawn by Grant Morrison. Yesterday, when the comic shipped, however, the cover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opLklu74dn4 Yvette writes; We need interviews, so we kidnapped the creator of Cousin Harold and Jenny Spookowski, Denny

From design... ... to cover, courtesy of CBR. And remember those rumours we had that Wolverine would snuff it, as a result of losing his healing factor?

Apparently it was meant to be announced at Image Expo, but it got lost in the shuffle. Image Comics will be publishing a Peter Panzerfaust oversized

We ran the news that John Ostrander has a new Aquaman Annual lined up for October. And now we have the rumour. That DC will see how the Annual sells, and

In 1937, the same year that Detective Comics was first published in America, so was The Dandy in the UK. Also an anthology, it has short strips, aimed at

And will they be unveiled at San Diego Comic Con? There are the five members of the Crime Syndicate Of America headlining the Forever Evil series, that

George Gatsis writes; After a year on getting Cerebus Digital, Animated and Distributed (CerebusDownloads.com )... I have finally had free time allocated

We noted that DC had instituted full returnability on Justice League Dark which seems to have rocketed that book up the advance reorder charts, closely