Rich Johnston Archives

Take it away Edcity... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhOmppxn9eU  

So, you know. DC Comics and stuff. Here's what I've been hearing. Conflict between creative and editorial is on a bit of a high right now. This does vary

This is DC's offering for Free Comic Book Day, on 4th May this year. Superman:  The Last Son Of Krypton #1, the first chapter of the now-collected comic

  Is the Star Trek: Countdown To Darkness trade coming out before the final issue? That's what the IDW solicitations suggest... but there's plenty

Yes, Judge Dredd, whatis through the portal? Another Judge Dredd cover for IDW from Dave Sim there, from Judge Dredd Year One #2. As well as one cover to

Here's a first and probably exclusive look at the solicitations to all of Image's comics for April 2013. With a bunch of new comics like Jupiter's Legacy,

More Age Of Ultron stuff, Thanos Uprising, Avengers go to the New Universe, so many comics getting a "Too Many Armors" variant covers, and a rather

  Sesame Street: I Is For Imagination launches as a comic book from Ape Entertainment in April. As well as five regular covers at $3.99, there's a chase

Two multidimensional comics are meeting their end in April, as part of the X-Termination crossover, David Lapham and Roberto De La Torre's Age Of

Robert Kirkman's Invincible reaches issue 100 shortly. With that rather ominous "Death Of Everyone" tag. Well. not quite. There's still a whole universe

As part of the Age Of Ultron crossover this year, Marvel is launching an Ultron comic, featuring Victor Mancha, the son of Ultron who apeared in Runaways,

It's Thursday night, or rather, Friday morning. I've just come back from the pub. And what do I find waiting for me, and me alone? The covers to the new

It's just hit UK accounts. In four and a half hours it will hit the US. Marvel are discounting Cable And Deadpool from #1 to #50 for 69 pence each on

Planet Comicon has been going in Kansas City for twelve years. A smaller show, this year sees its April 6th and 7th show moving to a much bigger facility.

Is it an approved political campaign? Is it completely supporter-created piece of social media? Or somehwre inbetween? Supporters of Italian political

Louis Falcetti writes; A series of charts this week that are both varied, as in there is no clear winner across the board, yet at the same time remarkably

Next week in comics... the beginning of Answer,  Star Trek's Countdown To Darkness, the last issue of Minutemen, a bit more Chew, the beginning of Uncanny

I understand that the upcoming Nova series from Marvel is the first comic that will lead up to Marvel's major event later this year, after Age Of Ultron.

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is an attempt to bring the comic book festival more common in European cities such as Angouleme or BICS. On the

Although Andy Diggle and Tony S Daniel are lined up to start their Action Comics run with issue 18, I understand that Grant Morrison and Rags Morales will

Emerald City Comic Con is on March 1st to the 3rd this year, in Seattle. And Wizard World have announced that they have a show a week earlier, down the

Collectors Cornered is a weekly-ish video column, filmed inside Collectors Corner in Baltimore. Join us every week as we discuss comic book news from a

Kieron Gillen gives an interview about Young Avengers to Buzzfeed. Where he talks about comics as pop music, and eighteen year olds as superheroes and, Be

   Rene Carson writes; This past Saturday, The Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture, located in Harlem, New York, hosted their first-ever Black

  The gold foil cover. Used to be a familiar sight on the stand in the days of the speculator boom. And now, as we've welcomed the return of the die

Elaine M Will is a webcomic creator. I think her work is absolutely extraordinary. She's currently funded by the Xeric Award grants and is working on...

Superior Spider-Man #2 topped Diamond's Advance Reorder charts last week and it's done it again this week with issue 3, putting on in one week more than

Internally they were called "Holy Shit!" covers. In an interview, Bobbie Chase referred to them as "What The F" covers. The solicitations for April called

We made an educated guess. And it paid off. Marvel has announced Thanos Rising, the origin story of the character made even more popular by about two

by Chris Thompson It’s time for a savage review this week as we look at Frank Cho’s return to Marvel with Savage Wolverine #1. Did it claw its way to the