Rich Johnston Archives

Is your chair the world's greatest detective? From Nick Holmes, along with other sighting of superheroes in the real world...  

DailyWatch: Jon Stewart on the Daily Show looked at how two conservative donors were arranging a convention in San Diego to raise $400,000,000 to fund

Lobo co-creator, Roger Slifer, appears to have been the victim of a hit-and-run driver. Writer Flint Dille has posted (via Jim Salicrup); Okay, here's

Should they be called Diamond Book Distributors? Or Diamond Walking Dead Distributors? The side of Diamond that deals with the bookstore market rather

Chris Weston's cover to Judge Dredd Magazine and the poster to Akira. But why this inspiration? 2000AD Covers asks Chris Weston; "I think most people know

Albert Uderzo, who has recent stepped down from the comic series he co-created, Asterix, is about to find his earliest work revisited. Philippe Cauvin and

We've been expecting news of The Ultron War for a while now, following Avengers Vs X-Men, and using the dredges of Bryan Hitch's contract with Marvel to

Wolverine #310 by Jeph Loeb and Simone Bianchi, featuring the return of Sabretooth, will be on sale on the fourth of July. But those wanting the second

I'm always happy to run these kind of articles. As long as we also get the statistics. Hypernaturals #1, out this week from Boom! Comics, pretty much Dan

There are 43 days to go. It won't need that to make its budget. UPDATE: It has already done that. It may need that to top a million dollars, however, TOME

Spinning out of Heroes Con in Charlotte, comes the rumour that Marvel will be launching a new bi-weekly comic book, with Stuart Immonen, at least in part,

Bleeding Cool's Will Romine is now a meme. We're terribly proud. Two weeks to San Diego... two weeks to Walking Dead #100.  This week was a little low on

From Buzzfeed, an advance look at Batman Earth One by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank. Including this revalatory question... BF: It was interesting how you

  Adi Tantimedh writes for Bleeding Cool; You know, all through last week, I had no idea what today’s column was going to be about. I was dry, there

Okay, I said I'd wait till the seond teaser, but I didn't expect them both on the same day. It has been teased by Bendis for years, and we saw it coming

      Jesse James went to Heroes Con in Charlotte, North Carolina. They even let him in! Dear Bleeding Cool, This week I attended Heroes Con in Charlotte

We're starting to hear lots of rumours about what will be happening with various Marvel comics in October, November and December - and with whom - but

That's all a little bit Duncan Fegredo-ish isn't it? With a little but of John Mcrea surface detail... Turns out it's Jose Holder, who recently drew the

It's rumoured there will be a film. It's rumoured there will be a Brian Bendis comic book after Avengers Vs X-Men. Either way, Marvel Comics have just

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3j0c8q5OEM After the airing of a recent video that Patrick Willems created for Bleeding Cool as part of the Afterwards,

There's something very special about the three central London shops, Orbital, Forbidden Planet and Gosh, in that they are flanked by all the major movie

MuteWatch: Duncan Jones looks like he's working on his Mute graphic novel sequel to Moon. Is the artwork for the Mute graphic novel? Is the script

Strips four and five of Kicking With Cactus by Chad Hindahl.  

Ed Brubaker has been interviewed at length by Tom Spurgeon about life, love and comic books. Here are three of the many highlights... On leaving Cap (but

Attack The Block was written and directed by Joe Cornish, collaborator on the Ant Man and Tintin movie scripts with Edgar Wright. Edgar also produced the

The Comics Journal published at the end of the year, headlines with a final in depth interview between Maurice Sendak and Journal publisher Gary Groth.

The Star Trek communicator inspired the mobile phone. Big Brother inspired reality TV. But this is the Spider-Man newspaper strip that inspired its own

Jesse James writes for Bleeding Cool. If we tried to stop him, we would be struck down by a pantheon of deities. Every once in awhile you meet a creator

It's his second novel. It is reputed to be half a million words long. It may take some time to read, it's taken a very long to write. Jerusalem, by Alan

Before there was Bleeding Cool Magazine, there was Tripwire. A magazine published by Joel Meadows. He’s looking for funding to put out a 20th anniversary