Rich Johnston Archives

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

I just bought Batman '66 #1 for 69 pence. It's a fun, silly, campy recreation of the spirit of the 1960's Batman TV show, but with a bigger budget. But if

Is it continuity? It might be. We'll see. In October, DC Comics is bringing back the recent kebabed Damian Wayne in Damian: Son of Batman, a four issue

I understand that the counter-dimensional Crime Syndicate Of America will have ten members, all featuring the equivalents to the members of the Justice

Legendary comic book writer John Ostrander helped out on Aquaman, writing issue 20 but somehow not getting his name on the cover. We hope he'll have

Krypton blew up decades ago. We all know that. Superman was sent, as a baby, from a doomed planet to Earth. Turns out it might not have been quite as

Victor Mancha Victor Von Doom (Doombot) Victor Shade (Vision) Has a superteam ever have three people with the same Christian name before? No wonder he

We mentioned it in passing, in last week's San Diego runaround, but I thought this might be deserving of more play. While I have no finalised details in

There have been a number of comics over the years that have involved the Sinister Six. Now, the Six are classically Spider-Man villains who have teamed up

  Lucius Fox in Batwing lives in a house that is smarter than people. Which may be a bad thing for invaders, but not necessarily a good thing for the

Dave Wallace writes; A complete Zenith collection has long been one of the Holy Grails for comic readers. One of superstar-writer Grant Morrison's

Brits get two Image comic books one whole week in advance, today. Admittedly, variant copies were also available at the Image Expo yesterday, but it still

Absolution: Rubicon #1 by Christos Gage and Daniel Gete is published today, from Bleeding Cool owners Avatar Press. Hear him talk, very briefly, about

We know that Tony Stark's a player. Hell, he can't go on a jaunt into outer space without sleeping with Thanos' estranged daughter. But thanks to the

Uber #3, published by Bleeding Cool owners Avatar Press, is out today, by Kieron Gillen and Canaan White. Here's Kieron talking about what to expect...

From today's Action Comics. Okay, much has been discussed about the trillions of dollars worth of damage done to Metropolis by Superman in Man Of Steel.

Straight from Bill Sienkiewicz, the logo to Alone, his new series for Image with Joe Michael Straczynski. Two surnames with a lot of less-used consonants

Big spoilers for today's climactic Batman Inc #12, so be warned. You thought #8 was bad? This is worse. This comic is rated T by DC Comics' content code.

REPEAT: This article ran last week, but the comic is out today (and available at Image Expo yesterday). We thought a repeat may be in order... With a book

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiOf59JZ-8A Grace Randolph writes; DC Villains Month kicks off September 2013 with Forever Evil #1 from Geoff Johns and

Dylan Gonzalez writes; Beer: Lucifer Brewer: Het Anker Brewery This week, the Booze Geek is reviewing Lucifer. No, not the devil himself, I’m sure he is

Frazer Brown reports some of the beats, as fast as he could type, from the Image Expo All Star panel, with Matt Fraction, Rick Remender, Jason Aaron and

The Infinity event hasn't begun yet, but I hear that the recent Marvel Retreat was in full discussion about next year's Marvel cross-universe event. I'm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhaV7IpM5es Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes; Hey Fandom! It's me, Aaron, for A Comic Show's New

Frazer Brown was at the Robert Kirkman talk at the Image Expo and, while there will be full audio along later, dropped some beats for us. For the tenth

It's only being talked about. No title, no concept, no art, nothing. It's clearly too soon to start talking about. Here is Jamie Hewlett talking about it,

From Image Expo... News on the downloadable content for the Telltale video game the bridges the TV seasons coming soon at Image Expo it seems....