Rich Johnston Archives

Warning, reading this post may spoil your enjoyment of The Twelve #10. It may also spoil your lunch. You have been warned. Chris Weston is an artist known

Sara Pichelli's work on Runaways was much loved but it was her work on Ultimate Spider-Man with Brian Bendis that pushed her into the A-list. But now they

We've all become familiar with the X-O Manowar "talking" posters and cover, using the iPhone to create a talking narrative from the central character. And

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

I once heard about a certain comic book executive at a certain comic book publisher who, during the nineties cover speculation boom, would get extra

JoeWatch: The return of the Joe Palooka strip after 18 years... PanWatch: The Calgary Herald discovers Peter Panzerfaust. PornWatch: Comics Alliance

Hastings is the chain department store that recently went large on ordering comics from the direct market, as well as issuing their own variant covers of

Here's a sketch of Silk Spectre by Amanda Conner, the character she'll be drawing in the upcoming Before Watchmen books. And here is Amanda actually

If you are intending to read Darkness #100, stop now. This article contains spoilers for a neat little trick on pages five and six of the new issue and

This is Sean Von Gorman. He has chained himself outside Forbidden Planet in Manhattan until all the copies of his new comic, The Secret Adventures of

Bleeding Cool reported that Marvel had been receiving massive reorders for Avengers Vs X-Men #1, pushing it well over the 200K mark. Well, here's the

Oh no. I want a variant cover. Worse than that I want a retailer variant cover. Worse than that I want an Avengers Vs X-Men variant cover. But on the

Grabbed this week's comics already? Here's a look at what's coming out next week... and what will be coming out the week after. A Terminal City trade,

A short while ago, Bleeding Cool showed you a few menu screens for a proposed XBox 360 game that would have starred the Batman from the Brian

Less than usual this week because DC haven't got round to balancing their New 52 schedule for five week months yet. I understand however that this may be

Much of the Aquaman relaunch has been seen to be an attempt at revitalising the character, moving away from the mockable baggage of previous comics and

WARNING: There are spoilers for the first few pages of Avengers #23 and New Avengers #22 below. Kieron Gillen has said that everything he is writing on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MJ4MePCRN4 Aaron of A Comic Shop in Florida is joined by Dan, the artist of Tri Force Mike's Dungeons & Doritos comic

From Justice League #6, on sale today. Pandora, drawn by Carlos D'Anda but created by Jim Lee. And Zealot from WildCATS, by Jim Lee, also created by Jim

March 1st is, apparently, Creator Owned Day. In which artists are challenged to create a new character and post it on Twitter with the #CreatorOwnedDay

UPDATE: John Goldwater, c0-CEO of Archie Comics has responded to the story below. He writes; "We stand by Life with Archie #16. As I’ve said before,

Here's an extended preview of Game Of Thrones #6 froim Dynamite, out today, as well as previews of their other titles.With solicitations. My favourite is

Just popped into Orbital Comics for my weekly stash. And yes, I noted that Lord Of The Jungle #2 was on sale. Last week, the family company founded by

GutterWatch: Thank you Gutters. Most appreciated, Now please hire me. ToyWatch: I was struck watching the Leveson inquiry yesterday, how much Nick Davies'

You can thank Avatar's Keith Davidsen for this one. These panels are from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: SEASON EIGHT #36, from 2010. Angel is having a

I've been running a number of articles recently on comic creators who have been unpaid on certain comic projects - and in some cases actually getting them

Last week, Bleeding Cool reported that orders for Avengers Vs X-Men from retailers were about to hit 200,000 over the weekend. Well that happened, and

Action Comics #1 is to get a fifth printing with a recoloured first print cover, for March 28th. Aren't they running out of colours by now? Obviously not,

There you go. Bleeding Cool's Grace Randolph has a sellout of her first created comic for Boom!, Supurbia, a week before it is meant to go on sale. Which

Tomorrow at 1pm, Sean Von Gorman will handcuff himself to a traffic light outside Forbidden Planet in Manhattan, to promote the newly available The Secret