Rich Johnston Archives

There's a bumper week next week in comics... followed by a less than bumper week. We do have new Empowered, the debut of Django Unchained, Joe Palooka,

Model - Anna Psylocke Sheldrick Photographer - Adam Potts Hair / Make Up / Costume - By model Location - Central London Photos copyright Adam

Brian Wood, currently to be seen on comics such as Conan, Star Wars and The Massive for Dark Horse Comics and his upcoming Mara from Image Comics, did

Diamond are giving retailers a nice Christmas surprise if they sign up to the ComicSuite Point Of Sale computerised system for managing stock and ordering

DC may have got Alex Maleev to do a few Batman pages. But in March, Marvel have new books from Mahmud Asrar, Pete Woods and Paul Cornell who have, of

Daniel Best of Oh Danny Boy presents the legal document that will give Marc Toberoff and the Siegel and Shuster estates an un-merry Christmas. But give DC

WALKING ADVENT Every day until Christmas, The Walking Dead iOS game Assault will get another challenge from Roberk Kirkman's Twitter feed at 11am PST,

The week's reorders see the return of subsequent prints and variant covers being reordered, as this chart is often the only way those comics can be

A rather delicious exercise in combining rotoscoping with video images...

Don't give this Adventure Time comic to a kid. You might break them. The Adventure Time Mathematical Edition Volume 1 is an oversized hardcover edition of

Charlie Brooker hates you. He hates everyone. He hates everything. From his early games journalism to his TV Go Home parody, he has poured his bile on the

I was just talking about this run earlier today. It stays strong in my mind, the John Romita Jr/Chris Claremont run on Uncanny X-Men. Rachel as Phoenix,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo_Nb_pNBn0 Think About The Ink presents: Host Grace Randolph from Beyond The Trailer gives you an introduction to reading

Yesterday Bleeding Cool ran a letter from Image's Jennifer De Guzman addressed to retailers on Image's plans to stop publishing second printings on

Marvel readers have been used to odd issue numbers. From Deadpool jumping around all over the place, to the rise of the Point One issues, they even found

From Iron Man #4 by Kieron Gillen and Greg Land. Well, he is a bit of a futurist (albeit one who currently seems to be restricting the use of high tech)

Demon Knights #15 is Paul Cornell's last issue on the series. And brings to an end all sorts of plots, character stories and themes. With a big battle,

The comparison between Robert De Niro's Taxi Driver character Travis Bickle and Watchmen's Rorschach has been made a number of times. Many of Rorschach's

The new Walking Dead is out. And it's a Negan special. And just as the TV series shows us one charismatic leader in The Governor, so the comic shows us

Batman #13 did this more subtly, but Batman And Robin #15 goes straight for the Killing Joke. Sherlock Holmes: Liverpool Demon #1 lays out its stall.

Today, we get four Death Of The Family comics, Batman #15, Batgirl #15, Suicide Squad #15 and Batman And Robin #15. The latter gets a die cut cover but

Manolis V writes the internet’s most opinionated (and Greek) comics column. A major personal announcement, Hickman’s Avengers roster, the new

Alex Wilson writes; Nowhere Men issue 2, written by Eric Stephenson and featuring the art of Mate Bellegarde and Jordie Bellaire, will be on comic book

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7qnsrm4tuc Aaron Haaland writes; Hey Fandom! It's time for New Comic's Now! This biggest deal this week is Gail Simone

FOC stands for Final Order Cutoff, the last date retailers can order quantities of a comic from specific publishers and be sure of receiving copies

The Shaolin Cowboy is getting a fourteen inch vinyl toy. Presumably in lieu of any new Shaolin Cowboy comics. Dark Horse were meant to have some this

Eric M Esquivel is an occasional writer for Bleeding Cool, though I get the feeling he's about to become a lot less regular. He's taking over Freelancers,

Alex Wilson writes; The third issue of Happy, published by Image comics, hits shelves December 19th, just in time for the Christmas. This winter set

Bleeding Cool did a lot of posting about Sam Humphries and Dalton Rose's micro-distributed series Sacrifice. But then it seemed to disappear, just as

Welcome to Comic Book Personality Of The Year. Around twenty people who, this year have delighted you, annoyed you, frustrated you, amazed you, but who