Rich Johnston Archives

Shown at the retailer ComicsPRO event currently occurring... a planned Batman Court Of The Owls hardcover with the mask so prized at comic conventions,

Next week... we get Batman Inc #8 finally, an upside down Dr Manhattan, new Rocketeer, the start of Five Weapons, Guardians Of The Galaxy, the new League

WARNING: This post may contain disturbing irony. So CLiNT Magazine came through the post this week, featuring the most recent chapters of Hit Girl and The

There was something oddly missing from the first issue of Django Unchained from Vertigo. The name of the writer. Reginald Hudlin, producer on the movie,

So this is apparently going to be announced this weekend. A new comic from Tony Lee and JK Woodward that basically looks like HP Lovecraft meets

Originally it was to have been a book by Brad Meltzer and Bryan Hitch, with a planned announcement at New York Comic Con last year. But it fell apart.

Looks like that new Spidey/Wolverine/Elektra Joe Madueira comic with Zeb Wells will be on the way soon... Marvel have scheduled the Avenging

I have had entertaining conversations with people who are amazed that the comics industry gets comics fans to pay for Previews, a catalogue that they can

Retailers have been warned that Before Watchmen: Doctor Manhattan #4 will feature several pages "printed upside down" but that "This is part of the

Valiant Entertainment have made a specialty in giving work to what you might call mid-level talent at Marvel and DC. Creators who are relatively new but

The cover to Amazing Spider-Man #121, "The Night Gwen Stacy Died", has met its expected bid of $200,000 with less than a day of bids to go. A lot of

ENCOUNTER AT FARPOINT Peter David is back on the convention circuit. We arrived during opening ceremonies on Friday night, and when they announced my

Jess Harrold writes; England may be the home of cricket, but that does not mean the British public can tell the difference between a "Batsman" and the

We've always enjoyed the work of French cartoonist Boulet. And now it seems more of you may be able to join us. AdHouse Books are publishing his graphic

SPOILERS for today's comics below: I don't mean that John Byrne has received two offers of marriage from men over the last year. Though I know to what

It's a dazzling cut. Skin tight, a collar to match the suit, cut from neck to navel exposing a vertical rectangle of flash. Possibly a cross motif,

One again we check in on the week's reorders from retailers trying to increase the amount of certain comics they'll be stocking, before they are

Mike Allred's cover to It Girl & The Atomics #7 above... and below a hastily censored  Stephanie Seymour shoot by Herb Ritts.... feel free to google

A few comics I found myself reading today... ANOTHER BRICK IN THE FOURTH WALL I always like it when characters say exactly what I've been thinking for the

There are spoilers for Justice League Of America #1 and for Justice League #17 here. Two for the price of one. As Steve Trevor states in the new Justice

From Superman #17. Okay, it's just a colouring error and I'm sure it will be corrected for the trade. But, still...  

That makes it three for three for Bleeding Cool Magazine, issue 0, 1 and 2 all topping the Diamond magazine charts in the months they were published, as

Chris Thompson writes; Before diving into our interview with God Hates Astronauts‘ Ryan Browne, Taylor & I take a look at some of this week’s new

Well, we were pretty close... last week Bleeding Cool reported that Joshua Hale Fiakvov, Robert Vendetti, Justin Jordan and Keith Giffen would be the new

In today's continuing journey for Captain America as Lone Wolf And Kamandi, the letters page, replied to be the comic's writer Rick Remender, noted that

In a scene from today's final Hellblazer #300, we see a bar. With a lot of bottles on it, all of them labelled. You may recognise one or two of the

"The White Event" "The System Is Broken" "It's Coming." Avengers #6 itself translates the last two for you, but also gives you the full Builders Code to

I called comic book legend Neal Adams at his studio, in the middle of New York's recent blizzard. Knowing Adams' keen nontraditional views on geology and

This rather spoils the end of Batwoman 17, out today. I'm extremely reluctant to spoil the end of a comic, but this is one of those times that justifies it.

SONG TIME FUBAR creator Jeff McComsey has released the first panels of his A Song of Ice and Fire mini-comic, featuring the fight between the Mountain and