Rich Johnston Archives

Seven issue twos in one week from Marvel? Looks like someone's trying to get a lot of comics in before the end of the year... quarterly figures or some

First there was the "scolding" letter. Then there was the "there, there, it's all better" letter. And now there's the "okay, what's actually happening and

Gerry Conway just tweeted the below, linking to the Bleeding Cool story about Dan Slott receiving death threats from people over the current Amazing

Well, there's a thing. Charles Soule, writer of 27, of of Bleeding Cool's more favoured Image comics, will write Swamp Thing after Scott Snyder leaves the

My copy of A Plus X #3 is ripped. But it's not alone. There seems to have been an epidemic of rippage this week. So if you're the kind of person who

The conversations I had a couple of weeks ago were of the "Shelly has been waiting for this for twenty years. If Will gets it instead, there will be

Want to get insiden the head oif your favourite characters? It's getting easier and easier. You can do it with pure telepathy, as Jean Grey discovers in

  In Avengers Arena #2 (and talking of which, there's a hell of a lot of Number Twos from Marvel out this week) we get to meet the kids of the

Remember H.E.A.T., the activist group of comic fans that threatened Ron Marz over his use of Kyle Rayner in Green Lantern over Hal Jordan? And threateneng

From the new Red Hood And The Outlaws. Jason Todd aka Red Hood fighting Gotham's finest in a very short bath towel which doesn't cover much. I finbd this

DC WOMEN CHRISTMASSING TREES I'm dreaming of a Brown Christmas... THE DISCERNING PIRATE Amazing Spider-Man #700 and Avenging Spider-Man #15.1 have both

  Tom Huxley writes; A comic that opens with an obvious allegory for high risk drug usage may seem like an unwelcoming entry point for someone who has

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2SdjaSDG7k Aaron Haaland writes; Hey Fandom! This week we start with SAGA #8 and I weigh in on the Image reprint snafu.

Steve Wacker told CBR a few weeks ago "The first time you're going to see Superior Spider-Man dealing with more of the Marvel Universe is at the end of

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rS-KxoEXwQ UPDATE: Marvel write to say, basically, "Here! Here are the Wolverine trade paperbacks!" FEB120685    

I confess, I did think that March would see the culmination of Marvel NOW! reaunches. It was meant to go up to February, then we got a bunch of new

I've learnt from one retailer, then backed up by the experiences of others, that both tomorrow's comics and the next week's have been delivered together,

At NYCC, it was announced that Boom!, Dynamite and Valiant would be joining the Final Order Cut-Off or FOC programme at Diamond Comic Distributors.

Written by Andres Salazar and penciler Jose Luis Pescador, Pariah, Missouri is a self-published western/horror ongoing title. It’s part Deadwood part

Here are some of the entries to the Alex Ross Original Art competition we ran on Bleeding Cool, where the lucky winner would walk away with a Masks #1

It may no longer have a camel on the cover. But Worlds' Finest #7 does have a wolf on the inside. But not just any wolf. But the internet viral meme

William Vuk writes; In late 2009, I commissioned Pat Broderick to do a Catwoman commission for me to be picked up at the Boston Comic Con in April 2010.

Chris Thompson writes; We’re a bit late this time around, but it’s not entirely hopeless as Taylor and I take a deeper look at Dennis Hopeless’ two

When Dan Slott announced the current Spider-Man plot, he noted that on publication he would probably have to get off the internet and go into hiding. He

"It might be possible to actually create a world of the imagination, a world of dreams if you will, and then to export things from imagination into the real world."

It was only announced in 2009 after all.  A mere blip ago. The Fabulous Killjoys by Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, and Becky Cloonan is out in June. Honest.

Earlier this year, Marvel teamed up with Komen For The Cure, an organisation that promotes the awareness of cancer - how to check for it, how to treat it.

I've learned that DC Comics either is, or is planning to, run violence checks on their comics, in the light of recent acts of violence in the USA. The

Image Comics have produced a number of reprints of the first issue of their ongoing series, priced at one dollar, called Image Firsts. They've just put

Here is the cover for Amazing Spider-Man #698 as sold in comic stores. And here is the same comic, as bought on the newsstand. The "Spider-Man" on the