Rich Johnston Archives

Here you go folks. As promised, the opening scene of Swamp Thing #0, with the return of Anton Arcane, the Very Big Bad of Swamp Thing whose shadow has

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran the motherlode of Rian Hughes alternatives for the new logo of Valiant Entertainment's Shadowman. You can see them all here,

Marvel have the Steve McNiven poster art for New York Comic Con, and it's rather Avengersy, with Hulk in his fancy new armour and everyone in their Marvel

Here's a look at the latest charts around the world for comics bought in-app on Apple devices through ComiXology... Across the world, DC dominated with

It seems to have had three views so far. Including mine. That can't be right. President of Diamond Comic Distribution, Steve Geppi talks about collecting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Xhpv8m8-4 Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed by Basil Rathbone, Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr, Hugh Laurie and

All is not well in the world of the Ponds. And not even the Doctor inventing pasta can save that... this does tie into all sorts of reports from people

BackWatch: Does the Warners ad on the back of DC comics this month that is meant to say SHAZAM on the license plate, actually say SADISM? GuestWatch: How

Look above this article. There's a banner. Currently, for me it says "How I Lost 5 Stone In 15 Weeks". I am target market for that obviously, but dubious

It was to have been Alan Moore's great DC Comics Event, that would crossover with all manner of DC's books. The Twilight Of The Superheroes. A story about

  On the left, *that* cover from Green Lantern by Ivan Reis. On the right, the Get Your Sting And Blackout World Tour poster from The Scorpions. In Swipe

This is just for the UK, folks. Because if you want to download the first volume of the New 52 Detective Comics on your Kindle, it will cost $14.83 in the

Doctor Who comics writer Tony Lee and Sam Hart have been in London today to record a podcast for Orbital Comics, which will go up on their website this

This is the first look at the trade dress of the new Shadowman comic from Valiant Entertainment. What goes into a logo? Bleeding Cool has uncovered a

Currently, Barnes & Noble are running a Buy Two Get One Free offer on DC graphic novels. Good deals all round. There's only one deal per customer

Here's the packaging for Marvel's Avengers Season One original graphic novel, being sold with the Avengers Blu Ray in the US in Walmart  and with the

Chris Bachalo has been busting it on Wolverine & The X-Men of late, helping make that book one of the best superhero comics on the stands right now.

There were some who thought Wonder Woman's pose on the cover to Justice League #12 was a rather submissive one. Well, with these pencils of Jim Lee's

X-O Manowar launched in the marketplace in a rather strong way for a license that many had thought was on the back burner, with a creative team that the

It was a pitch by Chris Ryall of IDW and Phil Jimenez to DC Comics. Sadly it happened just before the New 52 relaunch and was sidelined. Phil credits

Bleeding Cool has run reports on how the Mexican media conglomerate Televisa, the largest such company in Latin America, published both Marvel and DC

ChartWatch: Bleeding Cool favourite Watson And Holmes hits the top of the ComicsPlus charts. ThorWatch: Anyone pop by Stonehenge yesterday? Apparently

Lots of 2013 news emerging over the past week. Here's today's future: Because the comic has an epilogue, after the smoochy smoochy, to show us where the

Shaky Kane writes; This week- the opening splash from my self published A-MEN anthology, presented here courtesy of Wishbone Studio and a cardboard box

Phantom Astronaut is a new comic strip by Dekker Dreyer that's been picked up by Leveled Magazine in the US. The strip focuses on the lives of a three

Next week the Zero Issues begin at DC Comics. And a rack full of very similar looking comics. Image put out the second issue of Black Kiss II... though it

This DC Comics Zero Issue thing looks like it's getting bigger and bigger. The advance reorder chart always overrepresents subsequent prints as this is

  Jim Shelley Q&A'd David Gallaher and Steve Ellis of Bottled Lightning for Bleeding Cool; 1. What is Bottled Lightning? DG: Bottled Lightning is the

One city. One street, One weekend. Two comic conventions. The first is MorrisonCon, at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. The second is Las Vegas Comics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyYPGZhu-YE It's time for a little Stacktastic... Superman and Wonder Woman kiss! Yes love is in the air in Justice League