Rich Johnston Archives

There are spoilers here for Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #4. But then, only if you haven;t read Watchmen. In which case, there are spoilers for Watchmen

Now that's what I call a glitch. It's already at a massive discount on Amazon.com, the superhero-hunting Marshal Law Deluxe hardcover, down from a

Got this in the post this morning. A Pacific Rim Military Survival Kit. Let's have a look at what we got... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjrsLGxpCHg

SPAIN RODRIGUEZ PASSES, AGED 72 Spain Rodriguez passed yesterday, after a bout of cancer, aged 72. The local Buffalo press reports in full; Mr.

As I just said to my wife, "you know, if I applied for this job, I might just get it" to her response "we are not moving to San Diego just so it would be

Lots of comic book artists take private commissions for work, often using trademarked characters they've worked on, often charging hundreds, even

Amazing Spider-Man dominates the advance reorder chart this week, tracking the increased orders of comics by retailers through Diamond in the weeks before

It's been a while since the last one but comic con wars are upon us again. Where two competing organisations, try to best each other running a comic

Masks #1 by Chris Roberson and Alex Ross may be making quite an impact when it hits in November's charts. I'm told it has received 68,000 preorders, which

From the new issue of Justice League Dark, a conspiratorial look across the New 52 DC Universe, giving some major hints as to the way a number of books

Earlier today I ran a piece based on a CBLDF press release about the Gaimain Foundation donating $60,000. Bleeding Cool commenters asked how this tied in

It's Wednesday! We got comics! But what comics? Prophet breaks my heart on a regular basis. Now it does it with the memory of a character I never cared

Chris Thompson writes; It’s a teeny tiny week for new Marvel Now! but at least it’s a good one with Matt Fraction & Mike Allred’s FF #1 … To

I always like to see any prominent themes in a series of unconnected comic books. It's like Ozymandias' wall of screens (which appear quite a lot in this

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has that announced that Neil Gaiman's Gaiman Foundation, has donated $60,000 to the advocate charity, after he stepped

Two comics are published today, Uncanny Avengers by Rick Remender and John Cassaday, and A Plus X with a story by Chris Bachalo. Yeah, Bachalo on his own,

In the final Brian Bendis Avengers comic, New Avengers #34 out today, as well as Mike Deodato's fine work (and the final double page splash is really

In today's Batman Inc, we go to the future. One we've previously glimpsed in which The Joker takes his ultimate revenge on Batman. A real end times story

  So Supergirl turns up at your doorstep. And you're Clark Kent. And Lois Lane is right there, in the middle of a serious conversation about their

The 40th Angoulême Festival has published its official selection of titles for the year, which form a shortlist for the Awards given out in the show in

Whooo. Available at the same comic stores that got the Walking Dead and Saga ghost variant covers...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVt3nWg8OZM Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida writes; Hey Fandom! It's here! MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS

Alex Ross internal art... it's been a while hasn't it? But if you want a cheap way to get hold of all those covers he's done for the publisher, there's

Alex Wilson writes for Bleeding Cool; Nowhere Men starts off by following the young, then a few panels later, the old heads of a company called “World

I think this may be the first time this has happened. And I bet it's the Walking Dead's fault. The CBLDF Liberty Annual is getting a second print this

  Joseph Kyle Schmidt writes; Perusing the comments section of various pop culture blog sites, there seems to be a prevailing notion that divides the

By Rob Cave All around the world comic fans in general and superhero fans in particular have a history of arguing about the things that matter: Who’s

Artist for the series RM Guera, has just posted a five page preview of the comic adaptation of Django Unchained, on a French message board. Thanks RM!

I understand that after Final Order Cut Off, the order numbers for Amazing Spider-Man #700 stands at a quarter of a million copies, at $7.99 each. Which

Is this holding the line at $1.99? Valiant's first trade paperbacks, each with four or five issues worth of content, will all be priced at a nice low