Rich Johnston Archives

Is it an approved political campaign? Is it completely supporter-created piece of social media? Or somehwre inbetween? Supporters of Italian political

Louis Falcetti writes; A series of charts this week that are both varied, as in there is no clear winner across the board, yet at the same time remarkably

Next week in comics... the beginning of Answer,  Star Trek's Countdown To Darkness, the last issue of Minutemen, a bit more Chew, the beginning of Uncanny

I understand that the upcoming Nova series from Marvel is the first comic that will lead up to Marvel's major event later this year, after Age Of Ultron.

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is an attempt to bring the comic book festival more common in European cities such as Angouleme or BICS. On the

Although Andy Diggle and Tony S Daniel are lined up to start their Action Comics run with issue 18, I understand that Grant Morrison and Rags Morales will

Emerald City Comic Con is on March 1st to the 3rd this year, in Seattle. And Wizard World have announced that they have a show a week earlier, down the

Collectors Cornered is a weekly-ish video column, filmed inside Collectors Corner in Baltimore. Join us every week as we discuss comic book news from a

Kieron Gillen gives an interview about Young Avengers to Buzzfeed. Where he talks about comics as pop music, and eighteen year olds as superheroes and, Be

   Rene Carson writes; This past Saturday, The Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture, located in Harlem, New York, hosted their first-ever Black

  The gold foil cover. Used to be a familiar sight on the stand in the days of the speculator boom. And now, as we've welcomed the return of the die

Elaine M Will is a webcomic creator. I think her work is absolutely extraordinary. She's currently funded by the Xeric Award grants and is working on...

Superior Spider-Man #2 topped Diamond's Advance Reorder charts last week and it's done it again this week with issue 3, putting on in one week more than

Internally they were called "Holy Shit!" covers. In an interview, Bobbie Chase referred to them as "What The F" covers. The solicitations for April called

We made an educated guess. And it paid off. Marvel has announced Thanos Rising, the origin story of the character made even more popular by about two

by Chris Thompson It’s time for a savage review this week as we look at Frank Cho’s return to Marvel with Savage Wolverine #1. Did it claw its way to the

So what have you been reading today? Yes, of course, Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad has read Fifty Shades Of Grey. That won't end badly at all. I do hope

New Avengers gives us the future of the Marvel Universe. Brian Bendis recently described Guardians Of The Galaxy saying " The abuse of time travel, the

John Byrne's The High Ways has its first issue published by IDW. A sci-fi procedural thriller, it's my favourite Byrne book for a long time. Principally

This year's nominees for the GLAAD Awards, which " recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay,

It's a week of heroes fighting heroes, it seems. Superhero trope, obviously. Superior Spider-Man with his Doc Ock head on is causing most of the ruckus,

You remember the scene from Seven. "What's in the box?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1giVzxyoclE Yeah, that one. Though I preferred this one;

This Wednesday, Bleeding Cool Magazine #2 is out. There's a stack of stuff in it, as always, but my big piece is a collection of comic book industry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjrWtr1eUkg Aaron Haaland writes; Hey Fandom! Saga #9 is out! I love this book so much I'll be giving away the second print

Issue 1 of Vampirella Strikes had a print run of 16,000, and has now sold out of the standard covers. But then it did have incentive covers by Michael

Looks like we are.

There's another anniversary for 2013. The 60th birthday for MAD Magazine in April. And cartoonists Sergio Aragonés, Al Jaffee, Peter Kuper, Tom Richmond

So I've been getting more scanned pages of Leverage: The Con Job (ahead of Amazon delivering my copy), and these are from closer towards the end of the

I was discussing the first issue of New Avengers with a Bleeding Cool reader, Peter Grant Lloyd. He rather objected to the male-female violence depicted

  Orang Utan Comics are launching two books next month at the London Super Comic Con. First is a 48 page colour preview of  Hero: 9 to 5 - Quietus,