Rich Johnston Archives

StomachPunchWatch: From the Chicago Tribune; AlleyCat Comics in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood has an unorthodox approach to rewarding frequent

Above, Superman as seen in Action Comics #1 this week in a Superman T-short, blue jeans and with something red around his shoulders acting as a cape. A

Looks like it's not just David Macho Gomez who can knock together a trailer for a DC relaunch comic. But this one uses proper Motion Comic technology as

Heather Kenealy, a self-confessed Marvel zombie reviews the DC Newniverse title from her rather rarefied point of view... What a week, right? Thirteen new

From ScienceFiction.com, a preview of 'Legion Lost' #1.  From Blastr a preview of Superboy #1. From Comic Book Resources, a preview of Batman And Robin

ApologyWatch: Sorry for reduced service this weekend folks, it's the Thames River Festival all weekend long and I've been taking the kids out. The IMAX

Bleeding Cool reported last week about McDonalds worker, one Mike Meyer of  Granite City, Missouri, who found he had been tricked out of his Superman

Thanks to Mark Waid, a very different take on GD-Gate from 1964...

So... we have confirmation that Justice League (two prints worth), Action Comics, Justice League International, Hawk And Dove, Batman And Robin and

Both mysterious figures, the identity On the left the recent Doctor Who Annual with different tales of the Doctor drawn by different artists, each of whom

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran a story about a North Carolina comic store, The Comics Conspiracy, that has announced it was boycotting Action Comics and all

Robert Chapek, President of Distribution for The Walt Disney Studios, has been promoted to President of Disney Consumer Products, reporting to Disney

If you have a large marketing budget, you can buy certain search keywords on Twitter. So that the first result is a "Promoted Tweet". If you search for

"Nah, I'm not an optimist, I'm more of a pragmatist, a whole different bag of tricks, a different sleight of hand but the command is more elaborate it's

Vitaly S. Alexius is a successful artist and comic book artist working on DeviantArt with his own website, Romantically Apocalyptic. He is also one of the

With reports of sell outs across the country, and despite print runs of up to five times the usual amount for some comics, people are paying premium

No. More. Silhouettes. So who is the young lady next to Iceman doing the schoolgirl Phoenix trick?

Eric Glover has written on the subject of disability and Batgirl in two articles for Bleeding Cool, Give Batgirl The Chair and Batgirl And The Legion Of

WoodWatch1: Brian Wood on The Massive; "The Massive is a post-disaster series, a combo of action, politics, mystery and a dash of sci-fi. It starts where

Adam Hughes tweets: "Well that was a fun night of cosplay at Dragon*Con! Joined a group dressed as the cast from FX's ARCHER. I went as Pam."

From Patrick Willems comes what is clearly an adaptation of the Marvel comic book character Luke Cage. With one or two deviations from the original text.

Collectors Cornered is a weekly video column, filmed inside Collectors Corner in Baltimore. Join them every week as they discuss comic book news from a

This week, DC Comics published a new first issue of Action Comics, the series that introduced Superman to the world back in the nineteen thirties. In

Here's a preview of X-Men: Schism #5. Cyclops and Wolverine going at it like hammer and tongs. And they're even using toys for added excitement. A bit of

As we mentioned before the London French Institute in South Kensington is having a bit of a comics thing happening in October from the 7th to the 9th.

There will be spoilers for New Avengers Annual #2 published this week, including a reproduction of the final page. You have been warned. This week's

Oh, we see what's happening here. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are competing to get mentioned on blogs such as this for some passing reference to geek

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; I’ll be doing the women in comics stats for DC and Marvel like always this month, but since the DC relaunch is sort

We knew it was Magneto and Cyclops. You knew it was Magneto and Cyclops. Now Marvel let us know that, yes, Magneto and Cyclops is indeed in Uncanny X-Men

AppDelights: David Steinberger of ComiXology has a good day It must be acknowledged that TWO comics apps are in the Top Ten Grossing iPad Apps now.