Rich Johnston Archives

We may be in sunny, breezy bright Summer still, but the books we'll be ordering are for deepest, darkest November... blimey, I'll be 39 then. Hmm. Anyway,

Ultimate Fallout #4 featuring the first appearance of Miles Morales is getting a second print. Nothing too unexpected about that. But Marvel are

Two weeks ago, we ran an image based on an original by Coelasquid, that had been updated and improved by denizens of 4chan/co, showing a variety of

Daniel Best has run a full and fascinating report on a deal between Steve Geppi and the family of Archie artist Bob Montana to buy his collection of

Jason Young has decided to commission a wide variety of artists and cartoonists to re-create Fantastic Four issue 9, page by page, from his own pocket,

"He was fed up with pool and we went and sat at a quiet booth. I didn’t really expect the tirade I was about to receive. There was no warning, he just

GooglePlusWatch: We ran a piece on the Google Plus identity debate over the weekend. Ryan Estrada nails it. Genderwatch: The female creative statistics

This is not a Batman sketch by Jim Lee on eBay. I mean it should be obvious but already it's getting bids close to $200 with eleven hours to go. But how

Eric Glover writes for Bleeding Cool; Thinking over three reactions to an article on the Barbara Gordon controversy About a month ago, I wrote an op-ed on

When I bumped into Brian Bolland at the opening of the new Gosh Comics in London, we reminisced about the Erro swiping of his work, and how Bolland was

Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, have you seen this man? This is Kenneth Arron, or Kenny Aaron, or Kenny Yochelson... or whoever he is today. Bleeding Cool

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool I get asked on occasion why I still go and cover Wizard World Chicago. It's not quite the event it once was, lacking

From Rob Liefeld, a couple cover sketches for Hawk and Dove. The first is an abandoned cover for issue 3, the second is a rough sketch for the cover issue

From Botgirl Questi; There are a number of comic book writers who work or have worked under pseudonyms, including Oscar Jiminez, Frank Quitely, Jamie

A very real Man Thing created by Mike Campbell of the Where Monsters Dwell podcast, via Don MacPherson .

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, starring the new Miles Morales under the costume, comes out in September, from Brian Bendis and Sara Pichelli. Joe Quesada has

Two designs by Jim Lee for his upcoming Action Comics #1 variant cover, but both rejected by him. The former, apparently, does bear some resemblance to

This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I

The "Miles Variant" edition of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1, drawn by Sara Pichelli, coming out in September.

It cannot have completely escaped your notice that DC Comics is relaunching all of its comics in September. And in doing so is giving retailers all sorts

To be honest these days, it's not often that a comic book editor actually gets to retire. But Ralph Macchio has. Axel Alonso announced the news to CBR. He

It was one of the hotter items at this year's San Diego Comic Con. The glow in the dark variant cover for Chew #19. Bleeding Cool covered it at the time.

Keith Davidsen talks for Mike Wolfer for Bleeding Cool; Keith Davidsen: We’ve talked a bit at conventions, and whenever WAR GODDESS was mentioned, you

In the new Charmed comic from Zenescope, issue 12 (you can tell it from the other Zenescope comics on the stand in that has realistic looking women on the

Bleeding Cool has managed to gain access to a number of scripts from the MTV US remake of The Inbetweeners. An E4 show in the UK, it successfully mapped

It's called Elektrograd. It's written by Warren Ellis. It's drawn by Ryan Bodenheim. It will only get announced on completion. It is not yet completed.

The man in the T-shirt is DC Comics Executive Vice President of Sales, John Rood. Wearing a slightly inappropriate Low Wage Puppet T-shirt, considering

In DCU Editorial pages this week, the Justice League International cover featuring a mystery woman returns. Ever since its original appearance, she's been

There's a replica (not really at all, actually) Wild West Saloon bar in the midst of Big Screen, serving up... Cowboys and Aliens bowler hats? Anyway,

Yesterday, DC tweeted a link to an MTV Geek interview with Dan DiDio and Jim Lee. All well and good. Except when referring to Dan DiDio, rather than link