Rich Johnston Archives

Alongside the release of Dead Man's Run #1  by Greg Pak and Tony Parker, Parker has drawn variant covers for all of Aspen's other books in November,

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

All those people asking why Becky Cloonan isn't doing a book for the DC Relaunch? This might be why. Nick Spencer folks, the only person with a Marvel or

Marvel have issued a list of hardcover and trade paperbacks they are expecting to go out of print shortly. This gives retailers a chance to stock up for a

See I was going to start this with the cover to Action Comics #3, which I don't think DC Comics have released. But they may have. Anyway something told me

You know how Thor wasn't looking too well in that Fear Itself #6 preview we posted yesterday? You know how he was suddenly missing in those Battle Scars

Yes, another semi-regular feature launching this week, the Bleeding Cool Challenge. We've all seen the What If Male Superheroes Posed Like Wonder Woman On

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool; There are numerous parallels between architecture and comic books. Both are design mediums that are dependent on

A new comic book-based play by Shaun McLaughlin, Internal Continuity, will premiere on Friday September 9th at the Road Less Traveled Theater in Buffallo,

Warren Ellis: Wondering if the Womanthology project, which quadrupled its Kickstarter goal, is paying its contributors now? Anyone know? Twitter,

Lance Henriksen of Aliens, Millennium and more is writing a new comic book with co-writer Joe Maddrey for Dark Horse. He told Dread Central, "Joe and I

There's the five of them. Here's the solicitation. FANTASTIC FOUR #600 Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN Penciled by STEVE EPTING, CARMINE DI

Here's the Bleeding Cool segment of the CBLDF Liberty Annual 2011 spread. Expect to see more on other websites... but this bit is Bleeding Cool's! Get

Welcome to a semi-regular round up of some of the more interesting comic book projects on the social networking fundraising site, Kickstarter. We'll be

At the heart of the popular game Angry Birds is the fear of all parents over child abduction andmurder. So, it's not such a great jump that this Angry

On the influential social network Mumsnet, Jo Bevan has been running the alliterative Bring Back Bunty campaign, aimed at bringing back girls comics onto

You know there's been a lot of fuss in the news (and especially the American news it seems) about riots in England. Truth is, it hasn't affected 99% of

Here is the big cover image from Stan Lee's Romeo And Juliet: The War, to be published by 1821 Comics in November. And here is an image by Marek Okon for

And she's back in the mohawk too. The new Astonishing X-Men team, starting in November, from Marvel. Why am I suddenly getting flashbacks to Uncanny X-Men

Scott Lobdell, upcoming writer of Red Hood And The Outlaws, Superboy and Teen Titans, writes for Bleeding Cool; There has been a lot of talk recently

For every 25 copies of Legion: Secret Origin #1 by Paul Levitz and Chris Batista, comic book retailers can order a bag of 50 Legion of Super-Heroes

This weekend, I bought my six year old daughter the new Lil' Endless Storybook by Jill Thompson. Today she has mostly been drawing Despair and Barnabas.

In three week's time, DC begins to publish all its superhero DCU (DC Universe) books as day-and-date digital, selling them on the same day in digital

There's an October solicitation for a Fantastic Four poster by Joe Quesada that is blacked out in the Marvel Previews. Which is really handy for shops

Phil Hampton of Comics Academy writes for Bleeding Cool; This is with a message of hope for the future.  Or rather it’s a call for a change of focus to

Not enough people remember than Steve Ditko and Will Murray created Squirrel Girl. A superhero with a big tail and the ability to control squirrels which,

There has been a lot of death in comics of late. Marvel even promised a death every quarter at one point. From Captain America to Batman to Ultimate

Okay, be warned there are spoilers here. Minor ones for Iron Man and Thor. And a major character-affecting one for Captain America. And an episode-ending

Richard Castle's Deadly Storm: A Derrick Storm Mystery is the story within the story in comic book form, by Brian Bendis, Kelly Sue deConnick and Lan

From Avatar's sister company Boundless... today sees the launch of War Goddess #0 by Mike Wolfer and Pow Rodrix... here's some solicitation and preview...