Rich Johnston Archives

Nora Freis, the frozen wife of Victor Freis, and the inspiration for his transformation into Batman villain Mr Freeze, was introduced in Batman: The

And there I was thinking they'd be saving this kind of thing for The Walking Dead #100. But no. That's the thing about the comic book, you just don't know

The funding of an audio/visual/digital version of the Cerebus story High Society was received on Kickstarter even quicker than Sullivan's Sluggers... less

PoliticsWatch: WND looks at the history of the comic book, and recent cultural shifts under Obama. Traitorism, the death of America and sodomy, apparently.

Dr Manolis Vamvounis writes from Greece; SHOTGUN GAY WEDDING Everyone and their mother (even the mainstream blogs here in Greece) are reporting on this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYVV6pOoaxk Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Florida returns victorious from the Phoenix Comicon... Animal Man Annual has

Yesterday, we ran an article about a short program that had been written, designed to download ComiXology comics files that had been paid for, and keep

The Furry Trap is a new graphic novel solicited by Fantagraphics. Sounds like silly funny creatures ideally suited for a children's book. Ket's see what

He began working on the colours for the book. Then covers. And now, with issue 4, Argentinian colourist Diego Simone will be taking over from Robert Love

Bleeding Cool has been informed that Dave Bowen (Director of Digital Distribution), Jeff Dillon (Web Development Manager), and Lev Schneider (Programmer)

There must be a Lizard about to apear in a Spider-Man movie or something. Here is J Scot Campbell's variant cover to Amazing Spider-Man #688, starting the

One week ago, Bleeding Cool first reported the news that a DC superhero would be reinvented as a leading gay character. The rest of the news went

Next year, Fantagraphics are to publish the Last Laugh by André Franquin in English - the first new attempt in decades,  Franquin was a true master in

Si Spurrier instructs; THE GODDAM COUTURE BATMAN Let’s do something pure and redesigny. 2012. Bruce Wayne realises his relentless crusade against the

Lea Hernandez is a stalwart of modern comics. Working with Warren Ellis and Gail Simone - but mostly on her own - she pioneered the vanguard to creating

This is the cover as solicited to Superman issue nine. This is the actual cover. And this is how the character looks now. A little less of the Girl With A

It was rather a surprise in the recent Hero Comics 2012 anthology from Image Comics last week, to benefit the Hero Initiative. An Elephantmen strip,

At Kapow last weekend I discovered a rather remarkable comic book. As digital comics compete to create more innovative experiences unique to that medium,

It’s Memorial Day here in the colonies, which means the majority of us have the day off. Most will BBQ and drink heartily, while the rest of us will take

Hi my name is Adam Messinger. You probably don't know me, but that's okay. I love you anyhow. The point of this column is me telling you about independent

Yesterday, an original message was posted on the popular content redistributor Reddit, with a link to a 2K-sized program and instructions, point by point,

As you read this, I will be flying from Phoenix, Arizona to Chicago and then on to London, where I'm bringing both my girls candy and comics. If they read

No topic to devote a whole column to this week, as I’ve been looking at all sorts of things and thinking about stuff, so I’ll just talk about what caught

iZombie co-creator Chris Roberson famously announced his decision to stop working for DC Comics publicly on Twitter, only to find that decision stepped by

The first issue of the IDW Godzilla ongoing series has sold out from IDW and Diamond... and for a change, it waited until it had actually gone on sale to

Katana, created as one of The Outsiders by Mike W. Barr and Jim Aparo has co-starred in the Birds Of Prey title, relaunched as one of the New 52 titles.

James Sabata writes for Bleeding Cool from Phoenix Comicon 2012; It's Sunday morning and I'm finally able to give you guys a quick run down of day three

The following is mindless speculation. DC Comics is cancelling the title Justice League International with #12 and its Annual, despite the book selling

There is much speculation, rumour and gossip concerning as to what Marvel will follow their Avengers Vs X-Men crossover event. We know that Marvel won't

A few days ago, I ran semi-sourced stories indicating that the character who DC Comics announced as being reintroduced to the New 52 DC Universe as a gay