Rich Johnston Archives

It's tomorrow's comics today! Aaron and Tri-Force Mike, nominated for Florida's A Comic Shop in the Bleeding Cool Fan Awards, share their love for comics,

Itwas never Watchmen or Dark Knight that opened up the possibility of superhero comics for me, but Dwayne McDuffie's Damage Control, the Marvel series

San Diego has the Eisner Awards. Baltimore Comic Con has the Harveys. SPX has the Ignatz. Well, C2E2 has its own comic book awards, the Bleeding Cool Fan

Hercules gets his own book with his own numbering system, albeit a reduced name. Maybe they'll take the "ULES" and add it to another comic. X-MENULES?

Graphic.Ly has been a bit squeezed of late. ComiXology created the Marvel and DC Apps and getting all sorts of exclusive content, while iVerse signs up

The Infidel is a comic by Bosch Fawstin that's been in the works for a number of years. And this week, just as it is to feature on The Daily Show, it's

It was Mark Millar who started it. The spokesman for the Kapow comic convention, funded by Titan, publishers of CLiNT and owners of Forbidden Planet, and

He started it five days ago. To raise internet pledges worth $17,000 to publish his completed original graphic novel, The Fracture Of The Universal Boy,

Oh... here we go. The three volume slipcased set of Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons, from Fantagraphics with an introduction by Neil Gaiman and

Here we go folks. An advance look at the new Crossed comic from the Lapham and Caceres boys. Out from Avatar on Wednesday. Remember folks, never read

What is a licensed book? And what is a reprint/collection? That's the question that has been expertly evaded as in their end-of-year awards for the best

(By Eve Johnston, 5) Welcome to another week of Bleeding Cool stories that went from the very silly to the very serious. Thankfully you mostly clicked on

Well that's a bit of a meaner cover than Archaia originally ran with for their Dark Crystal Free Comic Book Day edition, a prelude to their upcoming

I've been covering the existence of The Infidel, a planned graphic novel about two brothers with a Muslim background reacting to the events of 9/11 for a

I tried to think of a clever title for this week’s column, but really, nothing can beat the actual title of the movie itself. Yes, there really existed a

Above is the cover to Star Trek: Infestations, part of the cross-franchise crossover comic being published by IDW. And below is the poster to the movie

Above is the scene from All Star Superman #11 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, published by DC Comics. And this is the equivalent scene from All Star

We all loved his X-Men Family Tree... now it's time for the Fantastic Four - with one recent... subtraction. So yeah, you know, spoilers. Ish. Oh come on,

We've all enjoyed the Godzilla retailer variant cover gallery. But why do I get the feeling that this particular Godzilla #1 variant from IDW will be more

What If... Disney Had Bought DC Instead? By Boris Mihaljovic. What If... Sanrio Had Bought DC? By Katie Dreyer What If... Oni Press Had Bought DC? By

An upcoming BBC Scotland documentary Scotland's Amazing Comic Book Heroes by AKA Comics shop owner John McShane makes the claim regarding the publication

ProfileWatch: Ian Kennedy is profiled by his local press; Sighing regretfully about this digital age and its effect on publishing, he describes those days

Bleeding Cool's Mayank Khurana has been on the floor of Comic Con India (okay, the ground, then), camera at hand, catching the cosplay and the commerce on

This is probably one of the greatest comic book promotions of all time. Seriously, it will be written about in textbooks. And it has led to IDW's biggest

Or Chris Hemsworth's if that's what floats your boat. Clothes that the pair wore during the making of the Thor movie, available in teeny tiny sections for

This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I

This is a Michael Zulli portrait of Batman. I love Michael Zulli's work. From Puma Blues to Sandman to that little Sweeney Todd prelude to a comic that

Kate Beaton, author of Hark! A Vagrant webcomic, has created a new Doctor Who comic. Based only on information she has gained from cultural osmosis, never

There seems to have been a bit of a ding dong between DC Direct, the toy/statue manufacturer part of DC Entertainment, and Bioware, develpers of the Mass

Marvel's promotion for a series of less-than-A-list characters getting a relaunch in 2011, using gunsight imagery... Marvel's promotion for a series of