Rich Johnston Archives

There's a certain comics executive who is a little bit on the mean side. He finds cosplayers who, in his opinion, have failed in their cosplaying efforts,

Dave Elliot is reviving A1 through Heavy Metal, and we're getting a sneak peek of the contents of the new Heavy Metal that will debut at San Diego Comic

There was no issue of the Hulk comic by Jeff Parker, featuring the General Ross Red Hulk in the Marvel solicitations for September 2012. Marvel tells

CirqueWatch: Marvel Comics are launching a new comic based on Cirque du Soleil called KA at San Diego Comic Con, Bryan JL Glass and illustrated by

  You have to feel for Stephanie Brown fans. She may be back, in the Smallville comic, an extension of the TV show, or uncertain canon, and not even

Word is that the reason that the Third Wave was a little smaller than some expected, as well giving some of the cancelled books a vestigal Zero issue, was

Do you live near a chain of Hastings, the entertainment store in the US that is also America's biggest direct market comic store chain? It might be worth

Dan Boultwood is a fantastic cartoonist and comics artist, working on titles such as Danger Academy, Hope Falls, Baker Street Irregulars and the like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4N9-4vhYVU This is a bit "fuck you, Game Of Thrones", this is how we do it, don't you think? Forget the Starks and the

Second prints and more are always over-represented on these charts showing last minute advance reorders from retailers in the weeks before publication.

In a thumbing-their-nose-at-One-Million-Moms act, Archie Comics is reprinting again Life With Archie #16 that featured the same-sex wedding of Kevin

Next week, Dark Horse gives us a new Baltimore, DC gives us a younger Comedian, IDW starts Mars Attacks, Image gives us a Walking Dead one short of 100,

Kate Kotler writes for Bleeding Cool; Hey, Bleeding Cool! Did you know we had our one-year anniversary of being together and we didn't even celebrate...

Next week, Marvel publishes Astonishing X-Men #51, featuring the marriage of X-Man Northstar to his boyfriend Kyle, one day early. And some people are

This does rather sound like another fairytale-iconcs-remixed-for-a-modern-adult-audience-and-hell-can-we-get-a-film-out-of-it, even with the name Damsels.

It's Thursday, so you know what that means... another chapter of the free webcomic Crossed: Wish You Were Here from Si Spencer, Javier Barreno and Gary

Here is Will Romine's Cosplay costume as Starro that he will be wearing for San Diego Comic Con... and the cover that inspired it!  

The Catwoman Zero comic cover by Guillem March has caused a bit of a storm online. Comics Alliance does a wonderful job of collecting some of the mockery

PayneWatch: The Independent feels the Payne First issue After the Fall ‘sheds new light on Max’s life through key events from his troubled upbringing,’

I get a lot of comics sent to me by e-mail. A lot. I'd like to read them all. I don't. But I try. I'm glad I tried this one. Been sitting in my inbox for

It was the double punch of Jupiter's Children and Happy that seems to have done it. Frank Quitely and Grant Morrison, creators who had worked for DC on

Jesse James writes for Bleeding Cool. Sometimes there are creators out there that just don't care what the rules are and the % of failure in the comic

Bleeding Cool’s  Kickstarter Correspondent, Shawn Demumbrum has lead three Kickstarter campaigns to launch comic books, two successfully funded and one

Has the bloom come off the copper-plated rose, where steampunk is concerned? I only ask because the trademark-baiting Antarctic Press’ Victorian Secret:

In an interview about MorrisonCon, Darick Robertson stated that he has a new creator-owned series for DC Comics in the works with Christos Gage.

Ame Comi: Wonder Woman #3 came out yesterday from DC Comics, digitally. Here's the credits page. But it's actually drawn by Tony Akins. As Amanda's

Okay, this filling took a little more loosening. I had to use pliers, a baseball bat and a large camel. As a result, it's a bit crumbly. It's certainly

And there it is. A third filling. Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca, taking over the Fantastic Four when Jonathan Hickman leaves for The Avengers.

Here's another filling that's coming loose. After his five year plan of writing Fantastic Four came to fruition, it's time for Jonathan Hickman to turn

Okay, here we go. Yesterday's Marvel Switcheroo piece seems to have knocked a couple of fillings loose. And one of them is that Rick Remender and Jemery