Rich Johnston Archives

Nothing can quicken the heart than the prospect of making a quick flutter at the comic store, picking up the last few copies of a gem, then flipping them

Last year's Kapow comic convention in London was criticised when it came to their comic industry guests, for being all male. Before the show, they did add

With the second movie coming out this weekend, Grace Randolph brings us a look at her favourite Ghost Rider comics, such as they are, for Think About The

From the slightly NSFW preview of King Conan: The Phoenix Of The Sword #2, we see Thoth Amon, evil wizard created by Robert E Howard, in bed with a few

Living in London, it's getting hard to ignore the fact that for two weeks this year, our lives will be incredibly disrupted by the Olympics. While the

With Free Comic Book Day several weeks away, now it's time to find out... the books you won't be getting. We already know that, after a cease-and-desist

The five premier publishers distributed by Diamond Comic Distributors, Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image and IDW, all operate under the Final Order Cut Off,

Justice League: Doom (or Justice League: Wood as some seem to see it) is a direct DVD/Blu Ray adaptation of Mark Waid and Howard Porter's Tower of Babel

To help promote the upcoming Womanthology graphic anthology, Acme Comics of Greensboro, North Carolina will be running a bit of a moving signing this

Of late, Marvel seems to have moved their solicitations for upcoming comics to a bit of a bullet point approach. Such as; Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #9

Welcome to the Justice League Of Hanna Barbera, by Brazilian artist Daniel HDR. Can't Boom just buy the rights and make this happen?

Thony Silas is a Brazilian artist, best known in the US for cover and pin up work. He'll be drawing a new Marvel book, Spider-Man: Ends Of The Earth,

Gary Friedrich, Tony Moore, Before Watchmen, there's a lot of unrest going on in comics at the moment. Even Ken Penders' case against Archie Comics may

Fred Van Lente is writing a new Black Widow series, to come out just after a certain movie. I bet they're really hoping they actually call her Black Widow

Neal Adams writes for Bleeding Cool, about Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich; Fellow creators, we can help Gary Friedrich without taking any kind of

Whenever I put out feelers for cult or niche pop coming out, the trail invariably and consistently leads to Japan. Next week, a visual novel is going to

Exiled is a new comic book coming out from Marvel in May in the jetstream of the Avengers Vs X-Men crossover. I understand it's written by Kieron Gillen

It's been about three years since Disney bought Marvel for $4 billion. And finally they're getting a little closer. By moving into the same building.

Last week, Bleeding Cool broke the story that IDW were to publish a Doctor Who/Star Trek: The Next Generation crossover. Over the weekend, we have managed

DailyWatch: The Oklahoma Daily comes out against Before Watchmen. SpudWatch: USA Today covers Batman and Superman and Mr Potato Heads. CockroachWatch: An

The London Super Comic Con may have Stan Lee at the end of the month. But Kapow, the Mark Millar themed comic convention funded by CLiNT publisher Titan

Remember the Mark Waid Is Evil and the Stan Lee teasers? I got the feeling Boom! is doing it again with these "You Are Illegal On This Earth" ads running

UPDATE: VIDEO REMOVED AT THE REQUEST OF VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT Taken by Archaia's CEO PJ Bickett at ComicsPRO, here's the Valiant poster advertising X-O

A number of comic creators are auctioning work to help Gary Friedrich and they are looking for more. Here's a Neal Adams Captain America currently on

Scott Dunbier, creator of the Absolute format at DC Comics, also pioneered the Artists Edition at IDW, printing the original lattered art of classic comic

We begin with a few Avengers Bobble Heads at Toy Fair 2012, courtesy of Paul Nicholasi of Idle Hands, slide through the Avengers Super Hero Squad figures

We reported on this story last month. Now, Brett Ewins, charged with stabbing a policeman, and who was then hospitalised by that policeman, is now

There appears to be a Spider-Man film out this year. Which means there are lots of Spider-Man toys. And lots of Lizard toys. Some of these things may be

This is the cover to Aquaman #7 by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, the first part of the two part story "The Other League" by Geoff Johns. And from the solicits

UPDATE: Photos from Paul Nicholasi of the Star Wars SDCC exclusive, Jar Jar Binks in carbonite, Bruce Willis in GI Joe mode and a Kre-O Battleship. Paul