Rich Johnston Archives

UPDATE: Dan Slott writes: This news from Bleeding Cool is inaccurate. The story is NOT called "Hobgoblin Inc." As mentioned at C2E2, the story is called

Peter David's work has repeatedly been compared to that of Joss Whedon. A lightness of touch, a fine hand with witty, stylised dialogue, a tendency to

GrantWatch: Preorders on Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods are open. DoctorWatch: Simon Rohrmuller's prints for Big Wow Comic Fest... InterviewWatch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maD-WOmcof0 Bill Meeks talks with Brett Rounsaville about Kickstarter, self-publishing comics, and his new comic The

We've seen the solicitation of Alan Davis' Fantastic Four Annual featuring his super-fiction team, the Clan Destine. We know, thanks to July's

The other week, Bleeding Cool reported that New York store Montasy Comics was to open a new outlet in Manhattan Midtown, going up against Jim Hanley's and

Okay, we all know who is getting married in Astonishing X-Men #50 and #51. And why it will be such a big deal. Even if Marvel can't say, for want of

Bleeding Cool has been following the comparison between Marvel and DC on the manufacture of their hardcovers, and managed to wring a promise out of Dan

Fanboy Comics, in Wilmington, North Carolina, had a very special Free Comic Book Day yesterday. In which comic book fans Adam Mason and Donnita Johnson

Eliot Cole reads Daredevil #12 by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee for Bleeding Cool; There is a horrible, horrible, 'office word' called "Synergy" that my

So we've all read the DC New 52 issue now right? Right? After all, Free Comic Book Day was yesterday, so you know. It's time to start asking exactly who

Eliot Cole reads Stormwatch  #9 by Peter Milligan and Miguel Sepulveda for Bleeding Cool; This issue of Stormwatch contains a lot of elements of what has

Yesterday lots of people got lots of comics for free. Then some of them put them on eBay. The star is, as expected, the Mouse Guard HC. It has sold for up

MouseWatch: David Petersen reads last year's Mouse Guard Free Comic Book Day story http://vimeo.com/34828777 ChicagoWatch: Neil Gaiman writes; I'm writing

Selling for over $4000, here is the original art for Jim Lee's Free Comic Book Day T-Shirt design; The T-shirts of course... were free! And here's how

Axel Alonso recently confirmed another Infinite Marvel comic for #6 of Avengers Vs X-Men to follow up on the Nova webcomic with AvX #1. He wrote; The

Mark Stafford is a British comic book artist of some repute. I managed to persuade him to draw the cover to my Avengefuls comicsfor Boom, he's been

Here's a few shots, via Twitter, of how Free Comic Book Day has been going down around the world...  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfsrGSj9XdQ It is an impressive volume for no money...

I took Eve and a couple of her classmates to London today for free comics and pizza. I was a very popular daddy today. We stopped off at Orbital, where

I'll be going to Orbital Comics, Forbidden Planet and Gosh Comics for their kids workshop with my eldest daughter Eve and some of her school friends for

The affects of Avengers Vs X-Men seems to have done its trick on the market. After being blocked out of the top ten for months, last month Marvel managed

One gallery, many top artists, all unofficial images of The Avengers. This is Assemble, a new show at Gallery 1988 on Melrose, Los Angeles, open until

It's sold out. It's gone to second print. To talk us through it, David Liss writes for Bleeding Cool; Page One This is all about setting the mood. I

There were about twenty people at the Heroes For Jordan press conference for John Romita Jr's attempt on his own Guinness World Record for continual

Thank you to Diamond Comics for sending me all these Free Comic Book Day comics in advance. I now no longer need to take my children to Free Comic Book

One of the organisers of the San Diego Comic Con told me that, rather than feeling put out by the Trickster pop up bar last year, they were rather

In the book Comics: Between The Panels by Mike Richardson and Steve Duin, they tell a number of comic book industry stories over the decades. Including

Spotted on the London Underground the other day... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MJhqCKyW_A Limited edition Absolut London bottle available at

We suggested last week that we were about to get a Buffy Vs Aliens story from Dark Horse for Free Comic Book Day 2012. An in continuity encounter between