Rich Johnston Archives

You know those smaller, weirder titles from Image Comics that retailers don't order enough of and before you know it are suddenly on the retailer's back

Bleeding Cool only just told you that a Dark Horse Presents revival even existed. Now we're telling you that Neal Adams' new series Blood will debut in

The San Diego Comic Con entrance passes use a specific coded entry system on badges, scanned on entrance and repeat scanned through the show. Forged

BabushkaWatch: All the Doctors all inside each other, courtesy of Molly23 on Twitter. GambleWatch: Bet US names The Invisible Woman as 1:1 favourite to

I loved Dark Horse Presents. Where I met all manner of comic book creators and their creations for the first time. Frank Miller's Sin City, Eddie

Jim Lee talks to Tony Wolf of The Action Room at Midtown Comics for the signing of his Icons book celebrating his work for DC and Wildstorm.

I have the Bone One Volume, bought in San Diego years ago, that put me over my weight allowance on the way home. I never thought I'd need another copy of

Marvel's Ryan Penagos has been tweeting teasey images to something or other that will fit together in a 3 by 3 grid to reveal something or other and will

Thanks to anonymous art leaker for putting these images up (and not artist Kevin Sharpe). And then for Shoryuken for keeping them up when they, um, wisely

If you have access to Hulu, you can watch the entirety of the Alan Moore documentary, The Mindscpe Of Alan Moore. If you haven't, like me, you can't.

On January 1st there will be a special End Of Year Lying In The Gutters, which will also kick off the eleventh annual Rumour Awards. If you have you own

Go on then Little Bleeders, what is this? Thank you Little Bleeders! Mega Man it is! The Capcom character to get an Archie comic spinoff!

Mike Carlin, DC editor, who seemed untouched by all the announcements of late at DC Comics, neither promotion nor redundancy, is moving to California. Is

TweetWatch: "Oh dear. I sincerely hope the hotel cleaning staff didn't browse the Neonomicon 3 on the bedside table" - Mike McGee "I see my name was

I have a tendency to do silly things during the slow Christmas holiday period.  Nothing like the Crimbo Lull to dull one’s brain, so I decided to pick the

Fables artist Mark Buckingham is drawing a variant cover to IDW's new Doctor Who #1 in January. And an issue later in the run. But this isn't either of

CrazeWatch: The Telegraph has a rather removed description of a manga museum in Japan. Kyoto International Manga Museum, Karasuma-Oike (75 254 7414;

1. "And Incidentally, A Happy Christmas To All Of You At Home!" Warning: Thar be spoilers. "This is Doctor Who Meets Christmas Carol Meets Jaws" - Steven

This is comic artist Dave Taylor's Christmas card this year. Dave Taylor is currently working on a new prestige format Batman series. Which is a

For Christmas Day. Neil Gaiman's Sky At Night sung, composed and performed by Dave McKean.

DemiWatch: Who will Demi Lovato play in The Avengers? LocalWatch: Iowan artist Gary Kelly gets local press for drawing a graphic novel written by

Will Devokees, struggling actor, wants to play Daredevil in whatever reboot movie Marvel/Fox makes. He is sending an audition tape of himself playing the

Looks like it was no one-off. Weeks before the second issue of 27 by Charles Soule and Renzo Podesta is set to ship, it has already sold out its overprint

Matt Fraction talked to John Siuntres on Word Balloon a couple of days ago about Fear Itself. So what do we know? Well, the series will centre on Thor and

Here's a few of the many industry Christmas cards send by publishers, retailers and creators alike, that may need further exploration or interpretation.

It's been a common retailer complaint in the light of DC Comics' move from $3.99 30 page/22 page comics to $2.99 20 page comics that if comics consumers

ArchieWatch: So goody-two-shoes is an Obama fan while greedy narcassist Jughead is a Palin upporter? What are Archie Comics tryong to say?? HorrorWatch:

April next year will see the publication of Alan Moore: Storyteller, a hardcover volume by Strangehaven's Gary Spencer Millidge with a foreword by fantasy

Here you go, folks. Nine pages from two great British comics legends, from The Bulletproof Coffin #6, the last issue, out next week from Image Comics.

Those who have seen the new DC solicitations for March can be in no doubt. Yet another minority character getting bumped off. Outrage outrage outrage. And