Rich Johnston Archives

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

Marvel solicitations for March's FF #1 by Jonathan Hickman, Steve Epting and Paul Mounts at Newsarama and CBR were missing one little aspect - the price

John Byrne left Marvel in the earlier days of what is now called New Marvel, when Joe Quesada was made editor-in-chief. The cancellation of X-Men: Hidden

No, it wasn't Mark Millar. Or Geoff Johns. It was One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda, with an annual income from the comic and merchandising, netting him a

MediaWatch: The mass media finally notice the planned death in Fantastic Four as Marvel kick their PR into gear. MoneyWatch: Beano and Dandy publisher DC

Brits know Piers Morgan well, Editor of the News OF The World and then the Daily Mirror newspapers, celebrity obsessive, left-winger and smarmy bastard.

In a presidential news conference happening right now, President Barack Obama has stated, regarding greater bipartisanship in policy making, that

The Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans Of America have announced a new reward, a year's subscription to the Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited service. It's free

Here’s the numbercrunching headlines, based on Marvel Comics solicitation information for March. At NYCC, Marvel announced they would be reducing the

"...gone is the father of Kal-El" Written and sung by Michelle Osorio. See, definitely Christmas time when this sort of stuff starts happening. Anyone