Rich Johnston Archives

Today is C-Day. The launch date for Avatar's new twice-monthly Crossed series Badlands, but also the second Avatar webcomic, Crossed: Wish You Were Here,

You could have lived your entire life wthout seeing Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Florida, naked, on the toilet, defecating while reading Saga #1 by

As the week's controversial Doonesbury strips get leaked in full (find it in colour here), a number of newspapers have been reconsidering their reaction

On the left, the Rob LIefeld cover to Hawk And Dove #7. On the right the Frank Miller cover to Rom The Space Knight #17. Frank Miller has often been a

Frank Marraffino's Marvel Zombies Destroy!, a World War II-set zombified Marvel character comic was coming on great guns, with Howard The Duck and Dum Dum

  Tomorrow is C-Day. The launch of Crossed Badlands #1, a new twice-monthly Crossed comic from Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, and the webcomic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUtIow1PXtQ Grace Randolph hits the numbercrunching hard for Think About The Ink and Stacktastic! for Bleeding Cool. She's

Whatever knows fear burns at the Man-Thing's touch, wrote Steve Gerber. But what lights up Man Thing? Marvel are going one more time to their

Alan Moore has been talking to Kurt Amacker about Before Watchmen, Watchmen, DC Comics and League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Now, Alan has said a lot of

Nixel Pixel have hit the motherload, with a bunch of in game visuals and designs from the abandoned Sin City game, from Simon Lissaman. Legal and

To date, IDW's Artist's Edition format has reprinted the original artwork of the likes of Will Eisner, Dave Stevens, Wally Wood, David Mazzuchelli, Walter

We know Nick Barrucci of Dynamite Entertainment is running a bunch of limited liability companies (LLCs) to register trademarks in public domain

A while ago, I had some fun with Avengers Vs X-Men covers, pretending to interpret all their macho posturing, gritted teeth and grappling as if it were

PunisherMAX has ended. The final issue of this series, telling far harsher and more real-world Punisher stories than the regularMarvel Universe title,

The solicitation for May's Thunderbolts #174 was pretty telling. • The Clash of the Bolts Concludes! • In their most dire hour, the Fixer makes a

HuffWatch: The comic creator mixtape. Becky Cloonan: I love metal. And since everybody is (or rather, should be) acquainted with Iron Maiden and Sabbath

Their first YouTube ad for Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples' Saga went over well. But now it's time for Famous Funnies of West Melbourne, Florida to

Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury, this week satirising certain American state legislation for invasive "shaming" procedures that aren't medically necessary

You've seen the TV show. Now buy the magazine. In May, DC Comics are launching DC Nation Super Spectacular, based on the block of programming on the

Siike Donnelly writes for Bleeding Cool; I’ll start by saying this won’t be your typical videogame review. I won’t go into detail about bad frame rate,

Is this another one of those Pride And Prejudice And Zombies stories? Sadly not, it's just some teething troubles in the brand spanking new DC website.

So there you are, reading the new Lone Ranger series from Dynamite and you woinder to yourself "what was the writer thinking?". Wonder no more, author

Captain Marvel is a name claimed by many. The DC character now known as Shazam! Captain-Marvell of the Kree. Photon. Marvel Boy. It seems to go around.

Well this is something else. BGZ Studios have pushed cosplay to new ends. Taking Miracole nd turning her into a Dark Phoenix by setting her on fire. And

Happy birthday to Eve. This is a week in which we said goodbye to Moebius. And Marvel announced a new dedication to comics created for digital devices,

"Creative differences" It's such a wonderful euphemism. It can mean anything. Fights on the street, shagging the wrong girlfriend, chronic lateness, drug

It may be a combination of schedules, issues with getting retailers to order two launch issues for the same month, or the desire to make a bigger impact

It seems whenever DC announce something to do with Before Watchmen, Marvel just has to jump in with something five months away. Forst it was Spider-Men

I saw JOHN CARTER this weekend, though I probably could have written this column without seeing it. What I’m interested in here is why the media has

There are two comic book publishers. You'll know them by name. Recently Bleeding Cool was made aware of a number of unpaid debts to creators, so I got in