Rich Johnston Archives

Back in April Bleeding Cool first told you that DC Comics would run Zero issues of their New 52 comics in September, telling origin and early stories of

Lucifer was the Sandman spinoff that could. By Mike Carey, Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly, it took the character of the Devil as portrayed in the Sandman

Dan Slott, Jimmy Palmiotti and Colleen Doran have been knocking back and forth the pros and cons of creator owned comics versus work for hire, sharing

The word from DC Comics is that, of all the Before Watchmen titles, it will be next week's Silk Spectre series  that will stand out critically above the

I popped into Gosh Comics of London to check that Bleeding Cool Magazine #0 had, indeed, made it through the Queen's Jubilee. Amd while I was there, noted

  We get it, gay marriage is the new hot topic in comics right now. Archie Comics, Astonishing X-Men, Earth Two, it's all the rage. So Jim McCann

The Dark Knight Rises is almost upon us. Which means its time for the kiddie versions of the film. Scott Cohn has drawn the kids book, The Dark Knight

"Batman Always Wins" is a comic internet mantra, spawning the similarly universally applied "Busiek Always Wins". Given the right time to prepare and the

Another Thursday, a new Crossed: Wish You Were Here by Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine. And the moral centre of the comic begins to shift and

Ande Parks writes for Bleeding Cool; Lone Ranger#4 Commentary Page One The end of issue three left Tonto for dead and, a few days later, the Lone Ranger

So, where is the smart money landing? The front line of comics retail is always best reported in these charts coveing the past week, as retailers jostle

Okay, I gave it a day. Some people complained that yesterday's article about Alan Scott, the as yet-to be Green Lantern of Earth Two, proposing to his

The first sale of the day at Wonderworld Comics   A fine looking display at A Comic Book Shop   Nicely labelled at Austin Books A fine display

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE_W6j094gA Collectors Cornered is a weekly video column, filmed inside Collectors Corner in Baltimore. Join us every week

Jesse James of Jesse James Comics writes for Bleeding Cool like an unstoppable writing machine. During Amazing Arizona Con this year I was hanging with

Chris VB, out new Arizona Correspondent, writes for Bleeding Cool; The first time I visited an Atomic Comics store, I was convinced that I had found

Next week sees the launch of Brian Wood's Massive from Dark Horse next week, along with Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre, Kiss, Planetoid, Spider-Men and

We'd mentioned how Seymour couldn't have been writing for the New Frontiersman in 1975. But that was just a marketing bit of bumf. But the first issue of

We now have a name for the man who has been exhibiting at British comic conventions, exhibiting and selling work from deviantArt creators and more,

We were the first to tell you about this second Walking Dead Vannen Watch, debuting at San Diego Comic Con alongside Walking Dead #100 and the Michonne

Bleeding Cool's new Kickstarter Correspondent, Shawn Demumbrum has lead three Kickstarter campaigns to launch comic books, two successfully funded and one

Okay I'm calling this. The finest superhero comic book being sold right now. And this issue has it all, unrequited love, a mysteriuous stranger, a

In the Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League, there is one scene that will stand throughout comics history. The time when Batman took down Guy Gardner Green

The UK may have it's comics delayed today, but that's okay, we have Floridan insight from our own, our very own, Aaron Haarland from A Comic Shop. Action

"Ayyyy ayy ay ay ayyy... someday we will find those Cities Of Gold..." Wow. A second season for Mysterious Cities Of Gold, coming twenty-five years after

Marvel got so much press for its X-Men Wedding Proposal issue, even if it was slightly diverted by press over this week's DC Comics outing of the original

Here's a list of comic book retailers that ordered 25 or more copies of Bleeding Cool Magazine #0, the preview issue, $1.49 for 40 pages, out in comic

SalesWatch: Are Marvel movies finally helping sales? At Third Eye, owner Steve Anderson arranges the merchandise so Avengers fans will be directed to

A run through Dynamite's offerings today... THE SPIDER #2 32 pages FC • $3.99 • Teen + Written by DAVID LISS Art by COLTON WORLEY Covers by JOHN CASSADAY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usuOU8tiqp0 Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Florida writes; This week is total comic overload! Something for everyone,