Rich Johnston Archives

Before Bleeding Cool, there was TRIPWIRE magazine. In 2012, it celebrates its 20th anniversary and so it’s crowd funding at Unbound to get a lavish

Grant Morrison's favourite correspondent Laura Sneddon, has just written a piece for the New Statesman, interviewing the man. Here are Bleeding Cool's six

Jesse James writes for Bleeding Cool; Brian Miller is not a household name in the comic book world.  However, after reading this article you'll come to

A few thoughts of watching Doctor Who tonight. There may be spoilers. In fact there are... 1. They Like Their Lightbulbs Don't They? In Pond Life and all

Just sold on eBay for a ridiculously low price of $10.50. One of a very few remaining posters that prove that, at one point, Wildstorm Comics pitched to

Tom Gronkowski writes for Bleeding Cool; The world hadn’t seen a comic quite like Watchmen until it first hit the stands. While it wasn’t the first comic

There has been a lot of fuss made over the MarvelNOW! relaunch, Thunderbolts, starring the General Ross Red Hulk, with the Punisher, Venom, Elektra and

Last night we were directed towards a tweet of Scott Snyder in a Superman T-Shirt. Turns out it was one of a number he was trying on before his trip to

Jesse James writes for Bleeding Cool; I took the last two months off from Bleeding Cool to get back into being a simple minded comic book fan. Got my

So what's being reordered by retailers this week? The final, extra-priced issue of Avengers Vs X-Men is the highest advance reordered title (second prints

Mark Robert Bourne writes for Bleeding Cool! Credits: Greg Rucka – Writer Matthew Southworth – Artist Rico Renzi – Colorist James Lucas Jones – Editor The

Brock Dickinson of Millier Dickinson Blais Inc. writes; Most collectors know that many recent first issues from Image Comics have been strong sellers, and

Collectors Cornered is a weekly video column, filmed inside Collectors Corner in Baltimore. Join us every week as we discuss comic book news from a

KippaWatch: The Jerusalem Post turns Daily Bugle. Attorney Amir Ivtsan, a partner in the Ivtsan, Netzer, Wolecki & Co. law firm that has represented

Can't wait for NYCC...

I've been asking Diamond about this for the last couple of days but they have pointedly refused to reply to my enquiries. Which, even for Diamond, is

We ran a batch of Marvel NOW! Variant covers earlier. Well here are some more, including a look at Milo Manara's Psylocke, and a bunch of pre-finished Joe

Louis Falcetti writes for Bleeding Cool; Time for another look at how people around the world buy digital comics in-app through Apple devices. Imagine if

Here's the story on one man who is out the relatively small sum of $375 to comic industry conman Josh Hoopes. 1)Paypal sounded very helpful at first, then

Those who do not learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them. Batman #13 by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, featuring the beginning of the new

So how close was Deathstroke's origin in Deathstroke issue zero, to the original in Tales Of Teen Titans 43? Very, it seems... In Swipe File we present

Today, in the light of retailer Brian Hibbs' attack on variant covers as immoral, and Bleeding Cool's look at exactly how the variant covers of Marvel

Another one. This time for New York Comic Con. But what is... Superior? And who is "the writer of the most shocking comic book of 2012" that will "lead

Moloch seems to be present in so many of the Before Watchmen comics, it was about time he got his own title, stepping in to help out on delays to the Nite

Sounding a little like a beat co,bo from the sixties, Marvel have allowed CBR to announce the new Cable And X-Force series by Dennis Hopeless and Salvador

This year, at New York Comic Con, I want to put together a new video for the Pogues song, Fairytale Of New York. A bit like Chicago did with Call Me Maybe

Now there's a blast from the past. Andrew Hope was the artist on Shadowmen in the early nineties, a comic book written by the teenage Mark Millar and

Twelve different DC Comics' blogs have put together a crossover today spotlighting some of the cosplayers at DragonCon 2012. Each blog in this crossover

This could be a hard one to get hold of. Unless you live in Dublin, that is, then you'll be swimming in them. But Tommy Lee Edwards has created a variant

It is already the biggest selling debut issue of a magazine through Diamond Comic Distributors. And the variant covers might just help that a little,