Rich Johnston Archives

UPDATE: DC message board poster billee0918 has taken credit for the mysterious posts, after exploiting a loophole to create a new identity, even though

That's all she wrote folks. Once you got passed the web forwarding system embedded on the emails that sent out - that crashed pretty much immediately -

UPDATEx2: And... there goes Friday. UPDATE: Saturday has now sold out, Friday is almost gone. The site is now telling recent signees that they do not have

A number of people are reporting problems getting into the San Diego Badge Sales. It's not, however, a problem with the server. But a malformed link. The

In half an hour ticket sales open for San Diego Comic Con 2012. If you didn't register for a Member ID, I'm sorry but you are out of luck. No begging,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zMMdH8ofwo Patrick Willems does the impossible with a new Afterwards They Will Explode video for Bleeding Cool.. Live

StanWatch: Steve Bissette talks Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Forgive my being blunt: As a corporate shill, Stan has behaved as shills should at all times. As

I met JK Woodward at the London Super Comic Convention last weekend. And once I established that he hadn't done the Fallen Angel cover that featured in

This is the latest in a series of promotional covers created by Boom! to encourage retailers to experiment by ordering large on certain titles, in return

Today, Valiant Entertainment announced a new Harbinger series to join XO Manowar and Bloodshot. You can see a preview below, it's by Joshua Dysart and

It's easy as One Two Three... as well as a preview of Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein Alive, Westfield Comics also have the first few

Al Ewing, author of Ninjettes for Dynamite, writes about the first issue of the series, taking it down page by page. We have some pages, you may want a

Here's an ad from Midtown Comics from a while ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6juw273IT2o&lc And here's the new ad made for Jay And Bob's Secret

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5OSoJS0OrA Grace Randolph says "Wondering how to become a comic book artist? Host Grace Randolph talks to comic book

Here's an interesting comparison. When ordering comic books for Free Comic Book Day, although customers and passers by get the comics for free, the

It's been noted that, despite their massive presence at the likes of San Diego Comic Con, the presence of Radical Comics on the comics stands has been

Tim Hanley gendercrunches for Bleeding Cool. He is our sexual statistical correspondent. December was a fairly average month at DC and Marvel, though DC

We already reported on some of the swag retailers who attend the Chicago Diamond Summit before C2E2 will be getting. Well here are three more to make the

It took the global recession to make this comic happen. Writer Gordon Mclean took his redundancy cheque and, along with selling off his Playstation games

Gorillaz' Jamie Hewlett, Tamara Drewe's Posy Simmonds, Roald Dahl's Quentin Blake and The Guardian's Martin Rowson are talking comics and illustration at

Given the ordering incentives that Marvel have instigated for Avengers Vs X-Men, its respective crossovers, and the six figure numbers ordered by

Remember Igor Kordey? Yeah, you know, the guy who filled in for Ethan Van Sciver who was filling in for Frank Quitely on Grant Morrison's New X-Men, a

Who wants an entire hop hop album based on Gundam Wing? If that's you, you should be praising one Richie Branson who is working on such a musical mixtape

Thanks to Daniel Best who pulled out a bunch of legal papers on the Neil Gaiman/Todd McFarlane case over owed moneys, showing that as part of the lawsuit,

ArchieWatch: Dan Parent is signing Archie Comics at Double Midnight Comics, in Manchester, New Hampshire on Sunday from noon. BissetteWatch: Steve

    Look at that image above. Doesn't it want to make you lick your lips? Well, maybe if it was portrayed in icing on top of a cake you might

When I was a teenager reading American comics, and had finally discovered this thing called a comic shop in the nearby town of Leeds (it is now a

    In the American corner, Leaping Tall Buildings by Seth Kushner and Christopher Irving, a series of photographs and short essays profiling

iFanboy reports, from an interview with Jonathan Hickman carried out at Image Comics Expo, that he will be leaving Fantastic Four at the end of the year

The One Million Moms may have demanded that Toys R Us remove the Life With Archie comic, featuring a future Kevin Keller marrying his intended. But it