Rich Johnston Archives

Yesterday saw the release of the second trade in writer Charles Soule's Image series 27 (27: Second Set), but that's not his only story out this week. 

One Million Moms, the pressure group with a lot less than a million members (almost a million less) failed spectularly targeting Archie Comics from

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool A different kind of comic con came to Chicago this past weekend as the University of Chicago hosted Comics:

Next week in comics... a new, long awaiting, volume of Adam Warren's Empowered hits the shelf. It's fifth week time for DC Comics, with Animal Man and

Another look at what is burning up retailers attempts to increase their orders on comics before they ship. And, well, the ending of Avengers has seen a

Wow. This is a blast from a past. "Compgate", the supposed scandal at DC Comics that saw the accepted practice of staff selling or trading their comp

DC is to rush-solicit the DC Sandman slipcase above for its recent reprinting of the Sandman volumes, in time for Christmas, containing all the books, for

Here's a portrait of Batman by Jim Lee as part of a Darkness and Light exhibition held at DC's new Burbank offices, featuring work by DC creators and

Understand that this is not a firm story. Not like DC Comics renumbering all their New DCU comics to issues zero through September, say. This is based on

The day before the Phoenix Comic Con, Phoenix baseball team the Diamondbacks played the Los Angeles Dodgers, and won. But also had quite a lot of cosplay

As of yesterday, I heard reports that Astonishing X-Men #50, better known as the "proposal issue" hadn't exactly been selling gangbusters. This cover for

Another nasty slice of the Crossed world goes live, for free, as part of Crossed: Wish You Were Here, by Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine, and

Today, Dynamite Entertainment is announcing that the oversized hardcover glossy Dynamite Art Of Alex Ross volume, featuring Ross' cover and design work

This is a specially commissioned image by Shane Davis of Thomas Tull, the founder of Legendary Entertainment, and used to illustrate his appearance on

I've just landed at Phoenix, Arizona (after the air stewardess told us that if we looked out of the left windows, we could see fire and smoke) and have

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Uberfan Jesse James of Jesse James Comics interviewed Tony Parker. He then blackmailed us into running the results. Please don't shoot us, Mr James, we

John Anderson lives round the corner from my house. Literally five minutes away. It's also the home for his comic book publisher Soaring Penguin Press. We

Gordon McLean writes for Bleeding Cool; This year’s Kapow Comic Con saw Jonathan Ross team up with some masked wrestlers to take on evil destroyers of

  One of the stand out moments, or so I'm told, of the Motor City Comic Con this past weekend. And thanks to Detroit MetroMix for supplying us with

Uberfan Jesse James of Jesse James Comics talked to Tom Hutchison for Bleeding Cool. Seriously, we couldn't stop him. He just went for it. As a store

Phonogram: The Singles Club, the second volume of the series from Image, by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, has now hit digital. The first issue is

Joseph Glass writes for Bleeding Cool; So, this Sunday just gone, a question was asked at Kapow Comic Con in London; a convention that aims to be as big

As you read this, I am currently flying through the air to the Phoenix Comic Con. But before I hit the airport, I hit the comic shop. And these are a few

You can tell it's a certain time of the month when publishers start getting antsy about orders. Today, it seems, is that last day you can place advance

As ever, Dynamite have a few books out this week. And as ever you are invited to peruse a few extended or non-extended previews of their number. THE

This is rather interesting, Despite the appeal of the Olympics, and demand for the British pound this will bring, financial forecasts are for the pound to

Here's a trailer for Justice League Dark #9 by Jeff LeMire and Mikel Janin, published today... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DbwIr32-6I Is it true that,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM6sk_ahLp8 From Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Florida writes; This week is AWESOME! First, I was right about the

Or PVX as the modern vernacular would have it. A variant cover by John Byrne for the four issue of the ongoing Popeye comic from IDW.