Rich Johnston Archives

Clone Saga. Batman Beyond. Carnage. Wonder Woman Wearing A Jacket. We are in the midst of a full-scale nineties revival right now. Die cut and embossed

Okay, it's late, it's two am here in Old London Town, and the Mark Millar big news, currently queued up at a much greater regarded website, has not yet

Deadline reports that Greg Noveck, SVP of Creative Affairs at DC Entertainment is to leave that position over the next three months time to work on his

Anthony Draco painted a picture of Justin Bieber and put it on his Deviant Art site. Darren G Davis of Bluewater Productions got in touch asking if he

It was meant to be announced at midnight PST. It wasn't. Then it was meant to be several hours later. It still wasn't. Some doubted if there was going to

Stewart Lee is one of my favourite stand up comedians. Co-writer and director of Jerry Springer The Opera, one half of Lee and Herring, whose Fist Of Fun

Since making an appearance on Australian TV show, Spicks And Specks, playing this fifty year old track, the band Manta have been inundated with publicity

On the right, the Detective Comics #27 8.0 that sold for $1,075,000 on Feb 24th through Heritage Auctions. On the left, the Detective Comics #27 7.5 that

Neil Gaiman talks about performing at the Sydney Opera House for ninety minutes, and how he managed to get Eddie Campbell up on stage with him. Hmm. Neil

"Bring back the Pantheon or the grey Hulk or someone I like or I swear for real this time, I might stop reading" Thank you Sidecar and Atom Films.

MillarWatch: Whatever Mark Millar is set to announce, it seems to be movie based. He tweets that the press release has been signed off by people at the

A repentant terrorist responsible for the Bali bombings that killed 202 people eight years ago  is to star in his own comic book. When the Conscience

From the bars of New Orleans, where Green Lantern is currently being filmed, comes this little gossipy nugget from certain bragging production staff. Do

Welcome to a new irregular runaround of purely digital comic book news. PurchaseWatch: Marvel's executive vice president of global digital media Ira

Presented for your enjoyment from the John Byrne Message Board; I was watching a few minutes of the WATCHMEN movie on cable last night, and I found myself

Explaining a whole host of URLs registered recently by Warner Bros, the sequel to the smash breakout videogame Batman: Arkham Asylum is to be called

Two clips below from Pete Versus Life, a new broken comedy sitcom from Channel 4 starring Rafe Spall, starting tomorrow at 10pm in the UK. Produced by the

There's been a fair bit of debate over the metatextuality of certain scenes on Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows new comic, Neonomicon. Certainly enough to see

Today, Mark Millar expects that his "biggest news ever" will be released, "late today". Whether that's Greenwich Mean Time or Pacific Seaboard Time, I

SpellWatch: From the recent X-Men #1; DoctorWatch: It was a pig to film. The shooting angles were all wrong. There were too many reflective surfaces. And

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund have unanimously appointed Larry Marder as their new president, taking over from the retiring Chris Powell. Larry Marder

Italian artist Giuseppe Veneziano has a new exhibition of art on display. And it does seem to be having fun with a bunch of familiar supehero icons.

So there are a bunch of fans of Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity fans who spend their days and possibly nights creating space ships that might exist in

I understand that Supergirl artist Jamal Igle is off the book. And has moved over to Birds Of Prey. Neither DC Comics nor Jamal responded to enquiries. I

I understand that we may be about to see the return of Canadian supergroup Alpha Flight appearing in an upconing Marvel comic. Maybe we'll find out just

Mark Millar has been reporting that, as part of the Glasgow Film Theatre's festival early next year, he's been asked be to be the official ambassador to a

Supergod 4 by Warren Ellis and Garrie Gastonny. Cover by Felipe Massafera. Warren's teatise on superheroes as analogues for the weapons arms races of

Apparently this third issue of David Lapham and Javier Barreno's Crossed is the sickest, most violent book that Avatar has even published. And I'd like to

KKKWatch: On sale on eBay, right now, for just $1.49 are a bunch of... white power rings. Yeah. Um.... HateWatch: Will you love Paul Levitz after the next

Aaron and Mike from A Comics Shop in Florida. are back with a run down of the week's comics, directly from their new business A Geek Easy, as it's being