Rich Johnston Archives

SuperWatch: DC continuing to make the press. NY Daily News now. His adoptive parents, Ma and Pa Kent, are both dead and his long-running romance and

Jim Shooter is telling his history of his life in comics on his blog. He's just got to 1984, when Warners, apparently, asked if Marvel would be interested

So Rob Liefeld is drawing Hawk And Dove. He's also drawing The Infinite. But that's not enough for this boy though... he tweets; For the record, I'm in

Jeff Lemire had a spotlight panel at Fan Expo Canada. At which we learned; Sweet Tooth will probably end at around issue 50 His Atom back ups in Adventure

So the industry has reacted to reporting of the Team Spirit panel last night at the Fan Expo in Canada. In which Marko Djurdjevic is portrayed as, well,

IDW published Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 this week, created wuth Kevin Eastman. And it's a hit. Except in Britain where it doesn't exist. IDW only

We've seen a lovely stack of Marvel trade paperbacks and hardcovers lined up for 2012.But what about DC? Well, there's a big hardcover 300 page collection

Midtown Comics has sent out an alert that, due to the arrival of Hurrican Irene along the East Coast, that it will be closing its New York stores from

You know those pens with a picture of a lady on the side wearing a black dress - that when you turned upside down, the ink would run away and the dress

As expected, Marvel will be ramping up products to appeal to people seeing the Avengers movie. These include Road To The Avengers made up of movie

This is a Facebook entry by Marko Djurdjevic from over two weeks ago with the accompanying photo. 5 years and it's finally over. 2 months ago I turned in

It was the Marvel "Team Spirit" panel at the Fan Expo convention in Canada last night. Never has a panel been less well named. According to a great panel

Marvel gave CBR some rather nice images from the upcoming Fantastic Four Season One OGN hardcover by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and David Marquez. Sadly,

This is the cover to Uncanny X-Men #1 as promoted by Marvel, full of silhouettes. Pretty familiar to us know, what with the quandriptych image that we

I loved watching Brian Azzarello being interviewed about his upcoming run on Wonder Woman for Comic Book Syndicate. There's a mixture of him not really

Next week sees the publication of Flashpoint #5, the last DC comic before the relaunch. And I've managed to get my hands on the script. There's a lot

The solicitation: THE SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER-VILLAINS Written by GERRY CONWAY, PAUL LEVITZ and others; Art by Various; Cover by RICH BUCKLER and JACK

ComicsInflationWatch: Von Allen finds a great comparison to make Let's get right into it. In 2010, the US Federal Minimum Wage was $7.25 per hour.

We are aware that we won't see any "events" in the DC New 52 books, in the way we understand them now that is, such as Blackest Night or Fear Itself.

I remember hanging out at the Dark Horse Comics booth in C2E2, being shown the Dark Horse Comics App, and being told how it was superior to the ComiXology

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Last Friday, Bleeding Cool gave you the news that Dynamite were to publish Flash Gordon comic books. Well today they made it all official with art, press

Bendis just did some rumour busting on John Siuntres' World Balloon. And, for once, it wasn't me. Talking about the recent Miles Morales media storm, he

One fellow called Merritt Nolan, who posts on 4chan/co, emailed Brett Booth, the new artist on Teen Titans. And got a reply. And posted it, seemingly

"In the eary 1970s, DC published several stories starring a pirate named Captain Fear. Beautifully drawn by Alex Nino, the stories were an historical

Prog 1750 is the next big jumping on point for 2000AD readers, out in the UK on the 7th September. New Judge Dredd by John Wagner and Henry Flint, John

This is Francesco Francavilla's variant cover to Archie #628 with Archie Meets Kiss Part Two. I think it's rather spectacular. I'm suddenly wondering what

David Doub writes for Bleeding Cool; First let me give you some perspective on where I am coming from in my comparisons of Wizard World Chicago and the

Justin Lin, Fast And The Furious franchise director has signed on to develop comic book The Leading Man by B Clay Moore and Jeremy Haun for Universal.

GenderWatch: Gendercrunching for the week of August 8th. DC had 11.6% female creators, while Marvel had 13.6% female creators... this is the second week