Rich Johnston Archives

As we mentioned before the London French Institute in South Kensington is having a bit of a comics thing happening in October from the 7th to the 9th.

There will be spoilers for New Avengers Annual #2 published this week, including a reproduction of the final page. You have been warned. This week's

Oh, we see what's happening here. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are competing to get mentioned on blogs such as this for some passing reference to geek

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; I’ll be doing the women in comics stats for DC and Marvel like always this month, but since the DC relaunch is sort

We knew it was Magneto and Cyclops. You knew it was Magneto and Cyclops. Now Marvel let us know that, yes, Magneto and Cyclops is indeed in Uncanny X-Men

AppDelights: David Steinberger of ComiXology has a good day It must be acknowledged that TWO comics apps are in the Top Ten Grossing iPad Apps now.

So Bleeding Cool has been noting and looking out for appearances of The Strange Woman who first appeared in Flashpoint #5, through the new DC relaunch

HarlemWatch: New York Daily News on the Harlemisation of Static Shock. Though neither Rozum or the book's co-writer and artist, Scott McDaniel, live in

Thanks to CNet's article on the future of DC and digital comics, here are four pages from Mister Terrific #1, by Eric Wallace and Gianluca Gugliotta, with

Kate Kotler writes for Bleeding Cool; Joan Hilty worked for DC Comics as an editor for 15 years. “I worked in every corner of DC's editorial universe. I'm

Dave Hoover, best known for his work on Starman and The Wanderers for DC, and Captain America has passed away. Of late he had reinvented himself as a

Today, Scott Snyder and Yanick Paquette's Swamp Thing #1 is in stores. It's not the only Swamp Thing relaunch out there. And I don't mean the China

It's that time of the year when Top Shelf Comix decides that what they really really want is some money. Lots of it. Now please. And that's when they let

Tonight, in a central London branch of bookchain Waterstones, Jonathan Ross and Tommy Lee Edwards have been holding court to coincide with the release of

So I've had a few chats with a few people discussing why they weren't planning to buy Detective Comics #1 today. And I understand them, they talk about

Batgirl #1 is currently in an eBay auction for $16 with 6 hours to go. I can't help but think that the imminent arrival of thousand of copies bought by

Here are all thirteen appearances of The Strange Woman Of Flashpoint, appearing in all the DC Universe titles shipping this week. From Batgirl #1. From

Last year, Frank Cho regained the full rights to Liberty Meadows after Sony finally passed on its option. We were told that Liberty Meadows would return.

Stephen Colbert on the effect of spoilers on people last night, in The Word. "According the reseachers the plot is almost irreleveant and once you know

Adding to the gold teams in X-Men Regenesis comes Psylocke (also on the blue team in X-Men, the saucy wench), Quentin Quire (okay, didn't see that

Applause to the cover department of Marvel who decided to make the cover to this week's issue of Thunderbolts... a little similar in tone to certain

LifeOnMarsWatch: Steve Pugh paints Gene Hunt (right) RelaunchWatch: Something that was nice, but not reflected in the video last night at Orbital was,

Tonight Orbital Comics and twelve other stores in the British Isles opened their doors at midnight to sell the DC New 52 launch comics. Orbital had

Due to the print run of Justice League #1 Second Print being set before orders were due, DC received more orders than they had printed copies for, and had

Thank you Orbital Comics for your midnight opening. The only shop in London to bite the bullet, selling DC's thirteen New 52 titles at midnight. There

Let the boys speak... Aaron and Jason from A Comic Shop in Florida talk about the relaunch and more... Top Books ACTION COMICS #1 GRANT MORRISON! I know

It appears that the DC logo that will appear on each of the New DCU boks differs slightly, depending which segment of DC titles it represents. So we have

This is the "dress" for the new Season One original graphic novels from Marvel for 2012 tht have nothing whatsover to do with DC's Earth One line of

St Louis Today reports that a mentally disabled man working for McDonalds and living in Granite City, Missouri, with his two dogs Kyrpto and Dyno, has had

Bleeding Cool has learned that before Our Love Is Real moves to Image Comics, Sam Humphries and Steve Sanders are creating one final secret fourth