Rich Johnston Archives

A few weeks ago, after Alex De Campi and Jimmy Broxton/James Hodgkins fell out over one of the more successful Kickstarter comics projects, Ashes, Alex

WatchWatch: Aaron Sowd wants in on this Before Watchmen thing going down. NonExclusiveWatch: Will Fred Van Lente be working for DC now that he is no

You're walking through a shopping mall in Seoul. You come across this piece of corporate art. You realise that it's the Hulk having a rather difficult

Diamond Comic Distributors is launching a new award, for comic book stores, to be presented at the Diamond Retailer Summit before C2E2. The Best Practices

As well as talking about the early movie steps to Brendon, Nonplayer creator Nate Simpson also told the Bleeding Cool forum people about the status of

This month sees DC Vertigo launch four new comics, Fairest, Saucer Country, The Deadwardians and Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child, in something that no one

Bleeding Cool's Grace Randoph and Newsarama's Alan Kistler discuss the comic industry's week of news in this Between The Pages edition of Think About The

From X-Men Legacy out last week... and from Suicide Squad out the week before.. makes for an entertaining mirror image on the comic shelf.   Of

The Uploaders are a series of sketch comedy videos online, and their current location of choice is the comic shop. Illusive Comics & Games,

Amid all the Before Watchmen hype, the appointment of Jae Lee as the artist on the Ozymandias series is an interesting development, if only because for

Is it Spider-Man? Or has Iron Man just got a fancy new paint job? This is the costume he'll be wearing in the upcoming Ends Of The Earth storyline, as the

We told you this morning that DC would have the highest unit share of sales in January, and Marvel would have the highest dollar share. We also said that

Here are the comics shipping to stores for sale next Wednesday, and a preliminary look at what you might expect in stores the week after that. Dark Horse

On Sunday, Marvel are launching a new digital comic book that works as a prelude to the upcoming Avengers movie,  Marvel’s The Avengers Prelude: Fury’s

Comics and graffiti artist David Choe, who was inspired by the likes of Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee and Todd McFarlane, is about to become richer than all of

The Diamond Comic Distributor statistics for January will be released soon, and you can expect some kind of update then. But Bleeding Cool can tell you

This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I

  Remember it's for your kids. Not for cubicle fights. Honest. Great news for fans of the classic Nerf Big Bad Bow, Marvel's Avengers and general

  Can you make the above out? Hard I know. You might need to clicky for biggy. But if you really want a better look at this design by Ilias Kyriazis,

When reporting early rumours about Before Watchmen, almost every name I was given turned out to be true - Darwyn Cooke, Brian Azzarello, JMS, Amanda

I've just come back from the rather convivial launch party for Dotter Of Her Father's Eyes, by Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot, published by Dark Horse and

This article was published at Bleeding Cool at the beginning of December last year, under the title The Ethics Of Watchmen 2. Due to popular request, it

The new issue of Out magazine, the biggest voice of gay culture, lifestyle and politics in the USA, is running an article on a certain Teen Titan.  Scott

This summer, retailers will be ordering X-Men Vs Avengers and Before Watchmen simultaneously. Marvel are introducing discounts to those who order large

Spider-Man: Ends Of The Earth is the storyline that writer Dan Slott says he's been building up to, with Doctor Octopus and the Sinister Six launching

You pick up the Action Comics #6 Combo edition. You open the bag, you wait the appropriate amount of time, you flip to the DC Download Code page and...

  Chris Weston's work has often been compared to that of Brian Bolland. The detail, the hard blacks, the feathering, the desire to portray as much as

Yesterday, from Dark Horse Comics, came the eighth issue of Dark Horse Presents. Now over the years, that series has seen the birth of the likes of

As well as Before Watchmen, DC continue to tease their June comics with writer Gregg Hurwitz taking over from Paul Jenkins as writer on Batman: The Dark

The cover to issue 8 of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Nine caused considerable stir. And we still don't exactly know how that's going to play out,