Rich Johnston Archives

This is the cover to The New Avengers #24, an Avengers Vs X-Men tie in. Is it me... or are Cyclops and Captain America going in for a kiss? Clearly

Grace Randolph runs through the expectations that tomorrow's new comics will bring, from Batman to Tarzan to Avengers to Red Sonja in today's Think About

On May the 2nd, Valiant Entertainment will launch X-O Manowar, a revamp of the Valiant/Acclaim character, from Surrogates creator and Iron Man writer

After applying to register a new logo as a trademark, DC Comics have three years to actually get round to actually using it. But I'm told they aren't

I was wondering who the next person would be to take advantage of the distribution system that Our Love Is Real pioneered, select high profile retailers

Darin Wagner writes for Bleeding Cool Some months ago, patrons of Barnes & Noble may have noticed that comic books were back. The days of comics being

Prophet #21 is published tomorrow... already sold out, if you want a copy, you may need to line up outside the store when it opens. The scalpers are

Earlier this year, Marvel hinted that David Aja would be rejoining with Matt Fraction on a special Iron Fist issue of The Defenders. That didn't happen.

Posted to Twitter by Chris Weston. After finishing The Twelve for Marvel, it looks like he's back on the Dredd.

ClawsWatch: As Mike Perkins joins Astonishing X-Men, Marvel releases a few X-sketches... BlackWatch: For Martin Luther King day, ScienceFiction.com goes

It's a bit difficult to run for the Republican candidate for President of the USA in the state of South Carolina, if your name is not on the ballot and

I've been following the story of DC Comics getting a new logo for a month or so but, as with Watchmen 2, it's only when you provide actual visuals that

Expect this to appear in a number of forms from various relatively tame media spots. The Washington Post, among others, is running a rather soft puff

Si Spurrier’s instructions: We’re going to do something a bit different here. Rather than taking an idea or golden-age character and reinventing them as a

There's a lot of comic industry excitement for Prophet #21, published from Image Comics on Wednesday, a kind of William Burrough's The Time Machine, that

No wonder the X-Men and the Avengers just can't get along. They all insist on talking at once. Also, I notice that Wolverine seems to have switched sides.

You can find a slightly more interactive version of the above Community-meets-X-Men image  over here. And, yes, of coursse the Dean would be Emma Frost.

They aren't calling it a relaunch. Because it isn't one. But the decision to launch four new titles from DC Vertigo in March does give it a slightly

I’m travelling, so in lieu of a regular column, I’m going to run something different. Below is the treatment for a movie adaptation of Arthur Machen’s

From Phil Jimenez, from an early pitch for Infinite Crisis. With quite a different story to tell...

Rob Liefeld is an acquired taste. Usually acquired around the age of ten - being confronted by a blaze of action, cool looking guns and people jumping

Now this is quite interesting. Letterer Todd Klein has created a number of prints with artists like Alex Ross and Steve Rude and writers like Neil Gaiman

Late last year, Hong Kong Phooey animator Phil Mendez talked to the new graduates of The Art Institute of California – Los Angeles during about how to

Up for auction next month, and no it's not by Rob Granito. The rarity of such pieces means the market may go apeshit for this Bill Watterson painted

Garth Ennis is writing a new The Shadow ongoing series for Dynamite for April this year, drawn by Holmes and Hornet artist Aaron Campbell, with covers by

David Hine, author of Bulletproof Coffin with Shaky Kane, has been writing about another hero of British comics, Brendan McCarthy's early work, including

From James Ward.

Kelly Roman, author of the upcoming HarperCollins graphic novel The Art Of War has a battle a little closer to home. Against against BluePearl Veterinary

There are spoilers here, for the final episode of Sherlock, which aired last night on BBC 1, The Reichenbach Fall. The series only gets shown in the US

Comic2FilmWatch: Alexander Payne looks to his future. The first, a father-son road trip called Nebraska, which he hopes to start filming in March, will