Rich Johnston Archives

Here's the Alex Ross cover to Black Terror #1, coming out from Dynamite in May. Nothing more, it's just always nice to see, don't you think?

I do not know who Dawn Richard is. I do not know what Danity Kane is. Thankfully there is Wikipedia. A MTV Reality TV show-created singing group from

James Patterson is already a graphic novelist, but is better known for his Alex Cross and Women's Murder Club crime novels. This might change when he

EllisWatch: Big happy whisky-filled birthday wishes to Bleeding Cool columnist Warren Ellis. He's known for other things than for writing his Do Anything

Four Things I Didn't Link To This Weekend But Should Have: 1. Neil Gaiman pwning Boing Boing. 2. Comics Alliance's Cerebus Valentines by Chris Murphy and

So, "Astonishing" is now to be a new kind-of line at Marvel, just as Ultimate and All Star are. This will be set in-continuity though aimed at being very

Looks like someone's thought to give Marvel, Ed Brubaker and Captain America #602 a little bit of a breather. Boom! Studios, as part of their new BoomTown

When Kevin Smith wrote for Daredevil, he killed off Karen Page and Mysterio. He does that kind of thing. Well now he's doing it to Green Hornet. In issue

Tabletop roleplaying is in a bit of an odd place at the moment.  Dungeons & Dragons, long the flagship and millstone of the hobby is now effectively

Courtesy of Cool Toy Reviews, from the Toy Fair... Kick Ass action figures. Looks like there are some of those Mallow-style figures too... In related

Coming back from an eleventh hour threat of the loss of major financing, this year’s edition of the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée promised a

Okay, buy now we've read the scandal about Captain America #602 released two weeks ago. We've scratched our heads wondering why this is still an issue.

Let Bleeding Cool share our readers on this special day. Every one of you. It's still not official-official. But we know Neal Adams is writing and drawing

Wicked Grounds, a coffee shop-cum-sex shop in San Francisco held an erotic comic book convention a couple of weeks ago. And rather a lot of fans of either

iPhoneWatch: Pocket God is the first iPod game to be adapted into a comic book, with Ape Entertainment, both digitally and in print. FilmWatch: CinemaSpy

It starts with a pun. But end with a whimper. Art And Mines is a new graphic novel by ex-soldier Glenn Fitzpatrick who fought in the Gulf War in 1991 when

You may have read a Bleeding Cool report on a brand new Spectacular Spider-Girl print comic by Tom DeFalco last weekend. Well, DeFalco seems to have made

The Glossary for Batman And Robin #7 went down so well, I thought I'd do it again for #8, as the UK-set adventure continues it's foray through accent and

Free Comic Book Day is almost upon us. And there has been some controversy - over the size of the free comic books. Last year, Marvel's comics for Free

ExclelsiorWatch: Stan Lee is being sued by legal firm Lavely & Singer for what they claim are unpaid bills stretching back to 2007. The lawsuit

I've just got back from the pub. Five pints and a few chasers, that's the way to round out a working week. Of course in America they're not even in the

It's been a long time coming since Bleeding Cool first reported the arrival of Diane Nelson at DC Comics, made President of the newly formed DC

/Film UK is reporting that the biggest cinema chains in UK are threatening to boycott Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland. Despite this expected to be a

Bleeding Cool has run a couple of pieces, The Fifty Dollar Club and The Forty Dollar Club, recording recent sales of recently published comic books that

I understand there was another weather-based comic book distribution truck accident the other day, severely injuring two truck drivers. Diamond outsource

Avi Arad will open the Anaheim Wizard World Comic Con fans on Saturday, April 17, welcoming them to the inaugural event, as well as taking part in a

The KeyBoard Is My FuckMonkey: It's been a while since I said much about comics here. Apparently -- on the grounds that this is a comics-related column,

This is the Lucio Parillo cover to Queen Sonja #8 from Dynamite. Let's start by saying that the breasts here don't seem particularly bizarre. A bit shiny,

What is it again? Dodgem Logic #2, a magazine about stuff, by Alan Moore and friends. Cost? £2.50 What's that in American money? About $4. More with

Back in the Lying In The Gutters days, I ran this swipe file, between the movie poster for Vantage Point, and a splash from Pulp Heroes by Victor Santos