Rich Johnston Archives

Thanks to Very Fine Near Mint for this gem. Brothers fighting over their video of a longbox of their favourite collectible comics back in 1991. I kind of

"Imagine a hundred thousand unwashed comic books fans in costume shoehorned into a musty convention centre that smells like ass and corn chips all waitig

Kevin Maguire: I'm sitting here working at Starbucks and all I can see is ass. Oberon and Booster also seem to be a little taken aback too...

Another week, another issue one sellout at Image Comics from a book that had a generous overprint. Moriarty by Daniel Corey and Anthony Diecidue, the tale

The Ghost Key from Locke & Key on the left from IDW in 2008, Hellraiser from Boom in 2011... In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble

Smallville had its series finale on Friday, after ten years on the box. And it continued to play the teasing game ith the audience over what Superman

HammerWatch: Don't tell your dad, kid. Just don't. CoverWatch: Selling all the covers to Godzilla #1. QuoteWatch: Who said what... Shakespeare or Batman?

'Nuff said, I think?

Dave Gibbons: Much applause in the bar for Doctor Who! Jamie McKelvie: So the next episode is written by Neil Gaiman too, right? Right? Paul Cornell:

Greg Capullo is continuing to prepare for his Batman run... But without ignoring his commitments to Image title Haunt. Here are the two pencilled pages

Automobile brand Acura has been using the fictional Marvel espionage organisation SHIELD to promote its current range of cars, with the Thor movie.

The publication of the Bosnian-based comic publisher PrintMedia's preview of Strip Magazine has had its debut at the Bristol International Comic Expo

NoPornWatch: Star Trek XXX without the XXX. http://vimeo.com/23658542 ToyWatch: Geoff Beckett of Shocker Toys gets painted as a deadbeat. Again. This time

For years we knew the rules. A solicitation for a comic book that was 32 pages long, meant 22 pages of story, the rest taken up by advertising, editorial,

Not too long ago, Checker Publishing, publishers of Supreme, Steve Canyon and Star Trek graphic noveks fell out with Diamond Comic Distribution and

It's very exciting. Tomorrow, we get to see Neil Gaiman's episode of Doctor Who, The Doctor's Wife, set on a junkyard asteroid. Looking like this. Now, in

It's Friday. It;s the end of the week. It's time for a bunch of odd looking people from Action Games & Comics to sit around a table and review comics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhgzvLKA-ys Are you still breathing? That's right, it's the good people at Upper Deck cutting up Silver Age comic book to

Kate Kotler writes for Bleeding Cool Part one of four in a series examining the early and current work of four popular comic book creators. One of the

Back in March, Bleeding Cool exclusively ran a number of the I Am Captain America variant covers that have just been officially announced for books in

Well, that's one way to reduce your market share. DC Comics has announced that on August the 31st they plan to publish only one comic book, Flashpoint #5,

A Little Bleeder remembers asking Mark Waid on a convention panel, back when he was Editor-in-Chief of Boom! Studios,  if Irredeemable would ever go into

John McCrea is probably best known in comics for his work with Garth Ennis on books such as Demon, Hitman, Dicks and The Boys. But he's also done a number

Dale Lazarov writes for Bleeding Cool; The Pride is a six issue comic mini-series about a superhero team who form to show the world they are not a joke --

All Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely is a wondorous thing. But the big collection, Absolute All Star Superman can be a bit hefty -  and

Ignacio Alcuri from Montevideo, Uruguay sent in the following take on that final page scene from Flashpoint #1. Which inspired me to do a couple more

Courtesy of Marvel Comics look at pencils by Matthew Clark for Ghost Rider #1, a Fear Itself crossover... Finished art from Ghost Rider #0.1 Inks from

JobWatch: Who'd work for DC? Currently there are openings in Burbank for Senior Coordinator for DC Direct (Working with Japanese importers) a Director for

So there was some fuss about Idris Elba being cast as Heimdall in Thor, over the colour of his skin. Now I didn't see the problem with this, per se, and

Were you mind boggingly blown away by the big bold spoiler ending to  Flashpoint #1? No, me neither, but some people were, it seems. I thought it was a