Rich Johnston Archives

Some people, including Bleeding Cool, made note of the racebending of bad guy media mogul Morgan Edge in the new Superman comic, switching from a white

Bleeding Cool have run a number of articles on the Mattel DC Universe Infinite Earths Action Figure subscription club, the fan-led attempt for more

John Byrne writes; As sometimes happens when a story idea percolates for a long time -- too long? -- my plans for NEXT MEN: AFTERMATH have hit a

Mexican comics news blog La Covacha confirmed a couple of days ago that Senior VP Talent, C.B. Cebulski, would visit Mexico in November in search of local

Let's join some dots. Purely speculation. Nothing more, let's make that clear. No inside sources. Just reading between the lines. Exactly. Mark Millar has

IndiaWatch: Comic Con Express does good business in Mumbai. Saturday saw the return of Adventures of Timpa by Indraajal comics, narrating the escapades of

"How did you know? How did you know? I didn't know. How did you know?" That was the phone call I got at 3 o'clock in the morning my time, 10 in the

As the Marvelcution hits one side of the business, with more jobs feared to be hit shortly, so Marvel begin advertising on Facebook the upcoming Intern

"I'd like to see an adult comic that didn't predominately feature huge tits, spilled intestines, or the sort of brain-damaged, acid-casualty gibbering

Here's one from the Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LHUrSIyT4A And one from Legend Comics in Omaha

I'm taking the kids to see The Lion King today. 2D, obviously. They've never seen it. So, leaving things purely in the hands of Computo... This is Computo

Something he's working on...

At New York Comic Con, Marvel said that they didn't have any future Stephen King comics planned. But IDW, it seems, did. In February they'll be pubisihing

For the 25th Anniversary of the Neverwhere TV Series written by Neil Gaiman, the BBC are producing a new DVD box set. Which includes, amongst other

Sometimes all you do is have to mention its name, and lots of bits spill out. Two days ago, Bleeding Cool mentioned that Watchmen prequels at DC were back

From the Rio Comic Con, we get a look inside Legendary Comics editor Bob Schreck's bag... and thge news that their One Trick Rip Off will have 100 pages

At the New York Comic Con, Frank Miller gave a video interview to MTV Geek which they have split up into several small bite chunks. He talks about his

Iron Man 2.0's last issue was in December. Alpha Flight's last issue is in January. It was only made an ongoing series with the current issue... Here's

Last weekend, Bleeding Cool ran a piece looking at seven points addressed in Marvel's upcoming Point One oneshot. Well here are seven more. 1. Bodies that

This is the advert for Galaxy Comics in Saginaw, Michigan. It ran during the premiere of Walking Dead on his local cable station. I happen to think it's

David Lapham and Gabriel Andrade have a new series from Avatar out in January 2012. As you can tell it's about werewoves - except it's not quite. More

So what's new in January? Amulet Books seem to be publishing Explorer The Mystery Boxes, a graphic novel anthology in hardcover and softcover that seems

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz, Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar

Here is the first issue of Warlord Of Mars: Dejah Thoris #1 from Dynamite, absolutely free. Oh not quite obviously. Because before you get that, I'm going

It was listed in December. But not in January. And I've just confirmed that, yes, Marvel have cancelled Iron Man 2.0 with issue 12, currently created

In America 2012, the only mainstream publisher with an ongoing comic starring an openly gay male lead will be Archie Comics. How things have changed.

Janelle Asselin used to be a Batman editor, but she recently left to work in Disney Magazines, where she appears to be turning a whole new generation of

AuctionWatch: The "name the lead supervillain" in Mark Millar, Dave Gibbons and Matthew Vaughn's comic/movie The Secret Service charity auction has

In this time of trouble, sometimes you just need a little lift. Here's a full page from today's Daily Mirror, courtesy of Mirror editor Daniel Silver; As

The Comics Beat, CBR and Bleeding Cool have been reporting a series of dismissals at Marvel Comics, as cost-cutting becomes the big new Marvel event.