Rich Johnston Archives

Tommorrow, the final episode of the extraordinarily good superhero TV show Misfits airs at 10pm on E4. Seriously, the time travel episode is still the

Yesterday, a mysterious site calling itself the Centre for the Study of Supernatural Study (CenSSA) launched. Little is meant to be known about the site

HeManWatch: Thanks to Welcome Friend Or Foe for these; AmazonWatch: Superman Earth One makes an appearance on Amazon with a release date of September 7th,

Did you know that the new Sherlock Holmes movie directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law was based on a graphic novel? No, it

It was a grand dream. A marrying of Indian and American comics industry, with muklti-media crossover expansion and a litany of Hollywood names attached.

Bleeding Cool recently ran a piece covering the death of comic book podcaster Eric Martin last month. His brother Mike Martin has set up a donation fund

Yesterday I ran a piece on Bleeding Cool over the artwork used over the British Comedy Awards. Only to discover that one of the creators was an occasional

024 Down into the streets, the creases of Jack "King" Kirby's face, trapped by what could easily be the canyons of New York city avenues, the grey

MisneyWatch: Okay, not sure what Marvel or Disney will make of the $15.99 copyright/trademark-busting print but still, ain't that pretty? Pretty satire.

This was the week that; Dynamite paid off Dabel debt. Scott Kurtz and Neal Adams teaming up for PVP with video. Valerie D'Orazio writes Punisher MAX. Oh

BrainFart: Crazy urban troubleshooting this week... Problem: How do you stop crowds of listless hoodie-wearing juvenile scallywanks from hanging about in

Well, it's possible the people who posed for these posters could have been nude. No evidence they weren't. And that's good enough for me. Twenty-one

Oh please make this happen. Bleeding Cool writer Alex DeCampi (and animation director) suggested on Twitter that this manner of animation would suit a

There’s something more common in manga than in American comics: the desire to impart knowledge.  Sure, comics are primarily a vehicle for escapism, and

There's a new series of online gambling games licensed worldwide from DC by Irish company CryptoLogic. As their website says; It's a bird! It's a plane!

Three days to Valentine going on sale, and I've spent most of my time in the last week dealing with this music video edit. This is where we'll be on

MillarWatch: Saturday's Scotsman's magazine profiled Mark Millar this weekend. Nothing particularly new, shocking or concerning his ongoing battle with

GreekWatch: The LA Times sees the Vertigo title Greek Street as part of a resurgence of Greek legends in current entertainment tropes. There were

Katee Sackhoff is writing a new comic book, with writer/producer Sxv'Leithan Essex to debut at the San Diego Comic Con. Entitled Versus, she tells TV

Bryan Hitch has been asking Millarworld what they think he should do next. And has been giving a few hints in the process. On a Joss Whedon/Bryan Hitch

CultureWatch: Jon Scieszka, the USA National Ambassador of Young People's Literature writes in the LA Times, extolling the quality and success of modern

Avatar is an incredibly unsubtle film. It's politics are that of an earnest seventeen year old who has just read up on Manifest Destiny. The dialogue is

Hidden beneath the fold of the Free Comic Book Day 2010 announcements was that Ape Entertainment has signed a deal to publish Dreamwork licensed Shrek and

All the Borders bookstores in Britain are shutting their doors and covering their windows in signs for their closing down sale (with prices still more

It appears that a combination of Ewoks and salad killed David Lynch's Return of The Jedi. I don't know about you but I reckon that's probably a good

Underground Heroes is an art project arranged for London Underground's Art On the Underground continuing project. in this case, artist David Blandy and a

MillerWatch: Talking about burying your lead. According to IGN, Frank Miller is no longer attached to any ongoing Buck Rogers movie treatment.

Three years after she hit the comic industry headlines with her essay Goodbye To Comics (and burnt all her remaining bridges at DC Comics instantly)

Heidi MacDonald links to a story in the Pocono Record, detailing the arrest of Alfonso Frank Frazetta, Frank Frazetta's son, caught breaking in to the

So this is the way things are then are they? DC post something on the Source blog, all the other blogs repeat it, link to it and be a bit sarcastic about