Rich Johnston Archives

Okay, so, this is his big news. Warren Ellis has signed a two book deal with Mulholland Books. The first is a thriller novel called Gun Machine for next

DC have been rolling out July solicitations for their Retroactive comics line, featuring new stories written by creators known for their work in a

We touched ion this story, reporting from Wondercon. As well as Stacy-X and Holocaust there seem to be a few more members of Vengeance... whatever that

This is the cover to the Kapow Convention Booklet, the artwork the result of a competition organised last year, revealed at the show and credited to one

Two topics caught my attention this past week, so I’m going to try to talk about them both in a kind of Double Feature. YAKUZA ON THE MOVE Kitano’s

So, as we reported yesterday, Robert Sheehan is now a superstar, so Nathan is leaving superpowered comedy drama Misfits before the third series starts, to

Some readers have been curious as to just how the current Ultimate arc, The Death Of Spider-Man will, in anyway, involve, well, the death of Spider-Man as

As the Green Lantern livery was pulled down, the convention body still warm, this was the end of Kapow! on Sunday late afternoon. My patriotic stall was

Phill Hall used to be the News editor for Comics International before launching the PDF comics magazine Borderline before abandoning comics altogether.

Thanks to Pocketful Of Geek for what they call "a rather loose reinterpretation" of the plot to Batman Begins, "as found in a Chinese dollar store."

Marvel artist David LaFuente will be taking over art duties on an upcoming New Mutants arc, a Fear Itself tie in. The book will focus on Dani Moonstar in

Bleeding Cool has been sporadically following the development of Lot 13 by Steve Niles and Glenn Fabry, a horrific  tale of the undead. Yesterday, at

Losers creators Andy Diggle and Jock announced a new creator owned series about a hitman called Snapshot at Kapow. It will appear first in the Judge Dredd

Two new Millarworld books announced at Millarworld, a Hit Girl series from Mark Millar and Leandro Fernandez, and Supercrooks by Mark Millar and Leinil Yu

Jock, with Frank Quitely's cucumber there. So, London is having a bit of a San Diegan heat wave. What better time to hold a mini-San Diego Comic Con than

CB Cebulski may have been absent for Pint O'CB, but Nick Lowe, Steve Wacker, Rob Williams and Nick Spencer jumped in. And Joseph Glass told Bleeding Cool;

Titan, Forbidden Planet and Kapow's Nick Landau interviewed Mark Millar and Stewart Lee - the rest of the panellists not making it, Frankie Boyle named as

This is the TARDIS in the middle of the Kapow show floor See that sticker? Let's get a closer look. Blimey. Well, we know how he got here. but how did he

So here's another story ripped from the floor of Kapow. Nick Spencer and Emma Rios, new Marvel superstars, are taking over a couple of my own favourite

ConWatch: I'm off to Kapow this morning. But it's not the only comics thing happening this week, Eisner-nominated Heidi MacDonald has plenty of coverage

Brendon to add context and analysis when he gets back from wherever he is, but for now, the Sci-Fi-London Festival programming for later this month, has

So this is the home of Kapow, the comic convention brought to you by Titan, Mark Millar and Brightstar Events. It's easy to spot, just turn right out of

Right now, DC are probably feeling like Mad Hatters. The new Diamond statistics for comics distributed to the North American direct market of comic shops

Here's an image that's been doing the rounds, a clipped panel from a recent issue of Green Lantern, labelled Guy Gardner And The Frost Giants. Will it

Well, it seems like everything anyway. We know that Butcher Baker #1 is getting a second print, with the second issue racing around the corner. Now we

It all began with a question and answer session that long time Transformers comic book writer Simon Furman did on his blog and the IDW forums. He wrote "I

DoctorWatch: Josh Adams draws the Doctor. JargonWatch: enVista®, a leading enterprise and supply chain consulting services firm, is partnering with client

All approaches to Rob Granito, his wife Alison Granito and his agent Alison G (look, let's keep the pretence they are seperate people to as to appease

I'll be honest, it missed me the first time my eyes went passed it. But here, blown up nice and large, is Paulo Rivera's cover to Daredevil #1 in July.

What happens when I take a break to play a little Goldeneye of an evening? They announce the Eisner nominations for 2011. This was the year for Archaia's