Rich Johnston Archives

A couple of interesting Marvel solicitation amends. Amongst the many minor notes, we discover that Models Inc #3 will help to justify its $3.99 price with

Back in the nineties, it wasn't uncommon for creator owned comics to bust open the charts, with the emergence of Image and Legend putting out titles

It seems Elmo wasn't enough for one man. The Ricky Gervais/Elmo outtakes  from this November's Sesame Street became a bit of an classic online. "It's

Mark Millar has made no secret that his recent run of works all tie in together somehow, 1985, Fantastic Four, Wolverine and Kick Ass. But how exactly?

"I'm not wearing that" This is the story of the 22nd Phantom, starring Ryan Carnes, written by one of the Carnivale fellows and one more attempt to try

Dennis O'Neil has a long history in the comics industry as both a writer and editor. He's best known for writing Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman,

At the Brand Licensing Exhibition in London today, the Iron Man 2, Avengers and Thor movies were being promoted to potential licensees. Marvel didn't have

Two books come out today and I thought it was worth reviewing them. Together. One is Mickey Mouse & Friends, the first issue to be licensed and

Thanks to Eddie Campbell for today's blog title. He recently had a go at James Robinson's recent tweets on Alan Moore's work and attitude and takes apart

The new Marvel title S.W.O.R.D. #1 by Kieran Gillen and Steven Sanders has been solicited without any details of the backup strip that will be appearing

Tom Root, co-producer and co-head writer of the successful Robot Chicken series for Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network is writing comics.... and it's

CB Cebulski is Marvel's full time Talent Manager these days. With a history of writing and publishing comics for himself, through Image and talking the

Primeval was the Doctor Who challenger from British commercial station ITV, featuring a bunch of dinosaur hunters and scientists tracking down creatures

018 Story-strips.  It made more sense to me than a lot of other replacement terms for comics.  It reminded me of the early childhood where the British

Remember the Warner shareholder who talked about Warner dumping their magazine publishing operations? One Time Warner official told one news source that

I was asked to write a foreword to the upcoming first volume of Superfogeys, by Brock Heasley, the online strip about superheroes in a care home. Here you

Lying In The Gutters, the Monday runaround of the week on Bleeding Cool with one or new stories to boot. To sign up to the Lying In The Gutters mailing

Mark Millar has had an idea. And he's talking about it to Joe Quesada today. Whatever it is he's decided to "move the artist on my next creator-owned gig

I’ve been looking at First Person Shooter games lately, and thinking about the stories and characters the makers script behind them. At the end of the

Today is Yeti DNA Monday. And to celebrate, some Yeti-ish creatures familiar to comics readers. Walter Langowski - The Sasquatch. A Canadian scientist

Simon Pegg recently twittered; The Boys rocks. Think I'm a little old to play Hughie though. There has been talk of a movie for some time. Would be fun.

Gordon Crawford is the managing director of The Capital Group, who own 8% of Time Warner. In an address to the University of Southern California's

The sudden cancellation of the football comic strip in The Sun newspaper has caused various ructions, with the paper being forced to announce Artist and

Last night, the SPX hosted the 2009 Ignatz Awards, celebrating independent comics, with Jordan Crane nabbing two for the superb Uptight comic. But what's

It was Power Girl that did it. But what's wrong with that? Amanda Conner has been working in the comics industry for an age. I first read her work in the

SPX, the Small Press Expo, the largest indie comics convention in the world, opens its doors today in Bethsada, Maryland. And local boy Rafer Roberts of

As just mentioned, the third DC Conspiracy anthology, The Spoils Of Crime, debuts at SPX today. Here's a brief look at the stories available... And they

Debuting at SPX today, Woman Of Action is basically a Black Widow-ish story with the copyrights filed off, smooshed with the British action spy genre and

Last month, Bleeding Cool reported that Dabel Brothers Productions was in debt to Lynx Studios to the tune of $27,000. I've also recently been informed

Earlier this year, Dan DiDio said that, after having so much fun writing Metal Men in Wednesday Comics, he'd be writing a new monthly comic book later