Rich Johnston Archives

The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Let's talk Plotting. I know: the wits'n'wags out there are already festering-up (or at least anticipating) a bad joke about

Did you know that the Comic Book Resources people own the dcuniverse.net domain name? I wonder what they're going to do with that... --- According to

I do like it when comics do the kind of things that only comics can do. The time aspect of Manhattan in Watchmen was far more powerful in the comic when

There's something about Power Girl by Amanda Conner that I find intensely appealing. And no, it's not just the obvious, it's that I can't shake the

Alan Davis is a legend in comics for a reason. His work is epic, clean, bold, full of great storytelling and enough pizzazz and showmanship to dazzle and

Todd McFarlane's unfinished pencil and ink double page spread from an upcoming issue of Spawn. His solo artistic involvement in the issue will be a

I’d like to welcome everyone back to The History of the Modern Comic Book - a column that (roughly) parallels my class (of the same name) which I’m

Where The Pitt worked best was in the contrast between it's two protagonists, the cheeky psychic Timmy and his half brother the hulking humourless Pitt.

Chris Weston has been talking about his storyboarding and concept art working on the upcoming Denzel Washington vehicle The Book Of Eli, and how it

Bleeding Cool ran a preview of this issue, earlier this week. The series has been set in and around a superhero team which have made an effect on history,

Lets be frank, I'm not here for the hack and the slash. It would be easy to criticise the fight scenes as being, well, fight scenes, they're not

Can I really create another article just from twitter feeds? Apparently, yes, I can. Rob Liefeld has been tellin the troops; Walking into Deadpool movie

Last night, Bleeding Cool put together a report from the Las Vegas Sun on an arrest over illegal drug dealing with the identity of Yaoi Press publisher,

Yamila Abraham is the publisher of Yaoi Press since 2004, who put out a number of yaoi and hentai maga comic books for the English speaking market,

Notice. No use of the Twilight logo. The font, yes. The logo, no. A lawyer might try it on, but Bluewater Productions have taken a lot of care with this

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool reported on the closure of the Beanoland theme park at Chessington World Of Adventures. Based on the British weekly comic

James Robinson, who in a past life wrote the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen screenplayand is a close friend of Blackest Night writer Geoff Johns,

Staz Johnson was recently mentioned as the artist on the nippletassletastic Agent Provocateur comic books. But he's been turning his hand to something

Two images by Steve Bissette from this weekend's SPX-launching 4 Square: Dark Corners, available at the IKJK table (area F). It's a ten inch by ten inch

Did anyone else seeing Magog's mother Alba, designed by Howard Porter, on the DC blog The Source get a sudden flash to Queen Amidala from Star Wars: The

017 It's right there on the cover of Jack Kirby's 1980s miniseries SILVER STAR, a comics version of a screenplay he wrote and never sold in the 1970s: "A

Beneath A Steel Sky is a fondly remembered game from the nineties, that featured copious amounts of Dave Gibbons artwork and designs, and a merging of the

Does clothes maketh the man? What's in a suit? This summer, DC Comics sought to answer these questions with a suit of its own. A lawsuit against Jonny

Are you a British comic buyer? Are you a Marvel fan? Are you expecting to go into your shop this Thursday and pick up any of the following - Avengers

Newsarama and CBR both have different sets of December Marvel Previews to fawn over, but they'll all be missing some until midnight ET. So until then,

Friend of Bleeding Cool, Brendon Connelly, has been flown out to the West Coast to talk Slashfilmy stuff. First up, he's been asking Lauren Shuler Donner

For those of you who would like to subscribe to the Lying In The Gutters weekly email from Bleeding Cool (basically just this weekly column with an

Kurt Amacker has continued his interview with Alan Moore at Mania. While recapping his opinions, over how he negatively influenced his superhero genre as

I guess by now everyone who reads comics regularly must be pretty tired of Big Event Crossovers, especially since Marvel and DC won’t stop foisting them

The last issue of No Hero had one of those endings that is hard to forget, even if you were to hit your brain with mind hammers. It also seemed to be a