Rich Johnston Archives

The Variants is a new sitcom web series about comic shop employees, filmed at Zeus Comics in Dallas. Episode One is complete and episode two will go live

The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey I read a Super-hero comic this week. Given that I occasionally write the things for a living, that’s a less common

I'm reminded how weird it was to watch official-looking people pleading to get into the Radical Comics party at San Diego Comic Con. I walked up and heard

Over on The V Forum I've been involved in a political discussion about superhero comics. It's my contention that the superhero in essence is a right wing

After the departure of Joe Michael Straczynski and Olivier Coipel, Kieron Gillen and Billy Tan take over Thor for at least six issues. And there seems to

Comic book adaptations of movies do not have the greatest of reputations. They generally condense the movie into far less of the sum of its parts,

Paul Levitz had been talking about the state DC Comics and his role within it. But there's one piece of information that may have been missing. DC Comics

Saw Lucky Soul and The Pipettes play last night at The Lexington in Islington, London. Yes, I was basically in an issue of Phonogram for a few hours. And

Last week, Bleeding Cool told you about the new multi-coloured promotional rings, released to tie in with the Blackest Night event comic and its spin off

Tank Girl has been up against mutants, zombies, kangaroos and Macolm McDowell. But she's never faced the language police before. Well, looks like she

The third in a series of columns by “Irene Adler” for Bleeding Cool. At some point in every geek girl's life you have to face the facts: You're never

Raina Telgemeier and Dave Roman, writers of the X-Men Misfits manga from Del Rey of X-Men: Misfits held a live chat on the publisher's website. Raina:

013 Jack Kirby's move to DC, negotiated over a couple of years, was notable for several reasons.  With few exceptions, people just didn't cross town like

During the boom period of comics in the nineties, I was told a tall story about one comics publisher who used to take their company's "premium" editions

DC are putting out a second print of Blackest Night #1, the first issue of their smash hit event comic. As well as sporting an altered version of the

Filthy Rich scores so far in the Vertigo Crime imprint by lieu of actually have a crime in it. Several in fact. And the use of Junk, an injured college

Here's way to free up space at the San Diego Comic Con. Outsource. D23, otherwise known as DisneyCon is gearing up for Anaheim next month. But what's the

Avatar. The biggest, greatest, most eagerly awaited blockbuster from James Cameron. With a marketing budget that will cost almost as much as the movie

Last night's Twitter War seems to have exploded all over the place. I'm still suffering from shellshock I think. And now Garth Ennis writes for Bleeding

So while I was still thinking about the whole “Why Should We Care?” issue, I see Rich has echoed my feelings about DARK ENTRIES, Ian Rankin’s HELLBLAZER

This seems like as good a time as any to acknowledge a rather large debt. A creative one, to be precise. To what you might call a kind of

Apropos of nothing, at a little before 2am in the UK, Gail Simone posted on Twitter "Here is my serious question to everyone who reads or makes comics. Do

The movie 28 Days Later was instrumental in a number of ways. It gave us a harsh Christopher Eccleston, shots of an empty London we've never seen before,

Sketch cards are placed in trading card boxes, as rare collectibles, small pieces of original art that often can become very collectable. Such as this

Looking for a funky, yet cheap way to display your Green Lantern promotional chunky plastic rings in an attractive, even classy fashion? May I suggest

Yesterday was Avatar Day apparently. I wouldn't know, I took the kids to the supermarket. But Bleeding Cool occasional audio/video contributor and

Nick Lowe is an editor at Marvel Comics. Who seems to have a penchant for leaving Post It Notes everywhere. To the extent that his co-workers felt that

Dark Entries by Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera is the first of a new line of hardcover digest-sized crime graphic novels from DC Vertigo/Titan Books in

Steve Perry, writer for the Thundercats TV series and comic, Time Spirits and Silverhawks is a man in need. Currently suffering from terminal cancer, with

Is Logan a Wolverine... or should he be called Newt instead? This amphibian sticks its sharp bones out through its skin to attack predators. Snikt, baby,