Rich Johnston Archives

This is Shadow, a ninja who patrols the streets of his home town to make it a safer place to live. And it's not a comic. He's a Real Life Superhero in

Yeah, you know I don't just read comics in public, I film them being opened with a running commentary on a public bus. But for some people there's still a

KirbyWatch: Yesterday, DC reported that it would have been Jack Kirby's 94th birthday. Actually it's today. The piece appears to have been removed. No

The cover to the first Danger Academy, out in December 2011 from Kickstart Entertainment, as seen at the Birmingham Comics Con today. The Gloom, also by

It seems to have been made clar that DC Comics aren't that interested in Brian Wood any more. DMZ ending, Northlanders cancelled with no replacement

Obviously there are spoilers, what are you thinking? Seriously? 1. A Bit Of A Corny Beginning Ooh, I haven't done this for a while. How does it go again?

Spinning out of San Diego Comic Con bar gossip a few weeks ago, Bleeding Cool heard the word that James Robinson and Nicola Scott were collaborating on a

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool mentioned the Deadpool/X-Force book that Rob Liefeld is drawing. And the mention that Killraven by Liefeld and Kirkman for Marvel

Comix Kiss Comix is an popular erotic Spanish comic. Or, at least, it was. After 20 years and 239 copies, the comic has been cancelled, as sales have

Here's a preview of the first issue of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9, by Joss Whedon, Andrew Champness and Georges Jeanty, out September 14th.

Joe Michael Straczynski has posted on Facebook his response to the reportage of Thursday night's Team Spirit panel at Fan Expo Toronto. And the words of a

Lesbian lizards. Lactating Sontarans. Headless monks. Ganger babies. Time Lord cots. Time to refresh yourself before tonight's new episode of Doctor Who

From the Fear Itself panel held at Fan Expo Canada last night, come the following bullet points; The Fearless mini-series will focus on Valkyrie and Sin

SuperWatch: DC continuing to make the press. NY Daily News now. His adoptive parents, Ma and Pa Kent, are both dead and his long-running romance and

Jim Shooter is telling his history of his life in comics on his blog. He's just got to 1984, when Warners, apparently, asked if Marvel would be interested

So Rob Liefeld is drawing Hawk And Dove. He's also drawing The Infinite. But that's not enough for this boy though... he tweets; For the record, I'm in

Jeff Lemire had a spotlight panel at Fan Expo Canada. At which we learned; Sweet Tooth will probably end at around issue 50 His Atom back ups in Adventure

So the industry has reacted to reporting of the Team Spirit panel last night at the Fan Expo in Canada. In which Marko Djurdjevic is portrayed as, well,

IDW published Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 this week, created wuth Kevin Eastman. And it's a hit. Except in Britain where it doesn't exist. IDW only

We've seen a lovely stack of Marvel trade paperbacks and hardcovers lined up for 2012.But what about DC? Well, there's a big hardcover 300 page collection

Midtown Comics has sent out an alert that, due to the arrival of Hurrican Irene along the East Coast, that it will be closing its New York stores from

You know those pens with a picture of a lady on the side wearing a black dress - that when you turned upside down, the ink would run away and the dress

As expected, Marvel will be ramping up products to appeal to people seeing the Avengers movie. These include Road To The Avengers made up of movie

This is a Facebook entry by Marko Djurdjevic from over two weeks ago with the accompanying photo. 5 years and it's finally over. 2 months ago I turned in

It was the Marvel "Team Spirit" panel at the Fan Expo convention in Canada last night. Never has a panel been less well named. According to a great panel

Marvel gave CBR some rather nice images from the upcoming Fantastic Four Season One OGN hardcover by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and David Marquez. Sadly,

This is the cover to Uncanny X-Men #1 as promoted by Marvel, full of silhouettes. Pretty familiar to us know, what with the quandriptych image that we

I loved watching Brian Azzarello being interviewed about his upcoming run on Wonder Woman for Comic Book Syndicate. There's a mixture of him not really

Next week sees the publication of Flashpoint #5, the last DC comic before the relaunch. And I've managed to get my hands on the script. There's a lot

The solicitation: THE SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER-VILLAINS Written by GERRY CONWAY, PAUL LEVITZ and others; Art by Various; Cover by RICH BUCKLER and JACK