Rich Johnston Archives

It has a black logo instead of a blue one. And the signature of Jonathan Hickman in silver ink on the cover. And no external sign on the bag. This is the

Paul Stephen Rafferty writes; Alistair Robb is the writer, tho it's plotted by Bryan Talbot, he was pitching it to Vertigo, but now it's being considered

A copy of Batman: Vengeance Of Bane, the first appearance of the character now confirmed to be appearing in the new Batman movie, the Dark Knight Rises.

I met this friendly pair in Orbital Comics picking up my Fantastic Four #537 earlier today. They'd been to the Batman Live! auditions earlier, auditioning

Diamond Comics Distribution are on a mission to catch comics retailers selling comics too early. With a crack squad of elderly women posying as comic book

Warning. Clicking any of these links provide spoilers for Fantastic Four #587. So, how was it for you? Did you wake up in the morning UK-time or were you

Welcome to Aaron and Tri-Force Mike from A Comic Shop in Florida, battling I tell you, battling with the hordes of Fantastic Four fans and Glenn Beck and

From the London Toy Fair, taken under maximum security conditions, a first look at the new Thundercats cartoon... SECOND UPDATE: Second image added to the

He wrote some of the best selling issues of X-Men, ever, under group editor Bob Harras. They sold seven figures, some of them. These days they don't even

Okay, here be spoilers. Well tech blogs do this kind of thing with phones, and computers and things don't they? I thought it might be fun to do the same

I understand that in the Flashpoint universe being set up in the upcoming crossover, the Green Lantern title will be renamed and renumbered as Abin Sur

Thomas Tull's Legendary Pictures have completed a "strategic deal". And Joe Roth (ex-Chairman of Fox and Disney) of Revolution Studios and Mike Slate

Karl at Orbital Comics in London, holding the death issue, while supressing a tear. The one thing I wasn’t expecting about the death issue of the

SpawnWatch: From Spawn #201 SecretWatch: See, lamestream media? The Edmonton Journal doesn't feel the need to spoil Fantastic Four. And Comics Alliance

The Associated Press may have told the collective media who dies in Fantastic Four #587 today, but Bleeding Cool is not going to. Not directly at least.

Looking Backwards and Forwards, Simultaneously By Mark Allen Haverty, CrucialTaunt.com To say that this has been a difficult day would be to put it

So that was a big day today. The world's first review of Paul and the comics that go into it. Breaking the Wizard story and forcing the company to go

Brendon and I are just out of seeing PAUL at the Odeon on Leicester Square. He's busily tapping out a very considered review of the intracacies of the

So NBC has picked up David E. Kelly’s new WONDER WOMAN show.  Of course the ‘Toons will have something to say about it… Tie me up with a magic lasso at

Now this is an end of an era. I am receiving multiple confirmations from across the industry, through none yet from Wizard's higher ups and PR people yet,

Keith Davidsen writes for Bleeding Cool. For over twenty years, writer/artist Mike Wolfer has been terrifying comic fans with work on such horror titles

Yes of course the status quo will be reverted to at some point. Yes, it will probably be after the end of a twelve issue run of FF which will then be

It's not often that copies of Superman #1, #2 and #3 come onto the market. It's even less often that they come on all at once. Well, All About Books And

English horror writer China Miéville, who had five issues of a new Swamp Thing series (featuring embedded machine guns) untimely ripped from its schedule,

In the left hand corner, we have Man Of Steel #2, the retold origin of Superman by John Byrne. In the right hand corner we have Superior #4, Mark Millar

MuseumWatch: The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago is displaying the work of four young cartoonists, Jeffrey Brown, Lilli Carré, Paul Hornschemeier,

Bonjour à tous! Angoulême is the largest comic book convention in the world, held in France. SCARCE is a French magazine, running quarterly since 1983

Musician and artist Daniel Johnston likes comics. And he's putting together his own comic book, Daniel Johnston's Infinite Comic Book of Musical

Yesterday, Tony Lee and Tracy Lee got themselves hitched. This was their wedding cake. Yup, it's going to be one of those marriages, isn't it? Messages

With all the remaining members of the Comics Magazine Association of America having publically, dropped the Comics Code this past week, who'd have thought