Rich Johnston Archives

So you're a digital comics distributor. How do you get to distribute Marvel comics? Well, there are rules. This is a major brand, one of the biggest in

Crescent City in New Orleans received their secret shopper last night, half an hour before closing, ensuring the show abided by the Wednesday street date

Looks like the Marvel Tsunami next week has got a little competition. Here's a preview of Archie #617 by Stephen Oswald, Dan Parent, Bill Galvan, Al

Jubilee is a vampire. She doesn't have her firework powers anymore, but that's okay 'cos she's got vampire powers. And she's in an X-Men prison as a

It takes bravado to use the cliffhanger from a previous comic of yours. It takes even more to use the same one as a previous issue of the same comic. But

I have in my hands the final copy of Buffy Season Eight, issue 40, courtesy of Orbital Comics. This is how the season ends, not with a bang (that was

Here is an advert for Ben 10 merchandise in Brazil. And here is Scott Pilgrim. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to

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

Judge Dredd co-creator John Wagner has been answering questions about his visit to the set of Dredd in Cape Town, South Africa. Here are a few of his

Apologies to American readers. Apologies to British ones too, come to that. Alex Reid is a martial artist-turned-TV presenter as a result of his

LateWatch: I reported on plans for Kathy Kane to be a lesbian Batwoman back in 2005. It took a few years to get to an actual series, with issue zero

Something very odd seems to have happened. Diamond Comics Distribution do not seem to have distributed the second issue of Halcyon, the debut Collider

Looks like Amazon UK may have stocked up a few too many of these over Christmas. The massive 40th anniversary Doonesbury Retrospective hardcover is

Two weeks ago, Bleeding Cool broke the story that a blogger who had made a number of incendiary comments in the immediate light of the Arizona shootings,

Okay, they missed a week because they were off playing with the snow or something, I don't know, but Aaron and Tri Force Mike of A Comic Shop in Florida

I understand from one British source that Flashpoint, the Geoff Johns-showrun Flash crossover event is going to be like the X-Men's Age Of Apocalypse,

Andrew Wheeler writes for Bleeding Cool. Axel Alonso’s recent promotion to editor-in-chief at Marvel has given me renewed hope for the publisher’s

DC Universe Online game has only been published, but already some people are selling second hand copies on eBay. And for Playstation 3 users not used to

When Richard Piers Rayner was announced as the artist on a three issue arc on IDW's new Doctor Who series featuring the likeness of Matt Smith, a few

Converse has been running DC branded footwear for the last few months, this new line seems to be a little more classic-facing in its approach, eschewing

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

Okay, this could be fun. And funny. The Batman Live! stage show is holding an open audition for its lead roles, those of Batman, Robin, Catwoman, The

ChartWatch: Dynamite Entertainment claims nineteen of the twenty best-selling non-premier comic titles of 2010, with The Boys, Green Hornet, Warlord Of

Josh Adams imagines the current attempts at distributor negotiation for Bleeding Cool... This week has been huge for traffic with a number of monster

This is the cover to the new ongoing Thor series by Matt Fraction and Olivier Coipel, The Mighty Thor. Coipel is returning to the book in April for the

Welcome to a Very Special Look! It Moves! This week, I interview Rich Johnston about his upcoming comic books about Prince William and Kate Middleton and

The recent David Brothers' analysis of Comixology's digital charts, criticised severely by Tim Stoltzfus with questions of accountability raised by Mark

The next issue of Jon Layman and Rob Guillory's hit comic Chew will be a couple of weeks late. And here, courtesy of Rob, is the best reason in the world

So, yes, this is the comic book I spend the Christmas holidays writing. A biographical comic book telling the lives of Prince William and Kate Middleton

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