Rich Johnston Archives

Crossed: Psychopath #1 by David Lapham and Raulo Caceres ships in February. The solicitation talks about "Mr. Lorre --a single, horribly selfish, man

HorseDump: Dark Horse outlines January's digital launch offerings as a Bookshelf App and a digital bookstore. Wot, no Buffy? Here are the basics:

Did they really have to call it Bent-Con? Well, it is Los Angeles I suppose. And it is free. On Sunday, from noon till 7pm (to accommodate all those late

TrafficWatch: We enjoyed the fact that someone at Marvel was just looking at the Kirby lawsuit story on Bleeding Cool at exactly the same time as someone

From the cover of this weekend's Sunday Mirror Magazine. Tulisa Contostavlos from popular British hip hop crew N-Dubz, latexed up, trying to catch Matthew

It was a simple Clip Art strip that provided some of the most sophisticated and simultaneously low brow American satire over the events in Iraq and

Morning Glories by Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma is in a bit of a rut. It's selling well, but it's not selling Walking Dead well. Not yet. Image are to drop

Thanks for Stu West for pointing out the physical comparison. Yesterday, Mark Millar announced the Kapow Comic Con London. This is the latest move

This week brings all sorts of interesting possibilities fo the comic book speculator - the individual who snaps up all the issues of a certain comic at

StampWatch: From 1995... GimpWatch: Hustler covers the release of Secret Identity: The Fetish Art Of Superman Co-Creator Joe Shuster. (NSFW)

It is big news. It is so big that I used it to launch the Bleeding Cool side back in June 2009. But, yes, Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons are collaborating

So there are reports of mishaps. Preview bugs. Calamity on stage. Broken bits. But what do the fans think? Let's ask Little Bleeder John, an engineer

Here we go folks. A preview to Marineman #1 by Ian Churchill, coming out from Image Comics this week. And Bleeding Cool has a lovely preview of the comic

So will *this* version of Parallax from the upcoming Green Lantern movie be acceptable to Warners lawyers? Let's find out. So it's another week at

So everyone seems to be raving about the WALKING DEAD TV series. Alas, I’m not one of them. Sure, I’m happy for Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie

Dark Horse make a big mystery of the following new character joing the B.P.R.D in Mike Mignola, John Arcudi and Guy Davis' new series BPRD Hell on Earth:

On the left, Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov, producing a werewolves-on-the-moon thriller. On the right, Full Moon Fever, also a werewolves-on-the-moon

There's a computer game MMORG thingy called CrimeCraft. But this isn't Rock, Paper, Shotgun, so why is Bleeding Cool talking about it? Because Archaia

The second lowest ordered book of all time from Dynamite is coming out this week. Bring The Thunder #1, created and co-written by Alex Ross, written by

Nineteen and a half years ago, Fleetway published The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mind-Boggling Comic Relief Comic. Written by

BBC Radio 4 have a number of book review programmes, which takes a relatively highbrow approach to modern literature. Last year Radio 4's Saturday Review

We said the London Super Hero Comic Con would have trademark problems... Mark Millar has launched the KaPow Comic London, scheduled for April next year.

CartoonWatch: From Piraro... DukeWatch: 40 Years Of Doonesbury - the original art from the strip displayed at Blaine Mansion. Demoralized, the young

Well he does have the beard for it. According to the Northampton Chronicle, Alan Moore is using the profits from his Dodgem Logic magazine to donate three

This was the solicited cover for Betty & Veronica #251 from Archie Comics. An innocent visual by Dan Parent of, um, two young women in bikinis, in

Bleeding Cool has been informed that the online whistleblower site WikiLeaks is preparing to reveal the secret identities of superheroes worldwide. The

WerthamWatch: The Washington Post remembers the days of the comic book censors in relation to current proposed video game legislation. An estimated 90

A new european webcomic publisher will be unveiled at the Angoulême comic arts festival in 2011. It's called 8 Comix and uses an eightball as a logo.

Across the USA on December the 1st, on World AIDS Day, Borders are holding a number of instore events to benefit Lifebeat, an AIDS awareness nonprofit

The Comic Book Alliance, basically the UK equivalent of the CBLDF and HERO with a proactive role improving the lot of the comics, has got a huge amount of