Rich Johnston Archives

Both made headlines. Both were believed to have died at the hands of a sci-fi gun. Both had their roles taken over by their most famous sidekick. Both had

Another week, another set of statistically based lists on your Lying In The Gutters. Still trying to digest the gossip spilling out of the conventions. So

It looks like the upcoming Maryland Senatorial election will not be fought in the streets of Baltimore - but on the Jinxworld messgae board forums.

Both the movie adaptations of Wanted and Kick Ass have something in common. When it came to the comic book, they stuck with the beginning almost word for

So the BBC Doctor Who Adventures games have been being downloaded around the UK and everyone agrees, ther're moderately fun, with a horrible control

This is the new look for Lady Death, as seen in the Free Lady Death Premiere and Lady Death #0, and appearing on the cover of Lady Death #1 for January.

So, artist Jimmy Broxton is starting to get more attention with his upcoming work on Knight & Squire with Paul Cornell. And will be making his "first

QuesadaWatch: It is ten years to the day since Joe Quesada was appointed Editor-In-Chief at Marvel Comics. Jim Shooter only lasted nine years and Stan Lee

By: Greg Pak, Scott Reed, Tom Raney, Brian Ching Cost: Free Really? For now. Marvel have put the entire comic up as a digital preview By mistake? Not

Marvel Comics often provide previews of their comic books through their digital comics service Marvel DCU. And they've just done such a thing for

"Eighty-five million dollars? Really?" Apparently so. As much as Scott Pilgrim VS The World is a dazzling delight of innovative CGI, choreographed set

During San Diego, Bleeding Cool scooped the story that chapters from a new graphic novel Agent Mom were to debut on new site launching in September, MTV

Chris Burnham was running an Officer Downe competition on his website to win origi nal art - the challenge was to find all the swipes he used. Well, here

There are two comic conventions happening this weekend. While the Harveys are being held in Diamond's home city of Baltimore, Marvel have decamped up

George Perez posted to Facebook; As many of you have already learned, The TEEN TTANS: GAMES graphic novel has been taken off the November release schedule

Okay folks, time to break out your French to English dictionaries. Volume 4 of the astounding Blacksad series is finally released in two weeks. This

This year sees the 20th anniversary of avant garde French publisher L'Association. Originally founded by a group of creators who wanted to do their own

At the Edinburgh TV Festival today, Steven Moffat announced that the transmission of the next series of Doctor Who, in 2011, will be split into two

Of course, this is hardly news to the Italians, French, Spanish, Germans, Portugeuse, Belgians, Swedes and the like who all seem happy to read comics in

Mark Waid's keynote speech at the Harvey Awards at Baltimore Comics Con last night started by pointing out that copyright was all about putting work into

A few days ago Bleeding Cool featured a blog that dissected Mark Millar's characters through the influence of their parents. We rather liked it. As did

Just as Brendon knows nothing about comics, I know nothing about film. So here are a bunch or texts from wherever Brendon is right now. London Fright Fest

Apparentkly today is Wear Comics In Public Day. Sneaker design by BrassMonki. Oh and these aren't bad either.

Years ago, Erik Larsen wrote an anonymous and controversial letter to the Comics Buyers Guide in which he extolled the possibilities of comic book artists

Glenn Fabry: It's the story of this poor unfortunate family who are having difficultly while moving house and they've decided they're going to stop off at

The big WH Smith newsagent in London Victoria's train station is promoting the launch of CLiNT Magazine with a signing from the well known TV and radio

Do you long to stride like Prince Namor? Get the respect that the Sub-Mariner deserves? Do you have a spare £135? Then you can buy this pair of Adidas

I'm thinking of getting this done as a T-shirt. Anyway, the girls and I just got back from Richmond Park, a large public park in the South West of London.

FIlm and comics journalist Danny Graydon reviews the first issue of CLiNT Magazine for Bleeding Cool. The magazine is available for sale in the UK from

AlcoholWatch: London gets a Read Comics In Public Day. And, because it's London, turns it into a Read Comics In Pub Day instead. TamaraWatch: Posy