Rich Johnston Archives

There's a new Thor game online. And it's a wee bit addictive. Throw Mjlonir and take down Frost Giants in a mixture of angle, thrust and lightning strikes

Something missing from July solicitations this month were most of the Mouse and Duck books from Boom! The Disney-related books have been on the wane at

Posting may be slightly spotty over the next few days as I'm taking a trip with my family to my parents for Easter, leaving other family members to house

Gaws bless Prince William and Kate Middleton/soon-to-be Princess Catherine! Kate & William: A Very Public Love Story by me, Gary Erskine and Mike

At recent memorial event for the writer Dwayne McDuffie, Bruce Timm announced that McDuffie had written a script for a DC direct to DVD/Blu-Ray project

So we know that the female physiques commonly sported by Marvel superheroines are nigh-on impossible to achieve by anyone who wasn't bidden by a

I'm thinking of getting this made up as a T-shirt. Possibly for San Diego Comic Con. Anyone else want one?

Have you seen this man in the Chicago area? Hanging around in a comic shop? This is Kenneth W. Arron, notorious conman and user of many aliases. He's been

A new comic, Repulse, coming from Image Comics in July from Szymon Kudranski... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwKfFWFL5pg

So, the New York Post may have, as ever, with Marvel's full co-operation and indeed instigation, have spoiled the plot of upcoming issues of Ultimate

Written by Leah Moore and John Reppion, designed by Emma Vieceli, drawn/animated by the all-female Windflower Studio, and produced by Hattrick Productions

We mentioned this story last week, when Rupert Murdoch's Scottish Sun put First Minister of Scotland and Scottish Nationalist Party member Alex Salmond in

Joel Ronson is a new writer for Bleeding Cool. A hit at the Kapow comic convention in London last weekend, he is a twelve year old young man who loves

One frame from the storyboard for Jimmy's End, Mitch Jenkins' new film written by Alan Moore. Photographer Mitch Jenkins has been working on a number of

It's been twenty-two years since he first appeared. And ten years since he last appeared. Him, as first seen in Lethargic Comics, and with a graphic novel

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool Gender Gap at the Big Two – Week of March 30th, 2011 Women make up more than half of the world’s population, but at DC

It's Sunday, the sun is shining (in London anyway), what better opportunity to sit back with a glass of Pimms and watch some nineteen seventies disco

Well, that's brightened my already fairly bright Sunday. Bobbly USB flash drives in the shape of Marvel characters. Probably not official or anything but

From December last year on Mitch Edmondson's blog. This is a pinup I did that you can currently find in Nathan Edmondson and Brett Weldele's THE LIGHT Tpb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k71j-nGaYlc Paul Levitz spoke to Google employees earlier this month about DC Comics and the Legion of Super-Heroes. And

The following piece contains some spoilers for last night's episode of Fringe on US television. It hasn't aired yet in the UK, and some won't have seen

We've been here before, haven't we? A new Image comic book series, with an unproven creative team and understandably conservative orders from retailers.

It looks like Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's 100 Bullets is to be collected by DC Vertigo in omnibus-style volumes from October, the first weighing

Dennis O’Neil has a long history in the comics industry as both a writer and editor. He’s best known for writing Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman,

Robocop Vs The Terminator by Frank Miller and Walt Simonson from Dark Horse is one of my favourite time travel stories of all time. In July, Dynamite will

Last year I was pleased to uncover the secret political career path of Nick Spencer before he skipped Cincinnatti for New York to write comic books. Well,

That was the manga publisher that was. After rising on a manga boom in the noughties, the fourteen-year-old publisher of both Japanese reprint and US

So we have Dark Horse publishing a book that looks like it should be published by DC... wo why not have a book published by Bongo that looks like it

It was a particular favourite of mine. Major Bummer by John Arcudi and Doug Mankhe. So no wonder it only lasted fifteen issues, before it was dropped by

Image just published the comic Butcher Baker: The Righteous Maker, a violent, sexually aggressive superhero parody. It did quite well. Now, from Dynamite