Rich Johnston Archives

It was the realisation a couple of months ago that War Of The Green Lanterns was less about plot, character and dialogue, but pretty pictures - and how

I rarely cry at TV or movie shows. Last time I blubbed properly was watching Doctor Who: Father's Day with my three month old daughter in my arms. There

The Associated Press reports details on John Byrne's upcoming book that Bleeding Cool teased previously, Cold War: The Damocles Contract, under the

CockWatch: From the solicited cover of Red Hood And The Outlaws #2. It'll never make it to print. ThorWatch: The cover to the San Diego Comic Con

A motion comic trailer for Kagan McLeod's Infinite Kung Fu from Top Shelf Comix. It looks amazing with some well constructed fight scenes towards the end

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con... Title: Heaven's Echo Creators: Siike Donnelly Publisher: Arcana Available: Booth # High concept: From the cover...

Aaron, Beaten-Up Mike and new star Atom, given the chance to plug all his stuff, run through this week's comics, flexing in their very hands. There's

So DC released their solicitations for Batbooks in October. And Paul Jenkins is listed as the writer on The Dark Knight #2 with David Finch as artist. A

The latest Marvel teaser for something new in December, being announced at the Fear Itself Panel on the Sunday of San Diego Comic Con is making things

Bleeding Cool understands that creator Lee Bermejo has called for the latest Italian print run of the recent Lex Luthor: Man of Steel collection to be

Title: The Walking Dead Board Game Creators: Z-Man Games. Publisher: Image Comics/Skybound Available: Booth #2729 High concept: the opportunity to play

We've seen some of the exclusive debuts as San Diego from Image, including Marksmen, The Infinite #1 HC and XXX. But what about the exclusive variant

The LA Times, the current go-to-place for publisher friendly comics news, runs the first art from the upcoming Blood Red Dragon comics/animation/music

Published in USA Today, the current go-to-spot for publisher friendly mass media comics coverage, a preview of the first issue of X-Men Schism #1 by Jason

SimWatch: Why does the Batmobile look like Cerebus? PartyWatch: On Friday, Geek Girl on the Street is holding their very first fundraiser at Challengers

Title: Marksmen #1 Creators: David Baxter, Javiar Aranda, Garry Leach and Tomm Coker Publisher: Image Comics Available: Booth #2729 High concept: MARKSMEN

Title: The Infinite #1 Creators: Rob Liefeld and Roberyt Kirkman Publisher: Image Comics Available: Booth #2729 High concept: Format: Hardcover omic -

Title: Severed #1 Creators: Scott Snyder, Scott Tuft and Attila Futaki Publisher: Image Comics Available: Booth #2729 High concept: SEVERED is mostly set

This is the cover to Batman #2, by Greg Capullo, for October. And it's really rather nice. But you know what? It's even nicer in black-and-white...

So we're having the big fifty-two DC Relaunch in September. But what about October? How many issues ones could we expect then? Probably a handful. But

Who would win in a fight between the Hulk and The Thing and Thor and a drunken Iron Man? We told you this was going to be a big fight scene. Looks like

Warner Bros and TV Guide are producing a special issue of the magazine for San Diego Comic Con, being given away at the show at their booth #4545 from

Bleeding Cool already ran the cover to Ultimate Fallout #4, saying that it may have revelatory significance. Looks like we were bang on the money. This

Apologies to those who wish Bleeding Cool wasn't quite so obsessed with San Diego. All we can say is next week when we're actually in San Diego, this will

The most entertaining news this past week has been the phone-hacking scandal in Britain leading to News International shutting down one of the country’s

Smoke was a comic series by Alex De Campi and Igor Kordey that came out from IDW a few years ago... and was rather good. Think of Luther Arkright crossed

Pull back your shield throwing arm. Then take aim against Hydra soldiers. Not Nazis remember, they want to be able to play this game in Germany. Not pigs

Here are the two visual promotional images that Arlen Schumer is using for his Saturday panel on Mort Weisinger, editor of the Superman line for 30 years,

Marvel have had a few interesting uses of typography in covers of late, Daredevil #1 being a standout. Well, this looks like more of the same, and the

1. An Education You won't get this going to the Twilight panel. Nor the Walking Dead panel. Not even at Big Bang. But from 10.30 to noon on Thursday,