Rich Johnston Archives

HistoryWatch: Ah, happy capitalistic days... CoverWatch: Is Brian Bendis going to be drawing a cover for an upcoming Avengers book? It finally happened.

A new graphic storytelling, comics, animation and illustration festival will take place at the Sydney Opera House the first weekend of August. Neil Gaiman

Debuting from Fantagraphics on the floor of San Diego. Bring a wheelbarrow. LUCKY IN LOVE BOOK ONE by George Chieffet and Stephen DeStefano • This debut

Thank you to Michael Moran, just on Sky News, who decided that his first post last week was enough to warrant a namecheck for this site. Most appreciated

They've been keeping it ender wraps. Ish. The company Twitter account recently posted oh btw... CROSSED 3D. Did I mention that? And a rogue Amazon listing

Wanted/Kick-Ass writer Mark Millar loved Twilight Eclipse. No, he really loved it. Listen. I can't believe I'm saying this, but Eclipse is the movie of

I understand that, in the light of their Dave Stevens Rockeeter reprint projects, that IDW is to publish a new Rocketeer project, an anthology featuring

And another one gone. Greek Street by Peter Milligan and Davide Gianfelice from Vertigo has been cancelled. Issue 16 will be its last. This will give the

So what can we expect from DC Comics at San Diego? Well, in a reversal of recent convention policy, announcements. Lots of them. Including all ten artists

Harvey Pekar, creator of American Splendor, a truly unique comic book experience, has died. And I feel a loss commensurate with no one else who I didn't

Ain't it pretty? Last week when I ran the Alex Ross teaser for Genesis, I also ran the Marvels logo that it was riffing off. And speculated as what the

I understand that in an upcoming issue of the new vampire-obsessed X-Men, our favourite furry little person, Wolverine, will get a bite to the neck. And

Oh look, another week, another column about DOCTOR WHO. I thought I was done, but felt I didn’t get to say everything I wanted to say beyond recapping

Top Cow's big new launch of the year, Artifacts, by Ron Marz and Michael Broussard, will see its first issue debut at the San Diego Comic Con, before

This feels so familiar. Vietnamese comic book publishers attempts to push Japanese comics of the shelves by creating manga-style comics about Vietnam's

NewsWatch: Steve Bissette gathers reportage on the arrest over the death of his friend Steve Perry. Davis used Steve’s ATM card (or tried to) to fleece

Some TV shows do special musical episodes. Buffy, Scrubs, that kind of thing. Some like Glee do nothing but. But Doctor Who? Doctor Who does the Proms. A

It's time for the annual hunting-of-the-clearly-rigged entry in the Harvey Awards... or is it? Instead this year it seems to be the most mainstream

'Have you ever seen a Dalek? Ever fought one? Have you any idea what they are really like? I've been on the front line. I've seen whole planets destroyed.

Blair Shedd, the current artist of IDW's Doctor Who comic is having problems. With one persistent eBayer. He writes; My art has been

On the RED Panel with Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren and Warren Ellis, 2:15-3:15pm in Hall H, San Diego Convention Center, that's where. Cully Hamner tweets;

Dave Prowse, best known for his role as Darth Vader and as the Green Cross Code Man in nineteen seventies British public information movies - and also the

We’ve already run the Preview and Thursday, Friday and Saturday programing and commentary at the San Diego Comic Con, and the full DC Comics listings for

BadWatch: We covered the slightly odd Marvel teaser for X-Men #2 the other day. Well, the Weekly Crisis has gone to town with some further

Okay, I am hurting with joy at this news. And it's over a new Deadpool series, who'd have thought? Yes, it's another monthly Deadpool book. With three big

Considering that it's a repurposing of two dimensional images onto a series of planes creating a cartoon in a 3D environment, why so few people have

How could you do it Bill? When you took over the JSA books, there were fears from a number of people over how you would handle the character Obsidian, one

We’ve already run the Preview and Thursday programming and Friday programming commentary at the San Diego Comic Con, and the full DC Comics listings for

If ever a future Doctor Who writer wants to create a Daleks in Ancient Rome story it looks like they have a ready made prop as evidence of their passing

In association with pressure group Privacyactivism, NBM Publishing is debuting their big new graphic novel at the San Diego Comic Con, with big-name