Rich Johnston Archives

Lee Barnett, or Budgie, is an old friend. Seriously he's very old, positively ancient. Best known for the Hypotheticals panels with Dave Gibbons, although

The new Point Village Market has been open only a few weeks. Based in the Dublin Docklands, right beside the 02 Venue it promises free outdoor concerts,

It was a busy day on Bleeding Cool yesterday. But it seems some other stuff was going down as well. BlackWatch: You can have a black president - can't you

Aaron and Mike from A Comic Shop in Florida run through the week's comic books - in fear and distrust of the delay that Memorial Weekend has brought.

That's Michael Golden inks joining Neal Adams there, mostly in the middle-to-bottom, you can see Robin's face is Golden but his glove is Adams. The

Paul Cornell is a terribly nice man. And terribly careful not to spill the beans about his upcoming projects. Which is why I'd like to go to pains to

Bleeding Cool just published a piece about how a new Swamp Thing series may have been binned at Vertigo. But why? Well, a few issues into production on

Swamp Thing, created by Len Wein and Berni Wrightson was successfuly revamped in the eighties by then-new-to-the-US scribe Alan Moore. He transformed the

After a quick flurry of exclusive announcements earlier in the year, I understand that Marvel have been trying to quietly lock down some of their bigger

How fitting for Bleeding Cool's anniversary. Mark Millar and Leinil Yu's new creator-owned series  for Marvel Comics, is called Superior. CBR has run

Add another to Nicky Barrucci's shopping basket, comic books based on Paul Verhoeven's movie Total Recall based on the Philip K Dick story We Can Remember

TAM, or The Amazing Meeting is now an annual fundraising conference that raises money for the James Randi Educational Foundation, which promotes; critical

One year ago today, Bleeding Cool opened its doors. Funded by Avatar Press, it didn't have a large budget, big media owner or even any relationships with

Madame Tussauds, the world famous wax museum in London, are running a multifloor Marvel exhibition featuring a number of characters, artwork and items,

This is the TV ad for Fables that ran on BBC America during the Doctor Who marathon this weekend. DC/Vertigo and BBC America appear to have an advertising

BBC Radio 4 are repeating their drama series Pilgrim, four parts, every Monday afternoon for the next month.The closet thing you'll get to a Vertigo comic

Tomorrow is the first anniversary of Bleeding Cool. 52 weeks since William Christensen of Avatar Press saved me from losing the house after I lost my job

Yes, it’s time for me to talk about manga again. When I heard that DC’s manga line CMX was shutting down, the only surprise I felt was that it didn’t

VS A U.S. cage fighter ripped out the heart of his training partner while he was still alive after becoming convinced he was possessed by the devil, it

It's a Monday, what else were you going to do? Game on!

This weekend held the MCM London Expo. And fo the first time in fifteen years, I had a table at a comics convention. Manned by me, Eve and Alice Johnston

MiddleEarthWatch: Guillermoro del Toro has pulled out from directing The Hobbit and its sequels, as a result of MGM's economic-based delays on production.

On tonight on Sky 1, 6pm in the UK, it's the adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Going Postal. And there are some spiffing digital posters of the main cast

This was the flier being handed out at Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood at the London MCM Expo today... This is presumably the Sherlock Holmesian project that

On display at this weekend's MCM London Expo... shame about the camera. Anyone get better shots? If so email them across for full credit...

The "I'm A Marvel, I'm A DC" toy parodies of the Apple ads that have gained a life of their own celebrated their 100th epidode with a belter of a musical

TypoWatch: We did enjoy this panel from Teen Titans #83. "Makes it harder" wasn't it meant to be? PecWatch: The Daily Mail drool over a photo of James

This week’s column is a slight change to what readers have been used to seeing here. Last weekend it was the annual Bristol International Comic Expo, held

I am sans iPad, iTouch or iPhone. So naturally I'm all sassenfrassenrassen about this upcoming Scott Pilgrim App. Read the whole of Scott Pilgrim on it by

The Walking Dead begins filming in Atlanta on June 2nd in the Fairlie-Poplar District of the city. Scenes from the pilot and the second episode will be