Rich Johnston Archives

There are two quintessential British roles in Film and Television that are so demanding that it takes the heartiest of actor to pull them off. One is

As of Friday morning, there were plenty of issues of M.Rex, the 2003 Image comic book that listed three isues (two if you don't count the preview) on

The distribution of the free White Lantern Rings that were meant to be given away with issues of Brightest Day #1 has been a little on the spotty side. 

PenisWatch: You are an average consumer of average American product. You watch the FOX show Human Target. It seems pleasantly bland enough. You notice on

Okay, only by one or two days, and for a small handful of issues. And of course, all in the name of fun! Brian Michael Bendis announced a challenge on

Story pages: 71 Splash pages: 0 Price: $21.95 Price per page: 31 cents Blimey, makes New Avengers look cheap by comparison. Yes it does. Does it feel

DogWatch: "I actually liked Keanu Reeves as John Constantine – he wasn’t blonde and wasn’t English, but he still was a great movie-version of that comic

A number of comic creators do their best work on it. Some do their best work about it. Any plenty of comic readers have enjoyed their favourites while

It was just a side mention by Tony Harris as part of his series of posts creating a new guild for comic creators. But it was one that launched a very

Well that's how it looks to me. Seriously, can you tell the difference? No, I'm being silly, this is the first Alex Ross cover to the new Phantom ongoing

Now we’ve introduced what we do at TRIPWIRE, we can get down to the meat of this column. One of the things that we do, and arguably, always have done in

Or, rather, wrote and directed. Hit Parade is a straight-to-DVD-by-way-of-a-few-film-festivals production written and directed by Joe Casey, current

If Josh Elder has his way, school children will never again have to hide their comics inside their schoolbooks ever again. (Which doesn’t usually work

Generator Rex launched on the Cartoon Network two weeks ago, airing at 8.30PM on Fridays in the States. About a young boy with nanotech inside his

I Fakt You, Right In The Face: Amazing and Helpful news from the world of Real Actual Science! We've all seen crazed labfreaks forcing innocent animals

Are you a masochist? Do you think in your wildest dreams you coiuld have Gwyneth Paltrow's figure? Especially if you are a fifth generation

Chew #15, from Jon Layman and Rob Guillory, published in September from Image Comics - marking the quarter point of the comic's run, will be bonus sized

Legend of the Seeker is a TV show based on Terry Goodkind's Sword Of Truth series of novels. Last month the series was announced as cancelled as

As French comic book creators take to the streets to protest about imposed digital exploitation fee structures from their publishers, and launch a second

Britain wakes up to a hung Parliament, all the politicians are running around like headless chickens, right now anything could happen. Personally I reckon

It's Grant Morrison's big new exciting Batthing, with Bruce Wayne traveling through time, leaping from life, hoping each time that the next leap... will

Last week I discussed logos, the week before it was getting an endorsement for your comic. Over the coming weeks I'll be looking at artwork, promoting

Okay then, let's give the collective comics industry a challenge. HTML Comics was run by a 47 year old bloke in the USA. What happens when you take on the

Did you like Spaced? I liked Spaced. Everyone liked Spaced. The TV show directed by Edgar Wright Jr (now directing Scott Pilgrim), written by and starring

Educational science syndicated strip Beakman & Jax has caused a furore in the dairy world with a flurry or protests. Answering the question "how can a

Yesterday we heard how a number of British comic book creators would vote. But how about British comic book characters? Note, Judge Dredd is ineligible as

Ramona Fradon, Rick Veitch, Michael Netzer, Josef Rubinstein and Terry Beatty all draw chapters of an upcoming Origen & Golan-written graphic novel,

I have very fond memories of this. The BBC Radio 4 metafictional drama, The Trial Of Superman, created to celebrate the character's fiftieth birthday. In

MuseumWatch: Berlin's Jewish Museum is to run an exhibition on Jewish comic book creators. Titled Heroes, Freaks and Superrabbis -- the Jewish Colour of

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