Rich Johnston Archives

What would former star English footballer and current sports presenter Jamie Redknapp look like in a silly wig? The cover to Jack Of Fables #44 knows. And

The auction to name the police character in Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's Nemesis has been sold on eBay for $8400. The winner, not yet identified,

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A. That's the Konami code, used on a number of games to get special cheat abilities or a hidden surprise. It also

So I spent last night in the pub with the likes of Paul Cornell, Kieron Gillen, Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood. Apologies for any subsequent... lethargy.

BrainFart: I'm ill, screw you. Gripped by lugubrious fevers, somersaulting fuzzily through the Paracetamol Nebula, I have ditched the idea of Real Actual

So you've enjoyed Batman And Robin #7, featuring a run around London's supercriminal backstreets... but did you get every local reference? I'm sure I

Right now the Twilight manga graphic novel is being offered by Amazon.com at 55% off cover price Which is basically the same price shops will pay for it.

So you saw the scoop on The Source yesterday. But how do you go about getting on of these new rings? Well, for a start, if you are a Blackest Night fan,

It can't run Flash. It can't run Photoshop. It's basically a big iTouch. But it could be the biggest change in comic books. So now that people have had a

Yesteday, Tomohiro Kato pleaded guilty on all charges of murder and attempted murder made against him at the Toyko District Court. The murders were

On April 1st 2009, during the G20 meeting in London, there was a public protest and demonstration on the streets outside that, despite the best efforts of

Brian Bendis was recently twittering about a mysterious non-Spider-Man 4 movie project. Looks like it was Fire, an adaptation of his very first crime noir

This is, apparently, how one will read comic books on the Apple iPad, using digital distributor Comixology's tablet application. It is rather snazzy,

Thank goodness for Twitter... Ben McCool: Er, iPad kinda sounds like something futuristic women might put in their underpants... Brian Reed: I cannot

The presentation has concluded. We haven't heard a thing about LongBox, and Rantz Hoseley didn't tweet once. And anyway, the iPad doesn't seem to do

Comic Shop Insider is a weekly giveaway newsprint magazine on comic books. Last week, they ran an interview with Kevin Smith about GReen Hornet. However,

Last year, Diamond Comics Distributors changed their terms, first increasing the minium retail order at which they would deem it acceptable to continue

One of my all-time favourite runs on a superhero comic was Grant Morrison and Richard Case on Doom Patrol. A quite astounding take on what had become a

Bleeding Cool has scooped the cover by Matt Bellisle to the Bluewater biographical comic of David Beckham, English football star (now of Los Angeles

WTFWatch: Deadpool, like Wolverine, apparently needs to be on more comics. Such as the following variant cover for Secret Warriors #13. There's a point.

Just how do you do Captain America's wings on his helmet in a live action movie without them looking, well, a bit pony? It looks like Captain America: The

MarvelWatch: Joe Quesada has used USA Today to launch The Heroic Age to launch a new era of light'n'brighty superhero comics at Marvel, instead of the

The LA Times is reporting that Guy Ritchie has left Warner's adaptation of Lobo to concentrate on Sherlock Holmes 2, the movie whose star Robert Downey Jr

Thanks to Cosmic Book News for these, and the confirmation. But of course this raises another possible issue. Kilowog's name. A long-standing Green

So how much did you pay to get the Kick Ass name? Was it worth it? I’m not sure if I can reveal how much I spent on the name auction. Partially because I

He's been making his list and checking it twice. But CB Cebulski, Marvel's Talent Manager, has counted up 144 new freelancers working at Marvel in the

Wowio was an early publishing model for digital comics. Burning through venture capital, it paid publishers $1 for every comic read online - yet gathered

Recently writer/artist Colleen Doran got a little bit narked that she'd been solicited as working on Marvel's new series Girl Comics without actually

It's an unusual promotion, I'll grant you. And it's one that media outlets (such as Bleeding Cool) are certain to pick up and draw attention to. Because,

ScotWatch: To promote the Hi-Ex Comics Convention in Inverness in March this year, artist Colin MacNeil drew Judge Dredd fishing for the Loch Ness