Rich Johnston Archives

It's a long time since Batman: Year One. But David Mazzucchelli's decision to leave what was laughingly called "mainstream comics" in the eighties, to

Kick-Ass, based on the Mark Millar/John Romita Jr series from Marvel Comics, expected to open with $30 million plus, opened with just shy of $20 million.

Okay, so you've just started watching the new series of Doctor Who on BBC America with Matt Smith. Getting record audiences, there must be some of you new

BookMarkWatch: A thousand comic stores will be getting a hundred Scott Pilgrim bookmarks each at the end of the month in time for Free Comic Book Day,

(Back By Popular Demand, You Fuckers) -- This Week I Have Mostly Been Hating: ...the subconscious propensity for the human brain to absorb external

Kid Intense is is one of the following things; A serious work of art exploring in infantile nature of the superhero taken to its logical extreme,

Do you want to look like Iron Man? Do you want to see what Iron Man sees? Do you have a webcam? Here you go folks. One of the cooler online viral movie

Little Bleeder "Jason" reports from a showing of Losers, the new Warner Bros movie based on Andy Diggle and Jock's reinvention of the Losers trademark for

The other shoe has dropped regarding digital comics publishing in France. While the day of street protest by and on behalf of beleaguered comic book

StarkHud 2020 is the new piece of ultra-tech from Stark Fujikawa launching at Stark 2010 Expo. And oh oh oh, I want one. Damn you for being so Iron Man

This is a first look at the cover to The Boys #44, by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson published by Dynamtie Entertainment. Yeah, that's got to hurt.

Creator of  St Trinian's and illustrator of the Molesworth books, Ronald Searle is celebrated by London's Cartoon Museum right now. Running until the

Well, we did one for Doctor Who, why not Torchwood as well? Live Feed has been reporting that the proposed Fox US version of Doctor Who-spinoff Torchwood

Alan Moore may have made an appearance on The Simpsons. But it would be his comic Killing Joke, with Brian Bolland that would be picked up by South Park.

There's a book coming out called Siege: Fallen from Marvel. Possibly. We don't know who is writing it, but we do know that Tom Rainey is drawing it. Or

Goi on then, let's have a spin round the Marvel and DC solicitations for July 2010. What sticks out? Well, the 52-spinoff comic The Great Ten, has sadly

I reckon Nick Barrucci of Dynamite Entertainment must have Alex Ross and John Cassaday's beating heart locked in a treasure chest in his office. Either

Archaia's new graphic novel series Titanium Rain by Josh Finney and Kat Rocha arrived in comic stores rather late this week, delayed after Chinese

Archie Comics is introducing its first gay character later this year, in Veronica #202, one Kevin Keller. In a move that I have to say I thought must have

She eats pizza. She's got a teddy. Hopefully she washed her hands after slaying. It's a fun cover, one of seven Deadpool-titled comics this month. But...

I’m Martin Conaghan, I work as a journalist for the BBC, and I try to write comics. By try, I mean do. I produced a fact-based graphic novel about the

With Tony Harris announcing a new creator owned series at Wildstorm The Further Adventures Of The Whistling Skull with B Clay Moore (is this the first

Okay, it's not like the X-Men and the fetish community are a Venn Diagram that never cross. What with the Hellfire Club, Wolverine's claws, Rachels'

Main feature: Mark Schultz and Moritat. Supporting feature: Denny O'Neill and Bill Sienkiewicz. In memory of you-know-who... The Spirit #1 from DC Comics,

At C2E2, Amanda Connor told fans that she isn't leaving Power Girl after issue 12 by choice, but because she can't quite keep to a monthly schedule and so

With Jonathan Hickman been seen as a real rising star at Marvel Comics, on books such as Secret Warriors, Iron Man, Fantastic Four and Shield, he's not

Weekly TOP PICKS: 4.21.2010 #1. GREEN LANTERN 53 GEOFF JOHNS! BRIGHTEST DAY! They’re not Jessie Jackson's Rainbow Coalition! The New Guardians’ Brightest

Teen Titans, shove up a bit will you? The X-Men made the move to San Francisco a couple of years ago, to enjoy a spirit of tolerance they're previously

Couldn't make it to C2E2? Really want to hear what was said? Can't quite trust the reporting outlets to issue every nuance? Thank goodness for Jamie

So the Brits aren't getting any American comics this week? Thankfully Marvel UK has stepped up, rushing this book out a week early to make up for it. In