Rich Johnston Archives

Mohammad Yazid Kamal Baharin, better known as Zid, has had a brief comic book history. Steve Niles' History Of Dust for Radical, Retrojak in Jom! Magazine

With all this fuss about Spider-Man 4, 5 and 6 being based on Brian Bendis and Mark Bagley's Ultimate Spider-Man, here's a reminder of something we

Entertainment Weekly cites a 350,000 first print run for the first volume of Twilight Manga. For the US sudience, this is big news.  Outperforming

Variety have lead with news that AMC has given greenlights to two drama pilots, The Walking Dead and The Killing. The latter from Fox is based on the

Okay, mostly because I don't get new comics until tomorrow. But still. Gods Head by Santiago Bovoso is an astounding comic, been made available free

Take it away, Wes, capital letters and all... HELLO EVERYONE, IF YOU HAVENT HEARD WIZARD HAS BOUGHT ONE.....ONE ....OF THE ATLANTA COMIC CONVENTIONS 4

Let's have a look at that Liefeld cover to the final issue of Deadpool And Cable #25. I mean it's a classic Crisis homage, but what else is going on here?

The Apple iSlate/iTablet is expected to be announced next week. Jim Shelley has interviewed a number of movers and shakers in the emerging digital comic

Two Warren Ellis books. One drawn by Facundo Percio, the other co-written and drawn by Mike Wolfer. So let's have a look at them. Anna Mercury Vol 2 #3 By

We now all know the happy news about GAIMANDA. But which other comic-related supercouples deserve their own celebrity portmanteau nomenclature? Let's take

Nat Gertler of About Comics has made the following offer to retailers, in the wake of Marvel's offer over Blackest Night issues and Deadpool variants. I'm

Anthony Lucynski is known online as the biggest Rob Liefeld fan. I don't think there's anyone who's come close. And a lot of the dedication has been given

BabyWatch: Congratulations to Brian and Ruth Vaughan on the birth of Alec Weber Vaughan! Are you going to tell him how Lost ends? (Via) CartoonWatch: The

In an upcoming interview with Comic Shop News, available free in comic shops this week, Kevin Smith assures readers who may have become accustomed to

DC's The Source blog has confirmed Bleeding Cool's Saturday report that they were launching two new First Wave titles, Doc Savage and The Spirit, part of

The first couple of series may have been roundly mocked in the UK. But they were a smash hit in the US, breaking viewer records at BBC America and driving

The Apple iSlate/iTablet is expected to be announced later this week. Jim Shelley has interviewed a number of movers and shakers in the emerging digital

The Vertigo blog, Graphic Content, just released the following covers. Let's just label them as we go though, shall we?

Gareb Shamus, CEO of Wizard has bought the small Atlanta Comic Convention, and has renamed it Atlanta Comic Con Wizard World Convention to fit alongside

Charlie Brooker, cartoonist, satirtist and panel show host returns to BBC4 tonight (10.30pm) with a new series of Newswipe, mocking and exposing the

The most expensive comic sold to date at auction was a copy of Action Comics #1 for $317,000. On February 25th, a copy of Batman's first appearance,

MuseumWatch: A week on Saturday at 4pm, Darwyn Cooke will be reading from Parker: The Hunter at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. TVWatch: Watch for

The movie Red, based on the Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner comic book mini-series of the same name for DC/Wildstorm started shooting yesterday. With an

Enjoy Batman, Aquaman and a bloody big whale, courtesy of Neal Adams and Frank Miller's upcoming Batman: Odyssey. This has officially been Bleeding Cool's

They are both Rob Liefeld's finest creations.  And Deadpool especially is finding success, a film on the way and the character supporting four monthly

I know, it's a surprise. A Marvel comic book featuring female teenage versions of Marvel superheroes, ostensibly aimed at a female teenage-or-younger

I already reviewed the HUMAN TARGET pilot back during the upfronts, but some thoughts lingered in my head, especially after Fox put it on with the

James Robinson talks to iFanboy podcast about the revived issue of his Starman series as part of Blackest Night out this week, how it's basically a Shade

The Apple iSlate/iTablet is expected to be announced later this week. Jim Shelley has interviewed a number of movers and shakers in the emerging digital

The writer and artist are unknown but this fourteen page comic book published the Fellowship of Reconciliation tells the story of the 1956 Montgomery Bus