Rich Johnston Archives

HaitiWatch: The Heroes4Haiti auctions continue apace. AnalogyWatch: As she contemplates suicide, Charlotte Raven compares Huntington's disease to

The Mask is a story who obtains a mysterious ancient tribal mask. Whenever he puts on the mask, Barnes experiences dream-like visions which become

Over at Millarworld, Mark is giving it his usual schtick. Okay, am pretty drunk. I downed many Guinnesses as my gang re-watched Spidey 2 tonight (a

There has been a lot of hinting going on... 1) Marvel are publishing The Fallen in April. Does this indicate a major culling of the Marvel Universe? They

Some of you share my love of Doctor Who. Some of you don't. Some just like certain aspects. Some wonder if I write too much about the show on

Recently at the Comics Reporter website, Grant Goggans talked about recent issues that he believes have caused problems with the distriubution of the

The Astonishing X-Men spinoff book S.W.O.R.D. by Kieron Gillen and Steven Sanders has been cancelled from #5 by Marvel. Sorry, folks, I've been enjoying

BissetteWatch: Why not read Steve Bissette's new webcomic King Of Monster Isle? The first five pages are up, so here are the first two... BalletWatch:

What with Volstagg getting blamed for mass murder in Siege, it's probably not the best time to be one of the Warriors Three. But is the new Thor And The

The New York Times ran a piece the other day on Gilberto Sanchez, a man who claims he bought X-Men Origins: Wolverine from a Korean bootleg DVD seller,

LaymanWatch: As Chew enters the New York Times Bestseller List, the paper interviews Layman about the book- and a possible film version. Mr. Layman’s

It looks like British actor Mark Strong is now your Hollywood go-to guy for bad guys. It wasn't always this way. I remember him playing policemen in all

Heroes 4 Haiti is an appeal within the comics industry by comics artists to raise money to benefit the natural disaster in Haiti right now, with a

The vanilla order forms for April have been doing the rounds, and Comics Should Be Good stripped out some of the Marvel stuff; New Avengers Finale #1;

I've written about Bryan Fuller's plans to conclude the cult favourite TV series Pushing Daisies as a graphic novel. Indeed Anna Friel has even talked

I'm honoured to announce that Neil Gaiman, world renowned fantasy and comic book writer, and Amanda Palmer, world renowned singer/songwriter are to be

Lats year BleedingCool reported that the long-awaited Teen Titans:Games by Marv Wolfman and George Perez would be published in October 2010. Well

Martin Conaghan and Will Pickering's graphic novel Burke And Hare has had a nice big splash in today's Scotsman newspaper as well as a feature going out

British advertising magazine Campaign has named The Guardian newspaper's press ad for its week of free classic kids comics, their press ad of the year.

LocalWatch: Scott Hinze of FanBoy Radio gets profiled at DFW. Aside from his Fanboy Radio world, Hinze co-founded the nonprofit Heroes4Heroes, through

Just got back from Arthur Ranson evening at Orbital Comics in London. Free bar, long day and I'm feeling a little bit tired. So I won't be staying up for

This afternoon, New York's  Bomb Squad were called out to the corner of the DC Comics Building, to investigate a suspect package. Bleeding Cool reporter

But you know, it's Amazon. Amazon.co.uk for that matter. Sometimes it's just a placeholder. Sometimes they just make something up. And sometimes they are

BrainFart: Suicide bombers. Fucking idiots, really. I mean, yes, no, no, let's not get ourselves drawn into a philosophical argument about the existence

When Rob Liefeld objected to the "outing" of his character Shatterstar in X-Factor, he stated; As the guy that created, designed and wrote his first dozen

After yesterday's announcement that Gail Simone was to return to Birds Of Prey, and stay on Secret Six, some have wondered if this means that Gail Simone

Paul Levitz used the DC Source blog and io9 to announce and talk about his new Legion Of Superheroes series, with Turkish artist Yildiray Cinar as well as

One is a multi-million dollar movie starring Denzil Washington for 2010, written by a comics writer,  using comic book imagery and artists such as Chris

Artist Rafael Albuquerque runs through the creative process behind the cover to Vertigo's American Vampire written by Scott Snyder and Stephen King. And

By which I mean the competition, obviously. Please. I received a press release from Zenescope's Raven Gregory this morning. Announcing Zenescope Girl of