Rich Johnston Archives

Avatar Press couldn't want for better timing. Variety have announced that Kickstart Comic Art Studios, Michael De Luca Productions, and Kevin Spacey’s

Bleeding Cool yesterday reported on the upcoming rumoured X-Men Versus Vampires event which caused Mark Millar to get all in a tizzy, along with evidence

As Jim Lee just tweeted; jimlee00 How's my article for you today, Rich? It's not bad Jim, it's not bad. Here we go folks... Jim Lee's latest. Had some

That's it. A new series, X-Files/30 Days of Night from DC Comics will be announced at C2E2. Could it be a crossover? Mulder And Scully go to Barrow? DC

In the Heroic Age, as suspected, it looks like Steve Rogers will no longer take the Captain America monker, leaving that to Bucky Barnes to sport. Instead

I never played the famed roleplaying boardgame when young - not that I was above such things, or not nerdy enough, far from it - but I had an evangelical

The Forbes Fictional 15 List, looking at the fifteen richest "living" fiction characters is out. And new entry, straight in at number one, is Carlisle

Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev announced their first Icon book for Marvel Comics on G4's Attack of The Show yesterday, with geek goddess Blair Butler. What

The big news in the UK this morning was that an erupting volcano in Iceland has sent a cloud of volcanic ash across the ocean, into British airspace and

We've all seen that We Are The X-Men image with the bloody stain The X-Men in some perilous danger? Injury? Death? What does the blood signify? And we've

Right now, Bleeding Cool is being slammed by Argentinians trying to find out where Kick Ass is showing near them. How do I know this? Because Bleeding

Yesterday, Jonathan Ross and Tommy Lee Edwards signed Turf #1 at Forbidden Planet in London - the shop notable for taking over a thousand preorders from

Some of the comics coming out in comic shops next week courtesy of PreviewsWorld and I daresay there's a few I'll be looking forward to picking up... 100

The tickertape comes straight from the heart of C2E2... Bleeding Cool just cuts and pastes.

I didn't think I'd see the day. Pat Lee, the man who used Alex Milne and others to ghost artwork for him, denied to publishers that he was using him and

Ah yes, Lady Death. Epitome of nineties Bad Girl comics, at her peak (either of them I suppose), her book sold six figures for Chaos Comics and she became

That Steve Bissette is creating a sequel project to Image's 1963 series should be news. That it's a result of the failure to reprint the 1963 series and

From those nice people at Bluewater, the Margaret Thatcher biographical comic book coming out in July. Bluewater have made their name with all sorts of

These stills are from the new VMAN Magazine "photoshoot" of Shrek characters to promote the upcoming movie. I understand that approval procedures

Novelist Charlie Huston attended a book signing yesterday at a bar in Stockholm, promoting the Swedish editions of his Joe Pitt novels. During the signing

This is the cover to the upcoming Dodgem Logic #3, drawn and painted by Alan Moore. This magazine, featuring Alan's musings on Northampton and stuff and

Got to say I never thought Roger Ebert and the Daily Mail would be on the same page about anything. Famed longstanding American film reviewer Roger Ebert

As we speak, sweaty men are putting together the largest comic convention Chicago has ever seen. With Marvel planning to announce even more projects than

Private Eye is one of my main inspirations for the work I've done on Lying In The Gutters and Bleeding Cool. A fortnightly British magazine, it's a

This recently twittered photo of Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood, as well as tapping into their vain cultured dress sense, looks remarkably ike it was taken on

Oh yeah, no one's actually set up yet. But still. First photos! Woo!!! And that's where the Avatar booth is going to be. You know, for one reason or

It was going to be a big Joe Quesada announcement at C2E2 on Saturday. But it got leaked early. As rumoured earlier today, One Moment In Time by  Joe

On Monday's Lying in The Gutters, I confirmed that Deadpool would join the Secret Avengers - but only in his own book. Ha. And that "for the actual team

Pre-C2E2 rumours are abound over this particular story. Screenwriter Marc Guggenheim leaving the Action Comics book before publication and Paul Cornell

Okay, if you haven't seen the first episode of the new Doctor Who season/series, you may be a bit flummoxed. But stick with it. Bleeding Cool believes