Rich Johnston Archives

This Saturday sees Drawing the Sword: Samurai in Manga and Anime open at the San Francisco Art Museum until May 2nd, curated by Julian Bermudez. The

After the Final Issues of the Marvel Adventures titles were solicited, Marvel have  announced the relaunch, like Ultimate Comics, just moving the words

ImageWatch: Image are putting out $1 First issues of popular comics in their line in time for FCBD, including The Walking Dead, Spawn, Chew, Invincible,

Okay, looks like printing those Brown Deadpool rings that was once suggested as a fun response to DC's Blackest Night promotion got too pricey for Marvel.

Chris Ryall is the publisher/editor-in-chief at IDW Publishing. He's the man who edits the Angel series, currently written by Bill Willingham. And boy has

From tomorrow, Orbital Comics in London, just off Leicester Square, is hosting an exhibition of the work of Arthur Ranson. An early photorealist artist in

With Diamond Comic Distributors choosing C2E2 and NYCC for trade-only retailer-based events, some industry observers (including me) had presumed that

I really hope I'm not reading too much into the Brightest Day banner. I mean no one, not anyone in any of the exclusive interviews that DC's marketing

Bill Willingham wrote on CBR: By intentionally allowing, encouraging in fact, the notion to exist among the comics reading public, that Whedon and Dark

Because one just Mark Millar story wasn't enough for today. I saw Kick-Ass the other week. And am embargoed to comment on what I saw. But chatting with an

There's no one quite like Mark Millar for hype. Then hyping the hype. Then spinning the hype around until suddenly there it is fully formed and self

With the Source blog for the DC Universe grabbing all the Brightest headlines of late, feel sorry for the relatively-ignored-this-week Vertigo and

TVWatch: Comics books continue to play a leading role in the publicity for Fox's Human Target TV series based on the DC Comic book (and graphic novel

With a Michael Keaton swipe beaming out of DC's The Source blog this morning, DC announced a 26 issue bi-weekly series, Justice League: Generation Lost by

He is the greatest comic book writer that has ever lived. Watchmen, Swamp Thing, 1963, V For Vendetta, League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Big Numbers,

Absolution #6 by Christos Gage and Roberto Viacava is the final issue of this supercop-turned-villain serial killer. Green Lantern meets Dexter, that sort

The trade paperback of No Hero, by Warren Ellis and Juan Jose Ryp, is published by Avatar Press this week, out tomorrow in the US, Thursday in the UK. But

I know it has been a long time since I have contributed to BleedingCool.com and I have been busy.  Actually, writing this column had been a carrot that

It's been well over the mandated 120 days for the lodged lawsuit by Valiant Entertainment Inc against Jim Shooter to be served. And we've seen nary a hair

MuseumWatch: The Victorian And Albert Museum in London is planning a Dundee franchise which will, amongst other things, celebrate and exhibit local

Diamond Comics Distributors have released their end of year bestselling statistics... so what have we learned? 1 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #583 2 BLACKEST NIGHT

So Spider-Man 4 is being delayed, Sam Raimi junked and the franchise rebooted to a teenage Spider-Man - now who do we know who's been remarkable adept at

Okay, that was just weird. Tonight, E4, a relatively small British TV channel owned by Channel 4 (and broadcasters of Misfits), is showing the pilot and

EDF Energy have been running a series of ads by Euro RSCG consisting entirely of recycled clips of other shows. Well, they've just done a Superman

In the recent Dark Horse Dispatch sent to retailers, Buffy The Vampire Slayer editor Scott Allie wrote; Word got out that Twilight, our major villain from

Well that's what I thought when I first found out the news. A few hours before DC announced it.I was all ready to ask DC Comics about it when they got in

We've seen the cover to Buffy The Vampire Slayer #34 featuring the non-twinkly vampire love-of-her-life, Angel. So can we expect the long-awaited

About once every month, I find myself thinking about the films of Andrei Tarkovsky or talking about them with friends. I suppose he’s being held as a kind

Marvel kill Captain America, let his sidekick take over, sent the character in a metaphysical journey through time, eventually returning him to the role.

It's a day for movie switcheroos it seems. And Red, the movie based on Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner's mini-series for Wildstorm, is trading up with one