Rich Johnston Archives

I Fakt You, Right In The Face: So. We've all heard that one about the ice-hearted sleazy government fuckoids who have, using arcane Mathematical

We saw her dancing at the launch party of Dodgem Logic. Well now she's adorning one of the covers to the second issue, three in all.  Say a big hello to

The cover indicated that Superman was joining the team. But that annoying question mark meant it was never really going to happen, was it? And it caused

The current Nation X storyline in Uncanny X-Men will be collected in a nice oversized hardcover in the summer. $34.99 in the US, £25.99 in the UK. And

How to approach the fantastic. Do you compare and contrast with the mundane, being restrained, giving people a glimpse of the impossible? Or do you go

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

The piece on the Graphic Content blog the other day made me realise that no one has really done a look at the bars in Manhattan most frequented by the

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