Rich Johnston Archives

Your First Look At Boom's Batman

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported on a rumor that Boom! Studios is preparing to launch a new superhero series deconstructing Batman and the Joker, in the

Talking To Ed Brubaker On His Five Year Deal With Image, The Fade Out And The Winter Soldier – At Image Expo

By Kevin Schmidt One of the most exciting announcements at ImageEXPO was the announcement of Sean Phillips and Ed Brubaker’s groundbreaking new

Mad Magazine To Stay In New York?

So DC Comics is set to move its entire operation to Burbank, part of the Warner Bros studios. It should happen in April 2015. But there's one group of

Live Blogging The Garry Leach Miracleman #1 Signing

Here we are, live at the Orbital Comics signing for Miracleman #1, published today, from Marvel Comics.... updates as they come in. We are all awaiting

So, How Funny Does Your Retailer Find This Joke In Deadpool: The Gauntlet?

From Deadpool: The Gauntlet. Extolling digital comics over the "dated and dying medium of print". With an asterisk to point out that it's only a joke, and

Why Miracleman Matters, Thirty Years On

This morning I talked to a shop assistant at Orbital Comics who was reading Miracleman for the first time. Because, today sees the publication of

Fifty-Two Thoughts About Fifty-Two Comics – Ghosted, Rat Queens, Black Dynamite, Dark Angel, TMNT, Skyman, Superior Spider-Man, Illegitimates, Justice League 3000, Ben 10, Peabody And Sherman, My Little Pony, Suicide Squad, World's Finest, Harbinger, Night Of The Living Deadpool, Stitched, Gravel, Crossed, Deadpool: The Gauntlet, The Curse, Archer & Armstrong, Secret Avengers, Batgirl, God Is Dead, Imagine Agents, Astro City, Nightwing, Carbon Grey, Peter Panzerfaust, Velvet, Alex+Ada, Darth Vader, Kiss Me Satan, Clown Fatale, BPRD, Fantastic Four, Catacylsm: Ultimates, Daredevil, X-Force, Egos, X, X-Men Legacy, 3 Guns, Adventure Time, Voice In The Dark, L'il Battlestar Galactica, Miss Fury, Next Testament, Unity, Popeye, Transformers And Regular Show (UPDATE)

Okay, I've taken the kids to school, and popped into town for this week's comics and settled down at the Waterstone's Piccadilly fifth floor with its

All Your Superior Spider-Man #25 Spoilers In One Place

So there are spoilers going in. Big honking ones. Admittedly, possibly only the ones you've read at the New York Post, or whatever, but we're doing a

The Beast – From Atheist To Agnostic

It wasn't long ago that we talked about what we saw as the Beast's very silly atheism. Not believing in heaven and hell, even though he'd been there.

When A Security Guard Told Lex Luthor That Superman And Wonder Woman Were "Doing It"

So, in the last issue of Superman/Wonder Woman, the world found out about... Superman and Wonder Woman. And the inevitable happened. Exactly. And how did

A Comic Show – When You Leave Your Copy Of Miracleman in The Store Bathroom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxGISfvrFvw Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes, Hey Fandom! I'm back with more new comics now! This

Trapped In The Sandman – Exhibitions This Month In San Francisco And Tunbridge Wells

Two exhibitions on two continents. The first celebrates the work of Dave McKean, celebrated artist of, amongst many other things, the covers to Sandman.

Chris Claremont And Todd Nauck On New Nightcrawler Comic?

Well, this is something. Famously, Chris Claremont works under an exclusive writer contract with Marvel Comics. They pay him for the privilege. Except

Amazing Spider-Man Infinite Comics From Dan Slott, Joshua Fialkov And Juan Bobillo For April (SPOILER UPDATE)

Thanks to the anonymous retailer who sent this in. And, no, I don't mean the scanned panels of Superior Spider-Man #25. Sorry, I can't run those, too much

DC Comics Confirms Dan Jurgens On Aquaman And The Others

Okay, well, we kinda knew this was coming. Dan Jurgens on Aquaman And The Others, the rumour built over the weekend. And DC's PR department let IGN know,