Rich Johnston Archives

Two weeks' worth of Advance Reorders below (I may have forgotten last week's) with Power Rangers #1 topping this week, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

Results will vary store to store, of course. Some comic book stores that have signed up to Lunar Distribution (soon to be all of them) received

There is but one X Of Swords title published this week from Marvel Comics, but it's a big one. X Of Swords: Stasis #1 by Jonathan Hickman, Tini Howard,

Welcome to the Daily LITG. The world can seem like a terrible and strange place sometimes, but there are highlights. And at Bleeding Cool you can still

As seen in today's DC Comics monthly titles, a new DC Comics public service announcement, with all their characters wearing facemasks. Now, I am not

Yes, yes, it's been Batman: Three Jokers Day today. But what do we know? Joe Chill killed Thomas and Martha Wayne in Crime Alley, after the Wayne's had

In July, Bleeding Cool scooped the news that Chris Ryall was leaving  IDW Publishing as Chief Creative Officer, President and Publisher, after many years

As we mentioned earlier today, in the seventies, Barbara Gordon junked being Batgirl in favour of going into politics, getting elected to the Houce Of

Bleeding Cool told you yesterday that Batman: The Three Jokers #3 by Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok worked as a direct sequel to Batman: The Killing Joke by

In the tease for upcoming Future State two-month band-aid replacement for 5G from DC Comics, it has been repeatedly stated that Future State will be set

In Batman: The Three Jokers #2 by Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok, Jason Todd and Barbara Gordon - Red Hood and Batgirl, shared a moment. It didn't end well.

It's Chris Claremont time! We started running reports on just what Marvel Made was at the beginning of the year. Our guesses were wrong - but they weren't

So who is Mon-El anyway? In the Superman comics in the nineteen-fifties, Halk-Kar was an alien who crash-lands as an amnesiac alien on Earth in a

Jaime Hernandez is best known as one of the Hernandez brothers, creators of the ongoing anthology comic book series, Love & Rockets. But Jaime has

The famous Jack Kirby adage to the young James Romberberg, wanting to work in the comic book industry, was "Comics will break your heart." The idea that

That Gotham Police Commissioner Jim Gordon would not recognise Batgirl as being his daughter, Barbara Gordon, has stretched the suspension of disbelief

So there is a Presidential Election coming and it's time to look at the FEC Filings for political donations for those who declare their employment from DC

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During online discussion of the Netflix Sandman series (currently filming), Sandman creator Neil Gaiman said that "The plan is to tell the whole story,

John Stanisci and Emma Kubert are currently crowdfunding for a new comic book series, Foundlings, a dystopian young adult comic book series in the vein of

This week sees the publication of the final chapter of the long-awaited Batman: Three Jokers by Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok. Now, the similarity between

Hitoma Iruma and Moke Yuzuhara's Adachi And Shimamura kicks off Yen Press and their January 2021 solicitations through comic book stores. Plenty to delve

Recently, DC Comics and UCS Comic Distributors have parted ways. UCS is one of two distributors set up with DC Comics from two of DC's biggest comic book

Naoki Urasawa's Asafora leads Viz Media LLC's listings for January 2021, through direct market comic book shops in North America. And as well as the

  As we informed you over the weekend, in partnership with ComicsPRO, publishers have started announcing their offerings for Local Comic Shop Day

Kodansha is collecting "definitively" the Sailor Moon prequel, Sailor V by Naoko Takeuchi, in two Engliahs language volumes both in January 2021. Here is

There are a lot of Marvel Comics solicitations changes coming down the pipe. Some see comic book creators get a helping hand with schedules. Others occur

Behemoth is saying goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021 with a one-shot comic called... 2020. By Nicolas Brondo. Is that a bit too much on the nose? And they

Welcome to the Daily LITG. The world can seem like a terrible and strange place sometimes, but there are highlights. And at Bleeding Cool you can still

Providence Compendium, the complete collection of Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows' Providence, a reinventing and encapsulating of the stories of HP Lovecraft