Rich Johnston Archives

The debut issue of the comic book series Bang! by Matt Kindt and Wilfredo Torres is going back to press for a third printing, with a new cover by David

Okay, so lots of rumours and gossip came out of C2E2, and as ever I usually start to get to hear them on the Sunday night of the show, when lips are

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what

Last week, Bleeding Cool ran the fun idea that Punchline's actual first appearance could have been in Harley Quinn And The Birds Of Prey #1 by Jimmy

Bleeding Cool has been covering the transformation of Orbital Comics, one of the three central London comic book shops, away from a store that relies on a

Okay, so yesterday's Doctor Who finale exploded quite a bit. Lots of people delighted, lots of people crying foul, and lots of people arguing about things

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Things to do in London in March 2020… if you like comics, of course. And live in, or can get to, that there London. Exhibitions followed by events… let us

Apropos of nothing, let's rewatch a certain clip from Doctor Who: Brain Of Morbius that everyone suddenly wants to rewatch. The fifth serial of the 13th

We've all just seen the Doctor Who finale, The Timeless Children, over in the UK. And let's say, while it answered some questions it asked others, and

We've all just seen the Doctor Who finale, The Timeless Children, over in the UK. And let's say, while it answered some questions it asked others, and

Well... that was no Robots of Sherwood. We've all just seen the Doctor Who finale, The Timeless Children, over in the UK. And let's say, while it answered

This weekend saw Universal go all out for James Bond: No Time To Die, with livery all over the London Film And Comic Con - Spring edition at Kensington

Mad weekend, Onward yesterday morning, Forbidden Planet signing and pub afterwards, covering C2E2 and today heading to the final day of the London Film

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At the big Marvel Comics panel at C2E2 in Chicago, Venom writer Donny Cates was on hand to talk about upcoming Venom storylines - and make some

Today sees Marvel Comics running an new impromptu Empyre panel, to directly follow the scheduled Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes Exhibit Preview, with

Once upon a time, Thomas Nachlik drew a comic book I wrote called The Flying Friar. Smallville in 16th century Italy. It was a thing. He's much better

Just on a whim, what with the coronavirus and all, I looked at Airbnb rates for Venice, at the epicentre of European pandemic infection right now. They

Bleeding Cool has got the word that Marvel is planning on giving away the secret "True Believers" black and white variants to Marvel super fans in Chicago

As backorders continue to come in, Batman #90 has sold out At a distributor and publisher level, ahead of its March 4th on-sale date in comic stores. And

This afternoon, Forbidden Planet Megastore in London was host to a signing for the new Death’s Head original series collection that was a real murderer’s

It was probably the shot early on in Onward, the new Pixar movie about a suburban family of elves (and a centaur step dad figure) in a fantasy land that

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BBC 2 is showing the latest episode of comedian Frankie Boyle’s wander around Scotland mixing up encounters and stand up comedy. And tonight that included

James Haick, President of Scout Comics writes about a new product launch at ComicsPRO last weekend. You can catch up with all of Bleeding Cool's ComicsPRO

On the floor of C2E2, Graphitti Designs are selling special foil-covered versions of next week's Flash #750 a week early - and for $25. Well, I've just

Warner Bros and DC are to host the New York premiere screening of Superman: Red Son, based on the comic by Mark Millar and Dave Johnson, at 7pm, March

Oni Press is adding multiple collections of big-name webcomics  to their 2020 publishing slate. Following up on this month's release of Valerie Minelli's

Warren Ellis, Bryan Hitch and Kevin Nowlan are halfway through their series The Batman's Grave, and are going to take a planned month's publishing break