Rich Johnston Archives

Welcome to Thank FOC It’s Friday Sunday, a semi-weekly mailing list, similar to The Daily LITG, but (mostly) every Friday and planned to coincide and

So Marvel Comics published Incoming #1 yesterday. With codes and conundrums to be deciphered. The first was deciphered in the comic by Mister Fantastic

Bleeding Cool and 1First Comics are proud to present a special preview of Dan Schaffer’s latest book, Dogwitch: The Whole Shebang to peruse over the

In February, British railway passengers will be the recipient of a free comic book, being handed out at train stations across the country. Taking the

In recent months, Bleeding Cool has highlighted a new comic book, Supermom: Expecting Trouble, by Gordon Mclean. On the 16th of December, Mclean wrote a

You remember how the Phantom Menace began, with trade delegations and intergalactic civil service procedure? Well, next Wednesday's X-Men #4 by Jonathan

Yesterday's publication of Incoming #1 saw Al Ewing, Humberto Ramos, Dan Slott, Luciano Veccho, Espen Gundetjern, Francesco Manna and Edgar Delgado, kick

Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail

Mister Sinister is one of the Quiet Council of Krakoa. The Victorian geneticist behind Madelyne Pryor. Inferno, Hope Summers and constantly messing with

Marvel and DC Comics took the week off from Final Order Cut-Offslast week - and this week too. You had a couple of rogue Marvel second printings and

Marvel Comics have often enjoyed a politician to play off, especially when they have a point. Senator Robert Kelly is probably the classic example

This morning, Bleeding Cool looked at the identities of a couple of figures in Marvel's Incoming #1, out today. Bel-Dann and Raksor. Whose early

Last week, Mark Millar's mystery comic book from Netflix/Image Comics shipped to comic book stores, and revealed on Bleeding Cool as the long-awaited

Up for FOC this week is a second printing of  Devil's Due Comics' Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force Squad Special Limited to 500 copies,

Today sees a new Spider-Ham comic book come to Marvel, about a year after it really should have come out, after Into The Spider-Verse. At least it's

Doctor Strange: Surgeon Supreme #1 has given Stephen Strange his manual dexterity back, and with that has seen him return to a dazzling surgeon skill. And

Absolute Carnage ended with victory-ish, Carnage killed at the hands of a certain Dylan Brock. It was quite a thing. Or was it? It did meant that

Today sees the release of Marvel's Incoming #1, setting out the near future of the Marvel Universe into 2020. We had plenty of thoughts about what this

Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail

Bleeding Cool has been fascinated by the long-running legal fight between billionaire Marvel Chair Ike Perlmutter and Canadian millionaire Harold

We always like to keep an eye on trademarks by comic book companies with big multi-media presences. Because if they go to the bother of trademarking them,

Bumble is a location-based social and dating application that facilitates communication between interested users. Notably, for heterosexual matches, it

When it was announced and first published, Doomsday Clock, the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen by Gary Frank and Geoff Johns, was intended to portray the

One year ago, Bleeding Cool was the first to mention the phrase 'connective tissue' in relation to the comics industry, and how it would be a watchword

It's Christmas Day, Have you noticed? Here are how a few comic book (and related) folk are celebrating the season. We begin with Christmas visuals from

Declan Shalvey is a generous man. He and Gavin Fullerton have been selling their ashcan of his upcoming Bog Bodies graphic novel at recent UK and Ireland

Donny Cates brought his cosmic storylines to a conclusion with last week’s Guardians Of The Galaxy, Bringing back plenty of his artists from Silver

Next week sees the release of Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor: Season Two #1 comic book by Jody Houser and Roberta Ingranata from Titan Comics. And, for

Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail

It's Christmas Eve. The traditional time to gather around a roaring fire, roasting mince pies, supping mulled wine, and leafing through legal paperwork