Rich Johnston Archives

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I have been an admirer of the work of Alan Moore, before I knew who he was, that he was the one who wrote my favourite Captain Britain and 2000AD stories.

The conclusion to "City of Bane" arrives in Batman #85, the final chapter that both brings Tom King's acclaimed run on the series to a close, before he

Dynamite Entertainment has, in recent months, taken to running a lot of tiered variant covers for Final Order Cut-Off week. Variant covers that retailers

Bleeding Cool mentioned the other day that Clover Press had grabbed the license from Will Eisner's The Spirit from Dynamite and was publishing a new line

Artists, Writers and Artisans LLC, the new New York comics publishing company set up by Bill Jemas and Axel Alonso, has its first Diamond listings, and

FINGER GUNS #1 CVR A FLIP COVER DEC191972 (W) Sabs Cooper, Justin Richards (A) Val Halvorson (CA) Arjuna Susini Two troubled teenagers discover they can

A few DC Comics titles that are slipping down the schedules. Well, we knew that Batman Vs Ra's Al Ghul by Neal Adams has seen its fourth issue slip from

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

Two new titles launching from Mad Cave Studios in February, David Galiano and Carlos Angeli's Savage Bastards and Mark London, Michael Camelo and Rob

Time to launch Image Comics' full solicitations for February 2020 - and it begins with a revisit to one of the publisher's very first productions...

David Furr and Joesph Olesco are launching their new comic book with Antarctic Press, Crimson Scorpion, CRIMSON SCORPION #1 DEC191406 (W) David Furr (A)

Stuart Moore, June Brigman and Roy Richardson are launching a second season of their cats-in-space comic book Captain Ginger, as well as a collection of

AfterShock Comics is launching three titles in February 2020, The Man Who Effed Up Time by Chew's John Layman and Karl Mostert, Godkillers by Mark Sable

Argus is a time travel action-adventure comic book coming out from Action Lab in February 2020, from Knowledge, Scum of The Earth and Breakneck's Mark

Is anyone getting board of this? Seems not. Another Cerebus In Hell oneshot, taking the etchings of Gustave Dore and slapping cut-and-past Cerebus images

Oni Press is publishing its penultimate Rick And Morty comic book in February 2020, with the finale of The Rickoning to run in March. But what will be

The covers are yet to pop through. But we do have further details of the Tenth Doctor/Thirteenth Doctor crossover for Titan Comics' Doctor Who: The

Brand new turtle Jennika gets her own mini-series in February from IDW, alongside all their other offerings for February, including a run of Valentine's

Next week's Diamond Previews catalogue, will have Si Spurrier and Chris Wildgoose's sci-fi new comic about teenage alienation on the cover, Alienation

Before there were videos, DVD, Blu-Rays or streaming, if you saw (or missed) an episode of Doctor Who, there was only one way to revisit it (or see it in

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

s the Marvel/DC-style war for supremacy in creator-owned comics has escalated between Boom Studios and Image Comics this year (at least in Boom Studios'

Chuck Brown and Francesco "Prenzy" Chiappara are to launch a new comic book series, On The Stump, to be published by Image Comics in February 2020,

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

Here's a look at Scout Comics' line-up for February 2020 and it begins with a couple of prominent launches... ADVENTURES OF BYRON #1 Written and

Man, that's rough. Damage was one of the New Age Of DC Heroes/Dark Matter titles, created in an artist-first mood that Dan DiDio was in at the time, with

DC Comics is adding a new title to the DC Giants line, after cancelling DC War Giant and Teen Titans Go Giant before the details even came through.

Marvel Comics just put out a blank green variant cover for Immortal Hulk #25 that is going for big bucks on eBay. DC Comics would clearly like a little of

A few years ago, I was talking to Mike Lake, co-founder of Forbidden Planet and Titan, about his difficulty in getting a James Bond comic book published.