Rich Johnston Archives

I have no idea why. There certainly still seem to be copies on shelves of Walmart across the USA. But the Detective Comics 80th Anniversary Giant #1

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

Donny Cates has been fulfilling a life's ambition to write Venom. He even got to draw Venom for a Midtown Comics variant cover that now goes for silly

Before Christmas, comic creator Mark Millar's young daughter lost her teddy bear - a 37-year old family heirloom - a ski-suit shop in Santa's Lapland in

It's a take of two Brians. Superman #19, featuring the continued story of Superman's secret identity reveal from Brian Bendis, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado,

The Star Wars: Rise Of Kylo Ren comic book, published by Marvel Comics alongside the Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker movie, tells the earlier stories of Kylo

We've had quite the time reading and re-reading Marvel's Incoming #1, published this past week. We've analysed what we think 'Beware The Trees' means. We

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Did Ike Perlmutter Help Get Trump to Pause Chinese Trade Taxes and Tariffs for Toys?

Two recent court cases related to the ongoing legal issues between Marvel chair Ike Perlmutter and Canadian tycoon Harold Peerenboom have gone against

Last October's MCM London Comic Con had Jim Shooter as a guest. Former teenage writer of Legion Of Super-Heroes, Editor-In-Chief of Marvel Comics, writer

Dinesh Shamdasani used to be CEO and CCO of Valiant Entertainment until the firm was bought out by DMG. Still producer on the Bloodshot move, he has set

Last October's MCM London Comic Con had Jim Shooter as a guest. Former teenage writer of Legion Of Super-Heroes, Editor-In-Chief of Marvel Comics, writer

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At New York Comic Con 2018,  Bleeding Cool was first to report that Marvel Comics were promising a Skrully event for February. It looked as if it were a

Marvel is the new series curated by Alex Ross, in the Marvels style. Alex Ross is painting the first issue, and curating the others with Kurt Busiek, with

February sees the beginning of a new Gwen Stacy comic book series, set in the high school years before Spider-Man... happened. By Christos Gage and Todd

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

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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