Rich Johnston Archives

Okay so let's do the maths, shall we? The Wonder Woman series that began in 1942 ended in 2011 with #614, written by Joe Michael Straczynski and Phil

Andrew Maxwell writes, What if during prohibition, rum runners and bootleggers took to the sky to avoid dry laws? Why worry about the rule of law when you

David Avallone's Writer's Commentary on Bettie Page's Hallowe'en Special 2019, on sale now from Dynamite. I can’t believe it was a year ago that we

Boaz Dror writes, Finally, a series about brain-sucking-mullets that explains everything!! In the late 90’s, while working as a video clerk in Austin,

Matthew Lewis of Mcminnville, Tennessee, is better known online as prominent Comicgate figure That Umbrella Guy. It's a name he has used as an identity

Back in the late noughties, Peter Milligan wrote a comic book for WildStorm called Zombistas!, described as a zombie-story set in Mexico and California

It is possible that the new series of Vagrant Queen may challenge this. But tomorrow, with the publication of Money Shot #1 from raunchy feminist comedian

Bleeding Cool was the first to break the news that 5G existed, and then in the light of the DC Nation Panel, what it was. The Fifth Generation of DC

As Vagrant Queen becomes a TV show from Syfy next year, so the publishers and creators of the comic book it is based on are going back to the well...

Marvel Comics is to publish a collection of the first six issues of all of the new Dawn of X books, the X-Men comics showrun by Jonathan Hickman. Priced

Bleeding Cool was the first to break the news that 5G existed, and then in the light of the DC Nation Panel, what it was. The Fifth Generation of DC

At the end of Doctor Doom #1, Victor Von Doom has been captured by international forces after being framed for a terrorist atrocity on the moon, killing

In 1991, Mike Mignola attended the Great Salt Lake Comic Convention and a short biography appeared of him in the convention booklet. It also featured a

There I was thinking The Comic Bug was actually Mike Wellman's own comic book store. With two Los Angeles outlets, he was always one of the most active

Matthew Roybal is the Managing editor at Foreign Comic Collector Magazine. He made a discovery the other day, which he was gracious to allow Bleeding Cool

Last week we told you that comic shop retailers were the ones generating quite a bit of buzz for Matt Kindt and Matt Smith’s Folklords #1, their new

Back in 2016, Top Cow Publisher and President Matt Hawkins posted; What would happen if people started dying around the world in record numbers from

I've known Joseph Elliott-Coleman for donkey's years. A group comic book fans in London who met at the pub once a week in the early noughties. spinning

The final new comic book day of 2019 will be on Boxing Day, Thursday, December the 26th, the day after Christmas. There will be reduced comic books out

Some comic conventions are about comics. Some about wrestlers. Many are somewhere in between. But Lake Como Comic Con is about artwork. The guests are all

Well, this is a bargain and no mistake. It may not be Hallowe'en yet, let along Bonfire Night, but Christmas has already come to British stores. Packs of

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

We mentioned that Dave Sim, Cerebus creator, had yet another of his Cerebus In Hell one-shots, Vark-Thing which, if counted alongside his original Cerebus

The City University of London is launching a new module for their English Master Of Arts degree, which will allow students to make more choices by looking

Bane co-creator Chuck Dixon has two horror novels coming out for Hallowe'en. So he's decided to release them together as one, a double pack on Amazon

Recently, Marvel Chair Ike Perlmutter received a demotion of sorts. One of Disney's largest shareholders, and a key figure in moving Marvel Comics out of

Iron Man 2020 begins with a new #1 in January 2020 from Marvel Comics, with Arno Stark in the titular costume. But in months to come there are more series

Marvel Comics will announce their full January 2020 solicitations this week, but as ever, we just can’t wait, so have Frankensteined a few of them

Created by Whilce Portacio and John Byrne for Uncanny X-Men #282, published in 1991, Bishop was a time-travelling mutant from the future with a mission.

Bleeding Cool has been of late not just reporting Diamond's Top 500 ordered comics and graphic novels by North American comic book stores, but also