Rich Johnston Archives

Yesterday evening I snuggled down with the family to watch His Dark Materials on the BBC. The kids were all ready for bed, the fire was raging,

We mentioned that it had been a long time coming. But now we have pages, and a date. The Clock #1 by Matt Hawkins and Colleen Doran, for January 2020,

  Biscuits (assorted) is the working title for a graphic novel due to be published next year by Jenny Robins from Myriad Editions. She is still

We love to check in with our friend Marc Jackson ahead of Thought Bubble to check in with his latest project. And this year round, that is the launch

Ram V, Dan Watters, Alex Paknadel and Ryan O'Sullivan make up the London writers' studio White Noise. And they were at the MCM London Comic Con a week or

This weekend is Thought Bubble. Bleeding Cool will be lifting its wearing legs from that London, don't you know and travelling far North to Harrogate,

A few Marvel Comics changes that slipped between a crack or two... Conan: Serpent War #2 will now be drawn by Vanessa Del Rey, along with the solicited

  Simon Roy (Prophet) and author Daniel M. Bensen (Junction) team up with artists Artyom Trakhanov (Turncoat), Jason Wordie (God Country), and Hassan

Guardians Of The Galaxy #12 is pitched as the finale of Donny Cates' cosmic storylines, stating 'Thanos Wins...Cosmic Ghost Rider...The Death of the

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

A lot of people dismiss superhero comic books as nothing more than people in naked body-hugging lycra beating each other up, delivering a visceral thrill

The director of Terminator: Dark Fate Tim Miller talked to Screen Crush about the writing process on the new movie, and the writers involved. The reported

We looked at Warren Ellis' teasing of his new Netflix series Heaven's Forest in his newsletter last week, announced officially this week. Netflix has

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

Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen came to an end in a riotous iconoclastic fashion this year with The Tempest. And Gosh

Stumptown is a TV crime series that debuted on ABC this year, based on the comic book series of the same name, created by Greg Rucka, Matthew Southworth,

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for some reasons, their names were missing from the Black Box January 2020 solicitations. But Bleeding Cool is here to put them back. Project Icarus, a

Twin Worlds is a new sci-fi comic launching from Action Lab in January from software engineer Rami Al-ashqar and Green Hornet artist Jethro Morales. And

Ken Stewart of Gamers' Palace Comics and Games is a big fan of Magic: The Gathering. So why is he stopping? He writes, Magic: The Gathering was great,

We like to keep an eye on Jean-Marc Lofficier‘s Hexagon Comics USA line, European comics mostly written by Jean-Marc Lofficier, translated into English

In 2008, Saga's Brian K Vaughan's screenplay Roundtable made it onto the Black List, an annual collection of screenplays deemed excellent - but unmade.

Planet Comics was a science fiction comic book title published by Fiction House, 73 issues published from January 1940 to Winter 1953. The first comic

Stabbity Bunny, the hit comic from Scout Comics, was put on pause over ill health but now it's back from Richard Rivera and Dwayne Biddix for 2020. And

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In a world in which Marvel Comics has been shown to repeatedly remove Donald Trump jokes made by its creators, DC Comics may be taking another tack.

Courtesy of our good friend Guido Sardella who attended Lucca Comics And Games in Italy, we have a look inside the pages of the Batman/Dylan Dog #0

We mentioned that Immortal Hulk #25 was getting a second printing this week from Marvel. Well, it appears to have been joined in that mission by Absolute

Things to do in London in November 2019… if you like comics, of course. Exhibitions followed by events… let us know if we missed any. Exhibitions: Philip

It is possibly the longest-running comic book adaptation. But the BBC's adaptation of comic book strip Clare In the Community has come to an end with its