Rich Johnston Archives

It was promised last year. Marvel Comics #1000 initially had a much greater tease for a new Young Avengers series, but that was edited back before

The cover solicitation for Red Hood And The Outlaws #38 didn't have any speech balloons on it. But the published one did. A phrase very familiar to mutant

Some people wonder why Marvel Comics publishing plans aren't quite as tied down in relation to their movies as DC Comics' titles tend to be. The big

Comic book creator Tom Pinchuk writes, Greetings and salutations – I'm Tom Pinchuk, a writer who contributed to Heavy Metal's new comedy mag, Soft Wood.

Amy Chu has a Writer's Commentary on KISS: The End's finale, issue #5 published by Dynamite Entertainment yesterday. She writes, Well, hello again! Here

Boom Studios CEO and founder Ross Richie continues to plunge his metaphorical sword into the hopes of Image Comics’ publisher Eric Stephenson to win The

October 30th sees the publication of the Batman Annual #4 by Tom King and Jorge Fornes. And, with his final issue., Batman #85, staring at him on the

The comic book series Dead End Kids from Frank Gogol, Nenad Cviticanin, Sean Rinehart, and Source Point Press has been a bit of a hit on the aftermarket -

The launch of a new mutant era. X-Men #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Leinil Francis Yu, and a plethora of variant covers has dominated the Advance Reorder

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

The Marauders is one of the six titles spinning out of House Of X and Powers Of X, by Gerry Duggan and Matteo Lolli.   And today's House Of

  Kindred, as seen in recent Amazing Spider-Man comics by Nick Spencer and Ryan Ottley, once upon a time, was a human who died and went to hell. He

Roger Fletcher, VP of Sales and Marketing at Diamond Comic Distributors, and who has been with Diamond for 31 years, has left the company. Starting in

For Asterix's 60th anniversary this year, there's a new film, a new comic and a new coin. The Monnaie de Paris is to mint a new Asterix two-Euro coin

Three years ago, Bleeding Cool suggested that the Marvel Comics character Daimon Hellstrom was to make a comeback. A side mention in spoilers for Civil

Everyone loves a collective noun. So many tiny novelty Christmas books have been created cataloguing them all for people to read out in bored company.

When Marvel Comics published Fearless #1, Bleeding Cool reported that it was 'an Actual Feminist Polemic' but that Marvel Fanboys would want it anyway,

With each issue of late, Marvel's Captain America has been getting a little more political. Dropping the Captain America name and colours in favour of the

The titles of House Of X #6 and Power Of X #6 will be I AM NOT ASHAMED OF WHAT I AM and... HOUSE OF X, respectively. But what of Powers Of X #5?# We see

The Hall of Justice first appeared in the Super Friends cartoon, created by background artist Al Gmuer, modelled on Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio. A

Okay, okay, it may not be called 616-continuity anymore. Prime Earth or what have you. But the Wolverine story running in Marvel Comics Presents

Today sees the release of the much-anticipating Black Label title, Harleen, by the remarkably gifted cartoonist and comics artist Stjepan Sejic. Ads for

Incoming #1 is the big Boxing Day publication from Marvel Comics, for the end of the year, an anthology of stories that will set up so much for the year

Jamie McKelvie and Matt Wilson have just concluded their artistic run on The Wicked + The Divine. But what comes next? Well, here's a teaser 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

This is becoming a familiar occurrence on Bleeding Cool – big news about new Batman scribe James Tynion IV. We were the first to tell you that Something

Cong: Gorilla Warfare is a mystery new comic book, to be unveiled at New York Comic Con from AWA Studios. All we have is this cover from Rahzzah which

Dark Horse Comics has issued press attending New York Comic Con with an opportunity amongst many others, to interview Peter Milligan regarding a project

Ryan Stegman is insanely hot property right now, after his work on Venom and Absolute Carnage has impressed everyone who has looked at it. Even Andrew

AWA or Artists, Writers & Artisans Inc is a new comic book publisher from former Marvel publisher Bill Jemas and former EIC Axel Alonso that Bleeding