Rich Johnston Archives

It wasn't meant to come out until next month. But Image Comics has surprised everyone by sending the 1200 page paperback collection of Saga, Compendium

There's a common method of illusion to control the position of the observer. Something seen from one angle may be very different when seen from another.

Last night in old London town, a small coterie of comic book creators gather in a pub, with visiting Heavy Metal CEO Jeff Krelitz to look at advance

Bleeding Cool recently reported on the announced bankruptcy of Loot Crate, the monthly subscription boz that spawned an industry of copycats and

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool reported on four of the Mark Bagley Absolute Carnage #1 inside cover sketches. Well, someone is trying to sell theirs on

The final issue of Mirka Andolfo's Unnatural #12, out last week from Image Comics, is to get a second printing for September 18th. It's joined by a few

We wrote about this in June. But now that Superman Year One: Book Two by Frank Miller, John Romita and Danny Miki is published tomorrow, it may be worth

This is the solicited cover to Powers Of X #3, published by Marvel Comics tomorrow, up against Superman: Year One #2 and Batman #77 for the bestselling

As we await to discover all of Marvel Comics’ solicitations for November 2019, here’s a Frankensteining of all the announcements we can find so far…

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

Last week saw the publication of the Megadeth: Death By Design graphic novel. A hardcover monster of a book, published by Heavy Metal Magazine, it is full

James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera's Something Is Killing The Children horror comic from Boom Studios, has now jumped from a mini-series to an ongoing

Shawn Kittelsen (Mortal Kombat 11) and Eric Zawadzki (The Dregs, Eternal) are launching Heart Attack, a new series from Image Comics/Skybound

Jeff Parker's Writer’s Commentary on the Finale of James Bond: Origin #12, on sale now from Dynamite. Here we go, agents, the last issue of Bond’s first

The new Loki series written by Daniel Kibblesmith and spinning out of the recent War Of The Realms is well-timed with a new Loki TV series in the works

Transformers #12 was solicited as being drawn by Kei Zama. Indeed, with a cover by Alez Milne, the solicitation promised 'The return of both Alex Milne

Twelve years ago, One More Day by J. Michael Straczynski and Joe Quesada, was one of the more controversial Spider-Man stories of all time. Concluding

Ian Melton has been very helpfully scanning in and looking at the final-page teases of all the Walmart 100-Page Giant DC Comics titles on the shelves this

The upcoming Miles Morales: Spider-Man #10 marks the 250th comic book starring Miles Morales as Spider-Man. In-story, it's also the character's birthday

Presented at the 2019 World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin last night, the annual Hugo Awards, as voted on by the attendees and supporters of the

Ben Wheatley as a writer and director is best known for his work in the thriller and horror genres, including the psychological horror films Kill List and

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 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

Bleeding Cool gets the word that Valiant Entertainment is to publish two new series - or at least a series and an event. One is called Dead@21, the other

Jan Strnad writes; I learned two things early on in the comics writing business. 1. It's an artists' medium. 2. But not if you're a really great writer

The Harvey Awards have revealed the nominees for their annual comics industry awards in the following six categories, which will be voted on by

Announced at the Image Comics panel at WorldCon in Dublin, earlier today, an original graphic novel Bog Bodies, written by Declan Shalvey (Injection,

Jim Calafiore writes; Not that I wasn't going there already. There's plenty of people who figure my ticket's pretty much punched at this point. But the

Justin Moorhouse is a British comedian who has a new stand-up comedy routine he's touring at the moment. And he sees his children's choice of comic book -

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