Rich Johnston Archives

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

Up for FOC this week is a second printing of  Devil's Due Comics' Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force Squad Special Limited to 500 copies,

Today sees a new Spider-Ham comic book come to Marvel, about a year after it really should have come out, after Into The Spider-Verse. At least it's

Doctor Strange: Surgeon Supreme #1 has given Stephen Strange his manual dexterity back, and with that has seen him return to a dazzling surgeon skill. And

Absolute Carnage ended with victory-ish, Carnage killed at the hands of a certain Dylan Brock. It was quite a thing. Or was it? It did meant that

Today sees the release of Marvel's Incoming #1, setting out the near future of the Marvel Universe into 2020. We had plenty of thoughts about what this

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Bleeding Cool has been fascinated by the long-running legal fight between billionaire Marvel Chair Ike Perlmutter and Canadian millionaire Harold

We always like to keep an eye on trademarks by comic book companies with big multi-media presences. Because if they go to the bother of trademarking them,

Bumble is a location-based social and dating application that facilitates communication between interested users. Notably, for heterosexual matches, it

When it was announced and first published, Doomsday Clock, the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen by Gary Frank and Geoff Johns, was intended to portray the

One year ago, Bleeding Cool was the first to mention the phrase 'connective tissue' in relation to the comics industry, and how it would be a watchword

It's Christmas Day, Have you noticed? Here are how a few comic book (and related) folk are celebrating the season. We begin with Christmas visuals from

Declan Shalvey is a generous man. He and Gavin Fullerton have been selling their ashcan of his upcoming Bog Bodies graphic novel at recent UK and Ireland

Donny Cates brought his cosmic storylines to a conclusion with last week’s Guardians Of The Galaxy, Bringing back plenty of his artists from Silver

Next week sees the release of Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor: Season Two #1 comic book by Jody Houser and Roberta Ingranata from Titan Comics. And, for

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It's Christmas Eve. The traditional time to gather around a roaring fire, roasting mince pies, supping mulled wine, and leafing through legal paperwork

This is a major opportunity for the New Year... an extremely high-quality Giclee print of the late Bernie Wrightson Frankenstein art piece, the original

Long-standing Spawn fans may recall that the character of Cyan, the daughter of Wanda Simmons and Terry Fitzgerald, was named after Todd McFarlane's own

Doomsday Clock is an unauthorised sequel to Watchmen, by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, published by DC Comics, and concluding with this week's long-awaited

I normally wait until the New Year is a little closer. Or even been. But I'm taking the kids ice skating today, and then going to a carol service, so

Comics and Cards was a comic book store that closed in Tifton, Georgia back in 2018, after 25 years. But for committed comic book fan Scott Beasley, that

After fans gave a lot of love to seeing Elias Chatzoudis using Copic markers to create Vampirella sketches online, editorial at Dynamite asked if he could