Rich Johnston Archives

No title as of yet. But Scott Snyder and Charles Soule have been teasing lots of stuff about new creator-owned comic books together. And today we got the

Bleeding Cool ran an article the other week about French comics writer David Blot, and his graphic novel published eight years ago called 'Yesterday' -

Marvel Comics are making a standard amount of comics out in July and August available for retailer exclusive variant covers. But these days, Marvel Comics

Ooh look. We have unlettered previews to Loki #1, Jane Foster: Valkyrie #1 and previously unseen covers from War Of The Realms spinoffs... first a look at

Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy #1 by Jody Houser and Adriana Melo is spinning out of Heroes In Crisis and it's one of the rare book that DC Comics will be

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

Fantagraphics will be bringing plenty of their cartoonists to San Diego Comic Con, hanging around Booth #1721. They also have a number of books debuting

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Yesterday, Bleeding Cool got the word that MAD Magazine published by DC Comics was to cease publication with Vol 2 issue 10. The venerable American

Yesterday we got to read Image Comics publisher Eric Stephenson on The Walking Dead #193 by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard. Today we get to hear him

  Today's launch of Lois Lane #1 by Greg Rucka and Mike Perkins from DC Comics may not have hit the headlines as much as a certain end of a zombie

I'm starting to get the feeling that, ahead of Jonathan Hickman restarting the mutant books at Marvel Comics, the creative team are doing whatever they

It has been noted that the US police and members of the US armed forces often seem to have an affinity for Marvel Comics' The Punisher character. A

Bleeding Cool pointed out that yesterday The Walking Dead #193 had sold out from Diamond Comic Distributors despite a very generous overprint and

He's done it everywhere else. But mostly at Thought Bubble in Leeds. And now The Wicked + The Divine's Kieron Gillen is to DJ at San Diego Comic-Con at

Prices of the DC Giant 100-Page Walmart Exclusives have been known to jump on the aftermarket. Comic stores in the UK who get them on the grey market,

There are a bunch of Marvel Comics going through second printings right now. And even some that aren't. The War Of The Realms #6 final issue is getting a

Originally Captain America #12 was solicited by Marvel Comics for the 19th of June. Instead, we had Captain America #11, as the series has continued to

Do you remember Marvel Comics' 25th Anniversary Covers? Back when they counted their beginnings in 1961 and the publication of The Fantastic Four? Then

How have you read The Walking Dead? It may change your take on one particular scene in The Walking Dead #193. If you have read the collections, you will

We told you before that Marvel Comics was to overship the launch issue of the new series Loki #1 by 100%. However, we have now been informed that this

Reading two green books today... Immortal Hulk #20 and The Green Lantern #9, they seem to merge together slightly. While in Immortal Hulk #20 by the

Do you remember the Convergence event at DC Comics, where every comic was replaced with a two-issue Convergence mini-series, all of which began the same

Marvel Comics has run tributes to a number of comic book creators who have passed away in their pages in recent years. But this may be the first time they

Running through Marvel Comics' titles in July, and in memorium of the man's life, will be another of Stan Lee's Soapbox columns originally published in

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Once upon a time, in 1981, Dave Thorpe was writing original Captain Britain comic strips for Marvel UK's monthly Marvel Superheroes title, drawn by

Dynamite may be wanting people to draw pretty pictures of Vampirella, but smaller comcis publisher Mad Cave Studios is looking for comic book writers and

The Walking Dead #194 was solicited with the first appearance of a new character who had a similar look to Rick Grimes, one Sheriff Kapoor. And we know

Absolute Carnage will continue its spread of titles through the year, and it seems will include a new one-shot or series starting in October, Absolute