Rich Johnston Archives

Last week we pointed out that Shazam #7 was slipping another week to the 4th September, which now made it twelve weeks late. But that the following issues

Scott Snyder recently became a dad again. Everyone go 'awwwww'. And while he was able to fit in a trip to Sam Diego Comic-Con with everyone to launch his

Currently Bruce Banner is going through a bit of a crisis concerning hi identity over in The Immortal Hulk comic book series by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett

This is the solicitation for Buffy The Vampire Slayer #7, out today. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #7 CVR A MAIN ASPINALL (W) Jordie Bellaire (A) David Lopez,

Today is the world of disruption. Companies that come along and upturn the apple carts, changing industries overnight and destroying ways of practice that

The Dark Gifts have come to the DC Year Of The Villain. The Offer was made by Lex Luthor, interminably through July, in August we get to see what everyone

The Punisher is a classic, character created by Gerry Conway, John Romita, Sr, and Ross Andru for Amazing Spider-Man in 1974, his origin written soon

In the first issue of Lois Lane #1 by Greg Rucka and Mike Perkins, we saw Lois Lane go up against Donald Trump's White House over not only having

The Maker is the Ultimate Universe version of Reed Richards, turned bad guy by Brian Bendis, renamed to this new identity by Jonathan Hickman, and since

Batman began the City of Bane event in Batman #75, with Gotham's villains taking over Gotham under the command of Bane, and the

Every single issue of House Of X and Powers Of X so far has completely upturned the apple cart. And with its third issue, House Of X #2, it's apple cart

House Of X and Powers Of X have given Jonathan Hickman and friends the chance to teach us all a new cypher language for English, dubbed Krakoan. With

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This may be a pattern for every single issue of House Of X and Powers Of X. Each time they change everything and force you to reread what you once read.

Bleeding Cool ran a run through of Coffin Bound #1, the launch issue of a new ongoing series by Dan Watters (Limbo, Lucifer) and Dani (2000AD, Girl with

Another week, another see out for IDW’s smash-hit-comic-that’s-not-Canto-and-doesn’t-have-a-female-turtle-in-it, Road Of Bones #3 from Rich Douek and Alex

Dave Sim continued to plough his comic book industry legacy into dungheap of Apis, without any sign of anything blooming yet with his Cerebus In Hell

So, after conducting a four hour interview with Terrific Production LLC’s Andrew Rev, heavily condensed over here, I decided I deserved a treat. So I have

I was a big fan of Rob Walton's self-published surreal comedy action comic book series Ragmop in the nineties. He was self-publishing at a similar time as

Tomorrow's Marvel Comics bring back an advertising scheme from a couple of years ago, using the stylings of past decades to advertise upcoming Marvel

Last week, Rob Liefeld, co-creator of Cable, Deadpool and Youngblood, talked about his losing the rights to publish Youngblood, and publicly quitting the

A few days ago, comic store employee, Rachel of SoCal Games & Comics of Temecula, California, posted the following tweet. $817.21 of abandoned

Joywave is an American indie rock band from Rochester, New York, consisting of members Daniel Armbruster (vocals), Joseph Morinelli (guitar), Kevin

Much to the surprise of no one, Boom Studios Once & Future #1 from Dr. Kieron Gillen and Maybe-A-Doctor-But-We-Haven’t-Asked Dan Mora sold out at

At 4am my time, 8pm his time, Jonah Weiland, my former boss - and former owner - at Comic Book Resources confirmed the Bleeding Cool story, that he was

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Do you remember when we had the great internet meme of Venom being better than Watchmen? With some people getting rather serious about it, and Marvel

This could be the worste timing, or the best timing, depending on how your marketing head positions itself. But Brandon Rhiness, Carlos Trigo, Przemyslaw

Dan DiDio looks to have had a fun time playing with his Kong doll at San Diego Comic-Con. If he didn't see the convention from a distance, and position

I only accidentally browsed into this one, but it was worthwhile. Paul Levitz, former president and publisher of DC Comics posted on Facebook in the wake