Rich Johnston Archives

Welcome to the hardly-daily-of-late Lying In The Gutters. Apologies, will ramp it all up a little bit this week coming. You can sign up to receive it as

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

Matthew Snyder compiles the ComiXology Bestseller list every week. He writes: Welcome to the ComiXology Bestseller list, your guide to see how well your

Bleeding Cool gets the word at MCM London Comic Con that Rebellion, the publishers of 2000AD, are to publish a new line, The Hugo Pratt War Picture

Kingdom Comics of Vestavia Hills, Alabama, is to close at the end of the month. The store posted to their Facebook page announcing a sale and a closing

Dynamite Entertainment has done a deal with Amazon Prime Video for photo covers for their new volumes based on the upcoming TV streaming show... take a

Take a look ahead at the August solicitations for Valiant Entertainment with Doctor Mirage with Mags Visaggio - also seen in August in Rick & Morty,

VIZ Media has flown the creators of the Zelda manga series known as Akira Himekawa from Japan to England for the MCM London Comic Con, happening this

A video and photo gallery of cosplay at MCM London today. This is of course a tiny fraction of the thousands of cosplay on display.

Last MCM London Comic Con saw AnemoneTea beat Frank Miller in terms of lines of fans, as Kit Buss' new comic book, Cloven Bloodlines #1, had been endorsed

So, we know what happened. We think. Poison Ivy died in Heroes In Crisis at the hands of Wally West, undergoing some kind of personal crisis and releasing

We reported on this last weekend from the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas, part of the Marvel Comics presentation. That in Powers Of X #1 we would have

Wally West, the Flash, dies in the beginning of Heroes In Crisis #9. We saw his body, adjacent to that of Roy Harper, Arsenal. Later in the story, we

MCM London is going on, and at nights, the streets, pubs and clubs around the ExCel Centre in London’s Docklands explode. And the cosplay, mostly, stays on.

This took a little longer than the average Rich Twitch - but you are learning about this a lot sooner than you might have otherwise. Because earlier this

Bleeding Cool looked at the proposed increase in tariffs coming to comic books printed in China by American publishers and sold here. A number of these

Event Leviathan is the big upcoming event from Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev coming from DC Comics and spinning out across the Superman books, and

Two new titles from the Vault in August's solicitations, Mall by Michael Moreci, Gary Dauberman and Zak Hartong, and Necromancer's Map by Andrea Fort,

David Avallone's compiles his Writer's Commentary on Bettie Page #5 on sale from Dynamite Entertainment a week-and-change ago. He begins, SO MANY

The Black Mage by Daniel Barnes and D.J. Kirkland leads Oni Press' August 2019 solicitations - but is only actually out in October. That's true of the

Red Range was a very graphic novel indeed, a fantasy western created by Joe R Lansdale and Sam Glanzman. In August, Drew Ford's It's Alive Press that

The Facebook page for Forbidden Planet's Aberdeen branch has posted the sad news. It’s with heavy heart and great sadness that we have to announce that

Bleeding Cool recently covered the news that Rebellion were to republish the painted comic book sci-fi fantasy The Trigan Empire that ran in Look &

It may go $35 on the aftermarket for a first printing of the first issue and over $100 for the second issue. But as The Immortal Hulk #1 and #2 go their

I’m currently at MCM London Comic Con, happening all weekend long, and doing what I do best - walking the Comic Village lines, seeing who I can meet and

 DC Comics’ intellectual property attorneys still don’t have a clue, but maybe Devil’s Due can give them one.By now, most folks have heard about DC

A video run-through of MCM London Comic Con at the Ezcel Centre in London's Docklands. Comics, cosplay, movies, and more.

Bleeding Cool's publishers, Avatar Press, bought Warrior Nun Areala some time ago from its creator, Ben Dunn and Antarctic Press. Now sold to Netflix,

Comic book writer Gail Simone posted the news to Twitter and Facebook- that she has written an upcoming episode of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is

The new August 2019 solicitations are leaking out - including for Titan Comics, and their continuing Doctor Who comic book line. With August's issue by