Rich Johnston Archives

There is New York. And there is New York below, full of Morlocks, the Lizard, his family, those Turtles probably, and the like. Below that is

Immortal Hulk has to be one of Marvel's big hits of the past year. By Al Ewing and Joe Bennett, it has now gone back to the printing mills another time

The Teen Titans/Deathstroke crossover is coming, The Terminus Agenda. And in today's Teen Titans #27 it breaks through in quite a rude fashion. As Crush

Back in 2003, Paul Jenkins and Humberto Ramos introduced a new storyline to The Spectacular Spider-Man, with a sick Eddie Brock and Venom in crisis. Why?

Today sees the final issue of Return Of Wolverine #5. The first issue of Hulkverines #1. The first issue of Wolverine And The Infinity Watch #1. And the

Anyone fancy a self-causing time loop? Today's Justice League #18 lays it all out. The Source Wall breaks. Causing it to spit a bit of the Totality back

Wally West died in Heroes In Crisis. Probably. Most people didn't seem to notice or took an age to get round to realising. Indeed, over in Flash, Iris

Tony Stark is a futurist. Blame Warren Ellis for that one. He sees what kind of future is coming and invents a suit for it. We've also seen him in the far

Well, this may be why Avengers: No Road Home's legacy numbers are ahead of the monthly Avengers series. And also why this cover for West Coast Avengers in

Grant Morrison and Mark Millar used to be best buds. Writing together, editing together, conspiring together, living together, taking each other's credit,

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five stories read yesterday: It’s Always Sunny in

Once upon a time, writers gave Superman a new power as often as he changed his shirt. Which, given he was always ripping the buttons off them in phone

Avatar Press is the publisher of Bleeding Cool. I really need to say this at the top of this article. Some people think I should say this at the top of

The Luthor And Brainiac Team has a long and proud DC Comics history... both in the classic Silver Age... And something a little closer to the modern

'What doesn't kill you' begins this week's issue of Batman from Joshua Williamson and Guillem March.  Not sure how accurate this solicitation is, but it's

The ease of which Second Coming by Mark Russell and Richard Pace extracted itself from publication from DC Comics staggered a number of industry

  Bleeding Cool reader Nick gets in touch about a recent experience with popular comic book slabbing and grading service, CBCS. He tried to get a Sad

Three data points. Feel free to join the dots. Point one. Today at DC Comics' Burbank Studios, there is a mandatory editorial meeting for all staff, in

Erik Burnham has a Writer's Commentary for Vampirella/Dejah Thoris #5, out from Dynamite last week. Hey, everybody. Erik Burnham here with the last

You may remember an article we ran a couple of years ago about a certain Michael Bennett of Georgia who was convinced that Mark Millar had stolen ideas

Umbrella Academy launched on Netflix. Lots of people really, really like it. For me, it really reminds me of Patrick Willems' What If Wes Anderson

Chuck Rozanski of Mile High Comics announced a new regular programme for his Jason Street Mega-store in Denver, Colorado, Drag For All Ages, a regular

We’ve stitched together what we could find of Marvel Comics’ plans for May 2019, titles ahead of this week’s solicitations… Take a look at what’s

Legendary British comic book artist team Alan Davis and Mark Farmer, with colourist Laura Martin, have been commissioned by the British Royal Mail to draw

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. So yes, yesterday Bleeding Cool got DC's May 2019

Portland and Los Angeles-based siblings, The Doubleclicks (aka Laser Malena-Webber and Aubrey Turner) have a new single & video in the works. Their

Today is the Final Order Cut-Off Date for the launch of Little Bird #1 by Darcy van Poelgeest and Ian Bertram from Image Comics. After this, there is no

In Heroes In Crisis, Poison Ivy dies. Apparently. I mean we don't see a body but they seem convinced. She is mourned by Harley Quinn, her non-exclusive

DC Comics is following up their poster portfolio of Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau with one from Frank Cho. DC POSTER PORTFOLIO: FRANK CHO Art and covers by FRANK

It was the DC Comics May 2019 Solicitations for Young Justice #3 that got my antennae twitching. YOUNG JUSTICE 5 Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Art by