Rich Johnston Archives

Last year, Diane Nelson, formerly president of DC Entertainment, joined Jeffrey Katzenberg’s short-form video publisher/distributor/platform Quibi. She

It's a famous quote from Tim Burton's Batman as spoken by The Joker, played by Jack Nicholson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMgGNxyCHsY So with The

The last Justice League #19 saw the Justice League meet their future selves. Again. This time we has a Martian Manhunter and Hawkgirl with their child,

Dynamite are definitely ezpanding their licensed young adults graphic novel range. They sold out of their first Charmed Mange OEL graphic novel in ten

Last week's Avengers: No Road Home #5 gave an early surprise for the first appearance of Conan The Barbarian in the modern Marvel Universe, potentially

There has been a stealth-launch of a new Nancy Drew movie this past week, but Dynamite Entertainment want nothing stealth about their new Nancy Drew &

When Marvel Comics first began publishing Spider-Man, the story played out in real time. A year for Peter Parker was a year for the readers. Soon he was

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. And C2E2 is getting closer... Top five stories read

Last week, Bleeding Cool let you know about a house ad appearing in last week's Marvel comic books, with the words: Evolution demands adaptation or

Bleeding Cool reader and Jonah Hex superfan Susan Hillwig of Pony Express has tipped us off about an intriguing change in the recent DC Walmart 100-Page

In 2008, Image Comics published the phenomenal hardcover volume, The Art Of Brian Bolland, celebrating and reflecting the comic book artwork of one of the

Last week, Bleeding Cool ran a couple of pieces looking at the behaviour of comic book historian and host Arlen Schumer, and his torrent of verbal abuse

Tom King has let folk know what's up for Batman #75. Out later this year. And drawn by Tony S Daniel. It is, isn't it, Tom? It’s drawn by @TonyDanielx2,

Year Of The Villain is DC Comics' big branding event exercise for 2019. With The Batman Who Laughs at the Batman books heading it up, with Leviathan over

We looked at the top ten and the December marketshare for comic books ordered by direct market comic book stores in North America in Febryary 2019 – what

Red Sonja writer Luke Lieberman and Red Sonja artist Sergio Davila have a new series launching in June from Dynamite Entertainment, Red Sonja: Birth Of

Jeff Parker and Dean Kotz are mashing up John Carter, Warlord Of Mars with Mars Attacks for Dynamite in June as Warlord Of Mars Attacks. Who can best

Last year, we got a listing for the “Five Years Later” Legion of Super-Heroes run for this July. Published from 1989-1994, by Keith Giffen, Tom and Mary

Mark Russell's Writer’s Commentary on Red Sonja #2 on sale now from Dynamite... Page 1 The big invasion force from Zamora leaves for Hyrkania! Those

December is always a big month for comic book publishers publishing big books - omnibuses, absilutes, over-sized slipcased hardcover editions of classic

Fleabag is the best drama on television. The best comedy too. By a mile. Can we take that as read and move on? Good. Series 2, episode 3 just aired in the

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Forget St Patrick's Day, yesterday was the last day of

All praise to Judd Morse, at Emerald City Comic Con ECCC 2019 for Bleeding Cool, and taking shows like a madman through the show. If you find yourself in

Here are the top 100 comic books and graphic novels ordered by comic book stores in North America through the direct market serviced by Diamond Comic

Managing Your Shop

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what

Courtesy of Twitter and Instagram, a little look at some of the cosplay on display at Emerald City Comic Con 2019 on Day Two – and you can catch up with

Jason Adams is a graphic designer using his skills to take eisting objects and transform them. Painting on dollar bills. Turning Star Wars action figures

Longstanding manga publisher VIZ Media is to start publishing original English language manga (OEL) for the North American market and is looking for

Senior Super Squishy Blob Ball Correspondent Andrew Rubio has been another taking a look at the Walmart Exclusive 100-Page Giants in his local store. And