Rich Johnston Archives

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

Archie Comics look like they are running another round of trademarks of late, and maybe giving away upcoming plans for the publishing line - or for

I'm taking a wee break in Paris for the press launch of the new Asterix volume... so any Parisiens feel free to give me a shout. Until then, welcome to

Comic book retailers have been told by Marvel Comics that they have delayed the release of War Of The Realms: Journey Into Mystery #2 and #3 to allow

Marvel is shipping free Mothering Sunday or Mother's Day promotional material to comic book stores, arriving for the second week of May. Stores will

We looked at one bunch of Marvel Comics titles that had gone to second printings earlier this week, but it looks like they have sent back another batch,

A few changes between solicitation and publication from Marvel Comics ahead of the FOC cutoff... Amazing Spider-Man #22 is listed as being drawn by Ryan

Yesterday I went to Parc Asterix with the family for the announcement of the new Asterix album, Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter. And ended up having

An hour ago, Bleeding Cool ran the news that Peter Milligan and Mike Allred were bringing back the comic book superhero team X-Statix, for Marvel Comics,

Once upon a time, in July 2001, Peter Milligan and Mike Allred revamped the comic book series X-Force in a way that had never been seen before for a

So I am having a little potter in Paris - I've been here with my family for the launch of the name of the new Asterix volume - well, it will be the

Bleeding Cool takes another look at the US trademark courts and which trademark registration attempts Marvel and/or DC Comics may be taking issue with

Avengers: No Road Home has already seen Conan travel from his Cimmerian world to modern day Marvel Earth (watch for him in the Savage Land soon). And in

The movie Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse has affected all sorts of people in all sorts of strange ways. Such as Frank Cho deciding to draw Venom

Chris Thompson, previously of Bleeding Cool, and the man who helped see Orbital Comics win an Eisner Award for Best Comic Shop, left to become Senior

Last month, we reported on comic book artist Joyce Chin being hospitalised as she was flying in to Chicago for the C2E2 convention, and how her husband

When DC Comics published Batman Damned #1 by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo, the launch title for the mature-readers superhero prestige Black Label

Let's run the tally one more time. Doomsday Clock #10 was originally intended to be out in October 2018 and it should all have been over by Christmas,

Absolute Carnage is the big Venom event coming for 2019 from Donny Cates and friends. And it is being collected in all sorts of secret fashions. On

Okay. Let's go with the psychology of all this. In Batman #68, Batman continues to be subject to dreams and nightmares of a most intimate nature, ezposing

I said we were going to talk a lot about Batman #68 today. Especially since it touches on the difference between Batman and Superman. There have been a

There’s lots we can say about Batman #68 out today, and believe me we are going to. But first, we note for Poison Ivy fans that yes, despite Poison Ivy

Marvel Comics looks like they will be ending their 80th year as a comics publisher looking back at their very beginnings with these Omnibus volumes....

Ahead of the series being officially solicited, the details of the collection of the new Death's Head series by newly Marvel-exclusive Tini Howard and Kei

Ronin Island #1 and #2 are getting second printings, as is Ghost Tree #1. The first, Ronin Island, is the series by Greg Pak and Giannis Milonogiannis

Unlike everyone else in the Gaul village still holding out against the Roman forces, the ancestor of the village chief Vitalsttistix, Vercingetorix, a

Bonjour, I’m currently at Parc Asterix, an hour north-east of Paris, for the launch of the new Asterix album by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad,

Okay, let’s start with one of these... Thanks to our friends at Idle Hands, we have a look at a new Hasbro toy coming out alongside the upcoming Avengers:

James Hudnall, profilic hard boiled comic book writer has died aged 61. Tomorrow would have been his 62nd birthday. Working as a marketing director at

Australian comic book store The Phantom Zone of Sydney has posted the following message to its customers, After 30 years in the biz and a short stint