Rich Johnston Archives

Brian Garside is the founder of Manage Comics, subscription pull list software for comic shops, and he’s dedicated his life to helping comic stores grow,

Jamie Me writes, Sex, superheroes and scandal. It’s all kickin’ off in Leeds city centre! START AGAIN is back on Kickstarter, and it is the perfect time

A Writer’s Commentary: Christopher Hastings on Six Million Dollar Man #2, on sale now from Dynamite. Hello! Your old pal, C. Hastings here. It's time once

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported on Rob Liefeld's comments that he will never sign Spider-Man/Deadpool #47, the purported first teeny tiny in-panel

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: Why DCEased Will Be An

Matthew Snyder writes, Welcome to the ComiXology Bestseller List, your guide to see how well your favorite titles are selling digitally. Every week I'll

This is page three of Spider-Man/Deadpool #47, published on March 13th. Let's zoom in. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the first appearance of new Rob

There's a reason that the upcoming series DCeased is getting such a big push from DC Comics that goes beyond what ostensibly looked like a re-warming of

Conan The Barbarian turned up in Avengers: No Road Home during some dimensional/magical hodge-podge and, after a battle with the Scarlet Witch in

Jeremy Whitely writes The Unstoppable Wasp, a comic book that seems to live up to its name. We looked at its mention of bipolarity, and how it applied to

Welcome to Thank FOC It’s Friday, a weekly mailing list, similar to The Daily LITG, but every Friday and planned to coincide and cover the demands of

Phantomb Games, Comics & Collectibles of Washington, USA, posted the following on their Facebook page, This announcement is tough for me (and my team)

Courtesy of Brooklyn rapper ILL Bill, the video for his latest track Cannibal Hulk, sees him creating Hulk graffiti on the streets of New York City to

Christian Lorentzen is an editor and writer  for The London Review Of Books, and a regular contributor to New York Magazine and Vulture. He's liked by a

Okay, so this appears to be an odd one. This is a Kickstarter for a graphic novel, Spell Warriors, by friend-of-Bleeding Cool John Reppion and Dheeraj

Cosmic Ray of Columbia is a comic store looking for a very special 'customer', dubbed “Pants Book Guy” after allegedly putting $300 worth of comics down

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top ten stories read yesterday: Jim Zub Says Thousands

When last we checked in, Captain America #12 had patriotically slipped from the 19th of June to the almost perfectly patriotically 3rd of July, even as

This was the original solicitation for Marvel Comics Presents #5, out in May. MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS #5 CHARLES SOULE, CHRIS CLAREMONT & MORE (W)

When  Marvel Comics solicited the massively oversized hardcover collection of Jim Lee's X-Men comics as Jim Lee XXL, they gave a relatively reasonable

The actual amount of creative input Bob Kane had into the creation of Batman has been up for dispute for some time. Indeed, the image used on this

Advanced Graphics is creating a bunch of standees based on the characters revealed in Avengers: Endgame so far, in their funky new space suits... in fact,

Next week, we’ll get to see what a select few comic shop retailers at ComicsPRO have already seen in Brian Azzarello’s first project since Batman: Damned,

In 2013, DragonCon co-founder and previous co-owner Ed Kramer pled guilty to three counts of child molestation and was sentenced to twenty years, with the

Clear line painter Carl Stimpson has returns to the gallery space at Orbital Comics that won it that Eisner, for his new exhibition – More Instant Mash!

Rob Potchak is putting out a new comic book called The X-Liefelds #1, his latest parody being published by Keenspot for July. The premise is, while Rob

The DC Year Of The Villain 25 Cent Comic has received a little cover text, just to give us more of an indication where this is going... 'The Most

Today sees the launch of BBC Sounds' new podcast mixture of sci-fi drama, environmental documentary and soundscape experimentation, called Forest 404. We

Right now, plenty of folk are beginning to line up for Midtown Comics' Grand Central store to open, with the first hundred people in line who purchase the

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: That Ending of