Rich Johnston Archives

It's true. As long promised, foretold and planned for, The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson and Clayton Cowles comes to

Image Comics has their June 2019 solicitations up. Including the beginning of Sonata by Brian Haberlin, David Hine and Geirrod van Dyke, the return of The

Dark Horse's full solicitations for June 2019 bring a new Frozen story from Kristoff’s past by Joe Caramagna, Snow, Glass, Apples, a chilling retelling of

Once upon a time, Marvel Comics regularly overshipped certain titles. The idea was that comic book retailers were a 'small-c' conservative lot and ordered

Bleeding Cool pointed out that the upcoming final volume of Jim Starlin and Alan Davis's Thanos trilogy of original graphic novels would be called Thanos:

In October, Marvel is collecting seven issues of a comic book series it has yet to publish. UPDATE: Nope, despite my best intent and googling, I failed to

We’ve been telling you that Brian Azzarello and Maria Llovet’s new erotic thriller at Boom! was going to be a thing. And no Batpenises or Batpeople doing

Scott Snyder has some news. And has tweeted it out. Like some mad thing. pic.twitter.com/G6UEEo0iIf — Scott Snyder (@Ssnyder1835) March 21, 2019 With my

Just in time for Final Order-Cut Off for War Of The Realms #2, Marvel Comics in adding three new variant covers, black-and-white versions of Art Adams'

Dynamite Entertainment have 29 items in June 2019's solicitations. With origins for Red Sonja and James Bond, mashups and mannequins alike... 1) RED

Bleeding Cool gets the word that the comic book Norah written by Kasey Pierce (Pieces of Madness, Seeress) and drawn by Sean Seal (The Rot) has been

Here's what Archie Comics are lining up for their June 2019 solicitations, and whike Archie is back in 1941, Jughead is doing his own time travelling,

We know the game. DC Comics makes one comic book a month available for retailer exclusive covers and everyone dives in. Marvel make 5-15 available and

After their great success getting the Second Coming comic book withdrawn from DC Comics (and finding a home at AHOY Comics), FOX And Friends had less

Last week, DC Comics informed comic book retailers that their most recent orders for third printings of the Batman: White Knight TPB and a second printing

Bleeding Cool was first to tell you that Jonathan Hickman was returning to Marvel Comics, and that whatever he was doing would begin in July. And that

Last year, Vault Comics published a number of comic books written by members of the London-based comics writers studio, White Noise, made up of Dan

Rantz Hoseley, former managing editor of Heavy Metal Magazine left the company last month, and today Heavy Metal has announced his replacement, Tim

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

Ooh, here's a big list. From the three biggest comics publishers in the direct market as well. Upcoming further printings.... Die #1 by Kieron Gillen and

It is expected for the latest issue of Doomsday Clock, the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank published by DC Comics, to be

2019 is Bleeding Cool's tenth year. Doesn't time fly? But this week is also the tenth anniversary of the publication of a very silly comic and utterly

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

Bleeding Cool broke the news of the existence of this publisher. Repeatedly. We told you who was involved, who financed it, what the names of their

It's not unknown for comic publishers to give out freebies at comic convention panels. Some people can get a sneak peek at comics yet to be published.

The Superman Complex in our world was named as such by Dr Frederick Wertham, author of the discredited Seduction Of The Innocent, and describes an

So, the Immortal Hulk is an interventionist God today. But he's just talking about his plans. The Uncanny X-Men are actually doing it. Intervening in the

Today sees the release of Guardians of the Galaxy #3. By Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw and Marte Gracia - and very pretty it looks too. Though one may consider

Altered Carbon seemed to do quite well Netflix. The TV show based on the sci-fi stories of Richard K. Morgan. And now a series of original graphic novels

Once upon a time, Doc Samson died. In Incredible Hulk #610, it all got rather nasty. He was briefly demonically resurrected for the Chaos War. But was