Rich Johnston Archives

It doesn't happen a lot. Green Arrow after DC Rebirth was one. Immortal Hulk has been another. Thanos too. A couple of the Ahoy Comics titles of late. A

From Terry Moore's Abstract Studios in May - a crossover that has been decades in the making. But only called Five Years...  crossing over all his

Bleeding Cool readers will recognise Graham Crackers Comics from the weekly Bleeding Cool Bestseller Lists, contributing sales data from their twelve

Secret Life Of Pets was a successful movie in 2016. Now it's getting a sequel. And, in May 2019, it's also getting a comic book, from Titan Comics,

Dynamite Entertainment's May 2019 solicitations begin with an unlikely - though considering Riverdale and Archie's Horror line, more and more likely -

Boom Studios will be up to speak at ComicsPRO later today. But we also get to see what they are planning for their May 2019 solicitations, with a

When DC Comics solicited Justice League #19 and #20 for April, beginning the Sixth Dimension arc, they listed the first of two covers by Jorge Jimenez

DC Comics’ Dan Didio made some news in Charlotte, North Carolina at ComicsPRO in front of some of the biggest comic shop retailers. While Marvel Comics

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. As ComicsPRO continues in North Carolina, there is

The front cover of Diamond's Previews out next week features Khary Randolph and Brandon Thomas’ new fantasy series from Image, Excellence, in which a teen

Launching from IDW's May 2018 is They Called Us Enemy, a graphic biographical comic by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott and Harmony Becker,

The Mister Miracle trade paperback, collecting Tom King and Mitch Gerads' latest masterpiece for DC Comics, came out last week. When I was in Orbital

Brave New World of Santa Clarita, California, has this collection of DC Comics swag already at ComicsPRO, the comics retailer advocacy meeting taking

May 2019 brings Image Comics a couple of debuts, Excellence #1 by Brandon Thomas, Emilio Lopez and Khary Randolph, and Gogor #1 by Planetoid'sKen Garing .

I thought Naomi #1 was a DC Comics version of Damage Control. Naomi #2 is more of Lifetime movie of a comic. So much happened in the first issue. The

Who says comic book movies don't help sell comics? Alita: Battle Angel seems to have more legs than expected at the movie box office. Cyborg legs with

There's bound to be a lot more to spin-out from Marvel Comics' presentation at ComicsPRO. But here are three things that popped through, from what I'm

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

Last month's stand-out issue of The Unstoppable Wasp put lie to the accusation that the character, a whip-smart daughter of Hank Pym, was any kind of

Thought Bubble Comics Arts Festival is Britain's best comic convention, There, I've said it. Because it is. Held in Leeds for over a decade - until 2019.

Dan DiDio, publisher of DC Comics, has taken to the stump at ComicsPRO, the comics retailer advocacy group meeting being held in Charlotte, North Carolina

Planet Comicon runs in Kansas City on Friday, 29th of March to Sunday 31st. And it is getting its own retailer exclusive variant cover of Detective Comics

Joe Khachadourian writes for Bleeding Cool, “Just get your degree, then you can do whatever you want.” That was my parents’ mantra throughout the ‘90s

Yesterday, Diamond Comic Distributors had to close due to weather issues, as a winter storm warning was in effect for parts of Maryland as a storm that

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Today sees ComicsPRO kick off in Charlotte, North

We have the full Dark Horse May 2019 solicitations. Including Stranger Things: Six #1, the first prequel comic series for Stranger Things. Aliens: Rescue

The Marvel May 2019 Solicitations have hit. The month that will be known for the one in which Conan joins the Avengers. Or one of the Avengers, anyway.

Happy Death Day 2U, the low budget comedy horror sequel to the even lower budget comedy horror movie Happy Death Day written by Scott Lobdell, seems to

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