Rich Johnston Archives

Back in Batman #50, we saw that Gotham Girl was part of Bane's posse to destroy Batman. Or maybe it's Thomas Wayne's posse. Or maybe even Skeets. Again.

Man, everyone seems to be talking up a Civil War today. From Michonne in The Walking Dead #188. ...to Captain America in Avengers #14. And even Old Man

Fanmio is a new Comic Con-style  service enabling people to have personal one-on-one video calls with their favourite celebrities. For a price of course.

The new issue of The Avengers, #11, sees the team getting involved in a vampire civil war in Transylvania, and trying to keep the population safe. Or

It’s Thursday, so you know what that means? Another delay to Doomsday Clock #9, the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen, by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank,

Back in December, Bleeding Cool told you that Marvel Comics was to publish 'secret' white-bagged variant covers of their then-upcoming Age Of X-Man series

We mentioned The Green Lantern last month. Daredevil yesterday. And The Champions today. And they all have something in common. Last month we saw Hal

Scott Snyder has been doing a bit of a Jonathan Hickman, it seems. Back in the day when he was working for Marvel Comics, Hickman created storylines

It's been a fair few years now. But Asgardians Of The Galaxy #5 made the promise. Today, Asgardians Of The Galaxy #6 delivers.   Marvel's only cis/trans

Champions isn't one of Marvel's best-selling books. It features a bunch of characters, many of whom had their own books cancelled or rebooted without

Today sees the publication of Uncanny X-Men #11, the triple-sized, double-priced comic that gives you one story, told three ways for the price of two. I

A gamma ray or gamma radiation is a penetrating electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei. It consists of the shortest

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five most-read stories yesterday WWE's Renee Young

David Pepose writes, His partner’s imaginary…but the escalation is all real. Two years ago, I teamed up with artist Jorge Santiago, Jr. to ask the

As with the last Batman/Flash crossover, "The Button", Tom King has excused himself and let Josh Williamson write the comic. Except of course in this

Jonboy Meyers walked off Teen Titans after two issues of the DC Rebirth back in 2016, citing creative differences. He then walked off The Royals from

The late comic book creator Mike Wieringo has been in the news this week, after Mike S. Miller inked over a Spider-Man cover breakdown of Wieringo's as

Liam Neeson is certainly testing the adage that all publicity is good publicity, and Cold Pursuit co-star Tom Bateman must be wondering why he spent that

Bleeding Cool has been noting the lateness of two Marvel titles Fantastic Four and Tony Stark: Iron Man, with issue 7 of the latter first slipping from

Peter Quill, Star-Lord, is the latest to headline an Old Man series from Marvel, following up on the post-apocalyptic Old Man Logan and Old Man Hawkeye.

Love is all you need. That has been teased in Age Of X-Man Alpha, promising a brand new sexual revolution to this pocket universe of reality created by

Much has been hushed about Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto's Daredevil launch, tomorrow. But Bleeding Cool has been granted a sneak peek. And for those

In the last couple of months, Marvel Comics has been running a cover banner, and black inside pages to commemorate the passing of Stan Lee, co-creator of

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five most-read stories yesterday Nintendo Teases

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund reports that critically acclaimed comic book Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, has been removed from a

Carmelo Chimera is the owner of Chimera’s Comics, a chain of comic book stores in Chicago’s south suburbs. www.chimerascomics.com/win-comic-book-stor “I

Benn Dunn, publisher of Antarctic Press posted a recent call to action. I am concerned. I am concerned that there is a negative vibe in the comics

It's Monday, so there must be more news on Detective Comics #1000 exclusive retailer covers. To follow the ones we

David Avallone's Writer’s Commentary on The Shape Of Elvira #1 on sale from Dynamite. ---- You know the drill: if you plan to read the comic… go read the

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