Rich Johnston Archives

And, as ever, a welcome to the daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Five most-read stories yesterday Police

We've seen some Black Friday flyers from comic stores earlier today. There will be more, many more to come. But here are some early-announced Black Friday

Here's a bunch of Black Friday flyers from comic book stores planning something big tomorrow - and the weekend. Just fourteen so far, but they span from

Comic Con India happened this past weekend at the KTPO Trade and Convention Centre in Bengaluru. Every attendee got a free goodie bag containing their

I am currently compiling a list of comic book stores running Black Friday events tomorrow - and especially picking out the ones who have cool looking

A-A-Ron posted this particular piece of Tom King Batman analysis to Twitter yesterday, for my birthday. He has graciously allowed us to reproduce it for

Action Lab Entertainment launches Sean Dillon and Steven Petrivelli's Sweetie in February 2019, starring Maggie as a self taught superhero - alongside the

We do love those opening splash page from Brian Michael Bendis and Ryan Sook in recent issues of Action Comics. A desk with oodles and oodles of notes

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

Check out these upcoming DC Comics covers for mostly-December 2018 shipping titles. As ever, you may have seen some of them – but you won’t have seen most

It's something that Safari Pearl Comics of Moscow, Idaho do every year. And it's worth celebrating. For Thanksgiving, the store will be open through the

DC Comics have informed comic book retailers that Aquaman #43 will have limited returnability. Basically, if they order as many of the first issue by

The cry often goes out when the big movies hit the cinema screens, why the comics publishers don't advertise the comics they are based on in the ads that

Bryan Edward Hill has been talking about yesterday's Bleeding Cool about DC Comics cancelling retailer orders for the first three issues of Batman And The

Two days ago, Bleeding Cool ran the Image Comics solicitations for February 2019. The only two new launches for that month are both Mark Millar titles and

Bleeding Cool would be nothing without our readers. Some people come across one story in their lives, let Bleeding Cool know, and it blows up big. So this

Doomsday Clock #8 was solicited for next Wednesday, the 28th of November. It won't be out for then, it has slipped two more weeks into December 12th.

This is how Batman #61 for December was solicited by DC Comics BATMAN #61 written by TOM KING art and cover by MITCH GERADS variant cover by FRANCESCO

Batman And The Outsiders #1 was meant to spin out of Metal, Detective Comics and even a little of Doomsday Clock, with a new series published in December

Thanks to reader Andrew Rubio, who tells Bleeding Cool that 'my two closest Walmarts put out all 4 DC 100-Page Giants last night.  I was surprised because

General Callahan has been appearing as the big bad in two of Matthew Rosenberg's books Astonishing X-Men and New Mutants. We wondered if he might pop up

Another oneshot work of clipart creations from a Dave Sim unable to draw anymore, previously serialising his webstrip Cerebus In Hell. But that's changed

He's no longer Nightwing. Hell, he's no longer Dick Grayson. And Ric Grayson can't even remember Barbara Gordon, let alone Cheyenne Freemon, Shawn

Coming from Oni Press in February 2019 and beyond... QUICK & EASY GUIDE TO QUEER & TRANS IDENTITIES DEC181968 In this quick and easy guide to

Archie #700 is published today, the first issue with Amazing Spider-Man writer Nick Spencer, alongside Jack Morelli and Marguerite Sauvage. And while on

They may be all covered up on the cover of Star Wars #57, by Kieron Gillen, Angel Unzueta and GURU-eFX, published by Marvel Comics today... But on the

Diamond Previews is out a week today, listing all the comics, toys and the like Diamond are distributing through the direct market in February 2019. This

Coming from Black Mask in February 2019... a new mini-series by Patrick Kindlon and Paul Tucker - as well as your old favourites. NOBODY IS IN CONTROL #1

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you that Simone Bianchi was the co-creator of the Mark Millar Millarworld Netflix series Sharkey The Bounty

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good chunk of the success of the Daredevil Netflix TV show has been not just down to Charlie Cox as Matt