Rich Johnston Archives

Bleeding Cool ran what we considered were vaguely amusing pieces on what we saw as a little 'fan service' in the recent Heroes In Crisis #4. But there was

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

Mitch O'Connell advertises his work with a billboard over in Mexico City. A Trump billboard using the imagery of the movie They Live. Naturally, it has

A Bleeding Cool reader writes, So it looks like ComiXology  just screwed over Buffy fans who were buying the book digitally. The final volume, Season 12,

The contents of Detective Comics: 80 Years Of Batman: Deluxe Edition have been revealed. The volume, being published alongside Detective Comics #1000 has

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Man, there was so much to respond to in yesterday's

Comic book writer Tom King has responded to allegations that he wasn't in the CIA.

Bob Wayne has the reputation of being a fine upstanding southern gentleman of the old school. Former SVP of DC Comics and current roving representative of

It wouldn't be the first time Cerebus has been on ComiXology. Cerebus In Hell and individual issues of Cerebus: High Society have been offered before.

I love Philip Bond. My teenage life was mostly made up of reading his Deadline work. I campaign for someone, anyone, to reprint his Wired World and Cheeky

It's a new year. Which means new price rises. To be fair the prices quotes below haven't risen for some time now, so they may be overdue and inflationary

At the end of Infinity Wars #6, Adam Warlock (for it is he) let loose the six Infinity Stones, giving them all their own life, their own soul, their own

Frank Cho is currently immersed in drawing covers, an upcoming creator-owned series and there is stull talk of a Wonder Woman series and/or graphic novel

This is Two-Bad. One of Skeletor's minions in the He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe world. Two beings of different species sharing the same body.

It became the character's catchphrase in the too-good-for-kids Teen Titans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzp5z_iGvqU And in

Stan Lee may have been the great figurehead of across the divide to DC Comics, referring to them as the Distinguished Competition. But, after he stopped

So The Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett was the best superhero comic of 2018 by far. It cheated though, by not actually being a superhero book

Well now. Jimmy Olsen. Superman's Best Friend, he does get up to some adventures, doesn't he? Including in today's Action Comics #1006 , dealing with the

Fan service: material in a work of fiction or in a fictional series which is intentionally added to please the audience. The term originated in Japanese,

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Five most read stories yesterday: Timeless Season 3:

The new series of Luther started on BBC 1 tonight. With Luther fighting a serial killer who strikes at random, while the local gang lord believes that DCI

Okay, so there are spoilers going forward, Lots of spoilers, lots to discuss. If you haven't seen Doctor Who: Resolution, look away.... now. 1. Location

Things to do in London in January 2019… if you like comics, of course. Exhibitions followed by events… let us know if we missed any. Exhibitions: Then

  News for the Nekopara series of visual novels about Japanese confection makers who open a patisserie with two catgirls, Chocola and Vanilla, to be

We mentioned that it was happening in this appeal for Marvel Comics to reprint Spider-Man Noir in the wake of the Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse movie.

UPDATE: Oh yes - there are Daleks: They told you there would be no Daleks in the new series of Doctor Who. They lied. They teased Daleks in the trailer to

Scott Snyder writes Justice League. Charles Soule writes Wolverine. Together...they fight crime. No, I'm sorry, my mistake, together they are writing a

You don't have to read any of the spoilers after certain comic stores went rogue with the shipping schedule this week... But DC Comics does invite you to

Spider-Man Noir, the character created by David Hine, Fabrice Sapolsky and Carmine Di Giandomenico as part of the Marvel Noir universe in 2009, recently

It's Motor City Comic Con of Michigan’s 30th anniversary in 2019. And you know what happens to you when you hit your thirties, you start to become really