Rich Johnston Archives

From today's DC Nation #4, in their big list of villains, we get a new one. An unannounced one. From the upcoming The Green Lantern by Grant Morrison and

They did it in Spider-Geddon #0. Brought back the 616-nomenclature. Rather than refer to the Marvel Universe dimension as Earth Prime or Prime Earth, they

Kanto is one of the more peculiar New Gods. And that's saying something. He first appeared in Mister Miracle #7 in 1972, created naturally by Jack Kirby.

Yeah, yeah, so Tony Stark and Janet Van Dyne are kinda-dating in Tony Stark: Iron Man #4. The Iron Man And The Wasp should naturally be the spinoff title,

Today's Justice League #9 by Scott Snyder and Jorge Jimenez sees Wonder Woman at odds as to how she should design her domain within the Justice Hall. And

Shatterstar and Rictor were two mutants who hung around the -Force comic books and spinoffs over the years. Their relationship went from overly close

Today's Infinity Wars: Sleepwalker revives a character who clearly Marvel Comics have some interest in making a thing. But it also gives the comic a

We all know what Donny Cates is best known for in comic books right now. Doing a John Wick in Space with The Death Of Inhumans and killing off Lockjaw.

Marvel's Star Wars comic book series is, as far as LucasFilm's Story Group is concerned, as canon as any of the Star Wars films. No more

So, apparently some people don't want lecturing politics in their comics, They want their comics like they used to be in the eighties. You know, when

To be fair, this isn't totally the first time it has happened. Garth Ennis and the late Steve Dillon gave us this scene for Hellblazer for John

Stan Konopka, writer of the sold-out comic Rejected from Source Point Press has been setting up at New York Comic Con. And has let us all had a peek

Today's DC Nation #4 goes over the events of Heroes In Crisis #1 in detail. With the major death of the issue highlighted. Gone but not forgotten? You say

Today is Benjamin Percy's final issue in his truncated run of Nightwing, and it's a corker, with Richard Grayson, having been shot in the head, now a very

Okay, okay, I missed yesterday's LITG  apologies... Welcome to the daily (mostly) Lying In The Gutters. A runaround yesterday’s news on the site and what

Originally entitled Little Darlings, Sweet/Vicious was an American television series created and showrun by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson for MTV. The series

We talked about Fearscape #1 by Ryan O'Sullivan and Andrea Mutti from Vault Comics today (and other people talked about it over here), but we now get the

Comic book colourist Chris Sotomayor wrote on Facebook: Last year at NYCC, I donated half of all my sales to charities that helped the people of Puerto

In 1996, Chuck Palahniuk wrote the novel Fight Club. In 1999, David Fincher made it into a movie. In 2015, Chuck and Cameron Stewart created Fight Club 2,

We ran the story first this morning but a big thank you to one generous benefactor who sent us a better-looking copy of the cover. Which appears to show

Writer Steven T. Seagle and artist Jason Adam Katzenstein will debut a new Camp Midnight mini comic showcasing the first chapter of their second original

This weekend, co-creator of The Outsiders, Mike W Barr, spoke out about the upcoming Young Justice: Outsiders animated series. There were quite a few

This week sees a Rainbow Brite comic book launch from Jeremy Whitley and Brittney Williams. And for those taking notes, this is the first time we've ever

Dynamite Entertainment announced today that Elvira will return this winter for a new four-part miniseries by writer David Avallone (Elvira, Bettie Page)

I got the chance to talk to Leah Moore and John Reppion about their new graphic novel from Dark Horse Comics, published tomorrow. Rich: Okay so.... teen

Here's one of the five new recipes by the late Anthony Bourdain that feature in his graphic novel Hungry Ghosts being published by Dark Horse Comics and

Dynamite Entertainment is set to launch a brand new program for their high-end giclée prints this winter. The Dynamite Giclée Program will feature some of

The greatest fear, I am told, that every writer faces is the blank page. The first letter. Douglas Adams talks about staring at a white sheet of paper

 Leah Williams (Adventure Time Comics, X-Men: Black) and Carlos Gomez (Red Sonja) are crossing over two sci-fi legendary characters Barbarella/Dejah

They do this on purpose you know. Big comic conventions running PR about their respective shows in the week the other big shows are happening. I'm not