Rich Johnston Archives

This is the first promo action of The Boys, the new Amazon Studios TV production from Prime Studios, based on the Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson comic

Fantastic Four #1 has gone to a third printing, out from Marvel Comics on the 31st of October. Appropriate because it's spooky how little Mr Fantastic and

So... Heroes In Crisis #1, eh? Man, there are going to be some lively panels at Baltimore Comic Con this weekend and at New York Comic-Con the week

The Venom: The First Host weekly series has given us a new symbiote, a spawn of Venom, with its own power base and abilities that can be transferred to a

Infinity War: Iron Hammer is the latest of the Infinity Warps titles, with characters squished together by an Infinity Stones-wielding Gamora to reduce

Rob Liefeld scene from New Mutants, with Cable and Domino having an end of day relax in a hot bathtub. Or more like a horse trough. Does Evans have a

Did I miss this promotion? I know that Martian Manhunter had been declared the chair of the new Justice League in previous issues... But I may have missed

Recently, international news discussion has revived the concept of 'fridging', created by Gail Simone's Women In Refrigerators essay from the nineties.

Today sees the release of Spider-Geddon #0. Advertised as 40 page $4.99 comic which usually means 30 pages of story. But this issue is 36 pages long with

Last week's Batman: Damned #1 by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo, featured a little something that hit headlines worldwide. But the Joker, while dead in

Today sees the release of the first issue of Heroes In Crisis by Tom King and Clay Mann. Bleeding Cool had predicted a lot - but what did we get right and

When the DC Universe was rebooted in 2011 with the New 52, the wartime superhero team, the Justice Society of America was removed from continuity. The

Welcome to the daily Lying In The Gutters. A runaround of yesterday’s news on the site and what we might expect today. You can sign up to receive it as an

This time last year, in a series of four long articles by Daniel Couvreur in the Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir it was reported that over two

You wait ages for a chance to break into comics and then three come along at once – just days after their talent searches at Thought Bubble turned up new

Titan Merchandise, the collectable spinoff of Titan Comics is launching their Game of Thrones: Seven Kingdoms Collection blindbox line in February 2019.

Fearscape #1 is the latest debut series from White Noice writers studio. By Ryan O'Sullivan and Andrea Mutti, it is published tomorrow by Vault Comics.

Last week, DC Comics published Batman: Damned #1 by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo, that prominently featured Bruce Wayne's penis in two or three panels,

Today is the funeral of comic book creator Terry Wiley being held in Tynemouth. You may have read what I wrote on the occasion of his death, but there

Currently in Newcastle, about to head to the cemetery for the funeral of Terry Wiley. Was in Tynemouth yesterday toasting his health and sharing memories

Mimi Cruz is the co-owner of Night Flight Comics, the Utah comic store that closed after forty years. Though they still service their old customers and

Fand of certain DC Comics characters who will be dying in Wednesday's Heroes In Crisis, you have a new time and place to note. Tom King will be signing at

The centipede drops another show. Denver Comic Con, which takes place in the Colorado Convention Center every years in June, is changing its name

Todd Matthy has a Writer's Commentary for his Robots Vs Princesses #2, published by Dynamite. Hi everybody! Hope you’re ready for a deep dive into Robots

With all these articles coming out everywhere (but mostly Bleeding Cool) in the light of the publication of Batman: Damned #1 and the shadow of Bruce

Jook Joint is the new comic book series by Tee Franklin and Alitha E. Martinez out next month, a dark horror series, filled with blood and revenge. Set in

That was Thought Bubble that was... Held in the centre of Leeds in and around the city town hall, rain threatened but we only had a five minute shower

We mentioned this in Things To Do In London If You Like Comics: September 2018 (taking entries for October now, fact fans). But apparently, it may have

On the train from Leeds to Newcastle, for Terry Wiley's funeral tomorrow. That's me. But what did you read on Bleeding Cool yesterday? Top five posts from

Wow. Just... wow. Lee Bermejo has been signing a lot at Thought Bubble in Leeds this weekend. Lots of Batman: Damned #1 of course, but plenty of other