Rich Johnston Archives

This week's Astonishing X-Men saw the remade, reborn Professor Xavier confront the remaining adult original X-Men in a story that shows a lot has changed.

The Rose Theatre in Kingston-Upon-Thames has started rehearsals for Hogarth's Progress, a double bill for two plays about William Hogarth.

Avatar Press continues their two monthly titles for November 2018... Uber: Invasion and Cinema Purgatorio curated by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill.

Matt Brady is best known as one of the co-founders of Newsarama. But he's done a few other things in comics too.

If you want to see Warren Ellis in the flesh, then this year you really have one option: Thought Bubble in Leeds on the 22nd of September.

Fan Expo Boston took place this past weekend, and it appears several attendees had some not-ideal experiences with convention center staff.

We ran a bunch of second printings from Marvel Comics coming the other day, though we only had the cover for X-23 #2 second print.

Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment is releasing the second book from the new online comic book series Stan Lee’s Work Force.

Did you like seeing The Black Order in Avengers: Infinity War and don't want to wait until the sequel? Want to watch the Wizard once again after his demise?

Dynamite Entertainment will announce their ongoing series net week. But here are all their ongoing series solicited for November 2018. Even for some of

Batman: Damned #1 is the first title from DC Black Label, with its Final Order Cutoff date for Monday -- hence all the previews published in today's titles.

The first issue was a surprise. The second and third issues had their solicitations thrown at retailers if they know where to look.

Last year, DC Comics changed the name of their Christmas Special to a mere Holiday Special, clearly in the spirit of the famed War Against Christmas.

A Nine Worlds panel about the Toxicity of Fandom this year looked at the blurring of creator and fan boundaries in the social media generation.

Given what these variants sell for when they’re released at other events (and in much larger quantities), they started popping up on eBay pretty quickly.

The Black Barn is a building which appears when something terrible is happening -- and it's the same building that our city dweller is trying to rebuild...

Amazing Spider-Man #4 isn't out 'til next week, but it has already sold out from Marvel and Diamond, so Marvel has gone for a second printing.

Gerard Jones, long-standing comic book writer, was sentenced yesterday by a San Francisco court to six years in federal prison on child pornography charges.

Today's Astonishing X-Men Annual suggests from the top that, at least, writer Matthew Rosenberg has been reading X-Men Gold. As he should, since it's a

Hobart Brown is a parallel dimension version of Spider-Man, dubbed a "radioactive suicide machine" to fight the President Norman Osborne of his world.

DC Entertainment has announced new details for Batman Day 2018 -- now in its fifth year and scheduled for September 15th, 2018.

In Tony Stark: Iron Man by Dan Slott, Valerio Schiti, and Edgar Delgado we see the idea of Artificial Intelligence rights in the Marvel Universe.

In today's Peter Parker, Spectacular Spider-Man #308 by Chip Zdarsky and Chris Bachalo, the Steve Ditko tributes keep coming.

Ever since we watched Superman: The Movie, we know there's only one way to do the impossible and save the world. And going back in time to fix mistakes

Man, there I was slating Thor #4 for avoiding an intriguing possibility for a crossover with Infinity Wars... as Thanos came to the Norse realm of death,

Extermination is upon us. The mini-series series by Ed Brisson and Pepe Larraz that will finally deal with the fate of the Original Five, the Cyclops,

The return of Batman's underwear-outside-the-trousers look is explained, mostly, and spoilery, in Batman #53 for those who want to know.

From today's DC Comics titles, a preview of Batman: Damned by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo as Bermejo promised the other day. With a Gotham with a dead

Aspen does like to be first out of the gate when it comes to full monthly solicitations, and the publisher has its November titles all lined up.

Zenescope has officially announced its own Zenescope Comic Festival in Philadelphia in 10 days' time.