Rich Johnston Archives

Infinity Wars #3 has been introducing the Infinity Warps. Smooshed together versions of Marvel Universe characters. As we guessed, the result of the

I've recently been rewatching all the Marvel movies as my daughter Alice has suddenly got very interested in them, and she is binge-watching them like a

Matt Miner and Clay McCormack's punk rock slasher horror comic book Poser from Waxwork Comics is launched today, Matt is even doing a signing at JHU Comic

It was one of the more controversial comic book events that Marvel have published. Hated by one side for what was seen as glorifying fascism, hated by

John Pearson, co-creator of the horror comic Beast Wagon and P M Buchan, co-creator of the folk-horror series Heretics , are bringing an extremely

I'm not going to think through the total creepiness of this. But yes, the Venom symbiote has left Eddie Brock for its abusive ex. And so Eddie Brock has

It's an official leak. The first scene from the upcoming season 3 debut of The Good Place. That picks up the cliffhanger from Season 2, and expands the

So, in his monthly comic book, Flash is running around chasing these new Forces to join the Speed Force that were loosed by the crumbling of the Source

I may have mentioned London comic store Orbital Comics once or twice on Bleeding Cool. It has probably become my favourite comic shop. Not just the store,

Local Comic Shop Day 2018 is coming. Saturday, November 17th, where participating comic book stores have special premium products to sell, often limited

Today's X-Men Blue #35 is the most doppelganger Marvel comic book to date, with all of the original X-Men teenagers brought to the present, having

Batman is on the case. Being a detective in Detective Comics #988 today. I know, who'd have thought?? So, tracking down a murdered individual, finding his

There is a storytelling trope known as 'The Worf Effect' A quick way to show how dangerous an unknown character is by having them beat a character the

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran the news that ex-Robin Dick Grayson, Nightwing, is about to undergo a name change. It was first proposed for the New 52

Back when Marvel Comics was first promoting the Infinity Warps characters, they used the hashtag #WhoGetsWarped to introduce such people. #WhoGetsWarped?

Welcome to the sixth 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

 Zac Thompson and Lonnie Nadler are writing back-up strips in the X-Men Black oneshots for X-Men Apocalypse through November. But in December they get a

Ghost-Spider is the new name for Spider-Gwen, the parallel dimension version of Gwen Stacy who, in that world, goes by the name of Spider-Woman. Lots of

First, we gave you the big plans going forward for Dick Grayson, Nightwing. It was a shocker. Then we told you that writer Benjamin Percy wasn't going to

Comic creator Yannick Paquette was shown the cover to the Walmart exclusive Justice League 100 Page Giant #1 at Rose City Comic-Con this weekend and was

Abeyance is a new comic book series by Gabriel Guignol and Tanya Roberts with issue 1 debuting at this year's Thought Bubble Festival in Leeds, on

In what appears to be an embargoed Associated Press news story that the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (website is the hilarious NWAonline.com which

The events in Nightwing #50 are certainly meant to be dramatic, spinning out of Batman #55. Advance artwork appears to suggest a serious headwound, and a

Rockstar Sports Nutrition is a Wyoming company that sells dietary supplements, that specialises in an entire line marketing towards women, using brand

You may know Benjamin Percy for writing Detective Comics, Green Arrow, Teen Titans and Nightwing. He's one of those people hired by the Big Two for a

Everyone who knows Kieron Gillen knows he delights in tortuous tangential puns. Everyone who follows him on Twitter gets that mainlined to their frontal

She's coloured DC/Young Animal: Milk Wars, Escape From New York, Robocop, Headspace, Galaktikon, Hex Wives, Spell On Wheels, Broken World, Mystery Girl,

Welcome to the fifth 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

Spawn is the longest running Image Comics title and is a year away from doing a Cerebus and hitting issue 300. But the series, created by Todd McFarlane,

He knocked on Alan Moore's door in Northampton. He found me in the basement of Forbidden Planet in London. He ended up in a catacomb. And now he has