Rich Johnston Archives

Everything's heating up in the geek movie world right now, as the chart below indicates. A female Jimmy Olsen, an animated Star Trek Benedict Cumberbatch,

From a fan-made Batman comic, The Tailor...   Top Twenty Traffic Stories Of The Week Second Amazing Spider-Man Sequel Villain Outed At Sundance

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Rich Johnston People understand Hollywood feuds exist, but find it strange similar behaviour might be exhibited in a field as lowly as that of, say, the comic book industry But people are people, human nature remains, it's just there's less money in comics Which often makes the behaviour worse, not better[...]

From a DC House ad...We had a massive traffic burst this week, well ahead of usual New Year activity, thanks to a Scott Lobdell scoop here, a new look

Here are the top twenty traffic posts of the year on Bleeding Cool... you can see the influence of Google here more, and the popularity of films over a

I do hope you can read this with the ching ching ching of sleighbells running through your head. Top Twenty Traffic Tales Of The Week 1. Four Ways Image

A fantasy football trophy well worth winning. One week till Christmas! What will be waiting for you under the tree? A copy of Building Stories bought from

Boy Layton retro-draws Emma Frost... she's certainly come a long way. This weekend broke non-convention weekend records on the site, smashed them to

Coco the comic book...curse you Graig Weich! So, stuff is happening at DC right now. People walking off books, people walking back on them, all manner of

  The Cincinatti Comic Con have all sorts of awards for their Kickstarter including Deadpool sketches by Tony Moore and commissions from Katie

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Rich Johnston. Before Watchmen Sandman Zero DC Comics is going back to the past, revisiting the holy of holies to uncover new riches With or without the original creators But after these two monuments, what could be next? Well I've been sent a rather spurious document that may shed some light[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Rich Johnston So many comic book rumours and gossip revolve around comic book writers and artists But there's so much more dirt to be found in the lives of editors and publishers So welcome to this issue's blind items of industry gossip. Which editor once entered the executive area at the comics[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Rich Johnston. November! The nights are drawing in Americans are thankful for their country, celebrating with turkey, fireworks, and family Brits are thankful a Catholic terrorist didn't blow up Parliament and burn his effigy on a bonfire It's pretty much the same thing. One thing that won't be on that bonfire are[...]

On Wednesday, Avatar Press publishes Bleeding Cool Magazine #1, including the Top 100 Power List, the most powerful people in the comics industry, in one

Anyway, Bleeding Cool Magazine #1 comes out next week, featuring the 100 Most Powerful People In The Comics Industry, an interview with Alan Moore, a

Catpumpkin! Damn jet lag... never normally this bad. Next NYCC, must plan better. I'm forty in a month. Sigh. I took the kids to the Cartoon Museum in

This NYCC visual has been chosen to freak Brendon out... I am seriously jet lagged. But I am with my girls (and their My Little Ponies, thank you Hasbro).

Here's Dan Slott, geeking out at the Entertainment Media Show. You can take the pro out of the fan, but you can't, etc etc.. Expect slightly sporadic

Join David as he discusses his bold new contribution to George Romero's epic! If you like your comics splattered with action and gore, you'll want to attend this NOTLD: Aftermath panel!   Bleeding Cool Panel with Rich Johnston Sat 10/13/2012 7:45 – 8:45 PM Location: 1A08 Speakers: Rich Johnston BleedingCool.com is the source for breaking news in the comic book industry! With[...]

Rich Johnston On Why Variants Are The Worst Thing To Happen To Comics And Ten You May Prefer 1 Brett Booth For Nightwing, Eddy Barrows For Superboy 2 Loads Of New Footage – First Look At Misfits Series 4, Utopia, The Snowman Sequel And More 3 Those All-New X-Men #1 Panels, Lettered 4 New Croods Poster – Personality By Way[...]

Chris Eliopoulos' variant cover for A-Babies Vs X-Babies... Top Twenty Traffic Posts Of The Week 1. Preview: Avengers Vs X-Men #12 2. Dan Slott Says

Thanks to AmpCosplay and Daniel In 3D for this one... This week I have been writing a lot of Bleeding Cool magazine. But what have you been reading on the

The Beast by Grisly Jerr... School holidays. Manic Mondays. Piccadilly Circuses. Wasn't I meant to read something this week? Oh yes, comics. Top Twenty

Well, that was a weekend-and-a-half. Not sure what of that people expected, but I can tell you that a lot more people are following Rob Liefeld on Twitter

I don't know what I was thinking. I made a very foolish promise. That if preorders on Bleeding Cool Magazine #1 topped 20,000 (and issue zero brought in

Okay folks this week is basically the last week when you can order the Bleeding Cool Magazine for November. After that point, the print run will be set

All the Avengers in pixel form... by iliekpixels Another week passes us by... as you read this I am finally seeing The Dark Knight Rises. I know, it took

Rest in peace, Joe Kubert. You gave so much to the comic industry. Your legacy will live on in your work, the people around you, and the many you

The new Rocket Raccoon, as drawn by Joe Quesada. The jet lag has gone (mostly). The Olympics are here (almost). And I seem to brought the West Coast USA

Look at that happy man. It's almost as if he understands. That was taken at the beginning of San Diego, when a fresh faced Englishman had just landed,