Rich Johnston Archives

So, Caliban is now a movie character, cast in X-Men Apocalypse. So what has that done for his first appearance in Uncanny X-Men #148? There have been no

I don't know what it is. I don't know how it fits in with the rest of the universe. But Valiant Entertainment have trademarked the name "Gin-Gr" for an

In one week, the launch of Age Of Reptiles: Age Of Egyptians, Bat Mite, Batman Beyond, Bizarro, Midnighter, Omega Men, Airboy, Covenant, Nonplayer #2,

A look at a few exclusive and variant comic book covers circling the industry... Panini publishes Marvel Star Wars comics in Spain with many a cover to

Comic book stores will be receiving bundles of previews for Marvel's upcoming comic books with the name "All-New All-Different Marvel" on the 1st of July.

Consider this an increasingly regular feature looking at comic books that have gone to second prints or more. Now, it is worth remembering that some

There were plenty of folk to look at, in that final page of the Justice League United short story this week. We already talked about Captain Carrot and

Looks like Chris Burnham got his DC comp copies of upcoming titles, including those ads running on the same page as the comic books that we'd talked

The conservative media pressure group One Million Moms has just launched a campaign to persuade Fox TV to drop their upcoming TV series, based on the DC

Nothing overtly horrific happens in the first issue Providence, the new monthly comic from Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows, out this week. I mean, not in the

Comic Book have been given three advance pages from the upcoming Secret Wars #3. Including the Lord God Doom and Sheriff Strange taking stock of the

The fourth in a series of secrets to be revealed around the Secret Wars Battleworld.... here are the previous first, second and third... you can start to

This is a classic Red/Green Hulk image by Ed McGuinness. You can even see how he drew it right here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcUXMJOtG9s Or you

Special Edition NYC, The comic book focused spinoff of the New York Comic Con takes place next weekend. And amongst the myriad of creators and activities

Discussing the appearances of Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew in recent DC Comics titles, including yesterday's Justice League United preview, co-creator

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

Yesterday afternoon, an elderly woman drove her car into the West Melbourne comic book store Famous Faces & Funnies. She crushed their two glass front

Doctor Who: Four Doctors, the five issue weekly series starting on August 12th, starring the War, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors and their comics

Two comics, once Secret Wars 2099 shows us the Avengers of the year 2099. While Ultron Forever shows us the Avengers of 20XX. So presumably that will come

Brendan Deneen writes, I love comic books. The first ones I remember reading are Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s Spider-Man , and Stan and Jack Kirby’s

  They announced the female Thor there. They didn't announce A-Force there. But apparently Frank Beddor will get his new Looking Glass Wars novel

X-Men '92, the Secret Wars spinoff published first as a decampi comic by Marvel Infinite, before moving to print next month, lies to you. The title does

The first of the Mad Max specials ahead of the ongoing series, Mad Max: Fury Road: Immortan Joe And Max #1 has sold out fast and is getting second printed

Sandman Overture could so easily have been a coasting job. Taking in the sights, once more round the mulberry bush, job done, bring home half a million

Your regular guide to exactly how Secret Wars-y today's Secret Wars crossover titles are. Individual titles have different levels of connection to the

From the back of today's final issue of Divinity #4 from Valiant Entertainment, word of a sequel series around January or February, reuniting Matt Kindt

Convergence #8 ended not so much with a bang as everyine standing around talking about it a lot. But amidst the bad guy being defeated by another bad guy,

The Flash short story in the back of Convergence: Detective Comics #2 sets out the Flash's day to day setup, which may seem very familiar to watchers of

From the Sinestro short story in the back of today's Convergence: Action Comics #2 comes the word that everyone thinks that the Green Lanterns are dead.

From the We Are... Robin short story in the back of Convergence: Worlds Finest #2. All these youthful folks being summoned (or not) to attend to need in