Rich Johnston Archives

Firstly, for those of you who need a little uplift after the Batgirl cover debacle, may I recommend today's Batman Eternal for Batgirl getting a little

nextwave: Agents Of H.A.T.E. was a wonderful Marvel comic book. The Hawkeye of its day (that day being 2006), from Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen, it

So, as we know, Superman used his new Superflare power in the last issue of his Geoff Johns/John Romita comic. Sorting out Ulysses, but draining his

Alan Moore first announced he was writing a novel called Jerusalem in an interview I conducted with him back in 2005 but he'd been working on it for ten

At the London Super Comic Con this past weekend, Garth Ennis called superhero comics "a waste of talent", though he was careful to differentiate what he

When Doc Octopus took over Peter Parker's mind in Superior Spider-Man, there was concern regarding the character's relationship with women who knew the

The new Boom! series Strange Fruit by JG Jones and Mark Waid takes the front of next week's Previews catalogue from Diamond Comic Distributors... while

With all the fuss regarding cover and costume choices of late, there are some unreconstructed red blooded males feeling pretty aggrieved, it seems. And

Dave Sim signs a lot. A lot. The Kickstarter for Cerebus Archive Three is based in part upon his ability to sign everything. And I've demonstrated to you

This has been a long time in the making. Today, Marvel released their solicits for June, including the Secret Wars title X-Men '92 written by Chris Sims,

Yesterday, we told you that John Cassaday's last Star Wars issue would be #6. Well, Star Wars #7's artist has yet to be announced. But from #8, the new

I've grown up around churches and cathedrals, they are a perfectly natural part of the landscape to me. The spires working like advertising billboards of

An irregular look at changes 'twixt solicitation and shipping from Marvel Comics and DC... New Suicide Squad #8 had Tom Derenick added to the solicited

So the Batgirl Joker Variant controversy has gone global. The story about DC Comics pulling the Batgirl #41 Joker variant at the request of its artist

We'll get to the conventions exclusives in a minute... But first, Doctor Who: Ninth Doctor #1 American Dream Comics variant cover by Brian Williamson and

Here are Marvel's solicitations for July, with all the Secret Wars series we'd been hearing about, with others teased and not realised, and one artist

Okay, they are mostly new. Airboy is the James Robinson/Greg Hinkle reboot of the character, which appears to be a fictionalised telling of the attempt to

Here is the Convergence #1 1:100 Variant.cover by Greg Capullo, showing the design of the new-look CHAPPIE Batman, published here for the first time.

In 2014, Wizard World brought in $23,060,178 in revenue. This is over double their 2013 revenue of $11,186,134. This is on the back of running seventeen

We've looked at some of DC and Marvel's promotional discounts for retailers as the Mini Relaunch Vs. Secret Wars campaign gets underway. Exceed 200% of

When Leinil Yu tweeted he was working on a nineties style shoulder padded series for Marvel, we wondered if it it could be the previously teased Age Of

Photos courtesy of the Promotopia Pictures Team, who attended London Super Comic Con 2015 on behalf of Bleeding Cool... Let's have some big cosplay

Here was the cover to Batgirl #41 by Rafael Albuquerque. Not any more. DC media partner CBR who first ran the cover has now run the following releases

The IDW comic book Wild Blue Yonder, created by Zach Howard, Mike Raicht and Austin Harrison and produced by Noble Transmission is being adapted into an

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what

Posted on Facebook today, John Cassaday conveys the bad news, by way of a process post on the cover to the first issue. While wrapping up my final issue

Anyone who knows me, who has every talked to me about Marvelman or Miracleman will know that once two pages of original art by Alan Davis were stolen from

Don't judge a comic by its cover, don't judge a comic character by their clothing choice... Clothes maketh the comic character this week it seems, with

Entertainment Weekly has the Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows news for Secret Wars, while Buzzfeed has the Angela: Witchfinder General Secret Wars series.

The big news from Avatar in June, and talked about at the weekend's London Super Comic-Con is that Si Spurrier, the author of Crossed: Wish You Were Here