Rich Johnston Archives

UPDATE: Now downloaded onto my iPad, five hours after the print edition went on sale. I understand this time issue will be fixed in future weeks... So I

PreviewWatch: Carnage U.S.A. #1... 1959Watch: Was Howard Chaykin right to reference rape in the fashion he did in in Avengers 1959 #4? Rusty doesn;t think

It appears that Avenging Spider-Man #1, published in print today by Zeb Wells and Joe Madueira, is not just day-and-date digital, but will be part of the

The Kevin Eastman variant cover to December's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic, from IDW. Ho ho ho...

Mayank Khurana writes for Bleeding Cool; And now behold the "Minicon". This year has been a pathbreaking year for Comics in India. We always knew there

This is a repeat. A collection of two articles you have already read. But with Marvel's Point One shipping tomorrow, it may not be a bad idea. Two lots of

Point One. Point One. Point One. Point One. Point One. Point One. Point One. Point One. Point One. Point One. Point One. Point One. Point One. Point One.

Bleeding Cool has made note of the continued salami slicing of budget at Marvel Comics. The firing of staff without a decrease in workload for the

Famous Monsters Presents: Luna - Order Of The Werewolf, from AICN@Comics' Mark L Miller, is out tomorrow... I'd like to say "in all good comic shops", but

What's in a name? Often comic book products change their name from concept to production. Sometimes it's legal, sometimes it's a change of mind, sometimes

Tomorrow, the second collection of Garth Ennis and Oscar Jimenez's Chronicles Of Wormwood: The Last Battle will be in stores, in hardack and paperback,

Si Spurrier’s instructions: Six-Gun Gorilla was the star of several short Wild West stories in Wizard during the late 30’s. Let’s hear from that

It's one thing to have your truck stolen. It's another when the contents of the truck are far more valauable than the truck itself. That's what happened

Here is a preview of the twentieth volume of the French spy thriller comic, XIII - four years after the previous volume and the first by the new creative

From May next year until January 2013, Iron Man 3 will be filming in Wilmington, North Carolina. And they need a thousand extras. And that's where Premier

WinWatch: Isabel Greenberg is the winner of this year's Observer / Jonathan Cape / Comica graphic short story prize. ProperJournalismWatch: When the FT

While British people of late have found a number of opportunities to get their comics signed by Alan Moore, Americans... haven't. Alan shows no sign of

It was goig to be Marvel's Watchmen. But then Watchmen was late too. Just not this late. The Twelve, by Joe Michael Straczynski and Chris Weston is not

Bleeding Cool first mentioned Jonathan Ross and Tommy Lee Edwards' follow up to Turf last year. The Golden Age, a tale about superheroes in retirement. At

Dark Shadows #1,  Game Of Thrones #3 and The Bionic Man #3 have all sold out at Dynamite, continuing a run of sellouts on the book. And, from this

Good advice for all these days. Welcome to another week's worth of tip top stories. Allegedly. So have you been reading - and what have you been ignoring?

Barnes & Noble took all 100 of the DC print graphic novels that were digitally exclusive to the upcoming Amazon Kindle Fire off their stores' shelves

This kind of article seemed to be popular for Point One and Fantastic Four #600. So let's do another for the finished Defenders #1. Out in December, this

Two issues may have been fully pencilled by Kyle Hotz. Marvel had announced the mini-series Destroyers a couple of months ago with a targeted promotional

UPDATE: The Nook Tablet with Ultimate Spider-Man on it, also courtesy of Ryan. The new Barnes And Noble device, The Nook Tablet, has been announced in New

There has been some concern expressed over the appearance of John Constantine on the John Cassidy cover of  upcoming trade paperback The Devil You Know

HiddenHistoryDelight: Two of Marvel's hidden histories come to 99c on ComiXology today. The Marvels Project by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting, looking to

CatchWatch: From a flea market on Sunday.,.. RealityWatch: Iron Man is getting closer and closer in modern day science. In 2008 at the University of

The second episode of the third series of Misfits. And still they won't give episodes individual chapter names. Let's steal one from another show, The

Sorry folks, if you were waiting on the fifth volume of the R.E.B.E.L.S. trade paperback line. Due to be published at the end of the year, Starstruck by