Rich Johnston Archives

Yesterday on 4chan/co, an anonymous individual claiming to be a DC insider spilt a lot of information. From an ongoing Grant Morrison/Alex Ross New Gods

So that was the race week that was. Normally the Perry White news would have made an impact, but Spider-Man stole his thunder somewhat as the entire media

Elliott Serrano and Kate Kotler write for Bleeding Cool; This week we're giving advice to someone looking to help their geeky friend avoid falling into

Marvel's longest running comic Fantastic Four concluded with issue #588 last year, twelve issues short of the #600 issue, and restarted with FF #1. Well,

Big Planet Comics in Washington DC in celebrating their twenty-fifth anniversary this year. So they've sponsored a series of alternative endings to Nick

Isotope in San Francisco ran a late night party event with Grant Morrison last week, to celebrate the launch of his new book, Supergods: What Masked

There were almost eighty Godzilla #1 retailer-specific covers. There were one hundred and fifty Amazing Spider-Man #669 retailer-specific covers. There

Marvel do love a silhouette don't they? They really do, playing a game of who's-in-this-issue-who's-not and we all play along like giddy schoolchildren.

Okay, so I didn't get into the DC Retailer meeting in London today - I had been semi-invited but it all seemed to fall through at the last minute. I ended

Accroding to the TV Guide, Robert Kirkman is considering writing a Walking Dead graphic novel, Volume Zero, that would show just how the two character

TwitterWatch: StephenWacker: @KurtBusiek I only hear your negative thoughts. I'll see you on Bleeding Cool tomorrow. FeifferWatch: Fantagraphics will not

We know the story. Jack Kirby, enraged by the lack of respect and/or money he was getting from Marvel Comics, moved to DC. This was a big deal, the

It's time for a preview of one of my daughter's new favourite comics. Reed Gunther, an all-ages Western comic from Image, that rather enjoyable on all

Accessible, embeddable, here comes Cerebus TV to YouTube, from Dave Sim and friends. We start with the Steve Canyon board game, we move onto the comic

A Banksy-eye-view on the current Murpert Murdoch phone hacking scandal.

Dave McKean was signing at the new Gosh Comics today, which brought all the usual suspects out to pop by, some to see Dave, some to see the new store,

I don't know. You wait ages for a Kevin Maguire Metal Men to come along, you pick up the 100 page Metal Men Spectacular collecting the Metal Men backup

Thanks to all the people who emailed me this one. Bryan Talbot has announced the threequel to his steampunk anthropomorphic series of graphic albums,

Our Love Is Real has been a real cause celebre for Bleeding Cool, and the authors kindly credited us for their comics instant sell out of all three

At the Kapow Comic Con earlier this year in London, Mark Millar and friends set the world record for the fastest completion of a comic book, with writers

This is the approved DC radio ad that retailers can run in their local area, and get 75% of the costs back. Shame it's so very very dire. Some of you know

Last month, The Hollywood Reporter broke the story that Noam Murro has been selected to direct Xerxes. And mentioned that it had been renamed 300: The

In Joe Quesada's Cup of Joe column for Comic Book Resources, he reveals that back in February he began working on a personal commission for President

Tonight on Channel 4 in Britain, a documentary The Superheroes Of Suburbia made by Christian Watt looked at British real life superheroes and found, as

After that last article, I need a feel good British comic con story. Caption. It's the longest running comic book convention in the UK. But you won't find

Rob Barrow, one of the more prominent names in British comics fandom, responsible for early London comic book marts and conventions in the seventies and

It's been three and-a-half years. Today Avatar published the final chapter of Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield's Freakangels, the long running webcomic set

Video producer, animator and voiceover man Bill Meeks writes for Bleeding Cool; I think I've finally hit on the difference between how I see superheroes

DC Comics appear to be collecting the Flashpoint spinoff series in five combined trade paperbacks in March. With each collection ranging from 224 to 320

Bleeding Cool has previously reported on Chile's publishing of DC Comics, moving them into the mainstream. Looks like they've been too sucessful. In