Rich Johnston Archives

"Let's see who tries to kill us and work backwards" - The Doctor A spoileriffic look at this Saturday's series opener to Doctor Who, now with added

On the Marvel Live Blog on Friday night, Marvel announced that Rob Williams, of ComX and 2000AD, and now working on Ghost Rider, was to be a Marvel

Okay, this is where it pretty much gets official. At the Hellblazer 25th Anniversary panel last night at the London Sci-Fi Festival, questions were asked

BeardWatch: Regenerated! Happy Easter! - Paul Cornell at EasterCon. He's just this second shaved his beard, folks FCBDWatch1: Two Kings Comics in Victor

So who is contributing to the Strange Adventures anthology book from Vertigo shipping next month? The solictations say; STRANGE ADVENTURES #1 Written by

Bleeding Cool had previously run a story that Spawn collaborator Greg Capullo was looking to leave the Image comic Haunt for work at DC and Marvel to

Here's Brave New World Comice of Newhall, California's ad for Free Comic Book Day, coming up on May 7th. Nice Wonder Woman sting at the beginning.

A free comic teaching new library users how to use their system, using the narrative device of a zombie attack has, well, extended a little outside its

Former mayor of Sioux city, the Rev Bill Skinner, died last Thursday. In notices of his death and memorial, it was noted that he was mayor of the city

According to a number of Barnes & Noble employees in the USA, in June, Barnes & Noble will be expanding the amount and range of comic books they

ArtWatch: Tom Fowler is replacing Terry Moore on Venom #3. MagWatch: Tripwire finally claws its way back into Diamond's Previews. Under an exclusive

I am not looking at the post-credit scene from Thor that has made its way onto the internet. No, I intend to watch it, with wife, on the big screen later

This is what happens when I don't keep up to date with the small pile of comics by the side of my bed. I miss something like this. In Glamourpuss #18 by

Written and drawn in 1972. Only published in the APA zine Love in 1975. Frank Miller's earliest work, as scanned in and uploaded by Comics-n-ERB on the

Yesterday I told you that John Constantine was coming back to the DC Universe. And tomorrow, while Doctor Who is on, current Hellblazer writer, who is

So I've been talking to retailers. Quite a few of them. Asking them how they've been ordering the first issues of both Marvel and DC's big summer

Comics Launch Pad is a very different kind of comic convention. While usually comic book professionals attend conventions for free, at Launch Pad they pay

When Joe Quesada became Editor-In-Chief, one of his edicts was to stop characters from smoking. His father had died of lung cancer, he didn't want to

Earlier this week we pointed out that the DC Comics Presents: Legion Of Superheroes: Legion Of The Damned 100 Page Spectacular #1 (breathe in) reprinting

It is one of the best selling English language comic books in the world. Reaching a peak of over a million copies, it still sells enough on British

It was one of the funnier scenes (among many) in Four Lions, the jihadist comedy from last year. New recruits training in Pakistan, firing a rocket

Here are a few scenes from Super Dinosaur, published on Wednesday. And here is Strontium Dog from 2000AD created... a wee while before that. In Swipe File

EmploymentWatch: Bobbie Chase talks about joining DC Comics. Respectfully, etc etc. KirbyWatch: Mark Buckingham and Steve Leialoha work up a familiar

I don't know where. I don't know when. I don't know how. But I am reliably informed from a certain Brazilian in the know that John Constantine will be

The American Library Association, the world's largest library conference, is doing something new for their national conference from June 24th to the 27th

Okay it's not quite his last issue, in that Al Ewing will be working with Garth on future issues. But it is a farewell of sorts and an end of the arc. So

So what happens when your comic is nominated for an Eisner for Best Humour Publication... but it's out of print? And a new print is a long way away? And

Here is a new page from the classic Kree-Skrull War from Avengers, created by Upper Deck Card Entertainment and written by Sean McKeever for a new series

From the Fantagraphics blog, just one of collector Thomas Rehhoff's sketches of Luba and Maggie from Beto and Xamie Hernandez, in Batman and Robin form....

SarahJaneSmithWatch: The week before her death, Tom Baker had signed to record a series of Doctor Who audio dramas with Elisabeth Sladen. The BBC will run