Rich Johnston Archives

Explaining a whole host of URLs registered recently by Warner Bros, the sequel to the smash breakout videogame Batman: Arkham Asylum is to be called

Two clips below from Pete Versus Life, a new broken comedy sitcom from Channel 4 starring Rafe Spall, starting tomorrow at 10pm in the UK. Produced by the

There's been a fair bit of debate over the metatextuality of certain scenes on Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows new comic, Neonomicon. Certainly enough to see

Today, Mark Millar expects that his "biggest news ever" will be released, "late today". Whether that's Greenwich Mean Time or Pacific Seaboard Time, I

SpellWatch: From the recent X-Men #1; DoctorWatch: It was a pig to film. The shooting angles were all wrong. There were too many reflective surfaces. And

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund have unanimously appointed Larry Marder as their new president, taking over from the retiring Chris Powell. Larry Marder

Italian artist Giuseppe Veneziano has a new exhibition of art on display. And it does seem to be having fun with a bunch of familiar supehero icons.

So there are a bunch of fans of Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity fans who spend their days and possibly nights creating space ships that might exist in

I understand that Supergirl artist Jamal Igle is off the book. And has moved over to Birds Of Prey. Neither DC Comics nor Jamal responded to enquiries. I

I understand that we may be about to see the return of Canadian supergroup Alpha Flight appearing in an upconing Marvel comic. Maybe we'll find out just

Mark Millar has been reporting that, as part of the Glasgow Film Theatre's festival early next year, he's been asked be to be the official ambassador to a

Supergod 4 by Warren Ellis and Garrie Gastonny. Cover by Felipe Massafera. Warren's teatise on superheroes as analogues for the weapons arms races of

Apparently this third issue of David Lapham and Javier Barreno's Crossed is the sickest, most violent book that Avatar has even published. And I'd like to

KKKWatch: On sale on eBay, right now, for just $1.49 are a bunch of... white power rings. Yeah. Um.... HateWatch: Will you love Paul Levitz after the next

Aaron and Mike from A Comics Shop in Florida. are back with a run down of the week's comics, directly from their new business A Geek Easy, as it's being

Zenith was a 2000AD strip that asked, basically, what if Morrissey was a superhero? The first superhero strip for the sci-fi weekly, Zenith first appeared

/Film report on an animated Scott Pilgrim clip based on a scene from the comic books that didn't make it to the silver screen. Both parts of Scott Pilgrim

Yes, its another marketing campaign for Taco Bell. But damn it if it isn't funny and full of sweet tasting Neal Adams goodness. And now with hidden drugs

Photo by Molly McIsaac. Yes, folks, that's me being licked by Ben Templesmith in the wee hours one night at San Diego. It happens. Yesterday, Heidi

ClothingWatch: Heidi notices Warner Bros reach out to the fashion industry over Green Lantern Note that pesky off-message "Anyone can be chosen" still

Ethan Persoff, the commentator who brought the Tea Party Comix issues to wider public attention online, has received a missive from the creator, now

Paul Duffield's cover to Kieron Gillen's The Heat, out from Avatar next year. And a look at a hectic jetlagged week at Bleeding Cool - it's two weeks to

Last year, Brain Scan published Watchmensch by me and Simon Rohrmuller. A commentary on the comics industry over the last seventy years using the language

And we're back. Sorry for the absence folks – I was away on my annual three-week family trip to the USA, but I'm back now, and ready to swim back to the

I don’t write that much about mainstream superhero comics because I don’t find very much that’s positive to say about them. They seem trapped in a

On August the 10th next week, this Wolverine covered taxi will be travelling the streets of London. Flag it down and enter a draw to win anything from an

PuppetWatch: Team America: World Police's Cartmanesque Kim Jong-Il becomes a poster figure for Democratic Burma marches... AuctionWatch: Copies of Batman

So I receive this email from someone saying; I'm not sure if this would be of any use to you. I work at a Talent Agency in LA. One of the managers here

This is the first glimpse of artwork we've had from creator Frank Cho's upcoming fantasy series Dragon Line for Image Comics mentioned here back in 2007.

Eden Studios is to make a roleplaying card game of Tim Seeley's Hack/Slash, the  comic book that recently departed Devil's Due for Image Comics. Planned