Rich Johnston Archives

FashionWatch: theFashionSpot and Andrea Grant are launching a new twice-weekly autobiographicalish webcomic, Ready To Where?, about the life of a fashion

Christopher Handley, who pleaded guilty last year for possessing "drawings of children being sexually abused" was sentenced to six months incarceration

The Shorty Awards, celebrating the works of various Twitter users in certain fields, have announced their nomination list. And there are some familiar

Okay, that was funny. Since Brightest Day was first teased, and in conjunction with Marvel's more clear-cut Heroic Age, I've been describing the perceived

Italian site Comicus has conducted an interview with Marvel writer Greg Pak. And they got a very nice little exclusive out of it, which they are teasing

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran The Fifty Dollar Club - recent comic books that have risen from their floppy retail prices of a couple of dollars to

I understand that the following symbol, the logo for the upcoming Brightest Day crossover/banner/promotional thematic thingy from DC Comics... That's the

Greg Scott, comic book artist for titles such as newuniversal, Gotham Central, The Shield and Red Circle has a very different project to start next month.

Rabindranath Maharaj's fourth novel The Amazing Absorbing Boy tells the story of a Trinidadian teenager sent to live with his father in Toronto after his

Eisner award-winning Guy Davis ((BPRD, The Marquis) has drawn a one-off Judge Dredd story for writer Rob Williams for an upcoming issue of Judge Dredd

ListWatch: DC Comics lists DCU trade paperbacks and hardcovers coming this autumn. We get a confirmation on my big buy of the year, Absolute All Star

I said that this would be a $10 book by the weekend. I was wrong. Copies of Captain America #602, featureing an anti-tax protest labelled racists by one

I love running a headline like that one. Earlier this morning, I ran a piece on the most recent issue of Captain America causing some concern amongst

What is this, all new superhero TV shows at the Bar and Grill? Days after reviewing NBC's action adventure superhero-turned-villain-but-really-hero pilot

Here are seventeen recently published comic books that are currently breaking the $50 barrier based on actual reported sales. No CGC, no chase variant

Fox News has quoted Ed Brubaker on the Captain America furore that Bleeding Cool picked up on this morning. The latest issue of Captain America features a

I do like Dustin Nguyen's comic book art. And I really don't like the DC Source blog's method of displaying preview art as a series of thumbnails. It's

The movie Red, based on the Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner comic book is filming in Toronto right now. Starring the likes of Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren,

This is a warning to those who know comic book artist John McCrea, artist of Hitman, Dicks, Herogasm and more, specifically those people who may be

PoliticsWatch: According to the Publius Forum, Marvel Comics are using the Captain America comics to accuse people who attend the so-called "Tea Party"

Earlier today, Heidi MacDonald posted; Everyone was wondering when the Wizard World tour would leave the continent, but Gareb Shamus has done everyone one

The auction to name the hero character in Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's upcoming Marvel comic book Nemesis went for $8400 to art director Blake Morrow,

Nikki Finke and Mike Fleming are reporting that Warner Bros is about to announce its Superman movie plans - and they're giving them to Batman Begins/Dark

FilmWatch: Tim Robbins has been cast as Senator Hammond, Hector Hammond's father in Green Lantern. Robbins' previous comic-based film? Yes, that would be

Secret Avengers by Brubaker and Deodato Jr? I want more adjectives dammit! Avengers Academy won't be enough, I want Preppy Avengers Academy!! So what else

It was announced a week ago that NBC are working on a number of new television dramas, including commissioning a pilot  The Cape by Thomas Wheeler, a

As Rich reported last week, many news outlets would only report on the prospect of a WATCHMEN sequel by speculating on the prospect of a movie sequel

I have to say I do have a problem how some sites show off preview pages to comics. Take DC's The Source, they have just put up preview pages of Batman And

Gareb Shamus has bought the North Coast Comic Con and will rename it Cleveland Comic Con. Seriously, there should be a template for this by now. Garab

So just how did Paul à Québec win the Angoulême Public Award - mostly voted on by French voters, when it hadn't even been published in France? Was it all