Rich Johnston Archives

Brazilian publisher Gal Editora are publishing Phil Hester and John McCrea's The Atheist as a Portguese language graphic novel Invasao Do Mortos this

StoreWatch: As part of a profile on success in the face of recession on Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, LA in The Daily News, Earth -2 gets mentioned, as

A hardback glossy comic book for a dollar? Sounds like a bargain right? Not if you're the Taxpayer's Alliance in the UK. And are complaining about the

So.. which one is which? Thanks to the New York Times In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be

The KeyBoard Is My FuckMonkey: Some extra-curricular thoughts on the whole "Superheroes: Good Or Bad For Comics" debate, which has been raging -- RAGING!

Terry Moore talks about sending Strangers In Paradise Omnibuses to Belgium - what's left of them when they get through Belgian customs that is. Signed,

DCWatch: So, yesterday Diane Nelson And The DC High Five spoke to all sorts of people. Dan DiDio, Jim Lee, Geoff Johns spoke to CBR extensively early in

Well that was a conversation I never thought I'd have. I just spoke to a round table of the DC's new High Five - Jim Lee, Geoff Johns, Dan Didio, Patrick

A note from Rich Johnston So. A Brand New Day at DC Comics. No deals with Mephisto (not that we know of anyway.) There have been some problems at DC of

Well, this makes a lot of sense. Bleeding Cool has been pointing out that if Sony really want to make a film based on Ultimate Spider-Man then they should

DC have made the big announcement. The role of Publisher at DC Comics has been split between a number of key individuals as Co-Publishers. Dan DiDio and

It looks like Harlan Ellison and Kyle Baker are collaborating on a new The Spirit story. Okay then. From Harlan Ellison's newsletter; HE (Harlan Ellison)

Seriously, do you want to be in Kenneth Branagh's Thor, based on the Marvel comic of the same name? Hang out with the likes of Sir Anthony Hopkins,

So... are you all over Kevin Smith's Green Hornet but long for the Kato of old? In fact, is Kato all you were reading Green Hornet for and now you've got

I knew it would only be a matter of time before a media source would talk to Millar about those Superman movie plans again, in the light of Warener Bros'

FishWatch: NPR totally and utterly geeks out over the return of Aquaman in Blackest Night. Seriously. It's embarrassing. BAD NEWS! This New Direction

A few months ago they were a start-up company in the North East of England, competing for grants investment from venture capital firms. Now they are

Fred Hembeck caught up with Terry Austin the other day. And Terry shared a few pages he'd inked for upcoming Archie comic, Archie New Series: My Father's

Todd Klein continues his release of special prints in collaboration with some the biggest names in comics. Following on from Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, JH

So you sign up for a reality show. Maybe you're an exhibitionist, maybe you reckon you might get a few media-friendly jobs out of it, maybe you'll be able

Ignition City by Warren Ellis and Gianluca Pagliarani is out in trade paperback this week, and you can tell this is a real labour of love for Warren. A

I've got a new comic book out in the USA today, and in the UK tomorrow. Comic shops stocking Chase Variant for the shelf are listed at

There has been a bit of fuss regarding the solicitations for DC's new series Brightest Day. While the creative team is solid, no one is exactly sure what

CaptainAmerica602Watch: Keith Obermann takes on the Captain America #602 controversy and naturally finds it lacking. Can you believe Liberality For All!

Captain America. Iron Man. Thor. Spider-Man. Wolverine. Basically anyone who's had/having a film out. And the big bad guy for these avengers of the Heroic

Reed's New York Comic Con is on October 7th-10th. So is Wizard World Big Apple Comic Con, on the very same road, a few blocks down in Manhattan.This

This is how the world ends. Crossed is one of the bleakest comics on the stands. And it terms of genre-styled comics, it's one of the best. There have

Avatar creates a nunber of variant covers for its comic books. It's part of its publishing plan, and has a long history of finding new twists on the

The Zombiepocalypse has been normalized. Nowadays, you won’t go into a video shop or a comic shop without seeing a new zombie title. I just go, “Here we

Apparently Garth Ennis writes comics for publishers other than Avatar. Shocking I know. Anyway, here's a preview of upcoming work on Battlefields and The