Rich Johnston Archives

A few nights ago, Northampton was host to the launch party of Dodgem Logic, Alan Moore's new fanzine. One of the bands playing was The Retro Spankees,

You're a British soldier in Afghanistan. Every day brings new dangers, new injuries, new deaths. A bit of escapism back at the barracks can go a long way.

So I conducted a Twinterview with Mike Benson, writer of Wolverine, Punisher and Moon Knight - but possibly more importantly, Entourage and The Bernie Mac

Titan Publishing are a UK-based company, spun out of the mighty beast that was Forbidden Planet and Titan Distributors (now Diamond UK) that used to

I enjoyed reading Tom Spurgeon's Holiday Gift-Giving Suggestion List Thing. No, I really did. But when I got to the mini-comics, I knew something was up.

The first issue of Warren Ellis and Garrie Gastony's Supergod set up the format for this... one man telling the story of the end of the world to either

There's a chap in Leeds says he can extract water from the atmosphere. Oh, as you were, he's been certified. - Bill Maguire No one ends the world like the

Wired highlight the new Grant Morrison biopic, and include these couple of teasers... And yes, it's not every biopic where the director can write about

In other news, Mark Millar is gearing up for Friday's big Comic Book Resources interview over his new Marvel project with Steve McNiven, Nemesis.

Lookit! Iron Man 2 poster! With two Iron Men on it! Looks like they gone taken that "2" moniker a little too literally for my simple homespun tastes.

We knew that Richard Curtis was writing a Doctor Who episode for next year. Something with Vincent Van Gogh in it. We also knew that the Daleks would be

Sandra C. Ruckdeschel and Pedro Ponzo are adding to Bluewater's biographical comics line (as seen on The View, apparently) with Ellen DeGeneres' life

All these months of talking about the difference between British and US genre shows has made me think about them more when I looked at two new Brit shows

From the upcoming Dawn 20th Anniversary Trading Card Series - some of the Friends Of Dawn hand drawn sketch cards inserted, courtesy of Dynamic Forces.

A couple of weeks ago, Marvel brought out a Black Knight comic.  A customer at the comic shop Amazing Fantasy in Hull suggested that Marvel were trying to

We went a bit mad this week, offering up around 37 posts in as many hours over the Thanksgiving holiday period, including a page from Alan Moore's new

I love the theory of simultaneous evolution. That sometimes things happen that seem so linked but that are clearly seperate in origin. And it's true in

It was invented as a satirical joke. Chess boxing was a plot device in the graphic novel, Froid Équateur (Equator Cold) by Serbian creator Enki Bilal.

And over fifty years since it was first serialized in the comic magazine Pilipino Komiks, the Francisco V. Coching’s classic comic El Indio has been

Fresh from his success on creator-owned titles The Gray Area from Image and Kick-Ass from Marvel Icon, here comes a new one for John Romita Jr, alongside

Turf is a new 1920s gangster/vampire/aliens comic book written by Jonathn Ross and draw by Tommy Lee Edwards. A number of publishers were very interested

Alun Vega stalks Doctor Who. Not in any creepy way, he just finds out where the British sci-fi TV show is filming, and wanders along with a camera. And

BeardWatch: Thanks to Manolis Vamvounis for his Warren Ellis/styled balaclava. And all the people he's going to get to pose in it. This is going to be the

The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: I spent much of the last week writing an in-depth cityguide to a town that doesn't exist. That's a lot harder than it

Diamond Previews, the advance listings catalogie for the comics industry, has a listing for the Don Cheadle Iron Man 2 War Machine figure from Diamond

After a bit of a hiatus, I'd like to welcome everyone back to The History of the Modern Comic Book - a column that (increasingly roughly) parallels my

Okay, I'm exhausted. Thirty-five posts, every hour for the last thirty-five hours. Thirty-six if you include this one (which I do!) Okay, so what's been

Ed Brubaker gives us all an upcoming page from Criminal: The Sinners part 3. I do like my Criminal... You do a bit...

Spandex, the all-gay superhero team comic book that has caused so much media fuss has been a bit of a monster hit for creator Martin Eden. His O Men

Jock is thankful for Batman on a boat...