Bill Radford of the Colorado Springs Gazette spotlights IDW’s CSI: Dying in the Gutters, a five-issue miniseries that begins with the (fictional) murder of gossip columnist Rich Johnston at a Las Vegas comics convention.
The list of suspects is long: Ed Brubaker, Phil Jimenez, Robert Kirkman, Stan Lee, Joe Quesada, Greg Rucka and Gail Simone, to name a few.
“There are people who love him and people who hate him and a lot of people who kind of feel both ways about him,” Chris Ryall, IDW’s editor in chief and publisher, told the newspaper. “So we thought, `If we’re going to kill anybody, let’s do in a comic what a lot of people have said they’d like to see happen in real life.’”
In the article, Ryall recounts how IDW recruited Johnston — “I’m a total media whore,” Johnston says — and the suspects for the story.
CSI: Dying in the Gutters #1, written by Steven Grant and penciled by Stephen Mooney, debuts in August.
July 28th, 2006 at 9:36 am
Interesting that the series doesn’t star the comics creator who’s threatened to kill Rich in real life.
July 28th, 2006 at 11:42 am
You want a story or a phone book?
July 28th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
I’m going to (fictionally) buy that comic.
January 7th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
I heard that he was quite keen do a Eastenders cameo! Lol. do you know if this is true? There’s a bit of me that kind of hopes this is not true lol.
January 8th, 2010 at 6:56 am
Lol I imagine a scenario similar to the first part of the classic Simpsons episode of “Who Shot Mr. Burns” where a moderator says to the crowd of creators:
“Um I have just been um informed that a number of you are stroking guns and weapons. I um must humbly ask you to stop before Mr. Johnston comes up to um speak.”
=)