HUGE NEWS! New Hutch Owens collection in October!
Tom Hart's essential zeitgeist character Hutch Owen gets his third collection this fall, Let's Get Furious!, due from Top Shelf:
Continue ReadingDC announces first 10 new books: Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Mister Terrific, etc.
The Source break loose and reveals ten new books and creative teams. And notably, it's basically the same sort of teams we've been seeing for quite a while, but mostly much respected creators. Surely the most Tumbl'rd comic will be a NEW character book featuring a character who is non-white: MISTER TERRIFIC, by Eric Wallace and Roger Robinson. .
Continue ReadingThe biggest news of the week: HARK! A VAGRANT cover
D&Q has revealed the cover to Hark! a Vagrant their Kate Beaton collection. Just the other day, The Beat and another industry observer were chatting about this and that and we observed that no one does a comics author tour like D&Q. The fantastic response to the Chester Brown tour being an example of that. Fantagraphics is the only company that even comes close.
Continue ReadingValiant Entertainment comics back…again
Via PR and an interview with CBR, the much-argued over Valiant comics characters are coming back, this time under a group led by former Marvel CEO Peter Cuneo, his brother, Gavin, CEO Jason Kothari and director Dinesh Shamdasani.
Continue ReadingFunny X-Men sex videos
You've probably already thought of most of these, but Funny or Die has put them all in one place.
Continue ReadingJMS: “Reboot was DiDio’s dream”
On his Facebook page, JMS praises DC's plan to relaunch its superhero line and gives a hint of the backstory.
Continue ReadingComics, Crisis and You: A Disrespectful Guide to Comics Events
Flashpoint is going to end in new #1 issues across the board and new origin issues for everyone, that much is clear. Will it be the earth shattering annihilation of Crisis on Infinite Earths, or the long-forgotten supposed reboot of Zero Hour?
Continue ReadingMeanwhile: Dark Horse announces retailer exclusives for digital
Back in October, at the ICv2 digital summit, there was a lot of talk about whether digital comics would kill brick-and-mortar stores -- one way to stave off that dire future vision was the idea of digital store exclusives -- things that you can only download from a store. The video game industry has been doing this for a while. When Dark Horse announced their own digital initiative, retailer exclusives were part of the mix. (DC has also announced their intentions to offer retailer incentives, but they have yet to be made official.) Anyway, Dark Horse has just announced they will be making exclusive 8-page stories from their hottest titles available only through comics shops -- via the print-out-a-code-and-hand-it-over method. Wow. So simple. First titles involved include B.P.R.D., Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Mass Effect. PR below and a sample page from B.P.R.D. Casualties above.
Continue ReadingPoint/Counterpoint: Readers speak on DCU changes
[Earlier today we ran an essay by longtime Beat contributor Mark Coale on The DC Flashpoint Reboot. In it he stated he was going to stop reading DC entirely. In the interests of fairness, we reached out to find readers who are excited about the changes. We've gotten several great responses and we'll run them over the next day or so. And yes we'll get back to non-DC news very very soon!}
Continue ReadingNice art: Jock’s new DETECTIVE cover
Artist Jock just tweeted this Joker cover for 'Tec and people went nuts. Can you blame them?
Continue ReadingStan Lee goes ape with Act-i-vate
As incredible as it is to believe, there is OTHER news today. Like a guest ACT-I-VATE strip called "Even Gorillas have Pride!" written by Stan Lee and drawn by Dean Haspiel for the PANELS FOR PRIMATES series.
Continue ReadingFlipping Point: The Coin Is Scarred Side Up
While there will be plenty of PR spinning about DC's big news as a great jumping on point for new readers and all that other doublespeak, let's look at the other side of the coin.
Continue ReadingDC’s new line: What we know, what we’re saying
Why is it that the biggest news always happens right after a holiday weekend? 18 months ago, it was Disney buying Marvel after Labor Day; this time, it's the biggest editorial readjustment at a superhero comics company EVER: DC's just announced plan to launch 52 new #1 issues in September, with changed or adjusted characters, costumes and and origins. Here's what you need to know, the confirmed and the speculation. First, what we know: The whole new line up will be announced on Monday, June 13th, when the Previews for that month is released. Until then, expect to see breaking news in national news outlets and on The Source.
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