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Digital Comics

WEBTOON announces a slate of new programs aimed at helping creators in 2026

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Naver WEBTOON has announced a major new program of creators resources, including more monetization opportunities, in person workshops, and travel opportunities
Archie

Exclusive: A-Pop comes to Riverdale in Archie’s Valentine’s Day Spectatular

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Archie Comics loves its pop culture parodies, so it's not shocking they've decided to take a stab at parodying the mega-popular K-Pop Demon Hunters. Plenty of romantic fun appears to be in the offing.
Movies

SUPERGIRL trailer released online

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DC has released the first-look teaser trailer for SUPERGIRL, directed by Craig Gillespie and starring Milly Alcock and Jason Momoa.
Business News

Waitaminnit, Humanoids is back with a Jodorowsky kickstarter?

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Humanoids continues as Humanoids Studios with a Kickstarter for new projects by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Gabriel Rodríguez.

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Television

A Ghost Story for Christmas brings the spooky

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Disney sells out to OpenAI, agreeing to license characters to Sora

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Television

Recap: STRANGER THINGS 5’s “The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler”

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Skybound

Marvel and Skybound to reprint historic Invincible/Spider-Man MARVEL TEAM-UP #14

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Archie

Exclusive: A-Pop comes to Riverdale in Archie’s Valentine’s Day Spectatular

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DC

The SUPERGIRL trailer wants you to buy comics

The SUPERGIRL trailer ends on a call to action to "read where it all began," featuring an ad for DC Universe Infinite, and a link to DC's landing page for Supergirl. The shot also features the cover of Tom King and Bilquis Evely's Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, the miniseries on which the movie is based.
Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up

Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up: THE NEW AGE, RISE, THE ART OF SUNSTONE, and two more projects you’ll love!

Welcome to this week’s installment of The Beat's Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up! Let's look at a new age of fantasy, a new edition that rises to...
Movies

SUPERGIRL trailer released online

DC has released the first-look teaser trailer for SUPERGIRL, directed by Craig Gillespie and starring Milly Alcock and Jason Momoa.
Television

Sherlock Holmes returns to WATSON

Sherlock Holmes returns to CBS' WATSON, played by Robert Carlyle
Business News

Waitaminnit, Humanoids is back with a Jodorowsky kickstarter?

Humanoids continues as Humanoids Studios with a Kickstarter for new projects by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Gabriel Rodríguez.
Conventions

On the Scene: MICE 2025 focused on understanding comics

It's my sixth time writing about MICE and I’ve still got things to say. That’s because the annual Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, a free, two-day...
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Manga and Anime News

Wonderful Wednesdays: FOLLOW THAT KISS, WONDER CATS and more from Seven Seas

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In this week's Wonderful Wednesdays, Seven Seas announced six new manga and one danmei audiobook adaptation! Here are the details.

Beat’s Bizarre Adventure: FINDING MY VOICE with art

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This week, Beat's Bizarre Adventure covers the works RULES FOR DATING TRASH, FINDING MY VOICE and NIGHT FRAGMENTS.

Live-action LOOK BACK movie coming from director Hirokazu Kore-eda

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The live-action film of Tatsuki Fujimoto's emotional manga will arrive two years after the anime version from 2024.

Wonderful Wednesdays: MISS KOBAYASHI’S DRAGON MAID: ILULU DOESN’T UNDERSTAND LOVE and more from Seven Seas

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With six manga and one new audiobook adaptation, Seven Seas' Wonderful Wednesdays are back! Here are the titles announced on December 3.

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS x VANS make the perfect holiday buy

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The KPop Demon Hunters x Vans collection launches in-store on December 5 and online on December 8 with iconic designs.

Exclusive Preview: THE MAGNIFICENT BASTARD – THE LEGEND OF KEIJI VOL. 1 arrives in December

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Kodansha will publish a hardcover English edition of The Magnificent Bastard: The Legend of Keiji, Vol. 1 in December. Here's a sneak peek.
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Business News

Disney sells out to OpenAI, agreeing to license characters to Sora

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Sora users will be able to use over 200 Disney characters in short media they prompt from OpenAI's video generator.

Waitaminnit, Humanoids is back with a Jodorowsky kickstarter?

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Humanoids continues as Humanoids Studios with a Kickstarter for new projects by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Gabriel Rodríguez.

May 2nd, 2026 will see Free Comic Book Day and “Comics Giveaway Day”

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Universal will be running Free Comic Book Day on May 2nd, including a partnership with Lunar and Diamond UK; but PRH is going its own way with Comics Giveaway Day

The latest development in DC/WB/Netflix and now…Paramount

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More drama, more quotes, more Hollywood executives talking about how great the DC IP library is as the battle for ownership of WBD heats up

Paramount makes hostile, larger bid for Warner Bros. than Netflix

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DC Comics' owner might still land under the same roof as Star Trek, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Nickelodeon.

Miles Morales co-creator Sara Pichelli receives no royalties from spin-offs

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"I don't get anything. And that's the saddest part of my life." said Sara Pichelli.
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The Beat’s Best Comics of 2025

The Beat staff has come together once again to compile its annual, wide-spanning list of the best comics of 2025.
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The Marvel Rundown: ULTIMATE WOLVERINE #12 is a gripping lesson in life and pain

This week's Marvel Rundown features Ultimate Wolverine #12, Amazing Spider-Man #17, The End 2099 #1, and Ultimate Spider-Man #23.
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DC Round-Up: ABSOLUTE BATMAN #15 delivers that muscley Joker dinosaur thing you’ve seen all over

This week: The new Absolute Joker design went comics Internet viral a while back, and now we get the full story behind it in Absolute...
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Wednesday Comics Reviews: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES #13 brings in an all-star new creative team, and more

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #13 is this week's lead review in a Wednesday Comics column that also looks at Our Soot-Stained Heart, and more!
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Horror Beat: THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM is an excellent mood piece on melancholy

The Haunted Season continues.
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Top Comics to Buy for December 10, 2025: A strong mix of top-tier cartooning, turtles, and more

This week's Top Comics to Buy for December 10 features great artists and some of the hottest franchises in the industry.
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Beat’s Bizarre Adventure: FINDING MY VOICE with art

This week, Beat's Bizarre Adventure covers the works RULES FOR DATING TRASH, FINDING MY VOICE and NIGHT FRAGMENTS.
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Classic Comic Compendium: SPAWN – THE DARK AGES is the same Spawn, different era

Spawn - The Dark Ages took the familiar elements of Spawn lore and placed them in a harsher time, plus story elements of crusades and knights.
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Trade Rating: OUT OF ALCATRAZ is a prison escape thriller with something powerful to say

Out of Alcatraz a stellar read, a fun prison escape thriller that turns out to have a lot more on its mind that you may expect.
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Entertainment

Recap: STRANGER THINGS 5’s “The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler”

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Our spoiler discussion unpacks the intense opening, anticlimactic end reveal, and more from the final season's second chapter.

The SUPERGIRL trailer wants you to buy comics

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The SUPERGIRL trailer ends on a call to action to "read where it all began," featuring an ad for DC Universe Infinite, and a link to DC's landing page for Supergirl. The shot also features the cover of Tom King and Bilquis Evely's Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, the miniseries on which the movie is based.

SUPERGIRL trailer released online

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DC has released the first-look teaser trailer for SUPERGIRL, directed by Craig Gillespie and starring Milly Alcock and Jason Momoa.

Sherlock Holmes returns to WATSON

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Sherlock Holmes returns to CBS' WATSON, played by Robert Carlyle

SUPERGIRL trailer countdown video reveals a funeral for a friend

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Along with the first-look teaser, DC Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures revealed that they will release the fill trailer tomorrow at noon ET. DC's YouTube page already has a premiere scheduled, which you can see here.

SUPERGIRL’s second movie poster gives a better look at Milly Alcock’s heroine

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Warner Bros. Pictures today took a few minutes out from trying to decide who will own their library next year, to release a new theatrical poster for June's Supergirl. The movie stars Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El, the cousin of Superman last seen (briefly) in last summer's Superman.

Wrestling News and History

Turnbuckle BEATdown: AEW did the right thing with Kris Statlander

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The future remains bright for Statlander.

Turnbuckle BEATdown: Remembering the Reigns of Terror, Pt. 2 – Jeff Jarrett

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Lo, I looked to the horizon and saw him brandishing the NWA Championship and behind him, four horsemen who brought the apocalypse: "My World," ref bump, low blow, and guitar shot

NYCC ’25: DC x AEW crossover debuting at event

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The two-part series, helmed by Steve Orlando and Travis Mercer, will debut with a special preview issue at this month's convention.

Turnbuckle BEATdown: Rhea Ripley becomes the latest victim of TERRIFIER’s Art the Clown in Ice Nine Kills concert

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Should Art the Clown be Cody Rhode’s next title defense match?

Turnbuckle BEATdown: So, WRESTLEMANIA is coming to Saudi Arabia

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It would mark the company's first ever overseas Wrestlemania.

Turnbuckle BEATdown: AEW is now officially on its HBO Era with PLE livestreams

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Not necessarily cheaper than WWE’s ESPN package, though.
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