Caracal, Lion Forge’s young readers’ imprint, drops the first installment of the Glint trilogy digitally today and in bookstores on March 12, 2019. The Beat has an extended preview of the graphic novel. Here is how the publisher describes Glint Book One: The Cloud Raiders: “Glint-the mineral resource that keeps the planet and people of […]
The Marvel Rundown: The X-TREMISTS strike the AGE OF X-MAN, and CAPTAIN AMERICA does hard time as a “Captain of Nothing”
Nate Grey’s hitmen are revealed, Steve Rogers is an agent without a cause, and Carol Danvers is late for a very important date.
Tilting at Windmills #273: Changing Your Store’s Culture
How do you get a Big 2 reader to broaden their horizons? The answer is ‘one book at a time.’
MISTER MIRACLE Roundtable: ‘There’s always more show’
The Beat’s DC Round-Up crew re-reads Tom King and Mitch Gerads’ MISTER MIRACLE and discusses everything from metafiction to the meaning of ‘Darkseid is.’
The Marvel Rundown: Logan goes cosmic in WOLVERINE: INFINITY WATCH, and THE AMAZING NIGHTCRAWLER gets his fifteen minutes
We’ve got discussion and reviews for this week’s two mutant-centric debut issues.
Women in Comics, By The Numbers: Summer and Fall 2018
Tim Hanley brings his analysis of gender in the comics industry to The Beat with a breakdown of creative and editorial roles at the Big 2.
“The BEST job I’ve ever had”: A Tribute to St. Mark’s Comics, From Former Store Manager T.J. Shevlin
Shevlin reflects on his time as a customer and employee of St. Mark’s, and its impact on his life.
The Marvel Rundown: G. Willow Wilson’s MS. MARVEL run ends, and Avengers assemble with NO ROAD HOME
We’ve got reviews of the latest issues of Ms. Marvel and Spider-Gwen, plus the debuts of Age of X-Man: NextGen and Avengers: No Road Home!
INTERVIEW: James Sturm Reflects on the Nature of Love and Politics in Off Season
By Nancy Powell James Sturm has never been shy about tackling the complexities of race and ethnicity in his graphic novels. Recently, Sturm turned his observant eye on the 2016 election season and set it as the backdrop from which a marriage unravels. Off Season, Sturm’s newest graphic novel, just dropped in stores this past […]
REVIEW: James Sturm Explores A Broken Marriage Against The Backdrop Of The 2016 Elections
By Nancy Powell The Presidential election of 2016 was an emotional and grueling time for many of us. Its aftermath left such animosity and despair that it was hard to imagine a future without doom. Not only did the election divide the country culturally, racially and ideologically, but it drove a dagger between friends, family, […]