HYPE!

Andy Diggle is now the second creator announced to be taking part in Dynamite's upcoming line of crime comics.  Diggle isn't exactly a stranger...

Mark Waid’s a pretty in-demand guy right now.  He pulled an Eisner for his work on Daredevil over at Marvel.  He’s also relaunching Hulk...

By Steve Morris Having already exhausted teasers, interviews, black and white images, coloured images, unlettered previews and just about every other form of pre-release promotion...

Comic cons are springing up like umbrella stands in the rain everywhere around the US -- even in small places like Asbury Park. This...

By Todd Allen While I'm not sure this news is big enough to warrant having been sent out in what I expect will end up...

By Steve Morris Read no further until you pick up today's issue of Avengers Vs X-Men, unless you want to be spoiled! Alternatively, pick up...

By Steve Morris Subject of one of the most famous X-Men stories ever told and perpetual fear for Jean Grey fans around the World, Marvel...

By Todd Allen OK, I admit it.  That cover graphic of all the super heroes going straight down the toilet cracks me up.  It's also...

By Todd Allen As you may recall, The Boys is winding down soon.  You might be wondering what Garth Ennis is going to be filling...

This is firmly under the HYPE banner since I was a publishing consultant for this project, but Ham Fisher's venerable boxing-themed comic strip character has been updated to an MMA-fighter for IDW's Joe Palooka, the brain storm of boxing announcer Joe Antonacci, along with Mike Bullock, Fernando Peniche and Matt Triano. In the story, Joe Palooka is a discredited MMA fighter who travels the world desperately trying to clear his name while fighting to earn a spot in the legendary “Legion of Combat,” worldwide fight series.

Pop culture business news site ICv2 has announced the ICv2 Conference on Comics and Digital II to be held in conjunction with this year's New York Comic-Con. It will be held on WEDNESDAY, October 10th,1:00 to 5:00 p.m. -- in previous years it was held on the Thursday prior to the Con but NYCC is essentially a 4 day show now. As in previous years, The Beat is a sponsor of this event. Here's the line-up of panels, with speakers to be announce. All of them sound extremely interesting.

Valiant's being a big tease again. I was sent the following graphic with the tagline, "Shadows fall this November."