SDCC ’17 Watchtower Roundup – Ennis Back on Punisher; Milligan and Bond Reunion and...
A few things we're seeing from orbit while on Monitor Duty in The Beat Watchtower:
The Marvel solicitations for October do not seem to...
Review: Eleanor Davis’ expansive bike path
You & a Bike & a Road is an amiable documentation of the kindness of strangers and the general amiability of most people you encounter...
BOOM!’s Road to SDCC ’17: A Murderer’s Row of Creators Showing Up for Labyrinth...
BOOM!'s announced the November release of a Jim Henson's Labyrinth 2017 Special. BOOM! is probably underselling the lineup they've got for this one: Jeff Stokely,...
BOOM!’s Road to SDCC ’17: Power Rangers Jumping From Comics to Video Games
Once more comic books are considered cannon and comics characters are jumping to new formats. This time it's Power Rangers, as BOOM! has...
Batman: The Dark Prince Charming – Is DC Getting Back Into the OGN Game?
If you've been reading the Beat regularly, you've seen us talking about the growing schism between struggles in monthly periodical sales (floppies if you...
SDCC ’17: The $150 Dollar Vampirella Action Figure
Dynamite has a special Vampirella action figure dropping in September. It will put you back $149.99, but this is a little higher-end...
TOLJA! IDW and Glénat team up for new “Original Graphic Novel” initiative with Carey,...
Here's a big deal that's also very smart: IDW Publishing and the huge French comics publisher Glénat are launching a new joint initiative, “Original Graphic Novel”, which is...
SDCC ’17: Europe Comics brings DuFaux, Radovanovic and Munuera
The folks at Europe Comics (Disclaimer: they are a major sponsor of this site!) are coming to con and here's what they have going...
Who’s the new Batman Group Editor? It could be YOU!
When DC Group. Editor Mark Doyle was bumped upstairs to run Young Animal and the remnants of Vertigo, the big question bussing through the...
SDCC ’17: What will be Marvel and DC’s biggest news at Comic-Con?
Despite the showbiz hoopla, there is usually a lot of comics news that sneaks through at Comic-Con, and with everything we've been talking about...
SDCC ’17: Crackdown 3 (XBox) Gets a Comic To Expand Its Universe
On November 7, Microsoft will be releasing Crackdown 3, the new installment of their open world adventure game. On November 8, Dynamite will be releasing...
SDCC ’17: Marc Guggenheim Attached to Swords of the Swashbucklers
A few months back, Dynamite Kickstarted a restoration of the '80s Epic series Swords of the Swashbucklers by Bill Mantlo and Butch Guice. One of...

















