Comics

Along with the image, we're told: Kirby: Genesis is coming! Dynamite presents Alex Ross, and he's bringing a friend! Stay tuned for full announcement coming soon!

A scary chicken graces the cover of a CHEW variant edition available at Comic-Con.

The recently revamped by Matt Fraction MANDARIN? The revitalized under Paul Cornell LEX LUTHOR? Or ... this guy?

Okay, this is DEFINITELY NSFW. Don't say we didn't warn you. THE PRO, the tale of a working girl with superpowers by Garth Ennis,...

Paul Pope reimagines Abbey Road just for kicks.

Have you been fretting about what to get Sean T. Collins for his birthday? Worry no more! Wearable, usable art company Poketo has just announced Perverse Universe, a limited edition wallet series that "offers a view into the mad minds of Matt Furie, Louie Cordero, and Jon Vermilyea."

Via his blog, Bryann Lee O'Malley shades the wisdom of cartooning and good balloon flow: Try to avoid layouts that make as little sense as...

Over the recent holiday weekend, we had occasion to spend a fair bit of time going through posts from the Old Beat, clearing out some spam and trying to clean up the database for various purposes. Along the way we were forced to violently relive the last few years of the last decade. It all seemed so simple once. So many news stories that never went anywhere -- a few we jotted down for future investigation, but there were also things like this fellow who spent money in 2007 to announce his new blog. Now it's only a reseller placeholder. They had such big dreams, but those big dreams crawled under a rock to die.

Model kits as the doorway to pulp transcendence. Komatsuzaki is a cult figure in Japan; in his long 50 year career he painted thousands of illustrations for model kit boxes, among other things. Sadly, it is reported that few of his paintings survive due to a massive fire.

Via EMPIRE, the international poster. Awesomeness and excitement grows.

Hope and Tintin, Anime Expo's diminished manga presence, and what is Marvel thinking of NEXT for their digital publishing?

Jeph Loeb went on a media tour last week, talking to a bunch of websites about his new position running Marvel Television. Variationson a theme in most interviews, but piecing together a few bits of info, i's clear how this is aimed at boosting Disney's TV presence, as he told Splash Page: