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The collected edition of ZED - A Cosmic Tale will be coming out next week.  It may be under your radar, and that's understandable.  It certainly...

In case you missed yesterday's blockbuster news, the irrepressible Rob Liefeld took three days out of his schedule to write a screenplay called ICONS about the early days of Image. Hitherto shown only to close friends, the screenplay turned up at the website Dreammoviecast where you can read several sample pages up along with Liefeld's own dream casting choices. I don't want to spoil all the surprises but here are two:

Some changes at Image Comics; Ron Richards, formerly of iFanboy, has been hired as Director of Business Development. You can read about Richards' new...

Another week where I purposely ignore Saga! What devilry is this? Surely answers must be forthcoming. This week I'll be reviewing X-Men #40, Hoax Hunters...

Well, here it is. The final issue of CREATOR-OWNED HEROES. When you think “last issue”, particularly on a series meeting an untimely end, you...

Aside from being Dennis Hopeless week once more, this week saw every company release a massively publicized, 'important' comic. From Dark Horse's new Star...

As announced earlier today, Image publisher Eric Stephenson was decisively voted The Beat's Comics Industry Person of the Year by comics professionals. Stephenson graciously agreed to be interviewed on the big impact Image had on the industry in the past year and what's next for the publisher.

This is the third year of our Comics Industry Person of the Year poll, and the winner was pretty much a landslide. Every year we ask the participants in our survey to name who they thought was the person who made an impact or set the pace, and to comment anonymously (or on the record) and it was a clear choice this time out. With many people saying it was the Year of Image, Image publisher Eric Stephenson was the runaway winner—and the Saga team of Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples were definitely the Team of the Year, with a significant number of votes.

2013 rolls in like a Swiss person being pushed down a hill, which means it's time for some more reviews! And some photos of...

If you follow the television biz at all, you know that AMC's management has a tendency towards... shall we say, an overly active hand...

After Image's Jennifer De Guzman played bad cop, and publisher Eric Stephenson played good cop, Image has released a new set of guidelines to...

The Image remake of the Extreme Studios comics line as a HEAVY METAL-infused SF line has been one of the funner things about the...