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Let's talk about originality in art. The Wicked + The Divine #14 came out this week, and while I know I sound like a broken record at...

There’s been quite a bit of comment on the price of new comics and it seems to me that newer readers may not quite...

Yes, that's right: Image. I know I usually do the DC Comics sales summaries here at The Beat, but while Heidi looks for someone to step in and handle the Indy comics chart I volunteered to do a column focusing on Image. With around seventy titles each month they're about as large (titles-wise) as Marvel or DC, so I figure they should have their own column, yes? Warning: The commentary may be even more mis-informed than usual...

The important thing to remember when looking at Image's sales numbers is that they're not really playing the same game as other comics companies. My understanding (and I'm sure you'll all correct me if I'm wrong in the comments below...) is that Image charges a flat fee for producing, listing and distributing comics, so that after that fee and the printing costs, whatever is left over goes directly to whoever supplied the comic. (This may be different for the official Image partners...)

A super hero falls in the woods and the sound turns the lives of five kids upside down.

This is the first in a planned series of articles about the “Image Effect.” Over the past 20+ years Image Comics has grown from...

LINE Webtoon is a popular digital comics platform, based in Korea, that came to the US last year. As previously announced, they're bringing Marc Silvestri's Cyber Force to the platform, starting today, with free downloads. . Cyber Force was one of the original Image Comics titles, and follows a group of cybernetically enhanced do gooders who have adventures while being rendered in Silvestri's fine line style.

Descender's Mail-bot reveals comic creators who are in fact actually robots and speaks about all things Plutona. The answers may shock you.

Though it's called Invisible Republic, the Image series from Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko has quickly made its presence felt. In five issues the husband...

So there's good news and there's bad news. Sex Criminals #12 has been delayed, now releasing on September 16th.  Happily, however, the delay isn't due to...

Comics Beat hosts its first panel at Long Beach Comic Con 2015 and we've got a Lollapalooza of a line up.

After a hard week at the mansion the Beat Staffers (authors of the world’s premiere comic book website The Beat) went out for ice cream....

By Cal Cleary "... what really matters is what you like, not what you are like." - High Fidelity Welcome back to Phonogram, Kieron Gillen and Jamie...