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It's a new year, and what better time to take a look back at what happened in 2013? Regular readers of The Beat know me...

by Jeffrey O. Gustafson The on-again off-again imprint Marvel Knights played a very important role in the current Marvel Entertainment empire. Started in the late...

Just to give you something nice to get into the weekend with, here's the cover for the second printing of issue #3 of the...

This week on More To Come, the weekly podcast of Publishers Weekly Comics World, I talk to Bob Fingerman about the return of Minimum...

One of the worlds biggest franchises is getting its own comics series, as IDW has announced it will publish Angry Birds comics starting in June. Jeff Parker and Paul Tobin are among those crafting the tales of Red, Chuck, Bomb, Stella, Matilda, King Pig and so on. The deal is being run on Rovio's end by Jukka Heiskanen, Rovio’s Editor-In-Chief of Comics.

Event season rolled on in November, as INFINITY reached its climax, while the Ultimate imprint's CATACLYSM got under way. Meanwhile, ASTONISHING X-MEN was relaunched as AMAZING X-MEN, and the MARVEL KNIGHTS X-MEN and LONGSHOT SAVES THE MARVEL UNIVERSE minis kick off. Though DC had four books in the top five - BATMAN, HARLEY QUINN, SUPERMAN UNCHAINED and FOREVER EVIL - Marvel still edged them in their share of the North American direct market, leading by 34% to 32% in unit terms, and 30% to 29% in dollars. As has already been pointed out on The Beat, this means Marvel and DC's combined dollar share dips below 60% - something that hasn't happened in a decade.

by Bruce Lidl Last week’s 2014 edition of the ImageExpo has generated a large amount of coverage for both new title announcements, and for the...

With solicitations due Tuesday, some DC talent adjustments are being announced, civilly and the proper way. Via an announcement at his ComicVine column ...

So today, after decades of arguing and speculation and heartache and anger and perhaps even here and there a little joy, Miracleman #1 has...

Among tomorrow's comics, our special pick is EGOs by Stuart Moore and Gus Storms. Why? story sounds cool, about a guy trying to save...

When Kieslowski meets printing processes, you get VERTIGO QUARTERLY: CMYK a color themed anthology with various hot young folks including Jock, Fabio Moon, James Tynion IV, Martin Morazzo, Robert Rodi and Javier Fernandez, Amy Chu, Joe Keatinge, Cris Peter, Shaun Simon and Tony Akins.

Of all the teasers Marvel ever released, this is by far the LEAST mysterious. A new Nightcrawler book by Chris Claremont and Todd Nauck...