Reviewed! Every Issue of Villains Month, Week Four
Week four wraps up the review copies, with another slightly-uninspiring collection of comics. The first two weeks definitely felt a little stronger, or perhaps...
Adventure Time Vol. 2: Pixel Princesses due in November
The first Adventure OGN Playing with Fire by Danielle Corsetto and Zack Sterling was a hit—it was Diamond's #1 selling GN for May—and there's...
Marvel’s Next Big Thing – Matt Fraction Discusses Inhumanity
Marvel announced a conference call tonight with writer Matt Fraction and editor Nick Lowe, to discuss the upcoming 'Inhumanity' which will target the Marvel...
The Beat Podcasts! More To Come – SPX 2013
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi...
DreddPad: 20 Volumes of Judge Dredd Are Now Available Digitally
2000AD have sent the news across that they've made all 20 volumes of Judge Dredd's Complete Casefiles available digitally for iPods and iPads and...
The Phoenix Presents….. An Evil Emperor Penguin Takeover?!
Every Friday, Stately Beat Mansion invites round a comic creator or two for a cup of tea, complementary Kit Kat, and a chat about...
REVIEW: John Wagner and Arthur Ranson’s Button Man
The Button Man series by John Wagner and Arthur Ranson is a rare creature. For a magazine designed to tell fast-paced adventures, this is a...
Gilbert Hernandez wins PEN Center honor, will publish Bumperhead through D&Q
Gilbert "Beto" Hernandez's status as One Of Our Greatest Living Cartoonists got yet more validation today when it was announced that he's the recipient of The Pen Center USA's 2013 Graphic Literature award for Outstanding Body of Work. The Pen Center Awards are given out each year to deserving authors in multiple categories, and as the name suggests, it honors a notable body of work.
Reviewed! Every Issue of Villains Month, Week Three
Week three brings a number of Batman villains to the forefront, as well as a surprising disconnect with the main Forever Evil storyline. Hardly...
DC and NYCC: no booth but lots of Superman costumes
All the way back in April, folks at C2E2 were stunned when there was no DC booth. Lots of panels, but no booth. Whispers were that there would be no booth at NYCC either, but that just seemed unfathomable: no big set up at the home town show? Inconceivable!
WB’s Tsujihara says full speed ahead for DC movies
Last week WB head Kevin Tsujihara gave a talk to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference and touched on their upcoming slate. You can read a full transcript here (although whoever did it doesn't seem to know Zack Snyder's first name.) Anyhoo, while the J.K. Rowling wizarding news had everyone clicking their heels, it doesn't mean that DC has been left waiting out in the car . Here's the key passage:
FIRST LOOK: Numbercruncher #3 from Titan Comics
Titan Comics, hearing about Tharg's earlier visit, decided to also pop round for some tea and biscuits, and also handed me some paper. This...
