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The next announcement from Dynamite is the arrival of an oversized one-shot coming out in April from creators Jim Zub and Jonathan Lau, Red...

Fantagraphics has posted an except from Jaime Hernandez's The Love Bunglers, coming in April. This reprints the story from Love and Rockets #3-4 which...

Dynamite Week is going on this week, and so say Dynamite themselves. There'll be several announcements coming from the company over the next few...

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...