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There's been a lot of buzz about writer Frank (Five Ghosts) Barbiere of late. As in literally. I keep hearing "Frank Barbiere this" and "Frank Barbiere that." All good. Likewise, Dynamite's Gold Key revival has been a surprise hit thus far, with some sturdy characters getting a fresh update. So Barbiere's take on Solar: Man of the Atom along with artist Joe Bennett definitely qualifies as a buzz book. The first issue of the book is out today, and Dynamite provided this preview and interview with Barbiere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsjtg7m1MMM Spoiler: I am totally going to see this movie. Unlike past teaser trailers this one is all about the plot, and all the "You...

Brief and to the point -- over on his Formspring Tom Brevoort was asked about Marvel's continued hammer-blows of relaunches, Do you think the frequent...

Vertigo's new fantasy-ish title Hinterkind recently released its first trade paperback collection, The Waking World.  If you only glanced at the covers, it's probably not...

Sometimes the wheels of comics grind exceedingly slow, and Multiversity, a now somewhat outdated multiversical look at the DCU that folds in various...

Greetings, sales charts fans! It's time once again to look at DC's sales figures. DC take the top four spots on the Diamond sales charts, as all four of their bestselling titles (Batman, Forever Evil, Sandman Overture and Superman Unchained) actually shipped in the same month! Despite that, DC still fell short of their top competitor Marvel by about 9% in both dollar and unit share, as Marvel have many more comics that perform in the 50-70K unit space than DC does. And average sales hit the lowest level since the New 52 began. Warning: The commentary below may contain reasoned analysis, speculation (unfounded and otherwise), opinion, and/or snark. Those looking for a more straightforward analysis are directed to John Jackson Miller's excellent Comichron analysis, posted earlier this month right here at The Beat! All of the opinions expressed in this column are my own and do not reflect those of my employers, Heidi McDonald or anyone at The Beat, the Centers for Disease Control, or my neighbors' dog Miles.

We've been having a lot of coverage of Booms! Lumberjanes this week, but the next hot book from Boom is likely to be The...

Designer Courtney Utt, who was responsible for some of Viz's most distinctive covers, passed away recently at the age of just 37 following a...

Lumberjanes is a new comic from Boom! that came out yesterday and seems aimed squarely at the Adventure Time/Tumblr/Cutecore comics audience, with a story...

DC has been doing themed variant cover months such as the recent Steampunk on, and in June it's Bombshells based on artist Ant Lucia's...

While I don't know what was the book of MoCCA at ECCC it was DEFINITELY Lumberjanes, which launched in a convention exclusive edition. With...

Despite my previous move towards being chipper, there are still some distress signals out there. Marvel's full court press on their next event, Original...