THE MARVEL RUNDOWN: ResurreXion is Here! Is the New X-Men Golden? Are the Inhumans...
Face front true believers, ResurreXion is upon us! After years of stagnation, Marvel has aligned the cards for yet another X-Men and Inhumans reboot....
WonderCon ’17: Industry Artists Give Insight on How to Draw for Action Scenes
Many an artist of the comic, graphic novel, and manga format will cringe when the respective writer they work with asks for the dreaded...
Preview: Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward’s Black Bolt #1
While Marvel's PR crisis continues to swirl, it should be noted that they still have books coming up from important new voices, and The Beat will continue...
Must read: G. Willow Wilson on where comics are now
So yeah, watching comics twitter react to Marvel's marketing thoughts over the last few days was like being on a hill and watching a tsunami arrive,...
WonderCon ’17: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D’s homestretch goes beyond “What-if”
ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D had an impressive WonderCon showing typically saved for San Diego Comic-Con. All of the integral cast, as well as showrunners,...
Marvel reinstates free digital comic with purchase
Well, that was fast. A few months back, Marvel discontinued their practice of including a code for a bonus digital copy of various comics. I think...
Marvel: retailers and readers “turning their nose up” at their more diverse titles –...
At last week's Marvel retailer retreat, the publisher and the merchants hashed things out.
Telltale’s Guardians of the Galaxy Series and WB’s Injustice 2 villains get NEW trailers.
Last week WB Interactive released another story trailer for Injustice 2 while Telltale Games dropped one for episode three of its Walking Dead series....
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales Chart January & February 2017: TWO-IN-ONE!
Xavier Lancel dives into January's and February's Marvel sales!
Marvel addresses event fatigue and retaining hot talent in retailer summit
As The Beat told you last week, Marvel has just their first retailer summit in nearly 20 years, in which 14 retail organizations from the Top 300 Marvel accounts were invited to meet with Axel Alonso, David Gabriel and other top execs to talk about the steps Marvel is taking to improve sales.
Preview: Eddie Brock’s Return in Venom #6
There's been a bit of musical chairs with the symbiotes in the world Spider-Man of Spider-Man in recent years, with Eddie Brock having a...
Marvel’s learnings continue today with big retailer summit
As we've noted in our recent sales charts, things have taken a dark turn at Marvel sales-wise in the last six months or so...





















