Live blogging the Harveys 2015
Welcome to the pageantry and passion of the Harveys! We're here finishing up our crab cakes at the Banquet and awards administrator Paul McSpadden is welcoming attendees and thanking the sponsors. Soon we'll have...
The Spirit of Marston is Alive in Wonder Woman: Earth One
Action Comics, Animal Man, Batman, The Doom Patrol, The Invisibles and The New X-Men. Nobody in comics has a resume quite like Grant Morrison. The author has written so many incredible comic books stemming all the way...
Books That Need a Boost: The Four Underdog Books You Should Buy This Week
Every Wednesday, hordes of warriors troop out to comic book stores across the country to pick up the releases of the week. The comic book industry has been riding the coattails of a boom...
Activist Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and Stelfreeze launch “A Nation Under Our Feet” in new...
Marvel went to the New York Times this morning to announce the heavily teased brand new Black Panther series. The series will be written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Correspondent for The Atlantic and writer of the...
Review: Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá’s “Two Brothers” is a Beautiful Heartache
Two Brothers
Creators: Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá
Publisher: Dark Horse
Twin brothers Omar and Yaqub may share the same features, but they could not be more different from one another. After a brutally violent exchange between the young boys, Yaqub...
Witness the Revenge of the Armor Hunters in the Pages of Valiant’s Unity
Valiant Entertainment has revealed one of the final story arcs for the publisher’s landmark team book Unity. A few weeks ago, the comics company announced that the series was coming to an end with...
Foster-Dimino and Goldstein dominate as women sweep the Ignatz Awards
It was a clean sweep for female creators in the 2015 Ignatz Awards. Sophia Foster-Dimino won three of the bricks for her comic Sex Fantasy while Sophie Goldstein won two for her SF graphic...
Maestro leads the All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One #1
On October 7, Marvel is getting ready to launch a brand new line that is/isn’t a reboot the All-New, All-Different Point One #1. The new comic book is set to give readers a preview of the...
Stryfe Visits the Stately Beat Manor Staff Pull for 9/9/15
This week, a longtime staffer of the internet’s premiere comic book website, The Beat, became obsessed...obsessed with ‘90s X-Men comics. We tried to take away copies of comics like X-Cutioner’s Song from the staffer --...
When DC and Marvel cost less than indie comics
There’s been quite a bit of comment on the price of new comics and it seems to me that newer readers may not quite understand why readers over the age of, say, 35 are...
Micky Moran Visits the Stately Beat Manor Staff Pull for 9/2/15
Team Comics Beat, the world’s most important comic book website ever to grace the internet, sought out adventure and fun after a hard work week. However, we were graced with the appearance of Micky Moran....
Humphries and Del Mundo Introduce 16-Year Old Becca to Weirdworld
Marvel has just announced more details on the post-Secret Wars ongoing series for Weirdworld taking place in the All-New, All-Different Universe launching immediately after the publishing event. The series is switching creative teams from...
