Interview: RESIST! & Political Comix and Activism in the Era of President Trump
As America lurches forward to this week’s inauguration of one Donald J. Trump to be the Forty-Fifth President, the country finds itself at a...
Eleanor and the Egret is coming from Layman and Kieth
April will see a new title from AfterShock by the marquee duo of John Layman and Sam Kieth with the intriguing title of Eleanor and...
New Wilson trailer shows Woody Harrelson being misanthropic
https://youtu.be/AKHFZumOS94
There are a lot of comic book movies coming out this year, but lest we forget, Wilson is one of them.
Directed by Craig Johnson...
DC raises select titles to $3.99 but adds digital copy
Oh snap!
DC has announced they will raise to price of select monthlies to $3.99 from $2.99 - but these titles will now include a...
Co-Creator Paul Dini returns to Harley Quinn in the pages of her Rebirth Ongoing...
One of Harley Quinn's original creators Paul Dini (Batman: The Animated Series) is returning to the character in the pages of her ongoing series....
A year of free comics: Scott Gilbert’s Mysterioso is inky 90s goodness
Robert Boyd has begun an interetsing reprint project on his blog:
In June 1996, Scott Gilbert started running a serialized comics story in the Public...
12 Million Graphic Novels Were Sold in Bookstores in 2016
OKAY one more chart. Publishers Weekly has more information on the Bookscan bookstore sales numbers, with a breakdown by genre. As we reported last week,...
Report: Marvel shows are very popular on Netflix
Okay let's just get all these year-end survey things out of the way today! CableTV.com used Google Trends to figure out which Netflix orignal...
Wimpy Kid and Big Nate among the most checked out library books in 2016
Quartz has an infographic, charts and more to tell us what the most checked out books - by city - were in 2016. They...
Thanos joins GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY’s ‘Grounded’ after-party!
Guardians of the Galaxy's latest storyline 'Grounded' has been a quiet, subdued affair. When The Beat reviewed issue #16, we called the series "thirty...
Diamond: March Trilogy Still Available
Just a quick note: Diamond has an advisory up that the slipcased March trilogy edition is still available from them, although it's sold out...
Review – Frontier #14 by Rebecca Sugar: Movement, Poetry & Family
There’s a fantastic moment in Rebecca Sugar’s latest Frontier issue, when Sugar recalls her obsession with 90’s cartoons. She describes how, now that she’s creating cartoons,...
