Break Out Your Wallets, DC Releases 6 DVD/Graphic Novel Combo Packs Today
Yesterday, EW announced the release of the DC COMICS COLLECTION, a series of six graphic novels and the six animated movies these comics inspired. Sold in six separate packages, the series debuts with perennial stories such...
Eyes-Cream Visits the Stately Beat Manor Staff Pull for 8/12/15
After a hard week at the mansion the Beat Staffers (authors of the world’s premiere comic book website The Beat) went out for ice cream. A brand new ice cream shop had just surfaced near...
IDW’s parent company stock splits 10-for-1 and gets new ticker name
As we've mentioned here a few times, the majority owner of IDW is actually a holding company, formerly known as CTM MEDia Holdings, but now renamed IDW Media Holdings, Inc. because IDW is such...
Deadpool and Cable go Existential for a Split Second with Brown and Nicieza
Deadpool and Cable might not be the best of friends, but that doesn’t stop Marvel from teaming up the unlikely duo again and again. This time instead of going with the classic idea of...
Russell Dauterman’s Epic Thor Gatefold Reveals New and Old Aspects of Asgard’s Mythology
As per IGN, artist Russell Dauterman revealed a brand new image for The Mighty Thor #1. The picture reveals multiple facets of the world of Asgard going forward and even features some characters that haven’t been...
Good-bye ferry: Billy Bishop Airport opens its tunnel
This post is purely for Porter Airlines fetishists who enjoy that portion of their trip to TCAF every year. Those of you who take Porter Airlines know that as delightful as are the low...
The Delcourt Roundup from Comixology: Modern Men and Spin Angels
Comixology releases Delcourt comics via their Soleil imprint, featuring the finest creators and the best comics this side of the French publishing house. This week see's a lot of diversity amongst the titles offered...
Devil Dinosaur Visits the Stately Beat Manor Staff Comics Pull for 8/5/15
Last week some of our most elite staffers that contribute to The Beat found themselves in an impossible situation. When our entire team worked on apprehending Spider-Man rogue Mysterio, he suddenly opened a portal...
Kickstarter Spotlight: Supreme Team Takes on the Rise of Hip-Hop and Drug-Culture
Comics Beat contributor Seth Ferranti has had a long and storied past. A writer well and truly familiar with life on the streets, Ferranti began picking up the craft of writing while serving a...
Accusations of Bi-Erasure aimed at Axel Alonso and Marvel’s Hercules Set Off Internet Firestorm
Yesterday, Ray Sonne at Loser City levied hefty accusations at Marvel staff. In an interview with CBR, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso angered fans when he crushed longstanding implications that the Greek mythological-inspired character Hercules is bi-sexual.
From CBR:
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Fall Preview: Centrala offers Cooking, Trains and the Klan
Centrala is a Polish indie comics publisher that recently opened a London office, which s helping their books get wider distribution. They have three new books including what sounds like an intriguing tale about two German police officers who join the Klan to make friends and meet girls, an anthology mixing comics and cooking and a book adapting a famous Polish poem about a train into a 60 foot long comic!
Eastern European comics are usually thought of as an "emerging" scene, but with publishers like Centrala and the Latvian kuš! collective getting notice, they've emerged quite a bit. Here's the Centrala books, which are all available for order.
Bendis Teases an Additional Iron Man title and Celebrates 200,000 Pre-Orders
This morning author Brian Michael Bendis teased a second Iron Man title in addition to his upcoming Invincible Iron Man via his Tumblr account: "Man, the launch of 'Iron Man' is going so well, I might...
