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by Kyle Pinion It was teased at New York Comic Con, but now Chuck Palahniuk is fully committed to producing a sequel to his seminal...

St. Louis based Lion Forge Comics has been around for a couple of years with a lot of ambitious plans, some well known licenses and a line of here-to-fore digital comics. But recently they announced they are getting into print, with IDW picking up their Air Wolf and Knight Rider comics. They'll also publish a print version of a comic inspired by MMA fighter Quentin "Rampage"Jackson called Rampage Jackson: Street Soldier. That should be PLENTY wacky. More Lion Forge titles are impending from IDW, possibly including such classic licensed fear as Miami Vice, and Punky Bewster.

The Beat has joined the crowdfunding revolution! Now you can support the stuff we do here directly with your dollars via the Patreon platform. Lot's of folks have suggested that we do some kind of crowdfunding campaign over the last year or so, but I've chosen Patreon because it's method—recurring monthly payments—seem like a more usable model for an ongoing website than the one and done big bang of a Kickstarter.

Is Diamond going to be selling DC's digital comics?  It certainly looks that way.  As you may recall, Diamond entered into a new digital...

I heard about the Rupert Murdoch putting in a bid for Tim Warner a little while ago and thought it was too astounding to...

Dynamite is going European in October with the In Search of Lost Dragons  art book.  It sounds like an art book with a ...

Evil Ernie, last seen in Dynamite's Chaos! mini-series, will be returning in his own series.  Ernie was one of the mainstays of the '90s...

Dynamite's been doing Sherlock Holmes stories on a fairly regular basis for some time now.  And really, given the recent court decision on Holmes...

Oh Harveys. Every year some voting block or other seems to make itself known and this time it's Valiant with some 16 nominations including...

With October solicitations just around the corner, sources have whispered these sweet secrets in The Beat's ears. Get a jump on what's to come with the...

It's what I like to call Hell Week, boys and girls, the week before San Diego Comic-Con when every single thing has to get...

On International Workers' Day, the 1st of May, Jonathan Cape published Sally Heathcote, Suffragette, the second graphic novel written by Mary Talbot, a semi-fictionalised...