Movie Review: Brendan Fraser shines in the subtle, humanist drama RENTAL FAMILY
The perfect for the holiday season!
The Beat’s Best Comics of 2025
The Beat staff has come together once again to compile its annual, wide-spanning list of the best comics of 2025.
The Marvel Rundown: ULTIMATE WOLVERINE #12 is a gripping lesson in life and pain
This week's Marvel Rundown features Ultimate Wolverine #12, Amazing Spider-Man #17, The End 2099 #1, and Ultimate Spider-Man #23.
DC Round-Up: ABSOLUTE BATMAN #15 delivers that muscley Joker dinosaur thing you’ve seen all...
This week: The new Absolute Joker design went comics Internet viral a while back, and now we get the full story behind it in Absolute...
Wednesday Comics Reviews: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES #13 brings in an all-star new creative...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #13 is this week's lead review in a Wednesday Comics column that also looks at Our Soot-Stained Heart, and more!
Horror Beat: THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM is an excellent mood piece on melancholy
The Haunted Season continues.
Top Comics to Buy for December 10, 2025: A strong mix of top-tier cartooning,...
This week's Top Comics to Buy for December 10 features great artists and some of the hottest franchises in the industry.
Beat’s Bizarre Adventure: FINDING MY VOICE with art
This week, Beat's Bizarre Adventure covers the works RULES FOR DATING TRASH, FINDING MY VOICE and NIGHT FRAGMENTS.
Classic Comic Compendium: SPAWN – THE DARK AGES is the same Spawn, different era
Spawn - The Dark Ages took the familiar elements of Spawn lore and placed them in a harsher time, plus story elements of crusades and knights.
Trade Rating: OUT OF ALCATRAZ is a prison escape thriller with something powerful to...
Out of Alcatraz a stellar read, a fun prison escape thriller that turns out to have a lot more on its mind that you may expect.
Horror Beat: The final season of STRANGER THINGS is remarkable for all the wrong...
Maybe kids age faster in the Upside Down.
Graphic Novel Review: NIGHT DRIVE delivers must-read Richard Sala source code
The new hardcover edition of Night Drive collects cartoonist Richard Sala's long out-of-print early works, with great supplementary material.
