The Beat’s Best Anime of 2025
The Beat staff presents its picks for the Best Anime of 2025, including new and ongoing series, as well as feature-length films.
Horror Beat: RODNEY R RODNEY is a nightmare, a neighbor
Violaine Briat's collected webcomic benefits from mixing its physical and digital mediums.
Top Comics to Buy for December 17, 2025: A pair of the year’s best...
This week's Top Comics to Buy for December 17 include new issues of Ancestral Recall, Endeavor, High Strangeness, and more!
K-Comics Beat presents the Best Webtoons and Webcomics of 2025
The Beat's sister site, K-Comics Beat, presents The Best Webtoons and Webcomics of 2025, as chosen by our excellent staff.
Review: METROID PRIME 4: BEYOND is a good game with an identity crisis
The wait for a new Metroid Prime game has been a long one. 18 years have passed since the series' previous entry, Metroid Prime...
Beat’s Bizarre Adventure: HAUNTRESS will haunt your dreams
This week, Beat's Bizarre Adventure covers the manga and webtoon series DISSOLVING CLASSROOM, EARTHSHINE and HAUNTRESS.
Classic Comic Compendium: INCREDIBLE HULK #427 & 428 feature stunning LIAM SHARP art
Liam Sharp drew Incredible Hulk #427 - #428, and Sharp's Hulk was massive, impossibly muscled, and imposing.
The Beat’s Best Kids Comics of 2025
The Beat's Best Kids Comics of 2025 features 20+ titles for elementary, middle grade, and young adult readers of many genres.
Documentary Review: COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT is a gift from the...
Apple TV Plus documentary Come See Me in the Good Light, following late poet Andrea Gibson and their wife, Megan Falley, is a feat.
Graphic Novel Review: A GARDEN OF SPHERES is a beautiful tale of delicate dragons...
Linnea Sterte's new book, A Garden of Spheres, is out now from publisher Peow2, and it is a must-read stunner.
K-Comics Beat’s Inaugural Best Manga & Manhwa of 2025
The K-Comics Beat team reveals its inaugural picks for the Best Manga and Manhwa of 2025 list, adding to The Beat's biggest Best Of yet.
Movie Review: Brendan Fraser shines in the subtle, humanist drama RENTAL FAMILY
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