Reviewed! Every Issue of Villains Month – the final issues
There are no new issues of Villain's Month left from DC, and business goes back to business this week. But there were six issues...
Natalie Portman Launches STEM Mentoring Program with Marvel
STEM being Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Marvel have launched a campaign looking to offer a mentoring program for girls aged fourteen and over,...
Steve Bissette: no money YET for Constantine TV show
By now everyone including the Hollywood trades has linked to Steve Bissette's Facebook post about the Constantine TV show and the fact that he...
31 Days of Halloween: Nightworld: A Gothic Treasure
The comic miniseries Nightworld is a saga of psychodramas between cunning devils, gross monsters, and the inner demons of regret of lost love. It's...
Dark Horse moves to Random House for book distribution
Here's a pretty huge story that kind of slipped below the radar yesterday: Dark Horse Book has shifted from Diamond to Random House for...
Jeff Smith joins the CBLDF Board of Directors
Like it says, the man behind Bone and Rasl and soon Tüki Save The Humans is also fighting for free speech by joining the...
AMARILLO: New Blacksad book is coming and here’s the cover
Our own Zainab Ahktar has scoped out the arrival of a new Blacksad book. It's called AMARILLO and it has obvious allusions to the great American Coming Of Age Ritual: driving across the country in an ace vehicle. Zainab gave a rough translation of the blurb:
Millarworld goes Kiddie with potential Kindergarten Heroes movie
As if it wasn't bad enough that Johnny Ryan and Dave Cooper are tainting our nation's youth, now it's possible that the horrific influence...
Indie Month-to-Month Sales August 2013: The Walking Dead, Saga, Star Wars
Kind of a quiet month this month, with only two notable debuts, JMS’s new book Sidekicks, and this month’s Aspen debut, Overtaken, amongst the usual high flyers. In fact there are only 10 new books charting all month. The return of Saga is the only other big news, going from strength to strength.
It occurred to me this month that many of Image’s new books are getting some form of returnability. However, I’ve decided that, unlike my colleague MOF on the DC column, I’m not going to adjust the figures to reflect that, I’m going to stick to the raw data.
Did Bob Kane swipe Batman from Siegel and Shuster?
All the references to Mark Millar's infamous "Orson Welles was doing a Batman movie hoax" of 2003 in this piece by Brad Ricca suggest to me that this is another clever hoax: the claim that in the May 1937 issue of More Fun featuring Doctor Occult, the Siegel and Shuster team has drawn a familiarly shaped proto-Bat-man. The actual Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939).
Recommended: Something Terrible by Dean Trippe
Superheroes sometimes come in for some criticism here at The Beat—I was a teenaged superhero reader but haven't read them regularly in a looooong...
31 Days of Halloween: Halloween ComicFest
Yes it is time for 31 Days of Halloween again! Send us your art and links to comicsbeat at gmail dot com.
Let's kick...
