Valiant Tease UNITY For November – Their First Event Crossover
On Free Comic Day Valiant teased the future of their comics line, revealing they'd be starting up new ongoing series for characters Ninjak and...
Kean Soo’s Jellaby is coming back into print!
A couple of years ago I wrote about Kean Soo's Jellaby going out of print from Hyperion, despite a second volume still being available....
Quote of the day: Douglas Wolk on the Spirit of the Watchmen
If the people who commissioned really wanted to pay tribute to Watchmen," perhaps they could have tried to reproduce the circumstances of its...
Exclusive Advance Review: The Bunker by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Joe Infurnari
What is The Bunker? A brand new comic from the writer of I, Vampire, The Ultimates, Tumor and last week’s Hunger that is guaranteed...
Review: Everything you need to know about 2 Guns
As the long cinematic slog of Summer 2013 crawls to a close, the summer of the comic book movie, one last battle of comics-based...
INTERVIEW: Declan Shalvey on working with Marvel, Dark Horse, Boom, DC, IDW…..
Artist Declan Shalvey has had an incredible year. Whilst working as regular artist for books like Venom and Thunderbolts at Marvel, he's also created art...
What Should You Buy In August? Seth, Doran, Gillen and more
August! New month, more comics, 'nuff excitement. We have a shuftie round and picked out the comics we're looking forward to this month:
Jessica Lee:
PALOOKAVILLE...
Fort Wayne’s CAF Appleseed launches Kickstarter
As the comics live event business diverges into Cons and CAFs (comic arts festivals), both seem to be thriving. In 2013 Fort Wayne got...
Beat Contest: Win a piece of original art by Neal Adams at Wizard World...
Okay we don't run too many contests here at The Beat, but when the prize is as awesome as this—a piece of original art created for you by Neal Adams—it is something we can't pass up offering Beat readers a shot at.
INTERVIEW: Jim Zub’s Samurai Jack comic will have “big action, big adventure”
by Matt O"Keefe
IDW recently announced that in October it will be publishing a Samurai Jack as a comic book series that picks up the story...
Must Read: DiDio and Lee on the state of DC
ICv2 sits down with DC co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee and asks them sensible, hard questions. The whole thing is a must read, of course, and triangulates nicely with Diane Nelson's interview in the Hollywood Reporter. Here's Part 1 and Part 2. Some takeaways:
Wednesday’s Review Slate: Skybreaker, Liberator and Tom Strong
This week's review slate once more races backwards and forwards through time - we've got Skybreaker #3, which came out a short while back,...
