Exclusive Sneak Peek: Liberator
I've already pegged this as potentially the debut of the year, and with Liberator #1 now available for pre-order, we get a sneak peek...
Announcing three new comics shows for the NYC/tri-state area
Almost as soon as I walked into MoCCA on Saturday, the first bits of news I got were show-related. Cliff Galbraith of the much...
MoCCA Awards of Excellence Winners 2013 and show wrap-up
Naked honesty: I'm too wiped out from this weekend's MoCCA Festival to write much about it.
It was a blast.
But here are the...
Let Me Tell You What Trinity War Is
Dearest readers! Brian Truitt, that most handsome of USA Today reporters, has today revealed what DC's Trinity War event will actually be about. There...
Poison Chalice Interlude: 1953 – 1985 Roundup and Some Notes on Copyright
So far, this history of Marvelman - more correctly called Poisoned Chalice: The Extremely Long and Incredibly Complex Story of Marvelman - has taken...
Iain Banks is Unwell
On the morning of Wednesday the 3rd of April a personal statement from Scottish author Iain Banks appeared on both his own website and...
Tribute: Carmine Infantino Remembered
by Nelson de Castro
I had the pleasure of being the great Carmine Infantino's art assistant back through 1990 to 1992. He was a great...
Can creators really get their books back from Tokyopop?
We've been covering the sometimes glorious, sometimes ignominious history of Tokyopop for as long as there has been a Beat. Although its biggest legacy...
Dark Horse Show You How To Make… Dream Thief Paper Dolls
I love strange publicity bits, and Jai Nitz has released something ace in advance of the publication of Dream Thief -- his new Dark...
Marvel Tell Us More About Infinity
I'm not talking about the constantly-developing fifteen-page theoretical shadow-physics equation Jonathan Hickman emails every member of the comics press once weekly - this is the...
Vertigo to Publish Tom Strong & The Planet Of Peril in July
Vertigo have started recovering themselves over the past few weeks, announcing new projects to cover the holes left by Hellblazer and Karen Berger. On...
Dark Horse to Adapt George Lucas’ Original Star Wars Script
George Lucas made a few revisions before settling on the original screenplay for Star Wars, later Star Wars: A New Hope, later Star Wars...
