Review: Mix “Stand By Me” and “River’s Edge” With Super Heroes You Get Plutona
A super hero falls in the woods and the sound turns the lives of five kids upside down.
Report: One Marvel exec blocked making Black Widow toys
This past spring there was a a lot of hullabaloo over the lack of Black Widow toys from the Hasbro Avengers: Age of Ultron...
THE IMAGE EFFECT: Are Editors Outdated?
This is the first in a planned series of articles about the “Image Effect.” Over the past 20+ years Image Comics has grown from...
Micky Moran Visits the Stately Beat Manor Staff Pull for 9/2/15
Team Comics Beat, the world’s most important comic book website ever to grace the internet, sought out adventure and fun after a hard work...
Humphries and Del Mundo Introduce 16-Year Old Becca to Weirdworld
Marvel has just announced more details on the post-Secret Wars ongoing series for Weirdworld taking place in the All-New, All-Different Universe launching immediately after...
The Marvel Studios “Creative Committee” is reportedly dissolved
While the films under the Marvel Studios banner have proven to be enormously popular with moviegoers (even in what's presumed to be an "off"...
New Hulk has stylish new shorts and a headband–but who is it?
I guess there's a nasa Hulk on the way, as shown in this new Marvel teaser, and he's got some on-trend athletic shorts but also a doorag or headband of some sort...not sure if that's in style or not. He also sports some kind of glove that would give away his identity.
Preview: Glenn Head’s Chicago
Cartoonist Glenn Head is a comics lifer, with a sensibility filtered through the undergrounds and decanted into the best of 90s alternatives. And how he's crafted a autobiographical comic called Chicago (Fantagraphics) that should be called "portrait of the artist as a young jerk" -- with Jerk meant in the most loving sense possible. It's quite a statement from a creator who hasn't gotten the attention he should in today's comics-loving wold. But Chicago, on sale today, will change that. And here's why.
Hastings teams with Valiant for “Craft of Comics” course
There are only a few nationwide book chains left but those that remain really like comics. For example, Hastings, the nationwide chain that sells...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 9/2/15: Don’t bring your guns to town, Beedrill
Those two yahoos who came to the Pokémon World Championships totally strapped have been denied bail, even though their lawyer says they just had a car full of guns for fun times and never meant any harm. A story in the Boston Globe has many more details of the duo's threats against other Pokémon players:
All-New By Its Cover Special (Season Finale)
This will be the final installment of By Its Cover for 2015.
Don't be alarmed, it'll probably return in 2016. Having a day job at a...
MATT CHATS: Skullkickers Word Artist Marshall Dillon on the Life of a Letterer
It's widely acknowledged is that a great letterer is one that you don't notice. Marshall Dillon is often an exception to that rule. He made...




















