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About the one element not being blamed for the Fantastic Four's meagre $26.2M opening is superhero box office fatigue. The film opened at #2,...

At the end of Watchmen, a television set in the background announces a rerun of The Outer Limits episode "The Architects Of Fear." This was a...

Bengal is a comics artist residing in Reims, France. His published work includes Naja, Luminae, and Meka published in the US by Magnetic Press and Batgirl: Endgame and Batgirl Annual #3 (not published at the time of this interview). On the last day of San Diego Comic-Con 2015, I had the good fortune to chat with Bengal, tucked in the back of the very busy Magnetic Press booth.

Continuing our look at this fall's top graphic novels, Koyama Press is reissuing Julia Wertz's Drinking at the Movies, originally published by Three RIvers...

This weekend's premiere comics event is Autoptic, the Minneapolis stop on the ongoing indie comics festival tour. Guests include Josh Bayer, Gabrielle Bell, Charles...

MAD Magazine is often overlooked as one of the longest running and most successful properties that DC Entertainment publishes. Of course, the early Harvey Kurtzman edited run, and seminal work by Will Elder, John Severin, Wally Wood, Al Jaffee and Sergio Aragones is justly lauded among comics history buffs, but with issue #535 coming out next week it's also the longest continually running comics periodical in the US. If it was just puttering along with jokes about these kids today and boring TV shows, perhaps it would be allowed to stay in its pasture, but in truth it's still putting out sharp satire with bold visuals and presenting the work of some of today's finest cartoonists—including Al Jaffee and Sergio Aragones.

You know, maybe the narrative about Dark Horse losing the Star Wars license to Marvel wasn't DH's loss but Marvel's gain: sales of Star Wars...

  Fantastic Four opens today (technically last night), and the reception that's greeted the film has been venomous. I didn't like it either, but I don't...

Welcome to yet another Marvel Sales Analysis. Reminder: I'm French, so that's why I'm talking funny. Please address your complaints to my let's-scare-Courtney-Love-with-our-mean-taxi-drivers country. However, one thing seems sure: following the conclusion of Secret Wars, all titles will be renumbered at #1—even titles that didn’t reach double-digit issue numbers. This includes books like Hawkeye, Howard the Duck and the armada of female spider characters.

Once again, The Beat is looking for a sales chart analyst to take over the monthly Indie Sales charts. Kate Reynolds has done yeoman service but she's moving on to other frontiers and vistas. (Including hopefully some more writing for The Beat.)

As per IGN, artist Russell Dauterman revealed a brand new image for The Mighty Thor #1. The picture reveals multiple facets of the world of Asgard...

This weekend's new superhero movie is Fantastic Four, not to be confused with Fantastic Four or Fantastic Four Or even The Fantastic Four The 1978 cartoon version...