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"Applied comics" -- using the words and pictures combination for education and non fiction -- is a growing field, especially as comics become more accepted...

Some big news came out of Marvel Studios today as they unveiled some concept art from next year's Captain America: Civil War.  The art confirms the...

New York Comic Con has made a tradition of its annual exclusive beer and here's this year's 2015 Brooklyn Defender IPA, with a label of the beer's eponymous superhero by Khary Randolph.

Ever wondered what the exact Pantone shade of Batman's cowl is (circa 1980)?  How about Superman's skin?  Or perhaps what parts, exactly, are visible...

After restoring our collective brain patterns from last week’s insane Podcorn visitation, the men and women hand selected by the government to write the...

Greetings, sales charts fans! It's time once again to look at DC's sales figures. (Warning: This month's column contains a higher amount of ranting than usual...) July was not a good month, sales-wise, for DC Entertainment. Compared to June, the average sales per title dropped by over 8K, and they sold 300K fewer total units in the NA direct market, despite offering nine more titles. Sales were down across the board, in many cases significantly, except for one title: Batgirl. Why did things drop so significantly? Three main reasons:

  The Legend of Korra, Nickelodeon's four season follow up to the beloved Avatar: the Last Airbender, is receiving a full series DVD box set.  It was...

We've already seen today that just jumping on a new, fresh direction isn't enough to make a sales success, but what about over at Marvel? As I've noted their whopping sales have been led by the astonishing success of their Star Wars comics, but variant covers are also strong in this one. Star Wars #1 had over 100 variants, for instance. The upcoming hip hop variant program wasn't just problematic from a creator standpoint, however, it's also set new levels of frustration for retailers who have to order high on other books just to be able to ORDER copies of the variants, as revealed on Reddit by retailer Calum Johnston and explained at the Outhouse. Apparently a frustrated retailers posted the above annotated order sheet for the variants, showing how high order would have to be.

Although the book is already shipping late, these Secret Wars just can't be contained, and the Marvel blockbuster of exposing universes is adding a...

(Above, Ryan Sook's cover for Superman: Alien American #1) If you've been following our sales charts here at The Beat you know that June was...

Here's a story I never hoped to write: Bergen Street Comics, the lovely and much loved comics shop right up the street from Brooklyn's...

  UPDATE: Please note that Horrocks will be in Columbus from October 1-4 as part of the Cartoon Crossroads show, not just one day. It's a little...