Welcome back to The Beat Digest, a twice-weekly round-up of the biggest comics-related news stories we’ve missed every Tuesday and Friday. Is there a story out there you think we should cover? Be sure to let us know in the comments.
§ Warner Bros. released the trailer for The Cat in the Hat, the new animated film starring Bill Hader as Dr. Seuss‘s iconic character. The movie, co-starring Xochitl Gomez, Matt Berry, America Ferrera, Giancarlo Esposito, and Quinta Brunson, was directed by Erica Rivinoja (Clone High) and Alessandro Carloni (Kung Fu Panda 3), and will be released in theaters on February 27.
§ Marvel dropped a 30-sec sneak peek for Eyes of Wakanda, the animated Disney+ miniseries releasing on August 27:
§ NetEase revealed Marvel Rivals Season 3: The Abyss Awakens will begin on Friday, July 11. Jean Grey/Phoenix will be added as a playable character at launch, with a Celestial husk on Klyntar (the symbiote homeworld) as a new map, and Blade will become playable afterwards at some point during the two-month event.
§ Dark Horse will rerelease Jeff Lemire‘s out-of-print The Nobody in hardcover on February 3, 2026. The book, originally published by Vertigo in 2009, and lettered by Sean Konot, is a contemporary take on H.G. Wells‘s The Invisible Man, revolving around a small fishing village that grows alarmed over a certain bandaged guest. The announcement was made ahead of the release of Lemire’s memoir, 10,000 Ink Stains, due out from Dark Horse on July 15.
§ Speaking of iconic movie monsters, Skybound and Image will rerelease James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds‘s Dracula as a two-part Black & White Special, starting October 29, and ending November 26. The comic, based on the 1931 Bela Lugosi film, kicked off the publisher’s Universal Monsters line in 2023. In the meantime, Tynion’s next Universal Monsters series, which is coincidentally The Invisible Man, will begin on August 27.
§ Mad Cave’s Nakama Press imprint will release Cat Mask Boy, an award-winning graphic novel by Hong Kong-based creator Linus Liu. Due out October 14, the book follows a schoolboy in the 1970s, who wants to be a superhero, and wears a homemade cat mask. When “his report card is mistakenly taken by someone else,” he ventures into the infamous, crime-ridden Kowloon Walled City to retrieve it.
§ Comic Book Couples Counseling launched a weekly YouTube series, The Stacks, in which creatives pick their favorite books from the Third Eye Comics store in Annapolis, Maryland. (It’s like the Criterion Collection’s Closet Picks, but with comics!) Starring in the first episode are none other than Time Waits writers David Brothers, and Chip Zdarsky:
§ Finally, the family of frequent Marvel and DC colorist Dean White have launched a GoFundMe to cover their rent money, citing issues like “his work dry[ing] up at the beginning of the year,” among others. White, his wife and two children have been struggling financially for some time, and previously raised $11,392 with another GoFundMe last year. At the time of writing, they have raised $3,271 of their current $7,800 goal.
