The Beat

What better way to come back to something after a long excruciating break (if you’ve been in the midwest or Ontario recently you’ve probably...

Asaf Hanuka's webcomic The Realist has been running for years with a mix of withering self deprecation, family foibles and the occasional dark realities...

Two unlikely Marvel mainstays are up to bat this week including a Defender and an unlikely X-Men protagonist getting the chance to lead a...

It's arguable that Ripley is one of science fiction's best-known characters, and she anchored the Alien films by providing true stake in the outcome of the humans. The most serious flaw of Alien: Covenant is that it provides us with yet another Ripley-like-stand-in via Katherine Waterston's character, which at this point resembles an illegible copy of a copy of a copy. Waterston isn't at fault, but her character development is almost non-existent, relying wholly on the hope that you'll associate her enough with Ripley to forgive the fact that she's written primarily as a foil for David.

The Beat is on the road again: this time to Havana for the C3 (Comic Cretaors Conference) Cuba edition. I'll be appearing with Dan DiDio,...

If I had one takeaway from the recent TCAF Librarians and Educators Day, it was that comics as educational tools are here to stay,...