The Beat

Of the many comics I picked up at the recent Lakes International Comic Art Festival, there was one comic in particular that caught my...

Prime-8s, one of the short stories released during the Mini Comics Included Kickstarter campaign, is to expand into a full series for Monkeybrain Comics....

Image have stepped up with some smart marketing over the last few months, and today sees a darned intriguing teaser release from the company....

It’s a very strange month this month. With DC producing two versions of all of their Villains Month books, there are only 109 indie titles charting in the top 300, down on last month’s 153. Lots of titles missed the top 300 this month, but will no doubt return next month. Despite that, they sold an estimated 1,521,695 comics, only 60,000 less than last month’s 1,581,067, on 44 titles less. This was mainly due to a lot of big new titles, seven of the top 14 titles are new entries, selling over 20,000 copies each. It also means that the average sales this month are 13,960, massively up from last month’s 10,333. If it hadn’t been for Villains month, it would have been a big month for indie.

Underground comics have made household names for a number of comics creators, whom at the forefront exposed a new era of radically unorthodox...

According to the preview copy, this is a one shot issue by Brian Butler and Brook Allen.