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Top Comics to Buy for February 4, 2026: TWILIGHT ZONE, a dark love anthology, and more

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This week's Top Comics to Buy for February 4 features the Twilight Zone, a new dark love story anthology, and much more.
Business News

Tilting At Windmills #304: A local perspective of 2025 comics sales

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Retailer Brian Hibbs lays out the best selling comics and graphic novels for all of 2025 in his store, Comix Experience
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Cara O’Neil joins Mad Cave as Director of Marketing

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Mad Cave has a new director of marketing, Cara O'Neil, formerly of Dark Horse
Legal Matters

Gaiman breaks year-long silence, claiming blog exonerates him

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Gaiman linked to a Substack newsletter dedicated to arguing against the allegations about him in a blog post discussing his next book.

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7 sports anime to fill the void until Heated Rivalry Season 2

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Top Comics to Buy

Top Comics to Buy for February 4, 2026: TWILIGHT ZONE, a dark love anthology, and more

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Josh D’Amaro named the next CEO of Disney, Iger to stand down in March

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Tilting At Windmills #304: A local perspective of 2025 comics sales

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Entertainment

Video Interview: Mattie Lubchansky and Clayton Ashley on the STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE podcast TEMPORAL CULTURE WAR

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Marvel

Marvel Movie News: Surfer, Arad

Will the Silver Surfer, who is slated to appear in the next Fantastic Four movie, be an entirely CGI creation? That's what the rags...
General

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits

Steven Grant has a very lucid view of Anime Expo: I noted this when I last attended, a couple of years ago. It has only...
Late Night

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN ride update

While the world worries about the Reds' Rocket Dare, and what really killed Ken Lay, there is really only one topic keeping us up...
General

The Beat: now with morning coffee

Thanks for all the well wishes and kind words! It's great to have interaction back -- although when the spammers get started, let's see...
General

Welcome!

Welcome to The Beat's new home at Publishers Weekly! We're still figuring a few things out, like categories and the sidebar and so on....
Conventions

Heroes Con ’06 Photo Parade

With a heaping helping of southern hospitality, aided by caffeine infusions at all hours, and only slightly impeded by the terror of BAGWORMS, Heroes...
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Manga and Anime News

7 sports anime to fill the void until Heated Rivalry Season 2

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Sports anime bring intense character dynamics and beautiful depictions to seven different sports, perfect for watching after Heated Rivalry.

Beat’s Bizarre Adventure: AFRO SAMURAI is simply that good

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This week, Beat's Bizarre Adventure covers the series THE THIEVES WHO STOLE FROM DEATH, LION HEARTS and AFRO SAMURAI.

Wonderful Wednesdays: LOVE TATTOO, MII-CHAN AND YAMADA-SAN & more from Seven Seas

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This week's Wonderful Wednesdays is packed with all the goodness, including a Dinosaur Sanctuary picture boook!

MediaOCD launches Discotek Deep Dives initiative to release classic anime on Blu-ray

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MediaOCD and Discotek Media have partnered for Discotek Deep Dives, an initiative releasing classic and hard-to-find anime on Blu-ray.

Anime Review: ALL YOU NEED IS KILL lives again for new audiences

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Anime adaptation of Hiroshi Sakurazaka's light novel now playing in theaters.

Beat’s Bizarre Adventure: 7 BILLION NEEDLES of teen alienation

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This week, Beat's Bizarre Adventure covers IMMORTALITY AND PUNISHMENT, PRINCESS RESURRECTION and 7 BILLION NEEDLES.
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Business News

Oni Press and PRH partner for distribution

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Distribution realignment continues as Oni Press moves to Penguin Random House Publisher Services as an exclusive

Josh D’Amaro named the next CEO of Disney, Iger to stand down in March

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D'Amaro will succeed the outgoing Bob Iger on March 18, while Dana Walden has been named Disney's new President and Chief Creative Officer.

Tilting At Windmills #304: A local perspective of 2025 comics sales

Heidi MacDonald - 2
Retailer Brian Hibbs lays out the best selling comics and graphic novels for all of 2025 in his store, Comix Experience

Cara O’Neil joins Mad Cave as Director of Marketing

Heidi MacDonald - 0
Mad Cave has a new director of marketing, Cara O'Neil, formerly of Dark Horse

American Mythology is back with Prana Publishers

Heidi MacDonald - 1
After some struggles following Diamond's bankruptcy, American Mythology will be back this spring with its line of licensed horror comics and more

The rights to Will Eisner’s work are up for sale

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Will Eisner's estate are planning to sell the legendary cartoonist's work in the hope it will lead to a new surge of interest in The Spirit.
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Horror Beat: IRON LUNG is a commendable, heavily flawed debut

Full dark, no stars.
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7 sports anime to fill the void until Heated Rivalry Season 2

Sports anime bring intense character dynamics and beautiful depictions to seven different sports, perfect for watching after Heated Rivalry.
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Top Comics to Buy for February 4, 2026: TWILIGHT ZONE, a dark love anthology, and more

This week's Top Comics to Buy for February 4 features the Twilight Zone, a new dark love story anthology, and much more.
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Beat’s Bizarre Adventure: AFRO SAMURAI is simply that good

This week, Beat's Bizarre Adventure covers the series THE THIEVES WHO STOLE FROM DEATH, LION HEARTS and AFRO SAMURAI.
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Classic Comic Compendium: LONE WOLF & CUB – VOLUME 1 – THE ASSASSIN’S ROAD is a masterpiece

A brief look at why Lone Wolf & Cub by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima is one of the most popular and influential comics ever.
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Graphic Novel Review: THE WOODCHIPPER is a set of stories that strike at our fraught, lonely times

Joe Ollmann's new book, The Woodchipper, features five short stories told through comics and set within the concerns of our time.
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Graphic Novel Review: THE DEMON OF BEAUSOLEIL summons a fun occult-themed romance

In Mari Costa's latest graphic novel The Demon of Beausoleil, hunting demons leads to finding love when you least expect it!
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The Marvel Rundown: Scarlet Witch battles the haters in a jam-packed SORCERER SUPREME #2

Steve Orlando's unsung Scarlet Witch run continues in Sorcerer Supreme #2! Plus, the finale of Cody Ziglar's Miles Morales Spider-Man!
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DC Round-Up: ABSOLUTE BATMAN #16 concludes an unconventional crossover

Absolute Wonder Woman guest-stars for the second of two standalone team-up stories.
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Entertainment

Horror Beat: IRON LUNG is a commendable, heavily flawed debut

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Full dark, no stars.

Josh D’Amaro named the next CEO of Disney, Iger to stand down in March

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D'Amaro will succeed the outgoing Bob Iger on March 18, while Dana Walden has been named Disney's new President and Chief Creative Officer.

Video Interview: Mattie Lubchansky and Clayton Ashley on the STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE podcast TEMPORAL CULTURE WAR

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Comics Beat Star Trek team members Avery Kaplan and Ollie Kaplan interview Mattie Lubchansky and Clayton Ashley on Temporal Culture War.

Review: WONDER MAN is a lovely, low-key tale of unlikely friends

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Marvel's meta comedy-drama is an unexpectedly layered portrayal of two Hollywood outcasts chasing their dream.

Fanatics Launches Fine Art Platform with 1/1 collectibles for Super Bowl LX

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A super bowl ticket is about $10,000 so why not get a unique piece of sport memorabilia instead from the Fanatics Fine Art Super Bowl LX collection?

Legendary comedian Catherine O’Hara dead at 71

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Catherine O'Hara, the comedian and actor best known for...

Wrestling News and History

Turnbuckle BEATDown: John Cena’s Career is Compromised to a Permanent End

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Hdddrrrrrrrrraaaaapadooooo (hoot toot do toooooo)

Turnbuckle BEATdown: AEW did the right thing with Kris Statlander

Pro Wrestling 1
The future remains bright for Statlander.

Turnbuckle BEATdown: Remembering the Reigns of Terror, Pt. 2 – Jeff Jarrett

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Lo, I looked to the horizon and saw him brandishing the NWA Championship and behind him, four horsemen who brought the apocalypse: "My World," ref bump, low blow, and guitar shot

NYCC ’25: DC x AEW crossover debuting at event

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The two-part series, helmed by Steve Orlando and Travis Mercer, will debut with a special preview issue at this month's convention.

Turnbuckle BEATdown: Rhea Ripley becomes the latest victim of TERRIFIER’s Art the Clown in Ice Nine Kills concert

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Should Art the Clown be Cody Rhode’s next title defense match?

Turnbuckle BEATdown: So, WRESTLEMANIA is coming to Saudi Arabia

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It would mark the company's first ever overseas Wrestlemania.
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