What’s the point of saving the world when you don’t really like the world to begin with?
The Starting Line: Image’s big week and Oni’s intergalactic team up.
This week’s biggest debuting comics belonged to Image Comics with the supernatural horror mindbender Gideon Falls and the much anticipated Kirkman pre-tv property Oblivion Song. That’s not to say the industry as a whole didn’t keep up as Dynamite took the legend of The Green Hornet in a bold direction while Oni gave Rick & Morty fans […]
Dynamite Launches Their Own Digital Comics Store With Ten Cent DRM-Free Downloads
Dynamite is launching their own digital comics store today. The comics will DRM-Free, which makes DRM-free the new (and welcome) trend in digital. And just because they can, they’re launching with some $0.10 comics and 10% of all digital sales for the first month will be donated to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Todd […]
Interview: Joshua Hale Fialkov Dishes on “The Devilers”
By Matt O’Keefe The first series out of Dynamite Entertainment’s Creators Unleashed program, The Devilers is a comic book about an apocalypse inspired by a number of different faiths. Joshua Hale Fialkov writes and Matt Triano illustrates a group of holy men going into battle against an enemy that’s a culmination of all their beliefs. I spoke with […]
Interview: J. Michael Straczynski Talks About Coming Home to the Twilight Zone
By Jeffrey O. Gustafson This summer, Dynamite announced that they had the rights to do comics based on Rod Serling’s legendary anthology The Twilight Zone, and that J. Michael Straczynski will be writing the series. (That’s part of the very busy 2014 Straczynski is slated to have, between six titles for his Joe’s Comics imprint […]
The Beat Comic Reviews for 19/12/12: Spiders, Birds, Harbingers and Dazzlers
It’s time for the last reviews section I’ll be doing this year. I have to make it a little quicker than usual, too, because I’ve got to bob out to pick up some quality sherry for Santa next week. The higher the alcohol content, the better the present! I think that’s how it works, anyway. […]
Sherlock Holmes: The Liverpool Demon #1, with Leah Moore and John Reppion
We’re currently in the midst of a long-running Sherlock Holmes media explosion, from the Guy Ritchie films starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, to the hit BBC series SHERLOCK, and the American approach ELEMENTARY, however comics have plenty to add to the Holmes mythology, and Leah Moore and John Reppion are poised to release […]