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Weekend Digital Comic Sale Recommendations

05/12/2018 11:00 am by Todd Allen

Weekend Digital Comic Sale Recommendations

It’s the weekend and you might be looking for some reading material, so let’s have a look at a couple more of the current digital comic sales and at what’s good. First up, here’s the “Marvel Villains Sale” at Amazon and at Comixology, which is to say villain-centric comics.  What’s good?  Kraven’s Last Hunt was one of […]

Filed Under: Digital Comics, Image, Marvel Tagged With: Amazon, comixology, Digital Comics, Image, Invincible, Kindle, Marvel, sale, Super-Villains

Image Comics Month-to Month Sales: February 2017 – 25 or 6 to 4

04/13/2017 12:00 pm by Beat Staff

Image Comics Month-to Month Sales: February 2017 – 25 or 6 to 4

by David Carter Greetings, sales charts fans! It’s time once again to look at Image Comics’s sales figures. Please refer to the July 2015 column for a preamble and explanation as to why sales standards for Image books are likely to be different than those for DC or Marvel. Image shipped 49 comics in February, […]

Filed Under: Sales Charts, Top News Tagged With: Image Comics, Invincible, Monstress, nailbiter, Old Guard, outcast, Paper Girls, Sales Charts, The Walking Dead

INVINCIBLE headed to the big screen by way of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg

04/04/2017 2:47 pm by Kyle Pinion

INVINCIBLE headed to the big screen by way of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg

First they kicked things off co-writing the 2011 Green Hornet film. Then they took on the task of adapting and showrunning the current adaptation of Preacher for AMC. After that, they opted to bring another Garth Ennis-written comic, The Boys to Cinemax. And today? Variety reports that writing and directing duo Seth Rogen and Evan […]

Filed Under: Movies, Top News Tagged With: Evan Goldberg, Invincible, robert kirkman, Seth Rogen, Universal

Robert Kirkman is ending Invincible with issue 144

08/18/2016 9:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

Robert Kirkman is ending Invincible with issue 144

Yesterday Robert Kirkman announced the end of Invincible, his long running superhero epic, is coming in a year’s time with issue 144. It’s a more than respectable run after 13 years, and actually one of the longer running continuously published comics. He’d have a ways to go to beat Spawn and Savage Dragon which are […]

Filed Under: Image Tagged With: Image, Invincible, robert kirkman

ComiXology Adds New Titles to their Unlimited Roster Including AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE & GOD HATES ASTRONAUTS

06/20/2016 12:21 pm by Alexander Lu

ComiXology Adds New Titles to their Unlimited Roster Including AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE & GOD HATES ASTRONAUTS

INVINCIBLE Volume 2, AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE, and more make their way to ComiXology Unlimited.

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: afterlife with archie, archer & armstrong, comixology unlimited, God Hates Astronauts, Invincible

New INVINCIBLE teaser pokes fun at CIVIL WAR II

03/08/2016 5:57 pm by Alexander Jones

New INVINCIBLE teaser pokes fun at CIVIL WAR II

Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman‘s other long-running series Invincible is no stranger to adverse headlines. The series original artist Cory Walker (Destroyer) is coming back to the ongoing narrative with issue #127 in April. The brand new teaser shows off the coloring scheme and image teasers coming from the Civil War II posters from Marvel […]

Filed Under: Breaking News, Comics, Image, Marvel, Publishers, Top Comics, Top News Tagged With: civil war ii, Image, Invincible

The Beat’s Best Comics of 2015

12/28/2015 5:00 pm by Beat Staff

The Beat’s Best Comics of 2015

The Comics Beat’s staff votes on the best Comic Books and Graphic Novels of the year.

Filed Under: Awards, Top News Tagged With: #Marvel, Adrian Alphona, Adrian Tomine, COPRA, Dark Horse, DC Comics, Drawn & Quarterly, Fabio Moon, fight club 2, frontier, G. Willow Wilson, Gabriel Ba, Image Comics, Invincible, JH Williams III, Jillian Tamaki, Killing and Dying, michel fiffe, Ms Marvel, Neil Gaiman, One Punch Man, Sandman, Two Brothers, Vertigo, Viz

SDCC’15: Skybound 5th Anniversary Panel Tells The Company’s Future

07/09/2015 7:35 pm by Davey Nieves

SDCC’15: Skybound 5th Anniversary Panel Tells The Company’s Future

skybound talks games, movies, and TV at SDCC. Invincible!

Filed Under: Comics, Top News, Video Games Tagged With: Invincible, SDCC, SDCC'15, Skybound, telltale games, Walking Dead

Image Announces Over TWENTY New Titles at Annual Expo— Kirkman, Albuquerque, Simone, Rucka, O’Malley & More!

07/02/2015 3:51 pm by Alexander Lu

Image Announces Over TWENTY New Titles at Annual Expo— Kirkman, Albuquerque, Simone, Rucka, O’Malley & More!

It’s a good day for Image fans. Today, the publisher took over the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and announced a huge number of titles.  Reboots of old favorites, deluxe hardcover editions, and brand new series abound!  See below for the full list of announcements.   INVINCIBLE: REBOOT THE WALKING DEAD […]

Filed Under: Breaking News, Comics, Image, Image Expo, Top Comics, Top News Tagged With: Announcements, Image Expo, Invincible

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