While there has been all kinds of exciting comics news coming out of the San Diego Convention Center (Ed Piskor’s take on the X-Men, Arkham Asylum 2, a pair of Donny Cates projects at Marvel, the Euro-sized Mature Readers imprint at DC, etc…), we won’t get to hear the bulk of the movie-related surprises that […]
SDCC’17: Marvel Games panel shows off the vision behind the resurgence of The House of Ideas
Marvel Games is having a console renaissance of late with Telltale’s Guardians of the Galaxy and all the buzz surrounding Insomniac’s Spider-Man. Thursday at SDCC 2017, Kinda Funny’s Greg Miller hosted a murderers row of the most talented game studios in the industry to talk about their Marvel Games projects. Miller was joined by Marvel […]
SDCC ’17: Day 01 – a video diary and scary Inhumans
If you’re a journalist covering Comic-Con, getting in Tuesday makes sense – hotel rooms are cheap and plentiful and it gives you time to get the lay of the land. The Beat arrived midday and then spent time profitably by wandering aimlessly around downtown and making live stream videos of it! Sadly Periscope doesn’t let […]
SDCC ’17: President Brains, Nanobots, and Nuclear War Comedically Combine in Rob Kutner’s “SHRINKAGE!”
In 2015, veteran comedy writer Rob Kutner (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Conan) launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund Shrinkage, a phantasmagorical burlesque about a group of nanobots that invade the President’s brain with the intent of launching, oh let’s say, nuclear war! From there, it’s a sci-fi action thriller and political comedy all […]
SDCC ’17: Europe Comics brings DuFaux, Radovanovic and Munuera
The folks at Europe Comics (Disclaimer: they are a major sponsor of this site!) are coming to con and here’s what they have going on, including three major European comics artists to meet, all at booth #5524 First stop, we have Jean Dufaux – the master storyteller behind beloved series such as Djinn, Game of Masks, Dixie Road, Murena, The Raptors, Rain […]
SDCC ’17: What will be Marvel and DC’s biggest news at Comic-Con?
Despite the showbiz hoopla, there is usually a lot of comics news that sneaks through at Comic-Con, and with everything we’ve been talking about of late – a changing market, and the Big Two’s attempts to change with it – one would expect that to be of some interest at Comic-Con. So here’s a little […]
SDCC ’17: Dynamite’s Art of Sky Captain the dawn of the Hall H era
Dynamite is rolling out its pre-Comic-Con announcements and among them is Kevin Conran’s Art of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, an art book devoted to 2004’s film which starred Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Angelina Jolie. The book will be personally curated by Sky Captain co-creator Kevin Conran and edited by Shannon Eric Denton. This is fitting in so […]
SDCC ’17: Eisner Awards announce presenters and Will Eisner Centenniel theme
The pageantry and ceremony of the the 29th Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards will take place, as is tradition, Friday July 21st in the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton Bayfront. This year’s ceremony will include a special tribute to Will Eisner’s Centennial. Details on presenters and the rest of the ceremony, are below: Presenters: • Actor/writer […]
SDCC ’17: Bryan Edward Hill to team with Warren Ellis and N. Steven Harris for MICHAEL CRAY
In very exciting news, one-time Beat Contributor Bryan Edward Hill is leading the charge on the newest title in Warren Ellis‘ WildStorm imprint: Michael Cray. Hill, whose commentary on diversity with this very site have been some of my favorite pieces of comics-related writing over the past few years, comes to the project after working […]
SDCC ’17: The Mignolaverse expands this Winter with three new titles
As I’ve said many times before on this very site, the Mignolaverse is without any doubt, my favorite ongoing shared universe. From the poetic and tragic recently concluded Hellboy in Hell, the war-inflected tales of the BPRD series (soon to pick back up), the rip-roaring pulp adventures of Lobster Johnson, the Victorian horror of Witchfinder, […]