Fake news, rebellion and masked vigilantes collide in this stunning new graphic novel.
John Layman and Afu Chan team for OUTER DARKNESS from Skybound
A spacehsip encounters mysteries and horror in outer space.
New Blade Runner Comics are coming from Titan and Alcon
Androids are coming in this in-canon series.
Exclusive: A peak at Nathan Fox and Marcos Martin’s covers for Weatherman 3
The Weatherman is a new Image series written by Jody LeHeup (Shirtless Bear-Fighter!) and drawn by Nathan Fox (DMZ, Haunt) with colors by Dave Stewart (Hellboy). It concerns the people of an Earth-like terraformed Mars whose society is in upheaval after the people of Earth have been killed in the worst terrorist attack in human history. And Nathan Bright, a carefree local […]
Nice Art: One woman against the universe in STELLAR from Keatinge, Blevins, Kirkman & Silvestri
Things are cooking at Skybound as Joe Keatinge and BRet Belvins bring you Steallar, from a concept by Robert Kirkman and Marc Silvestri.
Free Comics: “Uninhabitable” by Jed McGowan, an emotional tale of terraforming
We’ve praised Jed McGowan’s webcomics here several times in the past – with their bold graphics and science-based themes, they are smart and thought provoking. Well, he’s got a new short story: “Uninhabitable“. It’s about what happens when billions of terraforming nanobots are set loose on a planet. It’s one of his best yet, tapping into […]
A Year of Free Comics: Farel Dalrymple launches the haunting SF comic Proxima Centauri
Get in on the ground floor of a new comic that everyone will be talking about Farel Dalrymple is the artist on the amazing book The Wrenchies, as well as Popgun War and the criminally OOP Omega the Unknown adaptation. He’s established hismefl as a worldbuilder with a unusualy resonant art style and a knock […]
A Year of Free Comics: Read COLOSSI #1 for free and see tiny humans menaced by a giant cat
Tiny people in a giant world! It’s a SF and comics staple, and it gets a welcome new variation in COLOSSI, by writer Ricardo Mo, artist Alberto Muriel and colorist Stelladia. It’s one of a line of books from Vault Comics, a plucky upstart comics company that specializes in SF and fantasy comics, with the […]
A Year of Free Comics: Speculative SF in The Offering by Alexandra Beguez
The SF genre – especially social science fiction – has been well represented in comics of late with works like Tillie Walden’s On a Sunbeam and Sophie Goldstein’s House of Women (coming in a collection this fall from Fantagraphics.) And those two are jst the tip of the iceberg. Alexandra Beguez is another cartoonist working in […]
A year of free comics: On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
[There are many great comics out there. There are many free comics out there. And my reduction, there must be many great AND free comics for readers to experience. Will The Beat make it to 365 links this year? Don’t bet on it, but we’ll be trying in this series.] Let’s kick off our free comics […]