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While DC's Villains Month was the main talking point of the direct market in September, Marvel moved into their own event season. September saw the second month of INFINITY, with more tie-in books popping up across the line, while the X-Men titles began their own separate crossover, BATTLE OF THE ATOM. We also have the debut issue of MIGHTY AVENGERS, which launches as part of the big event.

It seems that the Marvel Heroes are gradually sneaking their way into the Disney theme parks—at least in California, where the spectacular Marvel booth...

Sixteen years ago, notorious science-brigand Janni Nemo journeyed into the frozen reaches of Antarctica to resolve her father’s weighty legacy in a storm of madness and loss, barely escaping with her Nautilus and her life. ... But when the pirate queen learns that her loved ones are held hostage in the nightmarish Berlin, she has no choice save to intervene directly, traveling with her aging lover Broad Arrow Jack into the belly of the beastly metropolis.

Viz had been plugging along with its digital comics available via Viz.Com and their app they just announced eight new series. Including one by...

First things first: September 2013 is, by quite a margin, the most successful month ever for DC Comics since Diamond started providing data on actual comic-book sales to retailers in March 2003. In September 2013, DC Comics sold an estimated 4.2 million new comic books to specialty retailers, for a total of $15.3 million in retail sales value. To date, the record was held by October 2011, with 3.8 million new comic books for a total retail sales value of $11.9 million, followed by September 2011, with 3.6 million new comic books for $10.9 million.

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If, like The Beat, you have been mourning the absence of Zainab Akhtar's byline around here, it's because she's relaunched her own blog, Comics&Cola,...

I haven't really been following all the animated DC cartoon news, but Beware the Batman, the dark (!) CGI cartoon telling Batman's early days...

It's 43ºF at Stately Beat Manor, but they haven't turned the heat on, because...they don't do that. So forgive me if the shivering forces...

  Just as you get things rolling, Facebook goes and updates how I get all of the data when it comes to looking at demographics....

Fangasm, the reality show about nerds and their amazing lives, ended its run this week with a two hour season finale. I have to...

BoingBoing has just introduced a new webcomic and it's a doozy: Bani Garu, a history of Gainax Studio, the legendary Japanese animation studio. There's...