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We all have parts of our lives that we’d consider doing over. Whether you want to revisit high school (no thanks) or you’d avoid saying that horrible thing you said in that heated argument you had, the opportunity for a second chance is tempting. In Rebirth, turning back time and changing your past is actually

BOOM! Studios is adding another magical series to its BOOM! Box imprint. The publisher today has announced Mamo, a new five-issue series written and illustrated by Sas Milledge. The series, the first both written and illustrated by Milledge, follows a young witch who encounters unexpected challenges upon her return to her hometown. Here’s how BOOM! describes Mamo: Orla

In The Good Asian #1 by Pornsak Pichetshote, Alexandre Tefenkgi, Lee Loughridge, and Jeff Powell, arriving May 5th, 2021 from Image Comics, readers will be introduced to Detective Edison Hark. FOC for this intriguing new series is TODAY, April 12th, 2021, so be sure and call your local comic shop NOW to reserve your copy! Check out this never-before-seen variant for The Good

It’s Saturday once again, and that must mean it’s time for Weekend Reading 55! As always, we’re spending the weekend inside Stately Beat Manor, reading. What will you be paging through this weekend? The Beat wants to hear from you! Let us know in the comment section or on social media @comicsbeat! Weekend Reading 55:

Welcome to The Beat’s crowdfunding round-up: a collection of some of our favorite campaigns from the week including one-shots, on-goings, anthologies and everything in-between. This week, we’re checking out the pre-commercialization holiday anthology, Yule, the English publication of Urban Tails, and more. Let’s get started! Dragons by the Yard Creators: Kelly Swails (author), Paola Amormino

Black Mask Studios is gearing up for the debut of their new comic title Alice in Leatherland, which is scheduled to hit shops on April 21. Created by real-life couple Iolanda Zanfardino (writer) and Elisa Romboli (artist) during their pandemic lockdown together, the new mini-series offers a diverse sex comedy and a modern romantic comedy all in one, “celebrating

In today’s exclusive preview of I BREATHED A BODY #4 — due out April 28 from AfterShock Comics — the (body) horror continues. Since this series launched at the start of the year, it’s been one of the more fascinating monthly comics within the direct market, seeking as it does to mash-up Silicon Valley tech/business

This week, Marvel‘s latest massive crossover comes to a conclusion with the final issue of King in Black! Does the symbiote-soaked storyline’s swan song satisfy or stall out? We’ve got a review for King in Black #5, as well as a Rapid Rundown of other new releases from the House of Ideas, all ahead in this week’s

May is Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, a particularly significant date given the disturbing rise in violence against Asian Americans.  Skybound and Image have just announced that May will see a series of new variant covers to mark the event, all penciled by creators of Asian or AAPI heritage. In addition, all proceeds from the

Sunday Haha Is there any better feeling than unfolding the full-color page of Sunday newspaper comics? When you sign up for Sunday Haha, you’ll get an email that delivers that feeling right to your inbox each and every week! Sunday Haha’s first issue was released on May 10th, 2020. Now, nearly a year later, there

Writer Devin Grayson and artist Yana Adamovic craft Rewild, a magical realist tale, for Dark Horse Comics’s Berger Books imprint this fall. It will be Yana Adamovic’s debut work for the US market. The official synopsis: The lines between fantasy and reality are blurred in this dark, environmentally-themed magical realist tale. Poe is a mysterious

The Mocca Comic Arts Festival is going virtual next week with six days of virtual events, including Adrian Tomine and the Hernandez Brothers in conversation. Shawn Martinbrough, Derf and Meghan Parker are among the other participants. As we previously noted, MoCCA, held annualy in New York City in the spring, is one of hundreds of shows

After a much-buzzed-about debut issue, Vault Comics’ Witchblood #2 is about to drop at the end of this month. Described as “a modern, Wild West road trip about a witch named Yonna cruising the Southwest as a band of bloodthirsty biker vampires, The Hounds of Love, hunt her scattered coven for the source of all

Magic #1 Writer: Jed MacKayArtist: Ig GuaraColor Artist: Arianna Consonni of Arancia StudiosLetterer: Ed DukeshireCover Artists: Matteo Scalera & Moreno DinisioPublisher: BOOM! Studios As is the case with many long-running franchises built on decades of lore and content, getting into Magic: The Gathering can seem a daunting task to the uninitiated. It’s not unlike deciding to jump into X-Men comics

The Small Press Spotlight is back! This week, we focus our attention on Second Sight Publishing and the indie company’s June releases. Take a look at the publisher’s solicits below as well as some art for each exciting new entry. HARVEST OF HORROR The Harvest is plenty! Welcome to the Harvest of Horror! The stories

A new trailer for Jupiter’s Legacy has been released. Based on the comic book series of the same name by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, Jupiter’s Legacy is the first Millar series Netflix adaptation since the streaming giant acquired Millarworld, the comic creator’s imprint line, back in 2017. Jupiter’s Legacy is superhero drama that follows

A House Without WindowsWritten and photographed by Marc EllisonIllustrated by Didier Kassai Humanoids Life Drawn I’m going to confess — and I have a feeling that there are plenty others out there who could do the same — that I didn’t know much about the Central African Republic prior to reading A House Without Windows.

Acclaimed writer Jed MacKay has been on the rise at Marvel for the last few years, particularly for his work on Black Cat. It’s no surprise then that today Marvel announced that MacKay is writing a new Moon Knight series, with artist Alessandro Cappuccio making his Marvel Comics debut. No colorist or letterer for the

After six years, Invader Zim is ending its run. The comics continuation of the Invader Zim animated series from Oni-Lion Forge will end this summer with the aid of original creator Jhonen Vasquez. The Invader Zim comics at Oni-Lion Forge have been winding down for the past year. The last issues of the monthly comic

Any new comic book series from Ryan K. Lindsay is worth readers’ attention, especially when he’s re-teaming with frequent collaborator Sami Kivela. Their latest joint venture is Everfrost, a character-driven adventure in a futuristic arctic setting published by Black Mask Studios. The first issue of the 4-issue miniseries releases on June 2. Pre-orders close on April 18.

THIS WEEK: DC’s Infinite Frontier line-up continues to slowly grow with the debut of a new Green Lantern ongoing series. What does the title’s debut issue reveal about the role the series will play in the larger DC Universe? Note: This review contains mild spoilers for the issue being discussed. For a spoiler-free verdict on

A few weeks ago it was announced that Matt Kindt would be reviving his acclaimed Mind MGMT series for a one-off story, entitled “The Artifact,” with a catch: the story would be auctioned off as an NFT, or non-fungible token. The auction on opensea.io ended last Wednesday, with a final price of 2.68 Ether, which at the

Last year, Comixology released Crema, Johnnie Christmas, Dante Luiz, and Ryan Ferrier‘s horror-romance graphic novel, as part of their Comixology Originals lineup of titles. Now Crema is set to get a print release from Dark Horse Comics, as part of the publisher’s ongoing partnership with Comixology. Here’s how Comixology describes Crema: Esme, a barista, feels invisible, like a ghost…. Also, when

The Beat is a proud sponsor of Comix Experience’s Graphic Novel of the Month Clubs, which bring comics fans a curated mix of the best of new release graphic novels and conversations with the creators who make them. Each month, the staff of Comix Experience votes on three sets of upcoming books they are most excited about—one

When faced with writing for a long-standing property such as Magic: The Gathering, one must decide whether to strip everything down to its basics to make it accessible or to just dive into the deep part of the mana pool. Writer Jed MacKay chose the latter for his take on the Magic multiverse, which kickstarts

In today’s exclusive preview of BEQUEST #2 from AfterShock Comics, the story takes us to high fantasy realms…and also Chicago’s tourist trap, Navy Pier. That is, after all, the general conceit of this new series from writer Tim Seely, artist Freddie E. Williams II, colorist Jeremy Colwell, and letterer Marshall Dillon. Debuting last month, this is essentially a series that bounces between

Next month DC Comics is set to release DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration, a new anthology featuring the publisher’s Asian characters in stories by creators of Asian descent. Now DC has released a breakdown of the creators, stories, and characters included in the special one-shot, and teased a new hero, Monkey Prince, who

Vault has announced a series of interlocking Witchblood cover variants from Cover-Artist-in-Residence, Yoshi Yoshitani (Beneath the Moon). Each of the five connected pieces will be published as open-order variants for Witchblood  #1 through #5. Vault’s 2021 Cover Artists-in-Residence (or CAIR) program features Yoshitani along with Martin Simmonds (The Department of Truth), Corin Howell (Shadow Service), Joshua Hixson (The Plot), and Jen Hickman (I Breathed a Body). The CAIR program

If you spend any time online you have most likely had the desire to reach through your screen to throttle someone posting stupid, abusive, and bullying content. For those of us who have lamented not having the ability to shake sense into internet trolls, Outrage is for you. Written by Fabian Nicieza (co-creator of Deadpool,

This week’s Heavy Metal #305 features the first chapter of Swamp God, a new serialized story written by Ron Marz, illustrated by Armitano & DC Alonso, and lettered by Troy Peteri. A horror story set in the waning days of the Civil War, the series follows two groups of soldiers — one Confederate, the other an all-Black Union unit — forced to