Comics

Comic writer Cullen Bunn known for his horror work on projects such as Harrow County is no stranger to the macabre. So it won’t suprise readers to learn that Bunn is teaming up with artists Danny Luckert (Regression), and Leila Leiz (The Last Book You’ll Ever Read) for Shock Shop, “a brand-new horror anthology flip

Dark Horse Comics’s library of Comixology Originals series brought to print continues to grow. The two publishers have announced that Youth Volume 2, the second installment of the series from writer Curt Pires, artist Alex Diotto, colorist Dee Cunniffe, and letterer Micah Myers, will get a print collection early next year. The trade paperback will collect issues 1-4 of the

Originally published in March 2016, Lucky Penny by Yuko Ota and Ananth Hirsh is returning in November 2022 with Lucky Penny: Color Edition, featuring new cover from Ota and colors by Julia Hagerty. Lucky Penny Here’s the description of Lucky Penny from Oni Press: “If Penny Brighton didn’t have bad luck, she’d have no luck at all. She lost

Do A Powerbomb #1 Writer/Illustrator: Daniel Warren JohnsonColors: Mike SpicerPublisher: Image ComicsRelease date: June 15, 2022. Daniel Warren Johnson was born to make wrestling comics. How do I know? Because of Do A Powerbomb, the writer/illustrator’s new Image comic set within the world of the greatest sports in human history (along with basketball, which shares

Chaos! fan favorite Lady Hel is set to debut in her first solo series this summer from Dynamite. Written by Erik Burnham (Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), artist Zhengis Tasbolatov is on interiors. Fans can look for covers by Lucio Parrillo, Daniel Maine, Mike Mahle, Geebo Vigonte, and Cosplayer Rachel Hollon. We chatted with Burnham

This week in the Small Press Spotlight we have a new one-shot by Natasha Alterici (Heathen) and Literati Press Comics & Novels entitled Haunted, Beloved. Set to release on July 20, the comic is “a story about love, death, grief, and closure.” The one-shot also marks Alterici’s return to drawing a full issue after developing

Vault Comics and Gatecrashers announced today a partnered Pride Charity Auction to benefit the William Way LGBT Community Center in Philadelphia on June 29th at 4 pm EST/1 PM PST on their Whatnot page.  After the success of their Hero Initiative fundraiser in honor of George Peréz, the publisher decided to team up with the

Announced earlier this year at Fan Expo Philadelphia, award winning novelist Derek Landy and artist Greg Land are collaborating on All-Out Avengers, a brand new Avengers title ongoing series coming in September that will “launch readers directly into the thrilling missions of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.” Joined by inker Jay Leisten and colorist Frank D’Armata, according

While it originally debuted as a four-part series on Marvel Unlimited, Hulkling & Wiccan #1 is an oversize 43-page issue that collects the entire Infinity Comics series in one. This review includes spoilers, so be advised! Plus: rapid reviews of Fantastic Four #44 and Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood #1. What did you think of this week’s fresh Marvel Comics issues? Let

This week sees the release from AfterShock Comics of Bunny Mask: The Hollow Inside #2. The second issue of the supernatural horror series follow-up comes from writer Paul Tobin, artist Andrea Mutti, letterer Taylor Esposito, and cover artists Mutti & Colleen Coover. Today The Beat is pleased to present an exclusive preview of the next installment of the

Loved and Lost: A Relationship Trilogy Ignatz and Eisner Award winning cartoonist Jeffrey Brown is taking us back to the beginning with Loved and Lost: A Relationship Trilogy, a collection of the three adult-oriented graphic novels that launched his career. The softcover collection, which is published by Top Shelf Productions and is 608 pages long, is available

Justice Warriors #1 Written by: Matt BorsArt by: Ben ClarksonColors by: Felipe SobreiroLetters by: Matt BorsPublished by: Ahoy ComicsReview by: Hayden Mears  Justice Warriors #1 is not subtle satire. In fact, this first issue is so brazen with its digs at society’s dysfunction that its attempts to illuminate systemic flaws can often feel clumsy and

THIS WEEK: DC Pride continues with DC Pride: Tim Drake Special #1, and we look back at the two other Pride titles we couldn’t fit last week with Multiversity: Teen Justice and Nubia: Queen of the Amazons. Note: the reviews below contains spoilers.  If you want a quick, spoiler-free buy/pass recommendation on the comics in question, check out the bottom

Acclaimed author Alex Segura, known for noir and crime as seen in The Black Ghost and his novel Secret Identity, will join artist Emiliana Pinna (Red Sonja) for his Dynamite debut in Scarlet Sisters. Read details here: “The streets of New York City run red as a mysterious organization strangles its systems, urging Masquerade and

Vampirella has been through it all, but this September Dynamite is sending the Daughter of Drakulon on a time warp to the 1970s in Vampirella: Mindwarp. Writer Jeff Parker (Aquaman, Future Quest) and artist Benjamin Dewey (Namor, The Autumnlands) lead the creative team for the new adventure. Read details below: “The conniving Baroness Gruzal already

The Warworld Saga is set to conclude in August, and then in September it will be followed by the start of a six-issue crossover event called Kal-El Returns, taking place in the two main Superman titles, DC Comics has announced. First, on Aug. 30 DC is planning to publish Superman: Warworld Apocalypse #1, a one-shot comic

As we reported back in March, DC Comics has completed a long planned (pre-Discovery) move to office spaces in a new Frank Gehry designed building, known as the Second Century Project, located in Burbank, not far from the main studio. The move was signaled by private social media alerts, but Publisher-CCO Jim Lee made it Instagram

It’s been a long pandemic and if you’re like The Beat, one of the things keeping you going was all the cool MCU movies coming out – whether puzzling Ikea catalog vistas like Eternals, or tonally inconsistent horror drops like Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness . And the cherry on top: the return

I love sleep. If I could trade naptime with my kids, I would in an instant. But not after reading Counting Sheep on Webtoons. Created by A.Rasen (Melvina’s Therapy and GremoryLand), the disturbing horror web series fits right in with this creator’s previous work. Unsettling imagery is at the core and coupled with horror movie

Ah Miracleman…such a strange, history. Someone wrote a whole book about it. With 40 years of mystery, marvels and miracles behind him, it’s high time that Marvel tributed the character with a series of variant covers, and here they are! BTW 40th anniversary refers to the character’s “Modern” era. The character was originally created by Mick

I don’t take the subway very often here in NYC, but other local Beat staffers (and a smattering of other social media postings) have noted that Webtoon has launched a pretty prominent subway advertising campaign around town. I witnessed these Webtoon subway ads myself last Friday night at the Bedford L stop – a complete

Saturday is here, and with it arrives Weekend Reading 115! As is our weekly custom here at Stately Beat Manor, we’ll be spending the days locked up inside, lost in a good book! As always, we hope that you’ll share your reading plans with us, too. Let us know what you’re planning on reading, here

The first issue of Heavy Metal‘s new event series, Entropy, will introduce a new villain who will connect into the Taarna lore! Written by Black Panther and Justice League writer Christopher Priest with interior art by Montos, color by Bryan Valenza, and letters by Willie Schubert, the series will feature main covers by Bjorn Barends (King Spawn). The issue arrives at your Local Comic Shop in

The title that made waves last year for National Coming Out Day looks to bring even more queer representation to the DC Universe in July’s Superman: Son of Kal-El #13. Making her way to the book from television’s Supergirl is Nia Nal. And Nia is bringing her actress, Nicole Maines with her to the DC Universe. Maines is teaming

On June 15th, 2022, the Society of Illustrators, one of New York’s premier venues for showcasing the history and art of illustration will open its doors for “The Artist’s Experience: From Brotherman to Batman”, a 4-month exhibit celebrating Black comic book artists, curated by comic journalist and writer Karama Horne and Eisner Award-nominated artist and writer

Today, on Thursday, June 9th, 2022, the newest Infinity Comics series will arrive on Marvel Unlimited: Love Unlimited! The brand-new series will spotlight the romantic lives of many different characters, with new episodes debuting on Thursdays. Part one of the first story in the series, featuring Ms. Marvel and Red Dagger, is written by Nadia Shammas

Yesterday Warner Bros. released the first full trailer for Black Adam, the forthcoming feature film starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as the titular DC Comics antihero. DC has previously announced plans for a number of prequel one-shots, Black Adam – The Justice Society Files, with the first two one-shots spotlighting Hawkman and Cyclone. Today DC released the

Main cover by Gary Frank Bruce Campbell teams with Eduardo Risso for DC Horror Presents: Sgt. Rock vs. The Army of the Dead.  That’s it. That’s the tweet. Or an even shorter version: Nazi zombies. Sgt. Rock is an iconic DC character created back in 1959 by Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert in the pages of Our

The Bone Orchard Mythos: The Passageway Script: Jeff LemireArt: Andrea SorrentinoColors: Dave StewartLetters: Steve WandsPublisher: Image Comics There’s a particular brand of indie/art house horror that’s characterized by stories that are slow paced, atmospheric, and dread-filled, preferring to inch towards their scares in a methodical way rather than open with them. It’s quite popular among

Announced back in 2019 as part of the ComiXology’s wave of creator-owned titles, The Black Ghost involved reporter Laura Dominguez attempting to uncover the identity of the masked activist known as The Black Ghost. The character returns in a new 5-issue miniseries for a second season arriving this August from Amazon’s Comixology Originals exclusive digital