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Image credit: IDW Comics A beastly guardian deity goes on a rampage, disrupting an emotional trial with deadly consequences. Unsure where the powerful mutants will attack next, the Turtles split up to protect different territories in the city, making some unusual allies in the process. Soon, at least one of the Turtles begins to feel a strange affinity for who the guardian god is… Of course, if you read Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #13, you know who Ujigami is. I feel like screenwriter Gene Luen Yang was a little too quick on this point. Because it might have been much…
The iconic pulp magazine Weird Tales is being revived in comic book form this year by Monstrous. The official graphic novel edition features a particularly important story by author David Avallone and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina artist Robert Hack. Today, The Beat exclusively revealed that Avallone and Huck will be adapting the classic horror novel The Man Who Walked On Air by Avallone’s father Michael Avallone. Michael Avallone’s story, originally published in the September 1953 issue of Weird Tales, is given new life in Monstraus’ Weird Tales graphic novel. “My father, Michael Avallone, grew up reading Weird Tales…and was thrilled…
We’re looking for help in the comics industry! Vault Comic is currently hiring for three positions. Do you think you have what it takes to join the publisher of books like “Dungeon Crawler Carl: A Crocodile Graphic Novel,” “The Big Rig,” “Barbaric,” and “These Savage Coasts”?Read more. Editor-in-Chief: Reporting to the Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief primarily oversees the project management, scheduling, communications, and organization necessary to ensure that the Company’s publishing projects are completed on time and in accordance with the Company’s high standards, across both Vault Comic and AETHON: Vault book series, as described below. The Editor-in-Chief will also work…
Marvel Comics has announced the final issue of the new Ultimate Universe, which will be released this April. Similar to the final chapters of Ultimate Wolverine, The Ultimates, and Ultimate Endgame, the book concludes with a special edition, Ultimate Universe Finale, featuring contributions from each series’ creators, including Jonathan Hickman, Denise Camp, and Momoko Peach. Cover of Ultimates #24 by Dike Ruan Ultimate #24Written by Deniz CampArt: Juan FrigeriReleased on 4/1 The second year of the Ultimate Universe comes to a close with the final issue of Ultimate. She-Hulk and the rest of her teammates face off against the villainous…
As justice is blind, so is Daredevil #1 Blind Bag. Marvel is celebrating the April release of the latest volume in Stephanie Phillips and Lee Garbett’s ongoing series of Man Without Fear with Daredevil #1 True Believers Blind Bag featuring variations and a hand-drawn sketch cover. In Daredevil #1, Matt Murdock takes on a new role as a law professor and takes on the dangerous streets of Hell’s Kitchen while dealing with a new supervillain named The Omen. “I’m playing my favorite character with one of my favorite artists, and together we’re exploring the noir sensibilities of Daredevil,” Phillips…
Recently, a very special copy of Action Comics #1 sold for a record $15 million in a private sale. This rare 9.0 edition is not only the first edition of Superman, first published in 1938, but also once owned by Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage. The comic was stolen in 2000 and discovered more than a decade later. This Action Comics #1 is part 1 of 2 to hold a CGC 9.0 grade. Action Comics #1 (DC Comics, 1938).Photo courtesy of Metropolis Collectibles, Inc. and Comic Connect, Corp. Vincent Zurzolo, president of Metropolis Comics and Comics Connect, spoke to…
Monday, right? Pop culture’s greatest felines return in an all-new series from BOOM. The studio features Garfield in his scariest era. Baby Garfield will be released this spring by the Penguin Random House-owned publisher and will feature four issues by a variety of writers and artists. Each issue features at least two stories from two different creative teams, with each story focusing on a “world first” in the feline’s life. Baby Garfield #1 features a story focused on Garfield’s first words, courtesy of writers Grace Ellis (Lumberjanes) and Asia Simone (Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur). The second story in the…
In the ’80s, DC Comics produced a number of four-issue prestige-style miniseries that reinvented existing characters or pushed them in different directions. Experimenting with characters. The most famous one is probably The Dark Knight Returns, but there were countless others. Some are on the periphery of continuity, while others are deeply rooted within it. In 1988, Batman received another work from one of the regular series writers and one of horror’s greatest artists. A populist dictator has emerged. A cult group blindly follows him. Extrajudicial killing of criminals. A city infested with people empowered by its leader. You could be…
Andrew Kozlowski is one of the most formally interesting cartoonists creating swipe comics today. His work is uniquely his own, from tone to color to layout, so it feels appropriate to call him an author of this genre. (Swipe comics refers to the way comics are read, not the origin of comics.) Kozlovsky’s comics explore his inner world with a mature simplicity and serenity, refreshing in the chaotic hell that is Instagram and the internet at large. Most of Kozlovsky’s comics fall somewhere between diary comics and memoir comics. I say flashbacks rather than comics because his comics are often…
A few months ago, IDW Publishing announced details for The Rocketeer: The Island, a limited series from the creative team of John Layman (Titans, Chew), blockbuster artist Jacob Edgar (Plastic Man No More!, Batman: The Adventures Continue), and visionary colorist KJ Diaz (The Amazing Spider-Man, Blade), set to launch in February of this year. According to the official synopsis, this new miniseries “takes readers back to 1938 when Cliff Secord, aka The Rocketeer, returns to save Amelia Earhart! But this search-and-rescue mission takes the fan-favorite hero to a mysterious island full of surprises.” The Beat has exclusively revealed the cover…