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Following the success of the limited edition MFKZ Omnibus Kickstarter campaign, Magnetic Press has released the first three volumes of a five-volume set in Guillaume “Lan” Renard’s acclaimed MFKZ graphic novel series. Today, The Beat has an exclusive preview of Volume 1. MFKZ originates from Leonard’s 2002 short film Mutafkaz: Operation Blackhead, which also spawned the 2017 Netflix animated film MFKZ from Studio 4C, directed by Leonard and Shojiro Nishimi and starring Vince Staples, Ken Michael, Giancarlo Esposito, Michael Chiklis, Danny Trejo, and RZA. MFKZ follows a character named Angelino. Angelino’s best friend and roommate Vinz’s head is a flaming…
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Image credit: Image Comics Ice cream in three flavors. Three different stories. Everything unfolds simultaneously and almost silently, with wildly different outcomes for the comic’s temporary protagonists. Another day in the suburbs for the ice cream man. Despite the creativity and sometimes experimental nature of Ice Cream Man so far, it feels like this issue is the one that really knocks it out of the park. Each story is told in a different tone depending on the flavor of the ice cream, and each unfolds very differently, but in each story things go wrong for our poor, doomed characters. There…
North American manga publisher TOKYOPOP is kicking off the 2025 holiday season with a major promotion. It offers huge discounts on a wide range of manga titles and other products when purchased from TOKYOPOP’s official online webstore from Black Friday, November 28, 2025, to Cyber Monday, December 1, 2025. The publisher’s Black Friday sale gives manga and anime fans (or anyone looking for a gift for their favorite otaku) the chance to score big discounts at TOKYOPOP. We carry a large selection of manga, box sets, Disney titles and merchandise, and themed merchandise such as advent calendars and playing cards.…
Philip Kennedy Johnson, a fan-favorite writer who has done beloved work on the Superman and Batman franchises at DC, has signed a multi-year deal with Marvel starting in January 2026. He will join fellow former Superman screenwriter Brian Michael Bendis, who recently announced he would be returning to Marvel with Avengers #800. The announcement comes ahead of the latest issue of Johnson’s Infernal Hulk hitting stores this Wednesday. In a press release, Johnson revealed that DC’s current projects, including The Adventures of Superman and Batman & Robin, will be allowed to complete their originally planned stories. “My friends at Marvel…
Canada Post has released a second series of limited edition stamps celebrating Canada’s contribution to the world of graphic novels. The new set is available now and features original designs from each creator, depicting the main characters reading the graphic novels they appear in. A set of 6 Canadian playwrights who attracted attention in 2025 Authors featured in the new set include Kate Beaton (Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, 2022), Jimmy Beaulieu (Unadventure: The First Man’s Plan, 2013), Guy Delisle (Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, 2012), and Julie Doucet (Journal, 2004, also known as). 365 Days in…
In 2025, a very interesting collaboration took place between two major American publishers. Yen Press and Kodansha have teamed up to bring CLAMP fans two complementary art books. We will be publishing “COLOR KURO”, which means “black” in Japanese, and “COLOR SHIRO”, which means “white” in English, in English for the first time. “COLOR SHIRO” will be released by the Kodansha label, and “COLOR KURO” will be released by Yen Press. Both books will be released on November 25, 2025. This time, we will consider KURO. ©Yen Press, 2025 Before we get into the content of the art book, a…
The top comics to buy this week, November 26, combine mainstream hits (there are two Batman books) with difficult and fascinating indie comics that blend elements from black history to video games to dating. I often say this, but the more varied a week is, the more I tend to enjoy it. And guys, this is a good one. Along with the usual list of releases, below are my top 5 recommended weekly comics… Enjoy! Top comics to buy on November 26, 2025 Absolute Batman #14Screenplay: Scott SnyderArtist: Nick DragottaColorist: Frank MartinAuthor: Clayton CowlesPublisher: DC ComicsBatman and Catwoman face off…
By Mathew Kickstein There’s a lot to be said about cartoonist Scott Shaw!. Including the fact that, yes, that exclamation point at the end of his name is no typo. Along the way to what has become a half-century-and-counting career toiling away at the boards for such institutional mainstays as DC/Marvel, Hanna-Barbera, and former advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather (who could forget Shaw!’s Fruity/Cocoa Pebbles commercials from the 80s/90s?), Shaw! also became one of the proud originators of the San Diego Comic-Con. Though it’s at this global hub of pop culture fandom that the bespectacled and cherubic, t-shirt-wearing septuagenarian yearly…
Image Comics and e-commerce site GONKBONK have burned both ends of the proverbial candle and worked all night in their workshop to create a special 2025 Image Comics Holiday Blind Bag for comic book fans around the world, set to hit shelves on December 24th. That’s right, Image is jumping into the blind bag craze like crazy, packing these exclusive blind bags with collectible proportions from all of Image’s biggest titles of recent years. You can find some incentive rates on the next series of 2025 Image Comics Holiday Blind Bags. Artificial Miscellaneous Crisis Events Author Immortal Bitterroot: Next Moves…