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Image credit: Dynamite Entertainment In the second issue of Dynamite’s original Pathfinder series, a group of heroes grows to deal with the increasingly dangerous threat of a mutated goblin army. Who or what is behind the threat? We’ll have more clues soon, but first we need to dispatch the goblins. When I started writing this problem, I was sure there was a printing error. It feels almost identical to the opening sequence of issue #1. The biggest clue that this wasn’t what actually happened was a new cast member we met in the last issue but never saw in action.…
A look at Image Comics’ self-reported top 10 comics and books for the past month shows that the company has a lot going on right now. While the top two publishers in the U.S. comics market essentially only have superhero books as their main “hits,” Image, the third largest comics publisher in the market, has a much wider range of major brands, licenses, and new material. Robert Kirkman and David Finch’s new series “Skinbreaker” topped the single-issue sales chart, with “Skybound” accounting for about half of the top 10 overall. The Energon Universe is well known for having Transformers, G.I.…
Enjoy, Canadian manga lovers! On Tuesday, November 4, 2025, US-based manga publisher TOKYOPOP announced that it is expanding its e-commerce operations to Canada. This means Canadian geeks can order TOKYOPOP’s wide variety of manga, light novels, and officially branded merchandise directly from the publisher’s website. See the entire selection now at www.tokyopop.com. Stu Levy founded Mixx Entertainment (now TOKYOPOP) in 1997, which he defined as “a combination of entertainment, a combination of media, a combination of culture,” seeing manga publishing as a way to create a catalog of content in the digital space that could be used as a bridge…
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Once one of the United States’ largest manga publishers, TOKYOPOP has been credited by Publishers Weekly columnist Deb Aoki with driving “The Manga Revolution” of the early 2000s, publishing, at its peak, as many as 500 titles of licensed manga and original comics a year for Western audiences. While the publisher has faced its fair share of difficulties over the years (e.g., shuttering most of its North American operations in the mid-aughts), in its current iteration, TOKYOPOP has undertaken a thoughtful transformation—strengthening its editorial direction, expanding its carefully-curated catalog of diverse titles, and reaffirming its commitment to inclusive storytelling—that’s been…
Webtoon is discontinuing one of its most important and influential services, fan translation, for the first time in 10 years. This service change is particularly hard-hitting. Webtoon posted an official notice on September 25th that the fan translation service will end in November of this year. This comes after the company launched the service in beta in 2015 to meet the demands of a growing readership. What is Webtoon Fan Translation? Webtoon Fan Translation has been around for 10 years. The aim was to allow readers to translate the various webtoons from the site’s Originals and CANVAS lines into any…
Welcome to another Marvel Rundown! This time in our weekly Marvel review column, we spotlight the new Planet She-Hulk series by Stephanie Phillips and Aaron Cooder. But that’s not all. For reviews of Alien vs. Captain America, The Amazing Spider-Man, and works from the Age of Apocalypse including The Amazing X-Men and Longshot, enjoy our regular Rapid Rundown. As always, The Beat wants to hear from all you true believers! Let us know what you think of this week’s Marvel Comics! Give us a shout in the comments section below or on social media @comicsbeat or @comicsbeat.bsky.social. Planet She-Hulk #1…
A1 Deadline Special’s Kickstarter has announced that four of the comics featured in the project will be replaced following a legal challenge from Tales From the Quarantine publisher Frazier Brown. The four comics in question were originally created during TFTQ’s Kickstarter in 2020, but were left unpublished along with the rest of the book. Editor and publisher Dave Elliott says, “The creators claim that they retain full copyright in the works they contribute. That belief is disputed by TFTQ’s publisher. In the interest of fairness and respect for all parties, Atomeka (authored by Elliott) is paying these creators to contribute…
A1 Deadline Special’s Kickstarter has announced that four of the comics featured in the project will be replaced following a legal challenge from Tales From the Quarantine publisher Fraser Brown. The four comics in question were originally created during TFTQ’s Kickstarter in 2020, but were left unpublished along with the rest of the book. Editor and publisher Dave Elliott says, “The creators claim that they retain full copyright in the works they contribute. That belief is disputed by TFTQ’s publisher. In the interest of fairness and respect for all parties, Atomeka (authored by Elliott) is paying these creators to contribute…
Image credit: IDW After learning that Starfleet was spying on the Klingons, Miller and Lard were captured by the Klingons. You’d think Klingon torture would be the biggest problem, but the Romulans have the data disks that the Red Shirts were sent to retrieve. As the rest of the team heads out to retrieve the disc, will Miller and Lard be able to escape and complete their mission? Probably one of my favorite comics of the year, Star Trek: Red Shirt continues to be a really great read. It leans heavily on the throwaway redshirt trope, but it does it…