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DC Comics has released their full solicitations for titles scheduled to arrive in stores in January 2026. Among DC‘s offerings are the continuation of DC K.O. including new one-shots DC K.O.: The Kids Are All Fight by Jeremy Adams and Travis Mercer and DC K.O.: Green Lantern Galactic Slam by Adams and Cian Tormey; a new seasonal anthology one-shot, DC’s Supergirl Next Door, featuring a collection of romance-tinged tales; and a facsimile edition of 1976’s Superman Vs. The Amazing Spider-Man in advance of new crossovers between the characters later in the year. All that and much more ahead in the…

The Beat is excited to exclusively reveal preview pages for Titan Manga’s Dopeman, Vol. 3! The dystopian youth manga series Dope Man, written by Ryo Yoshigami (Psycho-Pass) and illustrated by Yuhei Ogino (Beyond Evil), is set in an alternate world transformed by paranormal phenomena and the legalization of the fictional drug Icarus. For those who fly too close to the sun (ahem) and indulge too much in Icarus, drugs can awaken superhuman abilities that reflect their true desires, and they are called “dope men.” As drugs become legal and addicts are protected by the government’s “Five Drug Laws,” a wave…

into non-existence Screenplay: Zach ThompsonArtist: Hayden ShermanAuthor: Jim CampbellPublisher: Dark HorseContents: Into the Unbeing Part 1 #1-4, Into the Unbeing Part 2 #1-4Publication date: January 2025, Part 2 October 2025 Every few months we hear weather forecasts about major storms like “unseasonably hot/cold” or “once in a lifetime…”. Last year, Hurricane Helen passed through western North Carolina, causing record flooding, heavy rains and widespread power outages that lasted for weeks. When recovery efforts began after the storm, everyone was pretty much on the same page. “It was a once-in-a-generation storm, but we better be prepared for it to happen again…

JY for Kids, the intermediate graphic novel division of Yen Press, has announced the acquisition of a new light novel series, Four Child Life, written by Himari Hino and illustrated by Oriko Sakura. This series, which depicts the joys and difficulties of family relationships and sisterhood, won the 6th Kadokawa Tsubasa Bunko Novel Award. JY was founded in 2017. Yen Press describes this as “a demonstration of Yen Press’ commitment to aggressively growing its catalog of quality content aimed at mid-level audiences while making content easily identifiable for parents, booksellers, librarians, and educators.” Other titles in JY’s books include Horror…

Image credit: Dynamite Entertainment Initially thought to be an anthology series about one-off missions from the post-Judgment Day future into the past, Declan Shalvey’s Terminator comic book series was revealed by issue #8 to be telling a much more connected story. That was cleverly done, but where is the story arc of the last three issues now? So why not go straight to Judgment Day itself? It depicts an attack on the Cyberdyne system by a group of human soldiers who have been gathering numbers and planning the attack for a year. What they didn’t realize was that the T-800…

Charles Burns’ critically acclaimed Black Hole is closer than ever to becoming a movie after Netflix won a bidding war for a new TV series based on the comic book. “Black Hole” comes from “I Saw the TV Glow” writer/director Jane Schoenbrunn, who has consistently worked on the series. The film marks Schoenbrunn’s first foray into television, having made two of the most beloved horror films of the last decade. Published over a 10-year period from 1995 to 2005, Black Hole tells the story of a group of teenagers infected with a sexually transmitted disease that literally turns the patient…

Following Marvel’s Deadpool/Batman one-shot published last month, DC Comics will be releasing its own Batman/Deadpool one-shot next month. This is the first crossover between manga publishers in decades. After revealing details about the gorgeous main story written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Dan Mora, as well as the characters and creators of the issue’s backup stories and variant covers, DC has released a preview of the upcoming Batman and Deadpool crossover one-shot. Morrison is no stranger to The Dark Knight, but it’s been quite a while since the prolific writer played in Marvel’s sandbox. It also goes without saying…

Where Ink On Paper Studios leads, Gilmore Girls fans will likely follow. The company’s highly anticipated “Drink Coffee, Talk Fast: A Documentary About Gilmore Girls” project, co-directed by Meghna Balakumar and Kevin Konrad Hanna (Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters), reached its Kickstarter goal in just 48 hours, raising more than $234,000 from nearly 2,000 backers as of press time. Entering the final week of crowdfunding, Balakumar and Hanna have announced additional interviewees for the film and stretch goals for the campaign, and The Beat has all the details. “Drink Coffee, Talk Fast: A Documentary About Gilmore Girls” coincides with the hit…

black arms that support you Cartoonist: Ben PassmorePublisher: Pantheon Graphic LibraryPublication date: October 2025 Review by Ian Thomas Black history produced for mainstream audiences (e.g., published on mainstream or widely distributed channels) tends to omit the hiccups, false starts, hypocrisies and incongruities inherent in the movements they seek to portray, thereby stripping black history of its character and essence. The reasons for this are probably too complex to explain in such a short review, but include the concepts of safety, respectability, and of course marketability. After all, a book on a subject that might not otherwise reach an audience is…

Hikari Toriumi, a talented Tokyo-born, US-based animation artist, has announced that she will self-publish her debut graphic novel, The Scroll of Kiichi. The work will be unveiled in the coming days at her booth at LightBox Expo 2025, a festival dedicated to independent creators. Toriumi wrote on Instagram that “Kiichi no Maki” is “a story about two friends torn between two families.” “This story is a fantastic depiction of actual historical events that took place in Japan in the 12th century.” “This is my first time creating a graphic novel from scratch, so there are things I want to improve…