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System preferences Author: Hugo BienvenuTranslator: Edward GauvinPublisher: Titan ComicsPublication date: September 2025 What if, in a digital future, the cloud is finite and the internet is nearly full? What if a world focused on short-term commercial gain and algorithmically defined profits decides what to keep? New, ultra-high quality social media content needs to be stored, so something has to be erased from existence to make room. In the future, no one will look at it anymore. WH Auden’s farewell poem or the work of Stanley Kubrick. It’s a terrifying prospect, brilliantly explored in Ugo Bienvenu’s graphic novel System Preference, now…
12 years ago, a community arts event debuted in the comic mecca of San Diego, California. An event that connected artists in the community, allowing them to have a voice and share their creations with other like-minded individuals in a way that some events could only hope to achieve. In those 12 years, the event has only evolved, including artists and creators from all around the nation, convening to share their ideas and creations. That event is the San Diego Zine Fest. This year, it took place in Barrio Logan, a historic town in San Diego, where everywhere you go,…
Needless to say, Marvel loves celebrating milestone issues of their titles. Accordingly, the publisher announced that January’s Avengers issue 34, by writer Jed McKay and artist Farid Karami, will mark the book’s 800th issue. Marvel is pulling out all the backup stories from past Avengers creators that are later revealed. Let the guessing begin! The official press release is below. This January, AVENGERS #34, part of superstar author Jed McKay and acclaimed artist Farid Karami’s current hit run, marks the 800th issue of the ongoing AVENGERS series. To celebrate this big milestone, this issue will be a massive deluxe issue…
Six years after Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir Gender Queer was first published, it has become one of the most banned books in America and a lightning rod for discourse. But the book has also established itself as one of the most hopeful and necessary additions to the LGBTQIA+ literary canon in recent memory, and in 2026, publisher Oni Press will honor its legacy with a special hardcover edition. The Beat can exclusively reveal Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition for publication next year. The book features Kobabe’s commentary and annotations from several industry experts, including: Cartoonist Jadzia Axelrod (Galaxy: The Pretty…
Spoilers for TMNT #12 now available Last year, IDW Publishing relaunched the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles titles with writer Jason Aaron. The first issue was a critical and commercial success. With today’s release of TMNT issue #12, Aaron and artist Juan Ferreira, along with a new creative team of writers Gene Luen Yang and Freddie E. Williams, are bidding farewell to Heroes in the Half Shell, who will take over the book with issue #13 in December. It’s safe to say that IDW is promoting the new creative team’s first issue with a blind bag variant promotion and has already…
True believers, face forward! Today is another wonderful Wednesday. That means it’s time for Marvel Rundown. Last week we covered a lot of Apocalypse, and this week we’re back with a wrap-up of stories from across the Marvel Multiverse. First, The Ultimates #17 spotlights a timeless and moving tragedy. And in a quick overview, we take a look at Ultimate Spider-Man #22 and more dispatches from the Age of Apocalypse. 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…
Drawn & Quarterly has released its Spring 2026 catalog headlined by Tillie Walden’s upcoming graphic novel, Charity & Silvia. The book, scheduled for release on May 26, tells the true story of Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, a lesbian couple living in Vermont in the early 19th century. Charity & Sylvia cover by Tilly Walden Being openly gay in 19th century New England isn’t easy. But Charity can only be herself, and she soon catches and holds the eye of none other than Sylvia Drake. From this point on, for 44 years, they were inseparable, building a life together despite…
by RM Rhodes If Heavy Metal had an FAQ, the top question would be “how can I submit my work?”, followed closely by “what’s the relationship between Heavy Metal and Métal Hurlant?” I’m here to tell you that the answer to the second question can only be “it’s complicated.” Métal Hurlant started as a French magazine published by a company called Les Humanoids Associees. The four founders were artists Jean Giraud (better known as Moebius), Philippe Druillet, writer Jean-Pierre Dionnet and moneyman Bernard Farkas. At the time, Moebius was wrapping up a decade plus run as a young superstar artist…
Scott Snyder outlined the overall philosophy and approach for the upcoming DC Next Level line in an Oct. 21 post on Our Best Jackett Press Substack. Snyder teased some of the new titles announced and provided an early outline of the lineup of creators taking over. In explaining his approach to creating the new DC Next Level line, which will launch in March 2026, Snyder explained: “So over the last eight or nine months, we’ve been building a series of books that focus on fan-favorite characters, from Deathstroke to Damon to Zatanna, characters that don’t often get the bright spotlight…
As Momoko Peach’s Ultimate X-Men series comes to an end along with the rest of the Ultimate Universe series, fans are wondering what the acclaimed comic book writer and artist will do next. Looks like we won’t have to wait long, as Marvel has announced Sai: Dimensional Rivals, a five-issue limited series focusing on the title character, Psylocke’s version of Momoko’s acclaimed Demon Days saga. The five-issue limited comic series will be written and drawn by Momoko Peach, along with superstar creators including Stan Sakai, Esad Ribic, Natasha Bastos, Mike Del Mundo, and Sara Picelli. Marvel describes the series as…