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The late Ever Niebel is taking a big new leap into comic book pages. Released on Half Evil Comics’ Kickstarter on September 9th, Evel Knievel: The Last Gladiator is Daredevil’s first full-length comic series. Written by the arts by Ringo Award-Winner Rylend Grant (The Jump, The PeaceKeepers) and Dave Acosta (Terrorwar, Elvira), the book reimagined Evel as a modern folk hero during his lead-up to the infamous Caesars Palace Fountain Jump. You can notify us of the launch here (it will come soon). I spoke via Zoom last month with Evel’s son and brand managers Grant and Kelly Knievel to…
Emmy Award-winning author Joshua Rubin is best known for his work with Assassin’s Creed II, Destiny and Telltail’s Walking Dead, and recently launched “a boutique IP house exclusively for high concept, mindbendy and brain candy sci-fi.” The new publisher will be offering “genre fiction for adults.” Released this week on Kickstarter is Strange Land’s flagship title, Time Sensitive, and existential sci-fi thriller. See here: When Detective Caleb Stone’s wife disappears at a gas station in Los Angeles, all traces of life come into play. Now, his only hope lies in a mysterious teenage girl who claims she knows why his…
In 2015, Der-Shing Helmer, a science fantasy and educational comic artist, launched Webcomic’s Mare Internum. Married to her multifaceted interests (biology, education, cartoon), Helmer has created a friendly yet fascinating story about “the isolated inhabitants of the planet Mars and the ability to last through the darkness.” Mare Internum was eventually nominated for Best Online Comic’s highly cobbeted Eisner Award. The full story is now collected and reissued as an Inner Sea (course of Vault Comics): Mare Internum. The 320-page saga follows Dr. Michael Fisher, “an embarrassing planetary geologist living on Mars,” and Dr. Bex Egunsola (“the station’s latest biologist”)…
Twenty-five years ago, Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Orming created one of the most unique takes in the superhero genre with power. Powers follows the detective of Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrims, investigating a world full of superheroes and thus investigating ultra-enhancing crimes. Bendis and Oeming will reunite to introduce a new chapter to the Cape and Crime Saga with Powers 25#1, resulting in a rather unique celebration of their Creation anniversary. It’s easy to deliver the Powers comic, where Bendis and Oeming return to Walker and Pilgrim’s dynamic, but focusing on “Lost Story” from the original run, they…
The original graphic novel Boxed is clearly a product of the era in which it was created. Co-creators Mark Sable and Jeremy Havn were boxed into final form during the Covid-19 pandemic. Originally released digitally in 2023 as an original to Comixology, The Paperback Edition came out on September 9th from Mad Cave Studios. Colorist Nick Firaldi and letter Thomas Mauer concluded their creative team. Edited by Sarah Brunstad, Jack Levesque created a print version of Mad Cave Studios. I think Boxed has something to do with even more fatal illnesses when it comes to Covid. But in reality, Sable…
Welcome to another creepy edition of X-Men on Monday at X-Fans, AIPT! Following an interview with Jed Mackay and Erica Schultz, our age of reporting of revelation continues by examining one of the evil horns of this strange new world. Yes, that’s a few years from the future, and Sinister hasn’t run out of plans yet. But what is he cooking this time? And Sinister’s six six roles – Havok, Domino, Fantomex, Omega Red, Black Cat, and Venom, will they play in these shenanigans? Luckily, David Marquez, an artist of Uncanny X-Men and author of Sinister’s Six (October 15, 2025),…
Utsumi is one of those cartoons. You know that species. You walk thinking it’s one thing, but it turns out to change your life. For those who don’t know, Utsumi, previously titled Mare Internum, is a science fiction comic by Der-Shing Helmer. Originally published online in 2015, two scientists, Dr. Michael Fisher and Dr. Bex Egunsola, are on a catastrophic cave on Mars. Instead of being crushed from the cave’s collapse, the pair lands in a closed ecosystem beneath a cave filled with life. With awe at the scientific discoveries that can change their lives forever, they begin to find…
My fellow Trekkie, welcome to the best holiday of the year: Star Trek Day! The annual Star Trek Fandom celebration takes place annually on September 8th, the day the Star Trek: Original series debuted all over the United States (fun fact: the popular science fiction series created by Gene Roddenberry, who debuted in Canada on September 6th, two days before its US release). To celebrate Star Trek Day 2025, Beat shares an associate managing editor Olly Kaplan’s San Diego Comics-CON 2025 interview with some of the creative minds behind IDW Publishing’s current Star Trek comics. While at SDCC 2025, Kaplan…
Sometimes I wonder how I managed to get into some of the comics I read as a child. I was very interested in horror, sci-fi, mystery, everything genres, but the beginning of my childhood was mostly limited to DC comics, comic book-based books, the mighty Thor issues that my parents persuaded to buy when they went to town over the weekend, and the strange three packs we could find when we shop elsewhere. Especially department stores. When we moved to town and finally got access to our dedicated comic shop, I wasn’t limited to a singular publisher. I do anything…
Most comic book fans have solid ideas about what to buy each week when they come down to their local comic store. That being said, there’s still plenty to be enjoyed just by watching this week’s new release and taking the opportunity with a book that looks promising, entertaining, and scary. That’s where the cover comes in. A great image can make the difference between trying something new or saying “not this week.” In that spirit, here is the cover that caught our attention this week, and an entry from comic editor Chris Coplan. This is determined by the cover.…