TweetReuniting the team behind the Eisner award winning Return of the Dapper Men, Lost Vegas is a fun mix of science fiction space play and hustler inspired shenanigans Oh, and it is very, very pretty.
Advance Review: Uncanny Skullkickers #1 tests out The Adjective of Power
02/26/2013 by 1 Comment
TweetUncanny is such a strange word to use to describe a comic, much less a range of different comics which tend to feature characters who aren’t unexpectedly familiar – they’re the X-Men and Avengers, they’ve been around for decades. Which is why it’s nice to see that the Skullkickers creative team of Jim Zub and [...]
Review: Completely Happy!
02/25/2013 by 3 Comments
TweetThe concluding issue of Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s Happy! has finally made its way to the shelves, and has seemingly divided critics right down the middle. It’s perhaps no surprise to anyone who has seen my Happy earrings that I loved it, but let’s have a proper look…
GREAT PACIFIC #4 gets a Phantom Variant
02/12/2013 by Leave a Comment
Continuing the tradition of Phantom Variant covers from the semi-secret Phantom Variant retailer group—as opposed to the totally secret and nonexistent Ghost Variant retailer group—Joe Harris’s GREAT PACIFIC #4 will have a Phantom Variant cover by regular artist Martin Morazzo, which is also an homage to the classic Y
REVIEW: On the Road with Paul Pope’s THE ONE TRICK RIP-OFF +DEEP CUTS
02/08/2013 by 1 Comment
TweetFor those savvy enough to have read Paul Pope’s (BATMAN: YEAR 100, HEAVY LIQUID, BATTLING BOY in 2013) ONE TRICK RIP-OFF when it first appeared serially in DARK HORSE PRESENTS from 1995 to 1996, or even in its collected edition from Dark Horse in 1997, they experienced the raw power of an unusual story and [...]
“ZED: A Cosmic Tale” – Reviewing A Children’s Comic That’s Not For Children
01/23/2013 by 1 Comment
TweetThe collected edition of ZED – A Cosmic Tale will be coming out next week. It may be under your radar, and that’s understandable. It certainly looks like something other than what it actually is. It’s probably easiest to describe this graphic novel in terms of the cartoonist’s film work and who wrote the introduction. Yes, you [...]
“Chris Pine is Rob Liefeld in ‘ICONS’ the Image Comics story”
01/23/2013 by 16 Comments
In case you missed yesterday’s blockbuster news, the irrepressible Rob Liefeld took three days out of his schedule to write a screenplay called ICONS about the early days of Image. Hitherto shown only to close friends, the screenplay turned up at the website Dreammoviecast where you can read several sample pages up along with Liefeld’s own dream casting choices. I don’t want to spoil all the surprises but here are two:
Changes at Image: Ron Richards in, Martinez and Delaine out
01/18/2013 by 6 Comments
Tweet Some changes at Image Comics; Ron Richards, formerly of iFanboy, has been hired as Director of Business Development. You can read about Richards’ new duties in the PR below. The move comes as two other Image staffers will be departing: Events Coordinator Sarah Delaine and Sales and Licensing Coordinator Todd Martinez have left the [...]
Beat Reviews for 16/01/13: X-Men, Hoax Hunters & Armstrong
01/18/2013 by 1 Comment
TweetAnother week where I purposely ignore Saga! What devilry is this? Surely answers must be forthcoming.
Interview: Image Publisher Eric Stephenson on the year behind and ahead
01/11/2013 by 16 Comments
As announced earlier today, Image publisher Eric Stephenson was decisively voted The Beat’s Comics Industry Person of the Year by comics professionals. Stephenson graciously agreed to be interviewed on the big impact Image had on the industry in the past year and what’s next for the publisher.
Announcing the 2012 Comics Industry Person of the Year: Eric Stephenson
01/11/2013 by 5 Comments
This is the third year of our Comics Industry Person of the Year poll, and the winner was pretty much a landslide. Every year we ask the participants in our survey to name who they thought was the person who made an impact or set the pace, and to comment anonymously (or on the record) and it was a clear choice this time out. With many people saying it was the Year of Image, Image publisher Eric Stephenson was the runaway winner—and the Saga team of Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples were definitely the Team of the Year, with a significant number of votes.
The Beat Reviews for 02/01/13: Featuring Illicit Benedict Cumberbatch Pictures!
01/04/2013 by 4 Comments
Tweet2013 rolls in like a Swiss person being pushed down a hill, which means it’s time for some more reviews! And some photos of Benedict Cumberbatch, because I refuse to bow to reader demands. He’s such an intellectual! Trying as ever to get a mix of comics from the shelf, this week sees the usual [...]
Image clarifies reprint policy and retailer incentives
12/20/2012 by 3 Comments
Tweet After Image’s Jennifer De Guzman played bad cop, and publisher Eric Stephenson played good cop, Image has released a new set of guidelines to retailers about reprints that walks right down the middle. You can read the whole thing below, but it does offer some pretty significant incentives for retailers to order strong on [...]
Keatinge and Campbell talk about the end of GLORY
12/19/2012 by 1 Comment
Tweet The Image remake of the Extreme Studios comics line as a HEAVY METAL-infused SF line has been one of the funner things about the past year in comics, but one title, GLORY, is ending after 12 issues. The cover is above and creators Joe Keatinge and Ross Campbell supply an exit interview at ComicsAlliance: [...]
Michel Gagne’s Zed coming from Image
12/18/2012 by Leave a Comment
Tweet Michel Gagné is an Award-winning (Annie and BAFTA) animator, but he’s also known for his charming comics work in the FLIGHT anthologies as well as the fantasy comic The Saga of Rex. Over the year’s he’s also been working on an all-ages tale called ZED, the story of a young alien on the run [...]
Image publisher Eric Stephenson on recognizing and growing new talent
12/14/2012 by 17 Comments
Tweet The recent argument over Image, reprints and retailers, it’s clear that conscientious retailers and creators are trying to figure this out together….it’s not a fiscal cliff type dead end. But it also underscores one of the biggest stories of the year: The ascent of Image as a very real competitor to the “Big Two” [...]
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