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A Year of Free Comics Exclusive: Read Brereton’s ‘Punkinheads’ to celebrate Halloween
Happy Halloween! In honor of the creepiest holiday of the year, Dark Horse has provided The Beat with a horror comic to celebrate. Ripped from the pages of Dan Brereton’s Nocturnals Omnibus Edition, Vol....
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Hailing Frequencies Open: STAR TREK: THE LAST STARSHIP
By Avery Kaplan and Ollie Kaplan
In Star Trek: The Last Starship, the struggling Federation looks to a long-dead hero for their salvation in the wake of the devastation of The Burn....
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Review: GRAN FAMILIA Vol. 1 is off to a bloody entertaining start
GRAN FAMILIA, Vol. 1
Writer/Artist: Kenji HamadaPublisher: Titan Manga (print)Translation: Motoko Tamamuro Letterer: Skylar RutanPublication Date: Sep 30, 2025Rating: 15+Genre: SupernaturalGran Familia has retaught me a lesson that I had learned back when I was a...
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Fantagraphics introduces Takumigraphics, a new imprint for East Asian comics
Fantagraphics, one of the most prominent indie comics publishers in the US, has announced its new East Asian comics imprint, Takumigraphics.Fantagraphics‘ entry into publishing East Asian comics was with Moto Hagio’s...
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Scarlet Witch is the SORCERER SUPREME in new ongoing series
A few months ago, Marvel teased that someone new would be taking up the mantle of Earth’s Sorcerer Supreme with a new ongoing series launching in December. Today the publisher officially...
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The secret history of the toy/comics connection: Larry Hama and The G.I. Joe Story
By Albert Fuzailof
Star Wars was a game changer for the toy industry comparable to Superman’s first appearance: comic books before Action Comics #1 mostly consisted of reprinted newspaper strips and funny...
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Interview: AJ Velasco talks fall convention exclusives from Bandai Namco Toys
With big conventions like New York Comic Con, one of my favorite places on the convention floor is the Bandai Namco Toys and Collectables booth. It’s so expensive, and it feels...
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BHFF25: KARMADONNA is an angry and bloody call against everything
Serbian screenwriter Aleksandar Radivojevic is angry. He has reason to be. He’s the person responsible for the script behind the infamous A Serbian Film (dir. Srdjan Spasojevic), a movie about the...
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SCRUBS revival premiere date announced
Just a day after the departure of co-showrunner Tim Hobert, fans of the revived sitcom Scrubs probably hoped for some good news. Well, they got it: in a social media post, ABC...
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A Year of Free Comics: Plumbing the Depths of Fear in Deep Dark Fears
“Comics about illness, and disability—both mental and physical—have multiplied hugely over the past twenty years as people have recognized the form’s immediacy and its diagrammatic ability to display otherwise hard-to-express realities...
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Delhi air pollution: Schools go hybrid, mining banned as air quality worsens
Schools in Delhi have been asked to run hybrid classes for primary students and non-essential construction activity has been...