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First look at Sentry toys; Invincible at WonderCon and more from The Beat for 04/02/2025

3 weeks ago | us5.campaign-archive.com | Christopher Chiu-Tabet |Taimur Dar |Arpad Okay

Wednesday Comics Reviews: I WAS A FASHION SCHOOL SERIAL KILLER and PLAGUE HOUSE offer scary new #1sI Was a Fashion School Serial Killer and Plague House are just two of the new series launching this week that get reviews!By Beat Staff on Apr 02, 2025 11:00 amVal Kilmer, star of BATMAN FOREVER and many more, dead at 65The actor, whose other work included Top Gun, Willow, The Doors, Tombstone, Heat, and The Prince of Egypt, passed away from pneumonia.
Small Press Review: WEDDING JUICE turns the drama into a feast

3 weeks ago | comicsbeat.com | Arpad Okay

Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas No. 1Cartoonist: Sanikah PhawdeSelf-published / $20September 2024The first lesson comes within the opening pages of Sanikah Phawde’s comic about marraige: if you drink the wedding juice, you will die. But Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas isn’t a fable. Phawde isn’t subject to a witch’s curse, they’re just allergic to kiwis. Dad’s on the three-way video chat harrumphing at bringing up something so morbid when planning the ceremony. The stage is set.
Gleem is a wild cyber-trip of spare details and unexpected turns

1 month ago | doomrocket.substack.com | Arpad Okay

Required Reading is DoomRocket's love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Freddy Carrasco’s Gleem, available now from Drawn and Quarterly. Whether sweating buckets and tripping balls on a church pew, a journey carnal from global to cosmic, or tracking down a robot to gut for parts so a friend can get fixed, the storytelling pushes ever forward.
Graphic Novel Review: BRING ME THE HEAD OF SUSAN LOMOND dead funny

2 months ago | comicsbeat.com | Arpad Okay

Bring Me the Head of Susan LomondCartoonist: Connor BPublisher: Silver Sprocket / $11.99February 2025Macabre is putting it lightly with Monroe Poole. When she says something like Bring Me the Head of Susan Lomond, she means it. She’s tried bombs, pits, lightning, creative acts of mad science, saving the prom (in order to kill the king and queen, of course), but nothing seems to be able to get that girl.
Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller is a journey of cognition via comics

2 months ago | doomrocket.substack.com | Arpad Okay

Required Reading is DoomRocket's love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Joseph Lambert’s Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller, available now from Little, Brown and Company. Joseph Lambert wants to draw you a map. The distance from here to there, how this turns into that because of what's between.
Diamond Comics files Chapter 11 bankruptcy and more from The Beat for 01/16/2025

Jan 16, 2025 | us5.campaign-archive.com | Heidi MacDonald |Heidi Macdonald |Merve Giray |D. Robert Morris |Arpad Okay

The nitty gritty on how tariffs could affect the comics industryEveryone needs to read Gina Gagliano's very thorough piece on the effect proposed tariffs will have on comics publishersBy Heidi MacDonald on Jan 16, 2025 09:30 amDan Slott & Rafael Albuquerque’s SUPERMAN UNLIMITED headlines DC’s “Summer of Superman”The new SUPERMAN UNLIMITED series is the first DC ongoing work for Dan Slott.
Manga Review: THE CONCIERGE AT HOKKYOKU DEPARTMENT STORE is a pilgrim in the castle of consumption

Jan 15, 2025 | comicsbeat.com | Arpad Okay

The Concierge at Hokkyoku Department StoreCartoonist: Tsuchika NishimuraTranslator: Jan CashLetterer: Mercedes McGarryEditor: Linda LombardiPublisher: Seven Seas Entertainment / $13.99Fall/Winter 2024I’ve decided this manga is a Mystery. Not the detective kind, the older type with knights and ghosts. The haunted castle in pathless Mirkwood is a chance for chivalry to be rewarded with life after death.
On the Scene: MICE turns fifteen

Dec 11, 2024 | comicsbeat.com | Arpad Okay

Sunday afternoon, the second day of MICE, and I’m headed to a panel. The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo is celebrating their fifteenth anniversary this year, going from a (locked) room at the end of Newbury Street to Boston University‘s historic Fuller Building on Comm Ave, a former luxury car showroom on the Charles River. It’s a comic convention unlike most. Small print runs, tremendous cultural capital. To get to the panels, first one must pass through the Curiosity Portal.
Hot House is a surreal ballet of visual noise

Nov 29, 2024 | doomrocket.substack.com | Arpad Okay

Required Reading is DoomRocket's love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: John Hankiewicz's Hot House, from Fieldmouse Press. The texture of Hot House smothers, covering the page, girding the eye. The bedroom has a phantom weight, pressing down on your vision with the time John Hankiewicz has spent hand-working each surface with detail — whole panel, top to bottom, and into all four corners.
Soft is a handcrafted romance of ache, secrets, and death

Oct 26, 2024 | doomrocket.substack.com | Arpad Okay

Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Soft by Jane Mai, published by Peow2. The summer Laura fell in love for the first time. A girl drifts into her quiet, aimlessly wandering life that makes her feel things so raw and strong that she wants to keep them secret. Keep her old life and new love separate, afraid of waking up from the dream that was being with Carmilla.