Hello lovely readers, and welcome to Book Beat! It’s your Bookmarked editor Paige, delving into some very exciting news from the publishing industry. Well, exciting might not be the right word for it. Vacation is over, and so the quiet summer months have been replaced with a fresh, crisp veneer of controversy. It’s not too…
Extermination #2 Pushes us Closer Toward the Edge
Extermination #2 Ed Brisson (Writer), Marte Gracia (Colorist), Pepe Larraz (Artist), Joe Sabino (Letterer) Marvel Comics August 29, 2018 “I’m going with them.” The four words at the end of Extermination #2 told me all I needed to know and I honestly couldn’t be more hooked on this book. This is a comic focused on returning the time…
MST3K #1: The Incredibly Strange Comics That Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Comic #1 Joel Hodgson, Harold Buchholz, Matt McGinnis, Mary Robinson, Seth Robinson, Sharyl Volpe (Writers), Todd Nauck, Mike Manly (Artists), Wes Dzioba, Mike Manly (Colorists), Michael Heisler (Letterer) Dark Horse Comics September 12, 2018 What started as a public access puppet show making fun of movies like The Green Slime…
Moth & Whisper #1 Delivers Intrigue and Heart
Moth & Whisper #1 Ted Anderson (writer), Jen Hickman (artist) AfterShock Comics September 12, 2018 Moth & Whisper is described by their publisher, AfterShock, as “a Young Adult cyberpunk thriller starring a genderqueer super-thief,” and if that’s not enough to get you on board, I don’t know what to tell you.
Barack Obama, Consulting Detective? Sign Me Up for Hope Never Dies!
Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery (Obama Biden Mysteries) Andrew Shaffer Quirk Books July 10, 2018 Do you like detective-style thrillers, featuring tag-team duos reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson? Are you also a political news junkie, who keeps CSPAN on for background noise while scrolling through memes featuring former President Barack…
Leaving the Best for Last: Feminasty by Erin Gibson
Feminasty: The Complicated Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death Erin Gibson Grand Central Publishing September 4, 2018 You know that old adage – if I don’t laugh, I’ll cry? Being a woman is hard; often-times unbearable. You have to laugh off the daily horrors or you won’t get through another…
My Favourite Bug-based Superheroes that Aren’t Ant-Man and The Wasp
I may never forgive the MCU for that end credit scene following the fun and entertaining romp that was the Ant-Man and The Wasp movie, but I did come to appreciate characters in that film that I had previously known or cared very little about. Plus, the movie prompted me to do a little research. Science has…
Presenting Dark Horse: August 2018
Hello lovely readers! Welcome to the August installment of Presenting Dark Horse. After pushing through back-to-back Pubwatch posts about Dark Horse Comics’ shenanigans during June 2018 and July 2018’s SDCC, I needed a minute to regroup. And to sleep. It’s been a long few weeks, y’all. Now that I’ve returned to a somewhat normal sleep…
Behind the Scenes with Oni and Limerence Press’ Ari Yarwood
In our Editorial Eye series, we go behind the scenes with comic and book editors to learn about their role in the creative process and discover how their passion for their industry helps shape their work. Several comic companies have introduced imprints that cover more adult stories, which means books that invariably involve sex. In…
Previously on Comics: The Valkyries’ Ragnarok and Saying Goodbye to FPI’s Blog
Back to back conventions has meant that for the most part everyone has either been too busy, in transit or just too tired to cause any trouble so this last week was been strangely quiet on the news front. Until suddenly it wasn’t and the white feminism™ we all know and hate once again reared…
A Fistful of Comics: Crowdfunding Roundup September ‘18
The leaves are turning and the pumpkin spice lattes have reappeared, so it’s time to settle down with some quiet, contemplative, and comfortable comics—and Kickstarter has your back! From experimental woodland horror comics to explorations of Black hair or magazines for young witches, now’s the time to back a book that will remind you of…
Rye Hickman Talks About the Cyberpunk World of Moth & Whisper
Moth & Whisper is one of the newest titles that will be coming out soon from AfterShock comics and is a tale of crime, intrigue, glamorous thieves, and a genderqueer protagonist that has to take up the family business(es) if they want to save their family. We had a chance to talk with artist Rye…