black beetle Archives

The Black Beetle was originally a citizen of the future, approached by Mister Mind to join the Time Stealers, tasked with preventing Jamie Reyes from becoming the Blue Beetle, by posing as the Blue Beetle of the future, but changing history in the process. He claims to be Hector, brother of Nadia one of Blue Beetle tech[...]

Francesco Francavilla returns to The Black Beetle just in time to celebrate the acclaimed characters 10th anniversary The character made his debut on the drawingboard.org forums in January of 2006 It was a 10 minute doodle. Three years later the artist decided to do a webcomic and posted a poll on his blog asking readers whether[...]

The panel featured Tim Seeley and Mike Norton, of The Occultist and Revival, Joe Casey, of Cataclysm Comix and Sex, Joshua Williamson, of Captain Midnight; Donny Cates of Buzzkill, and Duane Swierczynski of X.. The panel started off with announcement of Francesco Francavilla's Black Beetle getting a second miniseries Below is the cover of what will[...]

By Hannah Means-Shannon The wild success of Francesco Francavilla's four-part Dark Horse mini series Black Beetle: "No Way Out", has led to a returning mini series in the autumn entitled "Necrologue" Dark Horse branded Francavilla's work "Super-Noir" in advertising and that's definitely an accurate description Black Beetle goes back to the original pulp foundations of heroes[...]

Despite a generous overprint, Black Beetle #1 has sold out from Diamond Comic Distributors and Dark Horse is pulling in comp copies to try and meet the demand. With that in mind, here's a first look at Black Beetle #2… Despite a generous overprint, Black Beetle #1 has sold out from Diamond Comic[...]

"Super Noir" for the first issue of The Black Beetle out shortly. I wonder what other titles will join it? Okay, there are 29,000 googles for "Super Noir" But even so… Ooh, I bet Dynamite wish they'd thought of that one. Or possibly Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Or even Frank Miller. But there you go[...]