First Issue Review #38: DC Comics’ Nightwing #1 (2011)

A look at DC Comics’ New 52: Nightwing #1 (2011)! Does it succeed or FAIL? The Webcomic Beacon Presents: First Issue crew is here to let you know what we think! Please join Fes Works, Melissa Kaercher, and Marcus A.

Do know that while this show is also available as a podcast, you miss out if you don’t watch the video! Also, all of the DC 52 First Issue reviews are relatively spoiler free. We co not give any spoilers about significant developments or endings, or try not to anyway.

Remember that we abridge these issues, and the show is by no means a substitute for reading it yourself. If any comics we review pique your interest, there are MANY places to pick these up!

We highly recommend you check out your local comic book shop first, as that is the BEST experience for reading comic books. Otherwise there are many sources online to read and buy comic books in a digital format: DC Comics on Comixology, Marvel Digital Comics, IDW Publishing on Comixology, Dark Horse Digital, Comixology, and Graphicly.

Webcomic Beacon Newscast: DJ Coffman joins us for Comic News & Discussion for January 8th, 2012

DJ Coffman (Hero by Night) joins us for a special interview and guest his week! Please join Thom Revor with Alex Heberling and News Researcher Eric Kimball. Below are the bits of news gathered over the past week, as are mostly covered and discussed on the show. Some in more depth than other and some missed.

Editorial: Eric has another special editorial “Jayne’s Guide to Webcomics”. This is a part 1 of 3.
Break Promo: The Geek Life

Apologies for the audio quality this week.
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Top Stories

Return of Hero By Night
Exclusive Interview on the Newscast
DJ Coffman has taken back control of the comic rights to HERO BY NIGHT from Platinum Studios, and will be producing all-new issues in 2012. DJ has brought HERO BY NIGHT exclusively to Keenspot, removing it from its former home on Drunk Duck.
For more info, see DJ Coffman’s announcement and FAQ page.

Penny Arcade VS Ocean Marketing
Found via: Comics Alliance – Original Source: Penny Arcade
And the followup: The Escapist Magazine

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Warren Ellis’ predictions of the future
Found via: Jason Strawsburg – Original Source: Warren Ellis

Spike and Marybeth make top 13 women in comics
Found via: Comix Talk – Original Source: Jazabel

Continue for News Articles and Discussion Links…

First Issue Review #37: DC Comics’ Legion of Superheroes #1 (2011)

A look at DC Comics’ New 52: Legion of Superheroes #1 (2011)! Does it succeed or FAIL? The Webcomic Beacon Presents: First Issue crew is here to let you know what we think! Please join Fes Works, Melissa Kaercher, and Marcus A.

Do know that while this show is also available as a podcast, you miss out if you don’t watch the video! Also, all of the DC 52 First Issue reviews are relatively spoiler free. We co not give any spoilers about significant developments or endings, or try not to anyway.

Remember that we abridge these issues, and the show is by no means a substitute for reading it yourself. If any comics we review pique your interest, there are MANY places to pick these up!

We highly recommend you check out your local comic book shop first, as that is the BEST experience for reading comic books. Otherwise there are many sources online to read and buy comic books in a digital format: DC Comics on Comixology, Marvel Digital Comics, IDW Publishing on Comixology, Dark Horse Digital, Comixology, and Graphicly.

First Issue Review #36: DC Comics’ Green Lantern Corps #1 (2011)

A look at DC Comics’ New 52: Green Lantern Corps #1 (2011)! Does it succeed or FAIL? The Webcomic Beacon Presents: First Issue crew is here to let you know what we think! Please join Fes Works, Melissa Kaercher, and Marcus A.

Do know that while this show is also available as a podcast, you miss out if you don’t watch the video! Also, all of the DC 52 First Issue reviews are relatively spoiler free. We co not give any spoilers about significant developments or endings, or try not to anyway.

Remember that we abridge these issues, and the show is by no means a substitute for reading it yourself. If any comics we review pique your interest, there are MANY places to pick these up!

We highly recommend you check out your local comic book shop first, as that is the BEST experience for reading comic books. Otherwise there are many sources online to read and buy comic books in a digital format: DC Comics on Comixology, Marvel Digital Comics, IDW Publishing on Comixology, Dark Horse Digital, Comixology, and Graphicly.

Webcomic Beacon #215: Talking Star Trek with Mary “Cube” Cagle

Mary “Cube Watermelon” Cagle (Kiwi Blitz) joins Fes Works and Mark Savary to talk about her comic, deviantART, and Star Trek! Yes, with Trekkies on the show, we could not resist.

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Song: Humanoid (Figurehead Remastered) by The Queenstons
High quality, 320 kbps, bass-boosted song available for purchase at LAPFOX TRAX.
(Sorry, you are missing a ton of bass music on this track, on the show).

Webcomic Blind Date and Spring 2012 Giveaway!

Happy New Year everyone!

Here with another Webcast Beacon Network notice of things happening in the next couple months!

Webcomic Blind Date

First off, Valentine’s Day is coming up, and we would like to revitalize the “Blind Date” project that Xavier Xerexes (of ComixTalk) had originally created. The way that Webcomic Blind Date will work, is that people will email us (at webcomicbeacon@gmail.com) as either a comic WRITER, a comic ARTIST, or as BOTH.

The idea is to pair writers and artists with each other as a “blind date”, and then they are to create a valentines day comic (including single panels) in time for Valentine’s day. We will, in turn, link to all completed products on our site, to where ever the artist/writer teams post theirs.

We tried something similar with the Webcomic Secret Santa, and I would like to find more seasonal art exchanges, or other projects like this throughout the year!

Please email us by JANUARY 27th, 2012, indicating that you are a Writer, Artist, or if you can do either (this will help in the imbalance of entries). Also include if you have any restrictions (such as you can’t work over a PG rating, etc), or any other sort of things you want us to take into consideration. The idea is that the writer would write the comic (or single panel), and the artist would draw it. In the end you will have to work together. We will announce and post the pairings on the website, and also will like the links to the final products in time for Valentine’s Day!

Spring 2012 Giveaway

We’ve got more comics to review and giveaway, so we decided to attempt to do seasonal giveaways! Right now, we for sure have one big prize for Spring 2012. The way to enter, multiple times, is almost the same as before. More infomation can be found at WebcastBeacon.com/giveaway. It still includes cover art, link referrals, and voicemail as entry possibilities.

Again, people can submit print comics for review and/or giveaways to:

Fesworks, LLC
P.O. Box 22181
Robbinsdale, MN 55422

You may feel free to email us any questions.

Right now, the prizes currently include:

Family Bones – Volumes 1 & 2
►Both Books as One Prize

The Boobles: Melon – Volume 1 Package
►Breast Cancer Charity Music Parody CD

Webcomic Beacon Newscast to Merge with Webcomic Beacon

Apparently… The Webcomic Beacon Newscast RSS feed has not been working. I am going to attempt to meld BOTH of the feeds of The Webcomic Beacon and The Webcomic Beacon Newscast into a single feed. I am hoping that this will allow listeners to get the best offerings of The Webcomic Beacon in a single RSS and iTunes feed offering (though I recommend people subscribe to the MASTER RSS or MASTER iTUNES feeds, and get all of our programming).

I may or may not do this with The Webcomic Beacon Presents: First Issue. Depending on how The Webcomic Beacon Newscast and Core program work out together (along with the coding on the website), will determine how things will move forward from here. Both shows are still their distinct shows, so programming will not change at all because of these. We will be interested in listener feedback on this move, as well.