Best Comics of 2015
Posted by Panel Beats Team at 10:28 on 31 Dec 2015

Rather than doing a ranked countdown based on any kind of consensus, we've instead individually written about which books stood out for us this year. As ever, our tastes and consumption habits can vary hugely (although there is some crossover); and of course, we're aware that we don't necessarily cover the full spectrum of everything that was published across the industry in 2015. Nevertheless, if we've mentioned it below, then as far as this site's concerned, it was a highlight of our year - and is well worth checking out if you haven't already.
Comixology Sale Picks: Grant Morrison
Posted by Seb Patrick at 11:23 on 23 Oct 2015

Reviewing the Ultimate Universe
Posted by Seb Patrick at 10:35 on 30 Jun 2015

And so it seems as good a time as any to look back over the past decade-and-a-half of revamped, alternate-universe Marvel stories. And to do so in as much punishing detail as possible, by examining the merits of every single ongoing and mini series published under the imprint.
If you don't love The CW's Flash, you don't deserve good comic book adaptations
Posted by Seb Patrick at 13:39 on 12 Aug 2015
It is 2015, and it looks like we are basically getting a live-action adaptation of Flash of Two Worlds. Or at the very least, something heavily inspired by it. I can reasonably say without hyperbole that it doesn't get much better than this. 
Review: Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl #1
Posted by Seb Patrick at 10:12 on 07 Aug 2015

It's filled with incredibly striking imagery - and although the soft pencil lines look like no actual comic ever published (I've often wondered if the woman was actually meant to be the artist herself, looking at a rough draft of her own work), it's sort of surprising that in the thirty years since it was made, there hasn't been a single comic that's gone "Hey, this is an iconic pop culture image that plays with our form, we should try and make use of it somehow!"
Fortunately, Phonogram is back.
30 amazing Batman costumes only seen on action figures
Posted by Seb Patrick at 11:22 on 21 Apr 2014

Despite this obvious handicap, his popularity in plastic form is such that toy manufacturers have never been shy in coming up with wild, inventive and frequently batshit mental alternative costumes to flog to unsuspecting parents the world over. Here, then, are thirty particular favourites of ours...
Preacher Reading Guide
Posted by Seb Patrick at 12:27 on 16 Jun 2014

Phonomancy (or: Why Phonogram Matters) Part 2: Trying to Find the Perfect Match Between Pretentious and Pop
Posted by Seb Patrick at 16:00 on 16 Jun 2015

Five things that are great about that Supergirl promo
Posted by Seb Patrick at 12:04 on 14 May 2015

Nevertheless, it seems to serve as a pretty good indication of what the new Melissa Benoist-starring series (or, at the very least, its first episode) is going to be like... and it's a very encouraging one, for this Supergirl fan at least. Here are five things that particularly jumped out as giving us reason for enthusiasm...
DC's Convergence: A Character Primer (in 40 Comics)
Posted by Seb Patrick at 21:44 on 30 Mar 2015

Unfortunately, said sale basically just consists of the assorted miniseries - Crisis on Infinite Earths, Zero Hour, Flashpoint and so on - in which said reboots have occurred, along with a couple of New 52-era minis that set up some of the plot of Convergence itself. So none of them are really much help if you want to get a handle on the old incarnations of characters that will suddenly start appearing for two-issue minis in April and May. And that's where we come in. Instead of giving you a guide to which of the previous crossovers are worth buying, we've gone through every single one of the upcoming miniseries and picked a single, individual comic you can buy digitally that we feel in some way introduces, encapsulates, or otherwise explains the character. And yes, we even got one for Hawkman.