Still on the road
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Will it never end? Actually, YES! Home tonight for good.
Continue ReadingLost: Recon
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Beat (and FMB, did you buy your copy of CHOKER yet?) is still on the road and the helper monkey was stuck at work after a weekend at Spring Training, so your Lost analysis will be a little late. Feel free to use this post as a virtual water cooler to [...]
Continue ReadingEXCLUSIVE: Twilight the Graphic Novel art preview
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Today’s a red letter day as Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 goes on sale. Written by Stephenie Meyer and adapted by Young Kim, the book has a 350,000 initial print run and could just be this year’s WATCHMEN in the graphic novel category. Publisher Yen Press graciously supplied us with [...]
Continue ReadingKirby heirs sue for copyright
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet As revealed yesterday, the family of Jack Kirby has officially filed a lawsuit seeking to regain the copyright of the Marvel characters he co-created, including The FF, Thor, Iron Man, the Hulk, Spider-Man, Ant-Man, Nick Fury and The Avengers. The entire complaint is available here. The move comes after a series of [...]
Continue ReadingThe Awesome world of comics
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhile Beat postings have been scarcer than hairs on Scatman Crothers’ dome, we’ve been immersed in the Homeland of Comics, aka Stumptown, aka Portland, OR. Although our time here is brief, we’ve already seen Periscope, Powell’s and Bendis. Unfortunately internet access has been spotty and time brief. So…with no further ado… [...]
Continue ReadingA Beat Exclusive Investigation: Male Slave Leia revealed
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet After an intensive investigation, The Beat has been able to obtain this exclusive photo of the Male Slave Leia who entranced the comics blogosphere over the weekend. As you can see, while not dressed as Slave Leia, the subject enjoys sunsets, long walks on the beach, and collecting comic books. Technorati Tags: [...]
Continue ReadingTraveling music, please
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe are on the road YET AGAIN, so please bear with us. Just a few quick notes, while we cue the montage: • The Emerald City ComiCon was awesome, with a capital AWE. Attendance was up 40 percent from last year, and everyone was having a good time and selling comics. We’ll [...]
Continue ReadingECCC: “Hack/Slash” Moves To Image
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAt this weekend’s Image Comics panel, Tim Seeley announced that his popular HACK/SLASH comic is moving from Devil’s Due to Image: Tim Seeley: Well, at a certain point, it became pretty clear that the pretty well [publicized] financial problems DDP was having weren’t going to help me get my book [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — 3-15-10
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet § DETECTIVE COMICS by Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III has won the GLAAD Media Award in the comics category. The awards celebrate strong portrayals of LGBT characters in the media, and DETECTIVE features the lesbian Batwoman. Congrats. § Meanwhile, Colleen Doran posts a few pages from her shocking comic [...]
Continue ReadingECCC panel roundup
Share this link on Facebook!TweetVarious news from various panels here in Seattle: At the West Coast DC Nation panel, the death of Speedy’s daughter Lian in CRY FOR JUSTICE was discussed. James Robinson: “That decision [was] a controversial and one that I know has been greeted with some displeasure by some people… I’m sorry if it upset [...]
Continue ReadingMegaCon news: Palmiotti/Gray/Conner leave POWER GIRL
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Over in Florida, comics news out of MegaCon has been pretty sparse. In fact, Dan DiDio had to add Black Canary and Green Arrow cosplayers up to fill out his DC Nation panel. Okay, we’re kidding, but not too much newsworthy stuff came out of the panel except for the fact [...]
Continue ReadingECCC: BOOM! gets Darkwing
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet ’90s nostalgia is rampant at BOOM! Studios, as Ian Brill and James Silvani are teaming for a four-issue miniseries featuring Darkwing Duck, Disney’s superheroic anatid from 1991. A spin-off of the popular Duck Tales cartoon, Darkwing, his daughter Goslyn, and sidekick Launchpad faced such villains as Megavolt, Negaduck and Quackerjack [...]
Continue ReadingEmerald City Comicon unfolds; three days in 2011; Jet City launches
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet As the above twitpic from BackRoomComics shows, by 8 am, there was already a healthy line of people lined up to get in this year’s Emerald City ComiCon, and all signs point to a pretty busy show. (We’ll hit the floor as soon as this goes up!)
Continue ReadingSome Diamond books going back on sale at Amazon; worries remain
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAmazon is quietly adding buy buttons for some books distributed by Diamond Book Distributors; the rollout seems to include several Marvel books that are on pre-order, such as Uncanny X-Men: Nation X, Book 1 by Matt Fraction, the X-Men: Inferno Crossovers HC by a $75 collection reprinting a plethora of Inferno-related [...]
Continue Reading2010 Doug Wright Award nominees announced
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe 2010 nominees for the prestigious Doug Wright awards, honoring the best in Canadian comics, were announced earlier today. The awards will be presented at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Sat. May 8, at 7 pm at the Toronto Reference Library’s new Bram & Bluma Appel Salon. The Doug Wright [...]
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