• Home
  • About
    • The Legend of Stately Beat Manor
    • Pale Green Pants Moment
    • The “Satisfying Chunk” Theory
  • Pick Heidi’s Brains!
  • Advertising
  • Contact Us
  • Resources
    • Information on How To Get Into Comics and Survive Once You’re There
    • Master Convention List
    • Tilting at Windmills Archive
    • Videos
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

The Beat

The News Blog of Comics Culture

  • Cartoonists
  • Conventions
  • News
  • Publishers
  • Showbiz
  • Sales Charts
  • Reviews
  • Video Games
You are here: Home / 2013 / Archives for January 2013

Archives for January 2013

Anxiety grows as Barnes & Noble announces closure of 200 stores over the next decade

01/28/2013 1:04 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Anxiety grows as Barnes & Noble announces closure of 200 stores over the next decade

Short version, the last remaining book retail giant plans to close as many as a third of its stores over a 10-year period—although that may be an optimistic projection, as well. Slowed by the rise of digital and a lack of new malls, B&N oipened only two stores in the last fiscal year, and it’s end of year profits were well below what was expected. While the Nook ereaders has been a bright spot, sales there have slowed as well. So a leaner meaner BN seems to be in the cards.

Filed Under: Books, Business News, Top News Tagged With: Books

X-FILES is back at IDW

01/28/2013 12:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

X-FILES is back at IDW

The 90s are out there, and Scully and Mulder are determined to find them. IDW will be relaunching the X-files franchise in comics form. The plan includes reprints of the original series that ran from 1995-2009, and a new series launching in June.

Filed Under: 90s Comics, IDW, Top News Tagged With: IDW

Boom launches THE REGULAR SHOW

01/28/2013 11:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Boom launches THE REGULAR SHOW

Close on the heel of the Adventure Time comic empire, Boom is striking again with a comics adaptation of The Regular Show, J.G. Quintel’s Cartoon Network hit about Mordecai and Rigby, a blue jay and raccoon trying to make their way in a crazy world. K.C. Green writes and Alison Strejlau draws.

Filed Under: Boom Studios, Kids' comics Tagged With: Boom, Boom Studios, Studios

New study shows that graphic novels really do help people learn

01/28/2013 9:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

New study shows that graphic novels really do help people learn

If there’s one trend we’ve noticed growing over the years its the use of graphic novels as teaching tools—on the must basic level, comics are now recognized as a way to get reluctant readers to get started reading. On a larger level, comics are being used as a general teaching tool. Josh Elder’s Reading with Pictures organization has been promoting this idea and cataloging the use of comics in the classroom. It’s not just the visceral appeal of colorful pictures that puts comics over—some think that the verbal-visual blend is the future of literacy, and comics could potentially be on the forefront of that.

Filed Under: Comics Still Wonderful In Spite Of It All, Literacy, Top News

Ant-Man and Doctor Strange movies are a whole Phase now

01/28/2013 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Ant-Man and Doctor Strange movies are a whole <em>Phase</em> now

It’s not that they weren’t go before, but now they ‘but now they even have a whole name: Marvel’s Phase Three, as Marvel studio head Kevin Feige told MTV:

Filed Under: Marvel, Movies, Top News Tagged With: Marvel, Movies

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits: 1/28/13 — Gay Dredd; Bad Cage; Sad Sex

01/28/2013 8:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits: 1/28/13 — Gay Dredd; Bad Cage; Sad Sex

§ Must Read: Tom Spurgeon catches up with First Second editor Calista Brill, whose essay on giving up on a comics career turned into a 10-alarm internet fire last week. Verbalizing these painful issues of a career in comics was something of a shock for many:

Filed Under: Kibbles 'n' Bits, News Tagged With: News

Review: Unfair from Monkeybrain Comics

01/27/2013 4:00 pm by Steve Morris

Review: Unfair from Monkeybrain Comics

Written by Vance Sumner, drawn by Sandy Jarrell. Published by Monkeybrain Comics. Steve Morrishttp://stardarkcity.wordpress.com/

Filed Under: Comics, Digital Comics, Reviews, Top Comics Tagged With: Digital Comics, Monkeybrain Comics, Reviews

Everything you always wanted to know about the X-Men: First Class story

01/27/2013 1:32 pm by Todd Alcott

Everything you always wanted to know about the <i>X-Men: First Class</i> story

X-Men: First Class does something I haven’t seen a superhero movie do before. It’s not just a period piece, that’s unusual enough, but it also places its fantastic characters, Gump-like, in the middle of historical fact. Captain America: The First Avenger, released concurrently, went back in time to place its difficult-to-like protagonist in his proper context, but then wove a fantastical story around him involving ancient Norse artifacts and a guy with no face. First Class not only places its characters in history, it puts them at the center of the darkest, most traumatic events of their time.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: jane goldman, Todd Alcott, X-Men First Class

Review: Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps #16

01/26/2013 4:00 pm by Steve Morris

Review: Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps #16

This week saw the release of Green Lantern #16 by Geoff Johns and Doug Mahnke, as well as Green Lantern Corps #16, by Peter Tomasi and Fernando Pasarin. The Green Lantern books are some of DC’s most popular, but recently seem to have fallen out of the spotlight, off doing their own thing while the […]

Filed Under: Comics, DC, Reviews, Top Comics Tagged With: DC, Doug Mahnke, Geoff Johns, Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps, Peter Tomasi, review

Review: The Answer #1

01/25/2013 4:00 pm by Steve Morris

Review: The Answer #1

We’ve all been enjoying Dennis Hopeless week, haven’t we? That time once a month where two of his books come out on the same day? Well just in case that wasn’t enough, it looks like Hopeless has decided to add another date to our calendar: Mike Norton week. Not only is Norton involved in drawing […]

Filed Under: Comics, Dark Horse, Reviews, Top Comics Tagged With: Dark Horse Comics, Dennis Hopeless, Mike Norton, Reviews

« Previous Page
Next Page »

HIVEWORKS

Our Sponsors

Load More...
Follow on Instagram

Hot Now!

  • This new Nancy strip is lit – and it’s got people on the internet going crazy
  • Amazon’s 99¢ Marvel Sale Appears To Be Over… But All Kinds of Questions Remain
  • SD Comic Fest 18’: Cultural Appropriation; When It Is and Is Not Done Right
  • Universal FanCon: Organizers Release Official Statement About Postponement
  • Breaking; Barnes & Noble is adding a kids graphic novel section
  • My MCU Rewatch: Guardians of the Galaxy Vols. 1 & 2 – When We Love Too Much

Search

CONTACT THE BEAT!!!

Send us news, tips and links!

Join our mailing list!

Sign up here for our very rare and special mailing list!
Text graphic for The Beat's Sales Chart archives
free comics, free comics on the beat, a year of free comics
artists you should know

Categories

Archives

Copyright © 2018 · News Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in