SDCC ’17: Factory Entertainment Weathers the Toy Exclusives War on the Exhibit Floor
Just like the fortified walls of Mordor, one doesn’t simply walk through the San Diego Comic-Con exhibit floor. If you find yourself however either...
SDCC ’17: Getting Pretty and Becoming a Unicorn at Hasbro’s Brand Preview Breakfast
Hasbro is without a doubt one of the toy juggernauts at San Diego Comic-Con, having a fairly-large slice of the collectible’s market. Just look...
SDCC ’17: Does a Lack of Upcoming Movie Merchandise Say Anything for DC Collectibles?
On preview night of the widely hyped San Diego Comic-Con, DC Collectibles kicked off with a soiree of food, booze, and industry chatter. Some...
Gigantic Hasbro Decepticon Transformer Revealed and more on The Beat’s (Sort of) Weekly Funko...
After this weekend’s 2017 Toy Fair, ours and many other website have been a flutter with toy news. With such heavy internet traffic, there...
ReedPOP and CGC to team up at C2E2 and ECCC
Certified Guaranty Company (CGC) will now be the official onsite comic grading service for the ReedPOP shows Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) and...
Image/Skybound offer B&W Lying Cat statue for Local Comic Shop Day
Local Comic Shop Day will be held this year on November 19th, offering exclusives and another chance for comics shops to promote themselves as...
SDCC 2016: DC Collectibles Round-Up – The Rise of the Wonder Woman!
By Nicholas Eskey
I didn’t need to attend this year’s DC Collectibles' Press Room to know that this is an exciting year for both DC...
The Beat’s Weekly Toy Review/Preview: Many things POPPING in June
By: Nicholas Eskey
Welcome back boys and girls to another exciting installment of the Beat’s Weekly Toy Review/Preview! Since there is just too many toys...
The Beat’s Weekly Toy Review & Preview!
By: Nicholas Eskey
Welcome back to another exciting episode of “The Beat’s Weekly Toy Review & Preview! We have a humdinger of an episode today...
The Beat’s Weekly Toy Preview!
By Nicholas Eskey
Welcome back fellow toy-o-philes to another weekly(ish) installment of my favorite picks for newly released or soon to be released nerdy toys....
The Beat’s Weekly Toy Review!
By: Nicholas Eskey
Every week, companies announce new, nerdy toys that threaten to drain our bank accounts and fill every spare inch on our shelves....
You are your environment: Louise Bourgeois, Julia Wertz and the eternal mini-comic problem
Storage: the secret shame of the comics world. Like many in the comics industry I'm a bit of a packrat (to put it mildly)...
