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by Leo McGovern, Crescent City Comics Growing up, I wasn’t very good at complicated Math. I’ve got the basics, I can balance a checkbook and...

And speaking of sales, Variety reports that news of the upcoming Batman/Superman movie has spiked sales of Frank Miller’s ‘Batman: The Dark Knight Returns’,...

As it's the time of the month when he sales charts come out, usually someone stands up and says "WHY ARE THERE NO DIGITAL CHARTS?!??!?" and it's true, we don't know the numbers, but it's easy to make a snapshot chart from the top in-app purchases and other automatically generated lists. Brigid Alverson has been doing just that n a weekly basis for Good E-Reader

Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi...

I've just been looking through the DC solicitations for November, but suddenly stopped in awe as I came across Harley Quinn #0. The first...

Unexpectedly, Vertigo have today explained through MTV Geek that Simon Oliver and Robbi Rodriguez's (excellent) new series Collider is due to change its title....

DC is in a weird place right now. You can practically watch the publisher's retail and talent relations take a nose-dive on the Internet. Just last week, retailers Brian Hibbs and Leo McGovern called DC out on its handling of a line-wide publishing stunt in August; a "head of DC Comics" was quoted as admitting that his target audience are "45-year-olds"; popular artist Kevin Maguire announced on Twitter that he'd been "just fired" from an upcoming DC title, asked for work -- and was hired, lickety-split, by a gleeful Marvel editor in chief a few hours later; and the brave souls who read the actual comics that somehow still get made, published and sold in this environment conclude that everything kinda reads the same at DC.

As we enter into the third month of the post-Geoff Johns world of Green Lantern, it's time to take a look at where the...

Kevin Maguire is an artist who had several defining runs on comics over the years. Back in the late 80s he helped relaunch JUSTICE...

by Leo McGovern, Crescent City Comics Greetings and salutations, Beat-readers! My name is Leo McGovern and I manage a comic shop in New Orleans, Louisiana...

This news has been buzzing around for a bit and was apparently a topic of some discussion at this weekend's Boston Comic-Con, but now...

Well. when he isn't talking about how to deal with rejection, it turns out Evan Dorkin and partner Sarah Dyer have been writing some...