DC answers “After WATCHMEN, what’s next?”
In a nod to capitalizing on Google searches if nothing else, DC has unveiled a plan for giving newbies who enjoyed WATCHMEN a place...
It’s beginning to look a lot like WATCHMEN
Living in an urban area as does The Beat, it's been impossible to miss the WATCHMEN posters and neon signs and promotions popping up...
Nation’s headline writers ga-ga for Batwoman!
What is it about DC's Batwoman character that headline writers just seem to adore? Take a single bare AP story about Kathy Kane taking...
Forewarned is forearmed
If you're one of the folks traipsing out to your local comics store to get the first part of the Neil Gaiman-written, Andy Kubert-drawn...
DC Month to Month Sales: December 2008
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
The question whether the economy has any effect on DC Comics' periodical output is increasingly difficult to answer. On the one hand,...
The Art of the Watchmen
UGO has posted some exclusive images from Art of The Watchmen, a coffee table book produced by Titan Books. We've seen a copy, and...
Kyle Baker is drawing HAWKMAN
Does Baker draw like this just to make other people feel bad?
The curious case of Wonder Woman
Dr K looks at the quirks of early Wonder Woman comics history.
Recession Watch: MAD goes quarterly
If you've been following along at home today with our news stream, the announcement that MAD Magazine is going quarterly will not be such...
DC layoffs include Schreck
The Beat has confirmed that DC Senior Editor Bob Schreck was laid off yesterday. Other layoffs, expected in the wake of Warner Brothers' companywide...
Cool looking books: MYSTERIUS THE UNFATHOMABLE #1
DC previews a new WildStorm miniseries, MYSTERIUS THE UNFATHOMABLE, by Jeff Parker and Tom Fowler:
The solicitation for the issue reads: "Will all patrons...
WATCHMEN suit settled
White flag! Warring studios Fox and Warners have released a statement:
"Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox have resolved their dispute regarding the rights...











