WATCHMEN tidbit
Press tour for THE HEARTBREAK KID remake (why God???????) provides opportunity for Silk Spectre Malin Ackerman to discuss role:
UGO: Malin, can you talk about...
To Do tonight, Brooklyn: SHORTCOMINGS release party
Wednesday, October 3rd @ 7PM
ADRIAN TOMINE - SHORTCOMINGS *Release Party
BookCourt- 163 Court Street Brooklyn
Details here.
PS: More Adrian Tomine interviewing at Gothamist:
Having lived and worked...
Kids WB is no more
Various news sources are reporting that The CW is ending the Kids WB! Saturday morning programming block, instead licensing it out to 4Kids, which...
A little more REPTILIA
Manga for the rest of us: IDW previews Umezu's REPTILIA. Much more in link.
Drawn & Quarterly is opening a store!
Details via the D&Q blog -- apparently it is the kind of place where a golden afternoon light always shines, as earnest folk in...
Umezu at IDW
Freaky manga-ka legend Kazuo Umezu is getting another shot in America via REPTILIA, due this October from IDW, which is making its first foray...
Viz and Naruto top charts
Viz sends out PR trumpeting the success of their "Naruto Nation" event -- NARUTO is 1, 2 and 3 on the Bookscan GN schart:
VIZ...
Rugg and Maruca on Brother Voodoo
Proof there is a god of Comics as the Street Angel team reunites for a Brother Voodoo comic. While the LJ entry teases a...
Adrian Tomine talks and talks
In advance of the release of SHORTCOMINGS this week (release party Wednesday in Brooklyn) Adrian Tomine has several new interviews online, including this one...
Rotterdam joins DC
Quite a big hire at DC, as Steve Rotterdam is appointed Sr. VP of Sales and Marketing. Perusing the press release, Rotterdam comes more...
Sad day: Biel backs out of Wonder Woman
Sad news for Beat readers over the weekend:EW.com reported that Jessica Biel as Wonder Woman is a no-go:
EW has learned that actress Jessica Biel...
JLA movie details
Patrick over at UGO has various script leaks on the suddenly fast-tracked JLA movie:
Ever since the JLA movie was announced people have been wondering...
