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As a daily reporter on the nerd media for over a decade, sometimes The Beat likes to sit back and take it all in. And of late there have been some telling moves that show how the nerd media/new media is putting the boots to the old media that STILL just Doesn't Get It. First there's l'afffair Geoff Boucher. Boucher, one of the LA Times top entertainment reporters launched his Hero Complex blog in 2008, at the tale end of the Golden Age of Blogging.

So Amethyst is finally back! I admit this fantasy saga of a 13-year-old girl who finds she actually a princess of Gemworld was one...

NOBODIES vol. 2 is the most auspicious comic book project to grace Kickstarter. By: Henry Barajas Project: NOBODIES, Volume 2 Talent/Project Manager: Victor Ochoa Days to Go: 13 Goal: $3,000 The spiel:...

By Steve Morris We've only one more week until Avengers Vs X-Men concludes with issue #12 of the mega-event. Have you been following along? Don't...

While there is a certain dodginess that makes linking to this feel a little weird, I found this listing for a liquidation center's comic...

While visiting New York, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez made a pilgrimage to the birthplace of Jack Kirby at 147 Essex St. and the result...

By Todd Allen If you were planning on hitting the Las Vegas Comic Expo next weekend, you need to go to a different address.  Vegas...

By Todd Allen In a rare instance of a DC/Marvel creator being candid about how they perceive the environment, Greg Rucka has given something very...

France and its overseas postings remain on watch after the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published cartoons about the prophet Mohammed yesterday. With the Islamic world already on edge over a mysterious US-made YouTube video, the cartoons were expected to perhaps ignite more violence:

As long as we're rolling out all our Con Wars stories, here's one that's confirmed from multiple sources: part of the stipulation for WWE wrestlers to appear at Wizard World shows is for TNA wrestlers NOT to appear. Lisa Marie Varon talks about this in the above video, saying she was set to appear at Wizard World Chicago, but was called and told not to come at the last minute. Varon wrestled in the WWE as Victoria, and currently appears in TNA as Tara.

By Todd Allen The December solicitations for Marvel are out, and while you've read a lot of the Marvel Now announcements, there's still a few...

By Todd Allen You might have heard there was a Hobbit movie coming out in December?  Peter Jackson returning his director's gaze to Middle-Earth?  It...