24 Hours of Halloween: Spooky music!
Yes it's the most magical time of the year, Halloween, which is a 24 hour tradition here at Stately Beat Manor. To get into...
Nice Art: AlphaBands by Ben Towle
Cartoonist/comics educator Ben Towle likes to take up half the year in alphabet themed art projects; once it was monsters then animals. This time...
Wanna listen to the Awesome Mix Vol 1 from Guardians of the Galaxy?
Perhaps no movie since the last Quentin Tarantino film has used familiar music as effectively to cue emotions as Guardians of The Galaxy. Starting...
Review: It’s time for Marvel ocarinas
Ocarinas aren't just for Zelda fans any more. St. Louis Ocarinas has released an officially licensed line of Marvel ocarinas in a variety of...
Listen to the soundtrack to Locas from Love and Rockets
Well, this is pretty near the second coolest thing that ever existed. Writer Gabe Soria figured out all the music that was ever mentioned...
Celebrate Torsten’s “Nerd Birthday” With His Crazy Party Favors!
Everyone has milestone events which they remember (or wish to forget). Some are small memories, like a first kiss, while others can be momentous...
RIP: Oderus Urungus
The Gwar frontman is dead at age 50. Gwar had a big comics crossover of inspiration and I know they played Comic-Con several times....
Ministry’s Al Jourgensen is writing a comic book
Al Jourgensen is back, and...he...he's writing a comic book. It will be drawn by Sam Shearon, a British artist who has worked on such comics as KISS and a 30 Days of Night spinoff but is best known for his album covers for such folk as Rammstein, Ministry, Rob Zombie, Iron Maiden, KISS, A Pale Horse Named Death and Fear Factory.
Mark the Tenth Birthday of ‘Hey Ya!’ with Peanuts
Joe Hughes points out the painful fact that Outkast's 'Hey Ya!', the song that led us from post 9/11 PTSD, that taught us how...
Avril Lavigne’s New Video Is The Best Comic of 2013
If Heidi is allowed to post about Lord of the Rings, then I'm allowed to write about my passions too, and of course by...
Run DMC’s Daryl McDaniels teams up with Bronze Age Great Sal Buscema…and that was...
Like many of the great rappers—and he is one of the old skool greats—Darryl "DMC" McDaniels grew up a big comics nerd. So after...
Henry and Glenn #1 sells 71,000 copies — to celebrate, here’s a preview of...
Tom Neely's HENRY & GLENN FOREVER is a reinvention—totally fictional—of two rock icons combined with some razor sharp cartooning and the result is a...














