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As one of the fruits of their huge Kickstarter campaign, the Penny Arcade folks have made Strip Search! which may finally be the comics competition TV show people have been expecting/dreading for a while. While the above link is a bit light on details, basically a bunch of webcomickers are thrown into a Seattle house and compete to draw the best comics. The contestants:

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1 http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1 Spoilers, I said, spoilers! As you may recall, in the last episode of the first half of the Walking Dead's third season ALL HELL...

In case you didn't get the memo, Warren Ellis's second novel is out tis week. It's called Gun Machine, and it's a dark story...

For everyone begging the Beat to do a podcast in our recent polls...I did another guest stint with Jimmy Aquino on Comic News Insider...

It seems appropriate to ring in the new year with a blue moon and a stork-bourne baby Smurf. THE BABY SMURF, including the title...

So as the new year approaches, I continue my look back at the graphic novels which made the New York Times bestseller lists in...

If you follow the television biz at all, you know that AMC's management has a tendency towards... shall we say, an overly active hand...

Wow, come crazy nutters spent four months and 4000 photos to make this action figure stop motion recreation of the 1992 X-men cartoon's opening....

Here's a new social media/commerce site that has an interface geared at people who collect: Hazarai!. Let's call it Etsy meets eBay for nerds—you...

Bluewater Productions, purveyor of the Female Force line of comics, which celebrates a wide variety of real life, strong female characters - from Sarah...

One of the great comics from the Plane of Limbo, The Fabulous Killjoys is finally coming out this June, with a Free Comic Book...

Warner Bros dumped a bunch of stills from 2013 movies the other day, including this first look at The Hobbit II: The Desolation of...