This and that
§ Chris Butcher is on a tear this week, first with a calling-a-spade-a-spade . post
So yeah, most of the 3300 graphic novels released in...
BONE to Warner Bros.
Jeff Smith's BONE has been picked up for development by Dan Lin, who is also working on the JUSTICE LEAGUE movie. This paragraph should...
Snaked goes to Hollywood
SNAKED, a mini series by Clifford Meth and Rufus Dayglo, published by IDW, is the latest comic to get an option, with producer Richard...
LOST: Romeo and Juliet
Juliet's romantic history is not to the only Shakespeare connection in this week's episode. More after the jump.
There's also The Tempest station.
Meanwhile, it's still...
WOLVERINE update: Schreiber, Jackman
Sleb photo site Just Jared has a jillion photos of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and Liev Schreiber as Sabretooth.
Above, Schreiber wonders why all...
The littlest Batman
Victoria "Posh" Beckham leads youngest son Cruz off to a birthday party for big brother Brooklyn the other day.
Brit creator sold it all to WB, regrets it later
And it's not Alan Moore! It seems Simon Pegg is upset that McG is planning an American remake of their classic Britcom SPACED...
Saul Bass vs Star Wars
http://www.youtube.com/v/z25t-PQDn5A
We're reasonably sure that the highly erudite folks who read The Beat get this joke, but just to give a little background, Bass was...
The troops live under the canon’s thunder
The whole bookscan/genre debate marches on, and Chris Mautner somehow reintroduces the canon debate into the mix. The link is a round-up of other...
School Library Journal graphic novel section
School Library Journal is a magazine aimed at...school librarians. It just had a big cover ppackage on graphic novels which you can read online,...
FREDDIE & ME update
Mike Dawson's FREDDIE & ME, a graphic novel about growing up a Queen fan that artfully mixes autobiography and imaged biography, is coming out...
LOST: King Faraday
Yes, we know, it was a Desmond episode. But how to describe what happened to Desmond last night in a tease without giving anything...
