AT&T to buy Time Warner for $80 Billion
The fast developing deal for AT&T to buy Time Warner is about to be announced, according to the Wall Street Journal. It's the largest media deal since Comcast purchased Universal in 2011 and represents another key moment in an era of vast media conglomeration.
RIP Preacher co-creator Steve Dillon
https://twitter.com/glyn_dillon/status/789834909376479232
I've never been so devastated to write a post here at The Beat.
Confirmed by his brother, artist Steve Dillon has passed away at...
6 Days of Bait: Marc Scheff, how to color a rug.
What's up everybody! Welcome to a very special series you'll only get to see here on The Beat. We're days away from Dark Horse...
6 Days of BAIT: Kirbi Fagan, an unexpected shining moment in life and literature.
What's up everybody! Welcome to a very special series you'll only see here on The Beat. We're days away from Dark Horse publishing the enigmatic Chuck...
Meg Lemke joins Illustrated PEN as guest editor
PEN America is a literary organization devoted to freedom of expression, and last year they launched Illustrated PEN, which features "fiction and nonfiction...
Marvel’s ResurrXion for Iceman, Weapon X, Jean Grey and Generation X
Marvel's been rolling out teasers for yet another eventish kind of thing due in 2017 and this time it's the merry mutants who are...
Valiant reveals Harbingers Wars 2 is coming
One of Valiant's big fall releases is Harbinger Renegades by Rafer Roberts and Darick Robertson, widely teased as "Jack Kirby's Trainspotting." But what you...
Riri’s no-no: Marvel gets schooled on teen fashion and sexualization
There was a kerfuffle yesterday! Over this J. Scott Campbell variant cover to Invincible Iron Man #1. The books stars new character Riri Williams,...
The LOGAN trailer takes us into Wolverine’s future
The first trailer for the latest (and possibly last?) Wolverine solo adventure is here
New Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 teaser trailer just revealed and I got...
https://www.youtube.com/embed/2WhQcK-Zaok
Damn.
I did not know I missed these guys so much. This teaser footage passed the "Single tear rolling down my cheek" threshhold set by the...
Slapstick gets his own digital first comic from van Lente and Brown
Yesterday I mentioned Marvel's push for a new geeneration of male characters like Solo, Thrasher and Mosaic. Slapstick, a Deadpooliverse character whose power is be a clown...
31 Days of Halloween: Lester Fenton And The Walking Dead by Kyle Baker
Kyle Baker is well into the spirit of the season with Lester Fenton And The Walking Dead, a standalone graphic novel with a timeless...
