The Beat’s Guide to Avoiding the DC SPOILER
Oh no! Spoilers have escaped onto the internet once more, this time for a DC title of some kind! How can you avoid reading...
DC Announced Its Latest Character Death in the NY Post (Spoilers)
Once again, the death of a major comic book hero is announced to the world via a newspaper before the book is on sale...
The Beat’s Annual Guide to Winning the Oscar® Pool: Best Animated Shorts 2013
So, once again, Hollywood confabulates and celebrates the best of motion picture arts and sciences tonight, at the 85th Academy Awards. Among the many...
Poisoned Chalice Part 3: Marvelman Falls
Poisoned Chalice Part 3:
Marvelman Falls
The actual work on the Marvelman titles was done by various artists, and Mick Anglo goes into quite a bit...
Matthew Vaughn Now Producing The New Fantastic Four Movie
In a development that's not wholly unexpected, but certainly welcome, it seems Matthew Vaughn has joined the team for Fox's rebooting of the Fantastic...
2012 L.A. Times Book Prize graphic novel finalists announced
Earlier this week, the L.A. Times Book Prize finalists were announced, including five in the graphic novel category:
Graphic Novel/Comics
Alison Bechdel / Are You My Mother?...
REVIEW: A Driven Man in BALTIMORE: THE WIDOW AND THE TANK
Lord Henry Baltimore, Vampire Hunter, is more strictly speaking the hunter of a specific vampire, as THE WIDOW AND THE TANK one-shot reminds us....
You Can Never Be Me: Bat-tales from Patrick Kyle
You Can Never Be Me by Patrick Kyle
There's a meme (as I believe they're called) that I see cropping up fairly regularly in my...
Kick-Watcher: Not-for-profit inspirational Batman documentary
Brett Culp kick-starts his Batman inspired not-for-profit documentary, Legends of the Knight. Culp that features interviews from everyone's favorite industry Bat-fans, and powerful everyday people that use their enthusiasm to be active in their communities and overcome extreme hardship.
DC is hiring a new bigwig
Specifically...a Senior Vice President, Sales & Business Development. Despite what it sounds like, the position doesn't seem to be replacing EVP Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development John Rood or SVP Sales Bob Wayne and is a new position.
Diamond’s Digital Previews – Could It Make Any Less Sense?
I just don't think Diamond gets digital. They're trying, but they keep throwing some really odd things out there. This latest bit has me...
Manning and Finger Award nominations are open
If you're into writers of the past and present or cartoonists of the future, here's your chance to help honor someone in either category. Both the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing
-- which recognizes comics writers past and present -- and the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award -- which recognizes a new artist who is, uh, promising -- are open for nominations. Both awards and finalists are chosen by juries, but they accept nominees.























