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Tax experts H&R Block hired artist Ron Randall to examine the fiscal profiles of both Bruce Wayne and Peter Parker and the answer MAY surprise you...but not if you read the news.

We told you a little while ago that Filip Sablik had left Top Cow, and now it's revealed that he's joined BOOM! Studios as VP of Publishing and Marketing. CBR does his intro interview:

Sigh. The Harvey Awards. Well there was no Nascar Racer nominated multiple times, but when an issue of Zorro is nominated for best story and Jaime Hernandez's "The Love Bunglers" isn't...well, you lose some faith in your fellow humans.

It's time for the 2012 Harvey Awards voting. Get your ballot at http://www.harveyawards.org. Ballots are due on August 17th and the awards are given out at the Baltimore Comic-Con on September 8th. The nominations list follows. (I guess Nick Bradshaw must not be getting any love for his Army of Darkness run back from ~'04-'05, since he's nominated for "MOST PROMISING NEW TALENT.)"

It's time for the 2012 Harvey Awards voting. Get your ballot at http://www.harveyawards.org. Ballots are due on August 17th and the awards are given out at the Baltimore Comic-Con on September 8th. The nominations list follows. (I guess Nick Bradshaw must not be getting any love for his Army of Darkness run back from ~'04-'05, since he's nominated for "MOST PROMISING NEW TALENT.)"

Via PR, some info on this year's Eisner Award ceremony, including the fact that the event will start one half-hour earlier than usual, at 8 pm, meaning the ceremony should wrap up before 11 pm. Presenters include Jonathan Ross, whose making out with Neil Gaiman a few years provided perhaps the best Eisner ceremony moment ever. This year's fest is being sponsored by Syfy, meaning we'll probably see the stars of some Syfy show presenting an award or two.

The nominees for this year's Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailing award have been revealed and they are as follows:

After teases over the last few weeks, details on the new Monkeybrain Comics imprint from Chris Roberson and Allison Baker have been announced. The line launches on July 4th with five titles: Aesop’s Ark by J. Torres and Jennifer L. Meyer Amelia Cole and the Unknown World by Adam P. Knave, DJ Kirkbride and Nick Brokenshire Bandette by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover Edison Rex by Chris Roberson and Dennis Culver October Girl by Matthew Dow Smith The line will be distributed digitally, exclusively with ComiXology. As Roberson explained in a press conference this afternoon, it's essentially an Image Comics like deal: Monkeybrain will take a small cut for packing and marketing, but all copyright will remain with the creators. According to Roberson, the line is very focused on completely creator owned projects. "Neither writer or artist can be working in a work for hire capacity. We do ask the projects that come to us if it's a collaborative team, that everyone share share some level of ownership in the property."

In a surprise move, Tony Daniel announced his exit from Detective Comics over on his Facebook account. Why is this so surprising? If you look at the May sales estimates, Detective Comics #9 is sitting at 96K copies. Easily over 100K if you factor in UK sales. If you ignore the Batman Annual, it's DC's #4 title. Batman, Incorporated looks to have outsold it by 470 copies in the US, so there's a decent chance it will be DC's #3 title when the July numbers come out. OK, so you do have some "Night of the Owls" boost going on right now. It's been the #5 book for DC most of the time. That's a big change on a pretty successful title.

In a surprise move, Tony Daniel announced his exit from Detective Comics over on his Facebook account. Why is this so surprising? If you look at the May sales estimates, Detective Comics #9 is sitting at 96K copies. Easily over 100K if you factor in UK sales. If you ignore the Batman Annual, it's DC's #4 title. Batman, Incorporated looks to have outsold it by 470 copies in the US, so there's a decent chance it will be DC's #3 title when the July numbers come out. OK, so you do have some "Night of the Owls" boost going on right now. It's been the #5 book for DC most of the time. That's a big change on a pretty successful title.

Tally ho and chocks away to a new awards ceremony celebrating British comics! God Save The Queen!

All the apologies in the world for today's Beat outage. I finally figured out how to get it back online. Our Elite Tech Team is working on a more secure and long-lasting solution but in the meantime, Python, Apache, and MySQL are refusing to play nice. Man, I missed the Beat. It was scary not having it around.