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Studio Coffee Run 9/28/12: Looper, The Walking Dead, Thor: The Dark World, etc.

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Looper is already killing it with the critics, Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore reach an undisclosed settlement concerning Moore's involvement with The Walking Dead,...

As Editor Brian Smith leaves DC, we learn you can’t spell schadenfreude without “Liefeld”

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Former Marvel and now DC editor Brian Smith tweeted the other day that he was moving on to go back to his freelance work. Which is a fairly normal occurrence. Except when not long ago, the one and only Rob Liefeld was tweeting that you were a horrible editor and had small appendages. And so Smith's departure was the occasion for another Liefeld broadside:

Gillen and McKelvie Roundup

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By Steve Morris Artist Jamie McKelvie and writer Kieron Gillen have taken the spotlight today, with several pieces of news - both good and bad...

Introducing The New Beat—and a request

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A few people miss the all-in-one page layout—I think it's possible to create a page that presents it all in this fashion and in the next round of tinkers I'll look into that. ... Of course we'll be presenting as much top notch content, breaking news, thought provoking analysis and pictures of lovable kittens to earn these social media thumbs ups, but all of it will definitely help the site recover from the dark old days.

Legendary Spotlight: Matt Wagner on developing THE TOWER CHRONICLES

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[Multiple Eisner Award winning cartoonist  Matt Wagner has long been known for his sure hand with adventure comics; the breadth of imagination for his signature creations Mage and Grendel and his distinctive re-imaginings of Batman in various titles over the years. Now he's imagining for the first time John Tower, a new character created by Legendary Pictures studio head Thomas Tull and debuting this week as part of the new Legendary Comics line. THE TOWER CHRONICLES: GEISTHAWK #1 is being published in the "prestige" format—a squarebound 64 page comics—well-known to 90s comics readers but not much used today. But it seems appropriate for the story that Wagner is telling, along with artist Simon Bisley inker Rodney Ramos and colorist Ryan Brown. In the following interview Wagner walks us through the process of developing John Tower and talks about his entire approach to making comics. We previously talked to Legendary's COO Tim Connors here. ]

The Beat HAS moved!

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Yay we made it to the other side. And we have KITTENS.

The Beat is moving

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Yes, at long last the great migration is under way. We'll resume posting when the coast is clear. In the meantime DO NOT POST...

Notes from Stately Beat Manor and the Brooklyn Book Festival

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Just some housekeeping. § We may actually get getting the new server and stable Wordpress installation this week. Fingers crossed. Any day now. We'll have...

Legendary Spotlight: Behind the scenes with Legendary Comics' COO Tim Connors

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In Hollywood today there's no name bigger in than Legendary Entertainment. Founded by in 2000, it's the studio behind Inception, The Hangover franchise, and the Clash of the Titans movies—but more to the point, its comic book movie line-up includes the hit 300, Superman Returns, Watchmen and the multi-billion dollar Batman trilogy by Christopher Nolan. With a 40-picture deal with WB in place, Legendary has established itself as THE comic book movie studio for Warners, with next year's Superman reboot also coming out from Legendary. It's not too surprising, considering founder Tull's nerd cred. A certified comics fan, Tull has been building a "Tull-i-verse" of geek-centric projects, from co-producing Morgan Spurlock's Comic-Con documentary and the book tie-in, to buying the Nerdist family of sites, newsletters and podcasts. And of course, there's Legendary Comics.

Greg Rucka Gets Increasingly Candid About Work For Hire Conditions, Debunks Another Myth

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By Todd Allen In a rare instance of a DC/Marvel creator being candid about how they perceive the environment, Greg Rucka has given something very...

Adam Kubert: The Kubert School is still going strong

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A nice interview today with Adam Kubert on the subject of the future of the Kubert School, following the death of founder Joe Kubert on August 12.

2012 Shuster Award Winners

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The 2012 Joe Shuster Awards, honoring the best in Canadian comics, were handed out on Saturday, September 15th at the Montreal Comic-Con. Jason Rockman and Catherine Smith-Desbiens handed out the awards--check the link for jury comments on the winners.

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