RIP: Ricardo Montalban
In a day that has sent pop culture fans reeling, we've also lost Ricardo Montalban. Best known as the white-suited smoothie from Fantasy Island,...
RIP: Patrick McGoohan
The Beat will surely have more on this later, given her love of the Prisoner. This is just a newsflash until she posts later.
The...
Meet the Elite Beat Squad: Paul O’Brien
Our Elite Beat Squad spotlight week continues with implacable Paul O'Brien Best known in these parts for charting Marvel Comics sales (which he has...
Pat Johnson takes over Pantheon
Following the layoff of Pantheon publisher Janice Goldklang last week, Random House's Knopf division has completed its reorganization, Jim Milliot reports. Pat Johnson, formerly...
Marvel announces THE STAND gn is direct sales only
After getting some brickbats for shortages of the Obama Spidey comic, Marvel did something yesterday that made comics retailers very, very happy, by announcing...
Watchmen watch: Oh, I wouldn’t want to be Larry Gordon
Even as negotiations between Fox and Warner Bros over the rights to WATCHMEN tootle along, Warners is busy planning several things. One of them,...
Earth-2 is doing fine; Willingham responds
We're sorta pressed for time today because of a conflicting deadline but wanted to draw your attention to two comments, in case you didn't...
Meet the Elite Beat Squad: Marc-Oliver Frisch
Continuing our spotlight on our valued collaborators here at The Beat, today we spotlight Marc-Oliver Frisch, who reecently moved to Boise (from his native...
Recession Watch: Trouble at comics retail
The LA Daily News profiles Earth-2 Comics in Sherman Oaks, and reports that sales are definitely down:
In the year leading up to its...
Fox and Warners making nice over WATCHMEN
To the surprise of few but the relief of many, it appears that Fox and Warners are hashing out this WATCHMEN thing, as...
Rickey being Rickey: the greatest of all time
Congratulations to Rickey Henderson, arguably the greatest lead-off hitter of all time, on his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame today.
As someone who...
Meet the Elite Beat Squad: Mark Coale
As we get 2009 rolling, we thought it would be nice to learn a little bit more about the Elite Beat Squad of writers...
