Stephen King to the rescue
Marvel has released a media blitz in advance of the February 7th release of the first issue of DARK TOWER, the Stephen King-inspired mini-series. First came the exciting news that King will be a...
Stardust pics! Coraline GN!
You may have seen all this already, but there are some pics from Stardust online. You'll recall this is the film version of the Neil Gaiman novel, illustrated by Charles Vess. Michelle Pfeiffer in...
Friendly giant towers over superhero
We know all Beat readers were gladdened by the heart warming story of the world's tallest man, 7 foot 8 inch Bao Xishun, getting called in to save some gluttonous dolphins. The finny...
Alex Ross on gay characters
Thanks to the blogosphere, it's getting so you can't get away with ANYTHING. In a recent interview at Wizard, Alex Ross had some comments about the gay character Obsidian, that some construed as anti-gay,...
“Anti-gay” writer takes on gay superhero
The blogosphere has a new talking point as the news that Chuck Dixon is writing a comic starring Midnighter, the gay character from THE AUTHORITY hits. Dixon is well known to be on the...
Jahnke leaves VIZ
Publishers Weekly has word of a personnel shift at VIZ:
Dudley Jahnke has left Viz Media and Viz CEO Hidemi Fukuhara has taken over his duties overseeing sales and marketing at the manga publishing house....
Women in comics movies
A quick roundup of some comics to movie news that gives us a chance to post some nice photos.
Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra has been teasing involvement with the upcoming WONDER WOMAN film
The former...
Roger Langridge does Marvel
Entire 8 10-page Roger Landgride Marvel Christmas story on line at Newsarama. Crap, what are you waiting for???
Millar gushes about WANTED FILM
Over at MILLARWORLDMark Millar pees his pants in excitement over a recent visit with WANTED director Timur Bekmambetov:
I went in expecting little as I haven't been involved in this at all. We signed the...
Cliff Chiang, Harvard grad
We can't resist linking to this nice article from the Harvard Crimson on Cliff Chiang, a wonderful artist and pal. It tells of his fateful journey from promising Harvard scholar to comic book artist,...
300 Trailer—yikes!
Yahoo has the new 300 trailer. After watching it in high-def a few times all we can say is...well, we're frankly pummeled speechless. Click on the above picture for a full size screen cap....
Whedon on BUFFY, X-MEN, etc.
Missed this the other day: TV Guide has a lengthy interview with Joss Whedon where he talks about the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER comic coming out from Dark Horse, and much more.
TVGuide.com: Why...