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As long as we're harkening back to the internet of 10 years ago, as we are in this AMAZING THRILLING BEAT 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL, one of the great hallowed traditions of the internet came under fire yesterday, with TCJ.com co-editor Tim Hodler wonderedif TCJ.com should turn off comments and encourage a "letter's page" instead. Oddly, this inspired a flurry of comments. The "letters page" idea goes back to Blood & Thunder the letters page on the old print Comics Journal where industry titans would throw rocks at each other. Seriously these are a goldmine of Bronze Age defensiveness and invective. Would the same spirit be upheld in a world with instantaneous communication in every medium known to humankind? Not sure.

by David Nieves Original Sin #5 Writer: Jason Aaron Artist: Mike Deodato Colors: Frank Martin Cover; Julian Totino Tedesco Universe spanning events for the big two publishers have always started...

The following is a gallery of photos I took this weekend in Vegas, while attending the annual conference of the American Library Association. Mostly, it's...

Building Creative Bridges has an insightful recap of Stan Lee's talk at the American Library Association's annual conference. The most hyperbolic quote? He and his colleagues,...

Vertigo is NOT DEAD. Although a lot of people thought DC's edgy imprint would go the way of the dodo in a more cost...

As we continue our 10th anniversary SPECTACULAR here at the Beat, I thought it would be fun to look back at the top posts...

To be fair, this news has been out there for months and months, but USA TOday made it official: following the end of...

Boom Studios is avoiding the San Diego news crush and doing a Dynamite by making their announcements one a day until San Diego. And the first is that Mark Waid, former editor-in-chief at Boom and author of some of their most important creator driven titles, is coming back with a new series. According to the video above it's "one with a dear friend of mine, one of the most revered artists in comics" an artist he's wanted to work with for a while. It's a story that is "Dangerous" and not something another company would touch.

I actually don't remember the day I started this blog—it was June or July somethingth 2004- so I've arbitrarily decided today will henceforth be The Beat's anniversary. Ten long years of late nights, sleeping five hours, web crashes, Vietnamese Instant Coffee, Amon Tobin, Luke Vibert, Vitalic, Tipsy, Mahler, Stravinsky and Amy Winehouse. Ten years of stopping whatever else I was doing at some point to say "I gotta do The Beat now." Ten years of watching the graphic novel industry grow, 10 years of a new golden age of comics, the rise and fall of manga, the rise and rise of comic book movies and TV shows, firings, hirings, 10 days that shook the world. Ten years of the internet changing every week or minute. When I began there was no Tumblr, no Twitter, no Facebook, no Youtube, no smart phones. People were so starved for entertainment that they actually read websites run by one person in their pajamas.

This week's New Yorker has a cover by Adrian Tomine, and he discusses it inside the magazine: “When I heard that the 9/11 memorial and...

 The Batverse is getting two ongoing spinoff series, according to EW. And not a mention of the "New 52" in the pr....In Arkham Manor,...

by Brandon Schatz After closing on their main offices on Friday, Diamond Comics distributed a message to all of their customers regarding the discontinuation of...