The Doors App Tells Morrison’s Tale through Haspiel’s Comics
You might have caught wind of the fact that a multi-media iPad app has been released this week featuring The Doors as part of...
Tolja: stingy Ike Perlmutter not ready to pay for Avengers cast reunion
Even as IRON MAN 3 is a record setting triumph for Marvel, as I hinted the other day, Marvel Studios' stinginess over signing deals...
Summer of Valiant is Gathering Steam
This week Valiant are spring-boarding off their Free Comic Book Day offerings to announce "Summer of Valiant" previews of upcoming titles. Their first announcement...
Retail Beat: A store opens in Yonkers; proposal in Alternate Reality Comics
Following in the steps of a recent micro-trend, another comics shop has opened, the Spider's Web at 887A Yonkers Ave in Yonkers, NY. According to this earlier story, its run by Paul Borrero, a longtime collector and Spder-Man fan who felt the area needed a place for kids and adults to collect comics.
Will Sliney Profiles The Fearless Defenders: Annabelle Riggs
Marvel's female characters do tend to be their very best, so here at The Beat we've been following Will Sliney (at a distance, so...
A Free Comic Book Day Sampler
by Pam Auditore
Free Comic Book Day is not only a great opportunity for families to bond, comic book collectors to get great deals, but...
Thankfully the Sex Tape/Assault Subplot was Cut Out of Iron Man 3
As noted by Indiewire, it appears that Iron Man 3 could have taken a radically different direction. Spoilers ahead!
Director Shane Black and writer Drew...
REVIEW: Cops Vs Vigilante ‘Justice’ in The Movement #1
DC's new series, launched by Gail Simone and Freddie Williams II, is a really interesting idea for a series. Essentially pitting a somewhat corrupt...
RIP Ray Harryhausen
Stop motion animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen has died at age 92. Before CGI there was Harryhausen, whose soaring imagination gave birth to creatures that inhabited the psyche of generations of SF and fantasy fans, and whose painstaking hand-done animation has never been surpassed for character and excitement.
Big Interview: L Nichols- ‘Autobiography is terrifying’
I first came across L Nichols work via her comic for Retrofit: Flocks. To date, Flocks is one of the most powerful works I've read,...
Introducing: The Amazon Graphic Novel Bestseller List
David Carter is a librarian and a bestseller list maker. Every Friday morning he goes to Amazon an makes a bestseller list from their graphic novel listings, which you can read at his blog, Yet Another Comics Blog. David has agreed to let me share his charts here because of there's one thing Beat readers love it's sales chart.
THE PRIVATE EYE Chapter 2 is up – UPDATED
The second chapter of THE PRIVATE EYE by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin is up at the Panel Syndicate website. It's available on...
