DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow now has a Hawkman
German actor Falk Hentschel, who has been seen on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Reckless will be joining the cast of DC's Legends of...
Koyama Press Fall Preview: Lose #7 — now in color
It's time to get back to what's best in life: COMICS. The fall publishing season has been announced (and Spring '16 is coming soon)...
Attack on Titan Manga: 50 million copies sold but trails One Piece
As we all know, Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan has been the shock trooper in the recent manga bounce back here in the US...
Dave Sim receives a $500,000 bequest to turn his house into a museum
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In his latest weekly video, Cerebus creator Dave Sim reveals that an anonymous donor has agreed to leave a bequest of $500,000 to The...
Trouble with Comics relaunches
Fans of the Comics Blogosphere of the Aughts, The Wild Bunch is back for one more ride. Trouble with Comics is relaunching for the...
Kibbles ‘n Bits 8/3/15: Battling Boy gets a director; celebrity doesn’t get comics
§ A film adaptation of Paul Pope's Battling Boy series has been on again and off again, but it seems it's on again, with...
SDCC ’15: Our Animation and Comics Creator Interviews in Audio-form
Here's where I finally release what's left of our SDCC audio content...as a follow-up to last week's set of DC and Marvel Television interviews,...
Our latest crisis is over, Channing Tatum will be Gambit after all
Just like Alexander posited a few days ago, it turns out that Channing Tatum was indeed undergoing a bit of public negotiating regarding his...
ADVANCE REVIEW: The Wonderful Fever Dream of Hellboy in Hell #7
England is gone, replaced by a new World Tree, promising to end this world and replace it with something new. Hellboy speaks with a spirit that may be his friend Alice, but who also appears to be something more. She delivers a prophecy of doom and beauty to Hellboy, who awakens, and finds himself in Hell once more. And then things start to get weird.
Crowdwatch: Steve Hamaker’s PLOX Volume One
Well, since it's Friday let's go all out with the Kickstarter newsw. Her's a newsish one from Steve Hamaker, a collection of his graphic...
Tom Tomorrow’s $250,000 Kickstarter has four days to go
We get a lot of requests to mention Kickstarters here at the Beat, and rather than slight this one or that one, I hardly mention any. Only the worthiest. But I do HEAR about a lot of kickstarters as they get tweeted and promoted about the web.
Here's one that only crossed my radar only recently (probably my fault more than anything, since it got written up in HuffPo, WaPo, Mother Jones and other places no one reads) but it doesn't seem to need much help. Tom Tomorrow, the veteran (no offense) political cartoonist is Kickstartinga compendium of the last 25 years of his comic, "This Modern World" and it's doing very well: it just passed the $250,000 mark and has a few days to go to kick it up a bit more.
Review: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation works best when the adrenaline kicks in
While my familiarity with the television series is admittedly meager, the consistently Tom Cruise-led Mission: Impossible film entries have played like minor American efforts...
