The Beat Podcasts! More To Come: 2014 in Comics
Brought to you by Publishers Weekly, it's More To Come, the weekly podcast of comics news, interviews and discussion with Calvin Reid, Kate...
Here’s your first full cast photo for ‘Powers’
Via Brian Michael Bendis' Tumblr page, here's your first cast photo from the upcoming Playstation Network series Powers, based on the former Image, now...
Updated Facebook demographics show male/female comics likers approaching parity
Brett Schenker, whose research into Facebook comics demographics created a benchmkar fo what turned out to be The Year of the Women, has taken a look at age and sex breakdowns for comics from 2013-2015. In January, Schenker reported a record 32 million Facebook fans for comics, a 4 million rise like due to "the massive jump in Marvel’s page due to their consolidating various pages into one."
Neill Blomkamp was secretly working on Alien sequel ideas
Here's a fun little "what if..?" to start off your new year. The mastermind behind the Academy Award nominated District 9 and the less...
Webcomic Alert: End 2014 with a little “Optimisim” by Anders Nilsen
Anders Nilsen sees the year out at Medium with a beautiful full color comic called On Optimisim: Why 2015 Won't Suck. It's a very...
The Beat’s Annual Comics Industry Survey, Part One: The Return of Siegel & Shuster...
Yep, it's our annual survey of the comics landscape, from the mainstream to the indies and everything in between. Each year we send out surveys to as wide a swath of comics pros around the world as we can muster...among the answers you'll find lots of news of 2015 projects, predictions of the year ahead...and right off the bat some startling news from Jeff Trexler about a possible legal bombshell in 2015...and the return of Casey from James Sturm's epochal comic strip "The Sponsor." Hold on to your hats and let's get going.
Play-Doh’s frosting shooting penis and other dubious toys
So Play Doh made a thing called the Sweet Shoppe Cake Mountain Playset that allowed you to mold inedible Play-Doh into the shape of luscious cakes. It all seemed like innocent fun.
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 12/31/14: Almost done
Final housekeeping of 2014: I keep trying to use Wordpress's new "lite editor interface" but it keeps posting things when I meant to save...
NBC announces Constantine return date and time-slot
When NBC's take on DC/Vertigo's chain-smoking anti-hero struggled in the ratings, the network halted production on Constantine after 13 episodes. Middling critical response and a...
Michael Keaton reminisces about his time in the Batsuit
Michael Keaton finally had his big comeback year in 2014. With Birdman, and his very meta portrayal of a washed-up superhero actor, Keaton now...
Hickman Relaunches The Manhattan Projects and Takes a Marvel Break
By: Alexander Jones
Jonathan Hickman is going through a pretty massive career change. First up, he’s relaunching The Manhattan Projects with a new number one and...















