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Hopefully by now you've all seen the debut of new contributor Kate Willaert's column "By Its Cover" which looks at the best of the week's cover designs—I've been wanting to add more craft-focused pieces to the Beat and this really fits the bill.

I have some nice pictures of the late Al Feldstein from several San Diegos ago, but I couldn't find them in my 20000+ digital...

Escape Pod Comics in Huntington Long Island is closed on Sturday6s, so you'll get a second bite at the FCBD apple on Sunday at...

They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but that's never stopped us. We can't help it. If we could, publishers wouldn't...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGSpOfIr9Y This sunday's episode of the Simpsons will be lego style and here's a trailer. This is so amazing that my head hurts.

It's the biggest comics book day of the year. Wondering where to go for Free Comic Book Day? Wonder no more! Trevor at How to Love Comics has done all the hard work and put together a Free Comic Book Day Directory with over 250 entries. Will someone buy him a big steak dinner? Or give him some comic books? He deserves it.

Some things are so shocking, you won't believe it!!!

People are mad about CBR's forum getting civilized, but it's only the latest move in a long battle over internet discussions. Which side are YOU on?

A couple of incidents this week of creators who spoke out, and editors who took offense at the speaking out. First off, we've noted many times that Jim Starlin and Marvel seemed to have reached a happy place in terms of Starlin created characters Gamora and Thanos getting the big screen treatment in Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy. Starlin, whose various cosmic works such as The Infinity Gauntlet have been hugely influential in that end of the Marvel Universe, created a new Thanos graphic novel for Marvel and all seemed to be well. But then....things weren't. Newsarama has a full rundown of the matter but The Beat first noticed something might be up when Starlin posted this on his FB page:

The Syfy Channel has generally been left out of the comic book mania gripping Hollywood, although they've had various stuff in development over the...

Author and historian Danny Fingeroth sent along his panel programming for this weekend's Wizard World Minneapolis, and whatever the ongoing controversy, it is fair to say that WizWorld programming has improved quite a bit. While looking through the programs, we noticed that one participant is indie comics stalwart Zak Sally</a> of La Mano Press, Sammy the Mouse and more. Let's just say that if there is one person we never expected to see at a Wizard World show it's Zak Sally. Maybe he will hang out with "social media sensations" Nash and Hayes Grier and Nathan Fillion, and then the circle will be complete.

If you're not a devoted Game of Thrones watcher, please move away. Sean T. Collins has a post about the recent rape problems on the show that kind of echoes what I'd been thinking. Basically, that the Jamie/Cersei rape scene wasn't necessarily a fatal misstep, given that we don't know where these characters are going...but the problem is that it probably wasn't meant to be a rape scene by the producers, a view supported by the confused interviews they've given about the scene in question.