Tag: Top News
DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: May 2013 – ¡Viva el Vertigo!
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
In May 2013, Vertigo is back in business in a major way: The first issue of The Wake, a 10-issue miniseries by...
Neil Gaiman movie watch: new Sequart documentary and horrific Sandman movies of the past
The good news is that Neil Gaiman will be the subject of the new Sequart documentary, in the spirit of Grant Morrison: Talking with...
Play Kyle Baker’s Mass Murderer of Steel game
Inspired by the backlash against MAN OF STEEL's property destruction, Kyle Baker has ceated a flash game called MASS MURDERER OF STEEL that allows...
Nice Art: Chicago by Clowes
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago currently has this Daniel Clowes illustration of his native Chicago on display, and Chicago magazine has his...
Marvel Month to Month Sales May 2013: X-Men break the quiet
by Paul O'Brien
Marvel generally like to make their big launches as they come out of major crossover events, and so with AGE OF ULTRON...
Boom! Studios acquires Archaia
Well, well. While the general state of comics is pretty healthy these days, there had been one company whose well-being we continually heard whispers...
The Best of New York City in Comic Books
As our own set spy photos this morning show, New York is one big playground for superheroes. It's also the background for some of...
Warner Bros. studio shakeup official: Robinov out, Kroll, Silverman, and Emmerich in
(Above Jeff Robinov and his wife, Nicole.)
Despite the importance of MAN OF STEEL in the futures of both Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment, its...
SDCC ’13: Gam3rCon is back
As Comic-Con continues to morph into a loose confederation of events all centered around the Old Spaghetti Factory on 5th and K, Gam3rCon will...
Fight! Jim Carrey vs Mark Millar over Kick-Ass 2 gun violence
The fight will be gentlemanly fisticuffs only. Carrey—who has been coming out pretty strongly for gun control in recent months—portrays Colonel Stars and Stripes...
Ivan Brunetti covers the New Yorker
Here's a nice Summer surprise: this Week's New Yorker has a cover by Ivan Brunetti. Brunetti's new book, "Aesthetics: A Memoir" is out now,...
Review: Trader Joe’s Instant Coffee Packets
Veteran readers of this site know that if three's one thing The Beat is obsessed with it's Vietnamese Instant Coffee. This amazing product as...
