Bye-Bye, CoCo
As some of you may know, tonight is Conan O'Brien's last night as host of the Tonight Show. The story has been little covered by the media, so we thought we'd end the week...
Images to haunt us
§ Superhero division: Maxim presents 12 Superheroes Who Should Be On '70s Vans, which, considering that several of these characters were created at a time when van art was an influence is a little...
Happy Birthday to THE BEAT
(pretend for the time being there are shirtless pictures of Gerard Butler and Clive Owen here)
We're sure that FMB will give the Beat a wonderful birthday, let's hope that AMC also delivers a...
This weekend: The Prisoner
As previously mentioned, Sunday night, AMC premieres the first episode of their reimagining of The Prisoner. To support this, there's quite an extensive website up. They are also serializing a PRISONER graphic novel by...
The mystery of Thomasina
No biography of Patrick McGoohan is complete without mentioning THE THREE LIVES OF THOMASINA, and The Beat is no exception. The movie was on Hallmark the other day. We DVR'd for later viewing...
The real highlight of the Baltimore Con
By Mark Coale
Sure, we published our first issue in years and it was great to see old friends and discuss not being able to watch either the England or US matches with FMB,...
The only thing that matters…now with Halloween
Okay, this time we mean it.
As October dawns, we're looking to start another "21 Days of Halloween" art festival here, so if you have some Halloweenish art you'd like to let us post...
People just like it better that way
(tip of the hat to the always-right Kurt Busiek who posted this on his Facebook page.)[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4phHwSSing&feature=youtube_gdata&w=425&h=355]
Random thoughts
Over on the Wildstorm blog the other day, they dropped a BOMBSHELL. Gen13 is getting a new artist, a very talented fellow. And his name is Cruddie Torian.
How do you just go on...
A little more print goes away — UPDATED
UPDATE: At The Wrap, a THR insider disputes the THR online only story, although, saying they'll stick around through the lucrative Awards season isn't exactly a ringing endorsement for the future of the print...
What have we learned?
We have learned that folks would rather argue about "journalism" than talk about a picture of Spider-Man shooting webbing out his ass.
That really surprised me, frankly.