Art: A Japanese toast artist by the moniker of Kummy burns a mean slice of Pikachu for breakfast.
Movies: Variety reports that James Badge Dale has been cast as the Iron Man 3 as Eric Savin/Coldblood.
Digital: In an interview with ICv2, Image Publisher Eric Stephenson revealed that, though it varies from title to title, "digital is a double digit percentage of sales," overall for the
Office Supplies: As part of its promotions for The Avengers movie, Marvel has released pixel art templates of each of the film's heroes that fans can assemble using Post-it notes.
Donations: The Hero Initiative has received $2,871 in Avengers movie related donations (up from around $1,000 last week)...
Movies: The first trailer for Morgan Spurlock, Joss Whedon and Kevin Smith's Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope documentary is now live. Does it reflect your SDCC experiences so far?
Manga: A new Biohazard (Resident Evil) manga series February 23 in Japan's Weekly Shonen Champion...
Webcomics: Grant Snider illustrates an epic Map of Thanksgiving Dinner.
Creators: Gerald Scarfe, an English political cartoonist, got a newly-discovered dinosaur named after him. There's a new metric for success in the industry, as far as I'm concerned...
Conventions: The official map for the San Diego Comic-Con International has surfaced at last. The Beat's annotations may help attendees spot a few of their future line hangouts and/or plan quick escape routes.
Upcoming: October's Savage Dragon #177 will see the Dragon face down an undead Osama bin Laden...
Gaming: Nintendo unveiled its next generation console, the Wii U, yesterday at E3. It looks pretty rad, but all you really need to know for now is that Batman: Arkham City is confirmed for the system when it drops in 2012.
Smurfs: Just in time for the CG animated The Smurfs movie, French author/polsci lecturer Antoine Buéno has unleashed Le Petit Livre Bleu: Analyse critique et politique de la so