product placement

Ask anyone in the know whether it's possible to be a successful cartoonist in this day and age -- online or otherwise -- and one title will pop up time and time again, Scott Kurtz's PvP. Over the past 13 years the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning PvP has, along with a handful of other sites, forged something of a precedent for how things can work in the world of webcomics...

Super heroes and sports - it's a combination that usually results with characters like Triathlon and Booster Gold, burned out jocks reliving their glory days. Adidas is taking a better approach and The Beat has the images to prove it. It'd be easy to mock Adidas' new promotional soccer posters if they were lame...