After making 4 billion million dollars with The Avengers, Marvel’s next big thing—the thing Iron Man 3, Thor 2, and Captain America 2 are all going to lead into—will be 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy. While Chris Pratt is technically the star of Guardians, he isn’t really, because c’mon—the film will also feature a talking […]
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Wha?! A Digital Comics Model That Isn’t Terrible?!
Private Eye #1, art by Marcos Martin Everything about the following two paragraphs is fantastic. Because (A) Hey, cool, new work from Saga writer Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin, the same team behind the excellent miniseries Doctor Strange: The Oath! And (B) Hey, cool, someone found a non-terrible way to sell digital comics! Brian […]
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Official Stumptown Comics Fest Poster Released
The Stumptown Comics Festival has commissioned some great posters over the years, from artists like Craig Thompson, Brandon Graham, Farel Dalrymple, and more. This year’s poster by Mike Russell and Bill Mudron—plus lettering from occasional Mercury freelancer Dylan Meconis—is no exception: Hit Russell’s Tumblr to check out a draw-your-own variant cover. Stumptown runs April 27-28 […]
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Stumptown Comics Fest Lineup Accounced
Image from this year’s poster, by Mike Russell and Bill Mudron Good grief. THERE IS SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT TODAY! The Stumptown Comics Fest (April 27-28 at the Oregon Convention Center) just posted their full lineup of guests. Notable out-of-towners include Bill Willingham (Fables), Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button), Brian Hurtt (The Sixth Gun), […]
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Tonight: Matt Fraction Hawkeye Signing! Today: Rose City Tickets On Sale!
Hawkeye #1, cover art by David Aja Two things: 1) ROSE CITY COMIC CON. If, unlike me, you didn’t throw your entire savings account at Veronica Mars, tickets for September’s Rose City Comic Con are now on sale. This is a convention worth going to—not only was last year’s inaugural show a big success, but, […]
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UPDATE: Superman, Bigotry, and Portland’s Comics Shops
ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #1 VARIANT COVER BY CHRIS SAMNEE A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about how DC Comics was facing backlash for hiring militant bigot Orson Scott Card to write a story in a Superman comic. Following those reactions, the artist for the comic, Chris Sprouse, has backed out of the project, […]
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Win a Pair of Tickets to Tomorrow’s Comics Underground
[This blog post brought to you by the Mercury‘s Department of Self Promotion.] Will Eisner, from Last Day in Vietnam Every couple months, Mercury Senior Editor Erik Henriksen and I put on an event called Comics Underground, which combines live performance and comic books and booze and fun. For this month’s show, we’re partnering with […]
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A Page-by-Page Review of MacGyver: Fugitive Gauntlet
A few months ago, Image Comics released the first issue of MacGyver: Fugitive Gauntlet, a five-issue series bringing back television’s most heroic handyman, Angus MacGyver! The comic series is cowritten by Tony Lee and Lee David Zlotoff (the creator of MacGyver, the world’s greatest television show, and also a guy who, apparently, doesn’t really get […]
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The Most Antisocial Way to Attend Emerald City Comicon
As Mary Traverse told you yesterday, Emerald City Comicon starts tonight. But if you’re not interested in driving to Seattle—or if you haven’t already bought tickets for Saturday, which is sold out—you should visit Flipon.TV’s Emerald City Comicon page, which is livestreaming certain ECCC panels for free. If you’d like access to all the feeds […]
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Scientifically Accurate Spider-Man
Peter Parker had it preeeetty lucky if you ask me. A radioactive spider bites him, and he only gets spider powers that would be convenient to a human? If it REALLY happened things would be preeeeetty different, as demonstrated in this very catchy and informative video entitled, “Scientifically Accurate Spider-Man.” (Audio a touch NSFW.)
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Superman, Bigotry, and Portland’s Comics Shops
DC Comics recently hired Orson Scott Card to write a story in the first issue of their new Superman comic, Adventures of Superman. Card’s a hell of a writer—he wrote Ender’s Game, one of my favorite novels, the long-awaited film adaptation of which will come out this fall. He’s also a relentless, shameless bigot. For […]
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Hooray for Che! (Or, A Celebration of The O.C., and Also Some News About Guardians of the Galaxy)
SETH & CHE, BACK IN THE DAY I miss The O.C. so much. Chris Pratt is great in Parks & Rec and Zero Dark Thirty, but let us not forget where so very many of us first met him—as Winchester “Che” Cook, the young, sweet-hearted trustafarian of The O.C. Che—who at first was kind of […]