<a href="http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/ImageArchives?by=6892035"Saga #6, by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples It’s been pretty remarkable to watch the rise of Image Comics over the past year or two—though the fiercely creator-owned publisher has been around since 1992, boasting high-profile books like The Walking Dead and Spawn, it’s had a major resurgence of late. While the industry’s […]
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I Want to See Joe Carnahan’s Daredevil
Fox has been trying to reboot Daredevil for a little while now, lest the character return to Marvel—following Ben Affleck’s venture into spandex leather, Fox apparently has until October to get a new Daredevil into production before the rights revert to Marvel/Disney. It’s looking like Fox’s attempts aren’t going to come through, but one of […]
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ATREYU!!!!!
Look who’s a guest at Rose City Comic Con: Noah Hathaway, best known for his role as Atreyu in The Neverending Story! No wonder an entire generation was traumatized by that scene, that music is incredibly manipulative. (Also a horse dies.) September’s Rose City Comic Con bills itself as Portland’s “biggest pop culture convention,” but […]
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The Avengers? More like THE AFFLECKENGERS!
First, Ben Affleck might direct Justice League. Crazy! Second, I would like to apologize for the above headline, which is possibly the worst thing I have ever written. It doesn’t even make sense. Let’s just acknowledge it as a complete failure and move on. Maybe things will get better from here on out. Nope, sorry! […]
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NERD RAGE: Mindless List on Internet Riles Up Comics Fans to Extraordinary Degree With Horrendously Wrong Opinions
When last I took the time to publicly respond to the wrongness of a much-disseminated internet list, it was wonderful person Jill Pantozzi’s fun little bit of fancasting for a completely hypothetical Star Trek: The Next Generation reboot. This time, however, the focus of my indignant nerd ire is pointed at comics monolith Newsarama.com, for […]
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Thursday Comics Events
There are a LOT of comics-related events going on tomorrow night, which—because I am hosting one of them—makes me feel a bit like this. Here’s a rundown: Grendel 30th Anniversary Book Release/Art Show—I’ve never read Matt Wagner’s Grendel series, but a number of people I respect really like it. That’s at Floating World (400 NW […]
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Announcing HECKLEVISION: BATMAN & ROBIN
By popular demand, the Mercury‘s once again teaming up with the Hollywood Theatre to present a very special installment of Hecklevison. So charge up your phones, ready your clever and biting text messages, and prepare to see your jokes and comments pop up onscreen as we all enjoy… Batman & Robin: Nipples. Codpieces. Ass. More […]
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URGENT POLL: Is Aquaman Cooler Than You?
Huh. You guys got all worked up over Superman. NOW DEAL WITH WITH THIS.
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URGENT POLL: Does Superman Suck or Is Superman Alright?
MAN OF STEEL “Oh, sorry. I was looking for the bathroom.” The trailer for Man of Steel hit theaters last weekend in front of The Dark Knight Rises, and… huh. It looks like Warner Bros. was like, “Hey, Zack Snyder! Remember Batman Begins? Do that! With Superman! Also, listen to whatever Christopher Nolan tells you.” […]
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If You’re Gonna Get Bludgeoned, Then C’mon, Get BLUDGEONED
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES “Huh. This is the worst possible place I could be standing right now.” Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises opens tonight at midnight (there are multiple midnight screenings around town, plus a few—for chrissakes—at 3:30 am and 8:30 am), at which point it will make 400 trillion dollars and steamroll over […]
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Rush, Romney, Batman, Obama, Bane, and Bain
This doesn’t even make sense but I made it anyways. “Do you think it is accidental that the name of the really vicious, fire-breathing, four-eyed, whatever-it-is villain in [The Dark Knight Rises] is named Bane?” Rush Limbaugh shouted yesterday. “A lot of people are going to see the movie. And it’s a lot of brain-dead […]