You may remember Dylan Meconis from such Mercury illustrations as these adorable dogs and this week’s scene of sexy domesticity. You may also know her from her Eisner-nominated comic Outfoxed, or from one of the numerous panty raids she and other members of Periscope Studio inflict on lesser artist collectives. What I’m saying is that […]
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A Few Words About Before Watchmen
IT’S HERE: Before Watchmen, the latest major comic book event that will shake the comics community to its very core and elicit an apathetic shrug from the average person on the street. DC’s Watchmen prequels start hitting comics shops today; I was going to write a whole thing about it, but then I realized some […]
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Total Recall Is Screening Tonight, Here, Let Me Show You All of My Awesome Total Recall Crap
Total Recall is bugnuts and I love it—from Arnold’s bewildered, stumbling presence to the insane violence to the creepy mutants to Paul Verhoeven being preposterous and misogynist to the practical special effects to everything. Tonight, local podcasters cortandfatboy (that’s how they make me spell their name now) and the Mercury (note: capitalization, spaces around words) […]
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A New Comics Festival in Portland?
Floating World’s Jason Leivain just cryptically tweeted: This October, imagine a comics festival with no tables. Official announcements coming soon… http://theprojectspdx.tumblr.com/ That site is fairly well fleshed out already, and the gist is that in October, the IPRC (in conjunction with Floating World, Sparkplug, and a bunch of other folks) is going to host an […]
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Tonight at Powell’s: Greg Rucka
Greg Rucka is one of the best writers Portland’s got—he’s the writer behind the acclaimed and beloved Queen & Country series, he’s earned accolades for everything from his work on Whiteout to Gotham Central, and he’s got enough Eisners to bludgeon… huh. I did not really think that sentence though. To bludgeon something pretty good, […]
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Floating World’s “Castles in the Sky” Studio Ghibli Art Show
In conjunction with the Northwest Film Center’s Studio Ghibli series, Jason Leivian of Floating World Comics curated an exhibit of movie posters by local artists for films appearing in the series. Tomorrow, Floating World hosts a show of the original art, with some prints available for purchase. I have my heart set on Joelle Jones’ […]
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Batmobile and Bat-Cycle to Tour EVERY CITY EXCEPT PORTLAND
THE BATMOBILE THE TUMBLER “So, where should we go? Everywhere but Portland, I say!” BAT-CYCLE THE BAT-POD You will never see this in person. So this press release starts excellently: Fans who have been eagerly awaiting the July 20 release of Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ The Dark Knight Rises will have an opportunity […]
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Comic Artists Go the Opera
The Portland Opera has just posted some images from their recent Comic Artists Night—it’s in a goofy slide show that I can’t figure out how to embed, but you can click here to look through ’em. I think this is a great thing that the Portland Opera does—local comics artists are invited to bring their […]
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Avengers? More Like Expensive-gers! I’m Sorry, This Headline Is Terrible
THE AVENGERS “What property damage?” I’m getting a way bigger kick out of this than I should, but The Hollywood Reporter decided to figure out how much damage, in dollars, the climactic battle in The Avengers would’ve caused. I guess I should say that the piece gives away who the bad guys are in the […]
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What If RICK JAMES Had Become THE HULK?
I’ve visited Superman Is a Dick so many times I’ve more or less got it memorized, which is why I was delighted to open my email last night to find a missive from my pal/former Mercury music editor Adam Gnade, who simply said: Holy fuck there are some good moments here: http://superheroesdoingweirdshit.tumblr.com/ Yes. I have […]
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Free Comic Book Day!
Portland is outrageously blessed in the comic book store department, and tomorrow you can visit any or all of them to cash in on some Free Comic Book Day activities—in addition to handing out freebies (here’s a list!), a few stores will be hosting signings from local comic book creators. Cosmic Monkey in particular has […]
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Bane Is Silly :P
The Dark Knight Rises‘ okay-but-not-particularly-thrilling ad campaign continues with a new trailer, in which Batman jacks Marty McFly’s ride from Back to the Future II and Bane continues to look and sound like a dude camped outside the Rose Garden to attend a live taping of WWE Raw. I have little doubt Nolan will bring […]