Big congrats are due today to Mercury pal Matt Bors, who was just announced as the 2012 recipient of the Herblock Prize for Excellence in Editorial Cartooning. That’s a 15k cash prize and a “sterling silver Tiffany trophy,” and it couldn’t have gone to a nicer or more hard-working guy. Bors’ cartoons are syndicated nationally […]
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Betty & Veronica & Joss Whedon
I’m so buying this when it comes out in June. I wonder who’ll play Angel? Reggie seems like the most logical choice, but eeew. Archie’s more of a Riley Finn. It kinda seems like a lot going on with Veronica as Vampirella—too bad, she would’ve made a fantastic Cordelia. I see Jughead as Xander, a […]
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An Emitown Primer
Hello and welcome to my new bloggy… columny thing about webcomics! Every couple of weeks I’ll fill you in on a webcomic worth reading. What is a webcomic? No one knows! The goal isn’t really to be super critical, since the majority of the products on display here will be free and easily accessible. But […]
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“The Daily Bugle”: All the Spidey News That’s Fit to Print!
Kerry Callen Why? Because I like Spider-Man and I get to blog on this blog. That’s why. SPIDER ITEM! The guy who directed Chronicle is in talks to do a Venom movie. So that will probably be terrible. SPIDER ITEM! This is one of the better things I’ve read about why Spider-Man is the best […]
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Despite Seven or Eight Bigoted Moms, Archie Gay Marriage Issue Sells Out
Robot 6 reports that the issue of Archie featuring the wedding of gay character Kevin Keller—which was a target of bigoted hate group One Million (Minus 999,993, Give or Take) Moms—has sold out. I bet the issue will go for a second printing sometime soon. My favorite part of the press release is this: “Kevin […]
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Male Superheroes, Dressed Like Female Superheroes
Recently, the Comics Alliance and other blogs have been having some great discussions about how the over-the-top sexism in comics art can kill stories for female readers. If you didn’t get it already, check out <a href="http://fernacular.tumblr.com/post/17814450235/welcome-to-if-male-superhero-costumes-were“>these awesome sketches of superhero costumes where artist Fernacular drew male superheroes in the same kind of outfits their […]
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Archie Comics to Take On Occupy Wall Street
Bleeding Cool broke the news yesterday: Apparently, Archie Comics #635… …will tell the story of the global protest against massively unequal redistrubution of wealth and power, under the title Occupy Riverdale, echoing the Occupy movements present around the world…And just as Betty and Veronica are divided over Archie, so here they are divided by being […]
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So Now I’m at the State Where I’m Just Repeatedly Watching Avengers Fan Videos, I Guess
Since for some stupid reason The Avengers still isn’t out, I’ve apparently sunk to the depths of watching fan trailers for the goddamn thing—like this one via Topless Robot, which has the Disney-really-should’ve-thought-of-it tactic of introducing all the Avengers through clips from their solo movies. I watched it three times! Except WAIT, why the hell […]
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Romance, Comics
Via The comic book industry as a whole might not have had the greatest week, but one of Portland’s best comics shops, Cosmic Monkey Comics, is celebrating their fifth year in their current location (5335 NE Sandy)—an anniversary that just so happens to coincide with Valentine’s Day. Cosmic Monkey’s “romantic comic sale” starts today and […]
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In Which Bobby Roberts Attempts to Ruin the One Thing That Made Me Happy Today
Since this week’s news about the comic book industry has been even more depressing than usual (Marvel demands $17,000 from Ghost Rider creator! Comic Book Men vs. Comic Book Woman! Only five percent of the readers of the “New 52” were new readers! Walking Dead co-creator sues other Walking Dead co-creator!), about the only bright […]
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New Spider-Man Trailer Boldly Promises Same Old Spider-Man Who’s Possibly Kind Of a Little Bit Different Maybe
Aside from a brief, predictable period in high school when he was replaced by Holden Caulfield, Peter Parker’s been my favorite fictional character since I was old enough to know what a Spider-Man was. Which means, I think, that I should be really stoked about The Amazing Spider-Man, Sony’s attempt to reboot the webslinger even […]