Whoa. Via Newsarama: The center of intense rumor and speculation for months now, DC confirmed today that the fictional shared universe of Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman, Green Lantern and more will undergo a revamp of their oft-rewritten 76 year-plus history of shared continuity…. “We looked at what was going on in the marketplace and felt […]
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Oregon Book Awards Adds Category for Graphic Literature
Legitimacy at last! Literary Arts recently announced the creation of a new category for “Graphic Literature” in the Oregon Book Awards. The 2012 Book Awards will mark the first time a specific award for graphic literature has been offered. (No graphic novelist has ever won the Book Awards’ Ken Kesey Fiction Award.) The submission guidelines […]
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First Teaser for Spielberg and Jackson’s Tintin and the Terror of the Uncanny Valley
Aside from hardcore comics nerds, Tintin’s never been a big deal here—but in Europe, the character’s huge. (And maybe just a teensy bit racist!) Now, after a budgeting delay or two, a couple of longtime Tintin fans, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, are—as briefly mentioned in this week’s feature—creating a new series of motion-capture films […]
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Tonight at Powells: Daniel Clowes
It’s a good day for Powell’s readings. Tonight at the downtown store, legendary cartoonist Daniel Clowes presents a new collection of his Eisner-winning strip Mister Wonderful. Here’s what Courtney had to say about it: The titular Mister Wonderful is Marshall—divorced sad sack, desperate for love and someone to eat bagels with—who anxiously awaits a blind […]
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So What Did You Guys Think of Wonder Northwest?
ARA ROSELANI The first Wonder Northwest kicked off today, and continues through tomorrow. I wasn’t able to stay long this afternoon, but I did swing by to check out the show floor for an hour or so. At which point I discovered that these exist. Via I had no idea. And, despite my glee, and […]
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Tomorrow! Free Comics!
Art by Sergio Aragonés. Via. Tomorrow’s Free Comic Book Day—go here to check out the books that’ll be at various comics shops, just sitting there for the taking. As usual, Portland’s comics shops are on it: Just about all of ’em are participating, including Excalibur and Future Dreams, and some have special events and signings […]
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Here’s Your New Green Lantern Trailer, Fans of Hypercephalic Peter Sarsgaard!
Green Lantern fans are obsessively obsessive—like, even by comic book nerd standards—and I know they’re all freaking out about this trailer, but I just keep feeling bad for Peter Sarsgaard’s forehead. Also, I kind of wish the tagline was Green Lantern: The Film We’re Frantically Throwing Money at Right Up Until the Very Last Second, […]
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Why Is Thor’s “Mischievous” Brother Loki So Intent on Sneaking Into Little Kids’ Bedrooms?
I wasn’t even aware that this was an issue, but apparently it is. From Amazon’s page for Hasbro’s Thor Lightning Hammer: Product Features • Carry the hammer of Thor, the Mighty Avenger! Modeled after the hero’s weapon in the Thor movie. With thunder sounds, flashing lights, and launching missile. Keep Loki out of your room! […]
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Re: Teabaggers Are About to Get Furious at DC Comics
In yesterday’s post about Superman renouncing his US citizenship, Paul Constant wrote, “If the right-wing blogs get a hold of this one, there’s gonna be hell to pay.” Well… Drudge links to a Comics Alliance post, where former Mercury karaoke blogger/Comics Alliance Editor Laura Hudson must’ve had quite the afternoon moderating the more than EIGHT […]
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Teabaggers Are About to Get Furious at DC Comics
SPOILER WARNING! If you are one of the three people left who regularly reads Superman comics on a monthly basis, you should stop reading immediately. Seriously: This is your last warning. Okay. According to Comics Alliance, Superman renounces his U.S. citizenship in a short story in today’s Action Comics #900. Here’s the relevant panel: If […]
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Tonight at Things From Another World: Dark Horse Presents #1 Release Party
The comics anthology Dark Horse Presents has a long, impressive history—it’s the first place where works like Frank Miller’s Sin City and Paul Chadwick’s Concrete were published, for starters. After spending a few years online as MySpace Dark Horse Presents (hunt around on that site and you might just find a comic or two written […]
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Dark Horse President Mike Richardson (Sort of) Explains Last Week’s Layoffs
Image Via Last week, local comics publisher Dark Horse laid off a bunch of people. Shortly thereafter, ComicsAlliance Editor Laura Hudson turned to occasional CA contributor—and former Dark Horse publicist—Aaron Colter for his thoughts on the layoffs. While Colter wasn’t shy about assigning blame for the layoffs, he had also been fired from Dark Horse […]