Remember the contest announced a while back to design a superhero costume for Mayor Sam Adams? Here’s a sketch of the winning costume, submitted by Manny McIvor: Sam will spend an hour in costume at the Alter Egos Society booth at the Stumptown Comics Fest, posing for photos and raising money for p:ear. Thoughts? Maybe […]
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Photos of Awesome Costumes from Emerald City ComiCon
Don’t judge. Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
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Nerd Watch: Emerald City Edition (Part II)
ECCC t-shirt; art by Mike Mignola (Part I is here.) I’m not sticking through all the way to the bitter end—I’m writing this on the train back to Portland! Wheee!—but I’m gonna go ahead and call it: This year’s Emerald City Comicon was pretty great. Straddling the difference between a staunchly indie show like Portland’s […]
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Nerd Watch: Emerald City Edition
Photo via The One True b!X Yes, that is Felicia Day of The Guild holding a drawing of a penis, only one of the highlights of Day Two of Seattle’s Emerald City Comicon. (That panel was moderated by Mercury Senior Editor Erik Henriksen, who actually did NOT fuck it up—video here). It’s my first time […]
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Mike Mignola – Tonight!
Maybe you can’t make it to Emerald City tonight, but Portland is coming through with a little something-something: Hellboy creator/comics god Mike Mignola is dropping by Bridge City Comics tonight for a rare in-store signing. In his first Oregon signing appearance in over a decade, comics legend Mike Mignola (creator of Hellboy, BRPD and The […]
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Suddenly I Hate Boston. And Phoenixes. And … Jean Grey, I Guess.
Helpful Prologue: In case you missed the “dickwolves” scandal, here’s a quick recap: Penny Arcade is a web comic. They made this. Anti-rape folk freaked out. The Internet exploded. Jesus wept. Marvel Comics Picture tangentially related, sexy as hell. Rowr! Now that you’re caught up, take a look at this thing. It’s a 10-page screed […]
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Hey, I’m Moderating a Panel About The Guild at Emerald City Comicon!
Look at this panel that’s happening on Saturday at Seattle’s Emerald City Comicon! 12:00pm THE GUILDThis award-winning independent sitcom web series about a group of online gamers has grown into a phenomenon. Join creator/writer/star Felicia Day (Codex), Amy Okuda (Tinkerballa) and Wil Wheaton (Fawkes) as they discuss the current season and much more! Moderated by […]
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Periscope Studio’s Janelle Monae Sketch Challenge
The comics creators at Periscope Studio have recently started posting weekly sketch challenges to their website—Steve’s post about Ke$ha (did I do that right?) reminded me that it’s Janelle Monae week! Isn’t that Steve Lieber sketch pretty? There’s more on Periscope’s site, go check ’em out.
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DJ Caruso to Direct Preacher
Garth Ennis’ series Preacher is one of my favorite things, so I guess today is the day I join the nerd fray and wring my hands about an upcoming comics-to-film adaptation: DJ Caruso just announced that he’ll be directing the film. I haven’t seen any of his other movies (Disturbia, Eagle Eye), but I Am […]
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Here’s Your New Thor Trailer, Nerds!
All the Asgard/monster/action stuff looks suitably grandiose. The Kat Dennings/comedy/Facebook stuff? Not so much. ALSO, I DEMAND TO SEE BETA RAY BILL, PREFERABLY PILOTING HIS MAGNIFICENT SENTIENT SPACESHIP KNOWN AS SCUTTLEBUTT
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Hot Damn, They Actually Got Shane Black to Make Iron Man 3
Why yes, I am awesome at photoshop! Okay, to be fair, I’d be stoked to get news about any Shane Black project—but to see that Deadline’s reporting he’s in “final negotiations” to do Iron Man 3, taking over for Jon Favreau and reteaming with his Kiss Kiss Bang Bang star Robert Downey Jr. Um, yes. […]
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Non-Existent RoboCop Statue Feeds the Hungry
Bleeding Cool has the news that—spurred on by the fact that nerds raised $50,000 for a RoboCop statue in Detroit—comics writer Ron Marz has kicked off #robocharity: Because I have a big mouth, I tweeted that $50K for the Robocop statue in Detroit was kinda dumb when people are hungry. @garywhitta tweeted that whimsy has […]