So let’s just say you’re going to make a trip to the comic book store this week, to pick up a copy of Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour. Maybe you’ll be there at midnight tonight, to take advantage of 20% off sales at Cosmic Monkey and Bridge City, or to catch Floating World’s Spaced screenings and […]
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Tonight: Family Man at Floating World
I just read the first volume of local comics creator Dylan Meconis’ impressively idiosyncratic Family Man—a comic about, loosely, an 18th century German theologian who leaves his family to take a job in academia—academia in this case being a tiny, underfunded Moravian university with a damn impressive library. Protagonist Luther Levy wrote his dissertation on […]
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Dreamboat Ryan Reynolds’ CGI Green Lantern Costume
Every once in a great while my interests will collide with those of film editor and comic book enthusiast Erik Henriksen, such as when dreamboat actor Ryan Reynolds (and I quote from an IM conversation with Erik: “i heart him too”—busted!) dons a costume for his role as the Green Lantern: WHAT THE FUCK DO […]
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Harvey Pekar, 1939-2010.
Page one of Harvey Pekar’s The Quitter (2005). Art by Dean Haspiel with Lee Loughridge. As Steve mentioned earlier, and via the AP: Comic book writer Harvey Pekar, whose American Splendor captured with wit and angst a live lived in the downbeat surroundings of rust-belt Cleveland, Ohio, was found dead in his home early Monday, […]
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Matt Fraction! Casanova! Tonight! Floating World Comics!
Panel from the remastered Casanova #1. Art by Gabriel Bá, colors by Cris Peter, letters by Dustin Harbin. Tonight at Floating World Comics (20 NW 5th), hotshot comics writer Matt Fraction is gonna be signing from 5-8 pm. Fraction’s celebrating/promoting the re-release of the first issue of his mind-bending, supercool series Casanova, which if you […]
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A Scott Pilgrim “Non-Reaction” from Comics Alliance
Comics Alliance has a funny interview up with one of their contributors, who saw an early screening of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World but signed a non-disclosure agreement prohibiting him from “discussing his experience electronically”: COMICS ALLIANCE: Having not read “Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour” yet, do you think Bryan Lee O’Malley fans will be content […]
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Scott Pilgrim Midnight Release Party
I realize that to the non-nerd there is little difference between a midnight comic book release party and this, but I think it’s pretty exciting that Floating World is hosting a party to celebrate the release of Scott Pilgrim #6. On July 19 at midnight, Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour will go on sale at Floating […]
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Trek in the Park Fundraiser & Other Nerd Miscellanea
ADAM ROSKO Atomic Arts is holding a fundraiser this on Saturday for the second season of Trek in the Park, which opens in a few weeks with the Trek episode Space Seed. In addition to music, food and drink specials, and the chance to mingle with the cast of your favorite local Star Trek reenactors, […]
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Bendis Interviews Mamet and…
…it’s a little disappointing. BENDIS: It’s funny, being a comic book writer and studying everything I can in order to come up with my own philosophy, having read almost every essay and book you’ve written about directing film and theater, the person you come closest to in theory is Stan Lee. You know, Stan Lee’s […]
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International Scott Pilgrim Trailer Absolutely Nails It.
Turn your speakers on. Loud. (I realize I might be building up the Scott Pilgrim flick too much—esp. considering the largely unproven business that is Michael Cera as Scott Pilgrim—but goddamn. Everything I see for this thing makes me more excited to see it, and since this trailer is the most recent thing I’ve seen […]
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DC Universe Online Makes Me Sad
So far E3 is a bust. New Zelda, new Call of Duty, blah blah fucking blah. Thus, it’s a new trailer for Sony Online Entertainment’s upcoming DC Comics-based massively multiplayer online roleplaying game DC Universe Online that catches my eye. And why exactly is this video the proverbial splinter in the paw of my mind? […]
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Yep, That’s Captain America Alright.
I had a hard time giving two shits about Captain America until Mark Millar wrote him in The Ultimates, at which point he became less of a jingoistic tool and more of a badass. (If I remember right, he was kind of like Andy Rooney, but he could beat the hell out of people when […]