In honor both of the release of their title The Surrogates on iTunes , and the upcoming release of the film adaptation, the friendly gents Top Shelf Productions are currently having a pretty decent sale—45 titles marked down to just $3 and another 55 titles on discount (the only caveat is that you have to […]
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When Comics and Cleavage Collide
If you have an interest in feminist pop-culture history, have I got a website for you! Mike Madrid’s visual companion to his new book The Supergirls, a history of comic book superheroines, is as thorough and captivating a graphic account as the book is a verbal one. Now, if you want to see rare pictures […]
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Marvel, Disney, and the Tears of Ahmet Zappa.
Photoshoppery by Monet Molina. So I woke up this morning thinking that the best idea anyone would have all day would be mine—that of a TV show called 2.5 Males. But it turns out some fancy business-types had me beat in the awesome idea department: As Steve mentioned this a.m., Marvel’s been bought by Disney […]
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On the Road with Floating World: Jucifer, Witch Mountain
It’s time for another installment of On the Road with Floating World, in which Floating World Comics proprietor Jason Leivian handpicks a few comics recommendations for musicians playing in town. Reminder: Swing by Floating World (20 NW 5th) during the week of the show, get 10% off recommended titles. Now here’s Jason with tonight’s recommendations: […]
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Day of the Tentacles
Hey, fellow people-who-think-comics-are-relevant. Remember the Great Marvel Tentacle Rape Dust-Up of Aught-Aught-Seven? You’d think maybe a lesson would have been learned after that point, right? Well… nope! This just happened, courtesy of Dark Horse*: I think what we can all take from this is that if you’re going to spotlight tentacle-on-lady art, at least make […]
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Today in Insulting Comic Book Reviews: Fahrenheit 451
From Slate: As the end time for printed books draws near, Fahrenheit 451, the 1953 novel that envisioned it all, has just been published, again. And this time it reads like a joke—an extended, ironic, illustrated joke. Because this time, Ray Bradbury’s novel about firemen who burn books instead of putting out fires is—oof!—a comic […]
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Inglourious Basterds in Comic Book Form.
Art by R. M. Guera. I can’t really recommend you read it—due, in no small part, to the incredibly clunky Flash interface you’re forced to use in order to do so—but Playboy has a scene from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds rendered as a comic, with art by R.M. Guera. It’s right here. We’ll have a […]
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Don Draper, Meet Some Zombies. Zombies, Meet Don Draper.
Wraparound cover of The Walking Dead #50. In the 8,000-page-long letters sections at the back the zombie comic The Walking Dead, by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard, a standard refrain is that the book should be adapted for an HBO series. Looks like Dead fans might be getting their wish—albeit on AMC rather than HBO. […]
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Marvel Anniversary Party at Cosmic Monkey*
Tonight, Marvel Comics is partnering with comics retailers across the country to celebrate 70 years of peddling funnybooks. Cosmic Monkey Comics (AKA one of the best bookstores in Portland) is hosting a party—there will be cake, and a 50% discount on all Marvel titles save this week’s. Writer Jeff Parker and local comics power couple […]
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Win a Copy of MySpace Dark Horse Presents Volume 3!
Because we are awesome, Dark Horse Comics sent the Mercury a few copies of MySpace Dark Horse Presents Volume 3 to give away on Blogtown. Yes. Give away. FOR FREE. You’re probably already familiar with MDHP—yeah, yeah, it was recently nominated for an Eisner for best comics anthology or whatever, but far more importantly, the […]
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On the Road with Floating World: Atole, E*Rock
Back atcha with another installment of On the Road with Floating World, in which Floating World Comics proprietor Jason Leivian handpicks a few comics recommendations for musicians playing in town. Reminder: Swing by Floating World (20 NW 5th) during the week of the show, get 10% off recommended titles. Now here’s Jason with tonight’s recommendations: […]
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Dr. Horrible Sketches
While preparing for an interview with Jamie S. Rich and Joelle Jones, co-creators of the just-released graphic novel You Have Killed Me, I ran across some of Joelle’s sketches for Dark Horse‘s upcoming Dr. Horrible one-shot: The comic, drawn by Joelle and written by Zack Whedon, is scheduled for release in November. More sketches here.