THE GREEN GOBLIN The 4,897th villain in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier comes out later this week, and it’s one of the best Marvel movies so far. I’ll have a full review later this week, but in the meantime, I’m having a hard time gauging how interested in the movie people […]
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Super-Powered Mutant Mystique Just Can’t Handle Eating a Hamburger
Ah, I knew that wouldn’t last! Saw Captain America: The Winter Soldier last night, and it was great! And so here I was feeling really good about comic book movies but then this happened and now I’m sad about them again. Behold: A shitty X-Men: Days of Future Past tie-in with Hardee’s, in which Mystique, […]
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Today’s Read: Stan Lee’s Playboy Interview
Stan Lee’s getting old, and while that hasn’t kept the co-creator of just about all of the world’s most popular superheroes from popping up at comic conventions and in Marvel movies, he’s also starting to show a reflective side that, up until now, his boisterous public persona hasn’t hinted at before. Case in point: Playboy‘s […]
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CONDEMN OR ALLOW: There’s a Peanuts Movie, I Guess?
I am profoundly ambivalent about this new Peanuts movie, which, judging by the below teaser, is a thing that apparently exists: On one hand I’ve read a whole lot of Peanuts, and watched a whole lot of Peanuts specials, because I am human who grew up in the ’80s; naturally, there’s a fair amount of […]
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Comics Artists Live-Sketch Zombie in Love
Mike Russell I was a big fan of the Portland Opera’s Comics Night at the Opera program, where they invited local comic book artists to live sketch during a dress rehearsal. It was one of the few social media arts marketing campaigns I’ve ever felt remotely warmly toward—probably because it was born from a sense […]
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YOU’VE BEEN STERANKO’D! (Part II)
FROM NICK FURY, AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D. BY JIM STERANKO (For Part I in my “YOU’VE BEEN STERANKO’D!” series, in which I write about how I’m moderately obsessed with comic book creator Jim Steranko, go here.) As have all reasonable people, I’ve long since given up on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Disney’s blander-than-bland, duller-than-dull attempt to crank […]
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Win Tickets to Tomorrow’s COMICS UNDERGROUND!
JUDGE DREDD: MEGA-CITY TWO Future fashion: Koopa shell shoulder pads! Comics Underground, the comic book reading series that Alison and I put on, is back—it’s happening TOMORROW NIGHT, Thurs March 13, at the Jack London (529 SW 4th), at 8 pm. Portland’s best comics creators show up and perform their work, there’s art and jokes […]
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Lena Dunham to Write for Archie Comics. WHAT? YES!!
According to Comics Alliance, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (who as written for Marvel comics as well as TV shows such as Glee and Big Love) has been named as Archie Comics’ “first-ever chief creative officer.” And one of his first orders of business? To hire Girls‘ Lena Dunham to write a four-issue miniseries for Archie, debuting in […]
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Two Unrelated Comics-y Things, Both of Interest
From RoboCop vs. The Terminator by Frank Miller and Walter Simonson 1. ROBOCOPS AND TERMINATORS. Dark Horse is finally collecting one of the most under-appreciated classics of comics: 1992’s RoboCop vs. The Terminator, by Frank Miller and the great Walter Simonson. I had a poster of this thing up in my room as a teenager […]
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Yep, So Guardians of the Galaxy Looks Great
Over the past few years, Marvel has more or less conquered both the superhero genre and Hollywood. With Guardians of the Galaxy, they’re taking a gamble: Not only are they branching out from Avengers tie-ins to make a non-superhero movie, but said movie also happens to be a science-fantasy/comedy that stars Andy from Parks and […]
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New Comics Fest Linework NW Announces Lineup
So, this is interesting! Brand-new comics and illustration festival Linework NW announced the bulk of its lineup today. This isn’t the full list of exhibitors, but it’s a solid start, and I’m surprised and pleased to see some of the more indie-mainstream publishers (Dark Horse, Oni, Fantagraphics, Top Shelf) are involved, alongside a slew of […]
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Portland Cartoonist Erika Moen Launches a Patreon (Also, Patreon Sounds Pretty Brilliant)
Oh Joy, Sex Toy by Erika Moen Local cartoonist Erika Moen—who, it should be noted, has been interviewed in the Mercury, and has also appeared at Comics Underground, the comics reading series Alison and I produce—has a campaign up on Patreon, a newish crowdfunding site that, until this morning, I hadn’t even heard of, let […]