When DC Comics announced they were starting over their entire line of comics with new-reader-friendly first issues in September, they also promised they’d be supporting those new comics with movie trailers and TV ads. Here, via Robot 6, is the first thirty second spot: What do you think?
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At Last, We Can All Listen to Doctor Who’s Voicemail
Here’s a prequel/teaser/ad for the next episode of Doctor Who—the excellently titled “Let’s Kill Hitler”—which’ll kick off the second half of the show’s sixth season. Aside from a couple of standout episodes, I was pretty underwhelmed by the first half of season six—but it ended really, really strong, so I’m predictably stoked about this killing […]
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Doctor Who Art Show at Albina Press
Yep, really! The show opens tonight at 6 pm at Albina Press on Hawthorne, 5012 SE Hawthorne; it’ll be up through August 31, and features work from artists Christopher Herndon, Brett Superstar, Cloe Ashton, December Carson, and more. I can’t find any images online (except for this of Elijah Klauder painting a TARDIS) so in […]
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Mike Haggar: Half Mayor, Half Amazing
“Epic” is a word that no longer has meaning. For years, the ‘net has been tossing it at everything from some asshole screaming about bacon trucks to the laziest puppy/robot fight you’ll ever witness. Ask a class of high school students to define “Epic” and you’ll be lucky to have one kid in the back […]
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Today’s Stupidest Letter of the Day
Mercury reader Matthew writes: Look, I know I’m the only one, but can we please quit using the words “geek” or “nerd” to describe people (Vol. 12 # 10- “Geek Week”). Not only is it insulting and alienating, but it’s also unfair. Why don’t you describe the gay pride celebration as “fag week” or Juneteenth […]
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Game Of Thrones: The Game (… Of Thrones?)
Generally speaking, College Humor is the electronic equivalent of a popped collar and collecting beer bottles above your bed. It speaks to a certain audience, but that audience ate a pop tart and bong resin for breakfast and has Chem 101 in twenty minutes, so it’s not like they’re discussing Tolstoy in a French salon. […]
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They See Me Rollin’ D6s, They Hatin’
You have stagnated. Your convenient neighborhood pub, trendy-but-predictable social circle, and 9-to-5 data-entry job (“Ugh, I’m old and 22 and sooo done with employment”) fail to intrigue, to inspire, to stir those rusty noggin-cogs something, well, imaginative. Yeah, you dig a good book, but you’re also social! Video games are awesome for, like, high schoolers, […]
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HBO’s Superheroes: The Case Against Capes
As I’ve mentioned before, superheroes really shouldn’t wear capes. And amateur real-life superheroes should ESPECIALLY not wear capes—for what I would assume should be obvious reasons. But apparently it’s not obvious enough, because real life crime fighters are multiplying to the point where HBO decided to make a documentary about ’em, appropriately entitled Superheroes. Debuting […]
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Tolkien’s Middle Earth Recreated In Minecraft
Straight up, I never finished any of those Lord of the Rings books. I tried to sit through the first movie, but after 14 hours of waiting for Elijah Wood to kiss that kid from Goonies, I fell asleep. So when a friend sent me a link to the following video, I had to take […]
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Attn. Guildies: Watch The Guild Tonight at Guardian Games
I’ve mentioned this Guild thing before—here and here—but not in a Portland-related capacity, UNTIL NOW: Tonight from 7-11 pm, great local nerdery supply store Guardian Games (303 SE 3rd) is pairing up with the Joss Whedon Obsessives Support Group PDX Browncoats to host a benefit screening of all The Guild webisodes to date. (Sure, shut-in, […]
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Win Reserved Seating for Trek in the Park!
Dig it: This weekend is the FINAL two days of this year’s installment of the universally loved Trek in the Park—this summer featuring the hilarious and exciting Star Trek episode “Mirror, Mirror”! (Read the review here.) The only problem? This show is so wildly popular, it’s hard to get choice seating at the Woodlawn Park […]
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Doctor Who Saves Hitler?!? SCREW YOU, WHO!!!
Me? I’m not a big Doctor Who fan. However, I know many of you are… which means you’ve all got a lot of ‘splainin’ to do! WHAT’S UP WITH DOCTOR WHO REFUSING TO KILL HITLER?? In the trailer for the upcoming episode entitled, “Let’s Kill Hitler,” it appears as if the Who team is doing […]