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Jonah Ray’s MELTDOWN. Friday, March 19th. at 8PM $8 bux!

MELTDOWN. This will be a fun show. Please come out and reblog and spread the word.  It’s a great line up: Whitney Cummings. I’m not sure if you saw her on the Joan  Rivers roast but she completely dominated. She’s got such a  great stage presence with really punchy jokes to back it up. Recently  she starred in a pilot Produced by Ben Stiller, Directed by David Wain,  and co-starring John Goodman. Duncan Trussell. Duncan just recently wrapped up writing for NICK  SWARDSONS sketch show on Comedy Central and has been progressively been  becoming my favorite comic to see. One of the smartest and funniest guys  around.  Eric Appel. Eric has been consistently pumping out amazing sketches  since starting up on the Andy Milonakis Show back in 2005. Recently,  he’s written on Crank Yankers, Human Giant and has been  responsible for some of my favorite videos on FUNNY OR DIE, where he is a  staffed Writer/Producer/Director. On top of that you can see him  perform every sunday with Community’s Donald Glover at the UCB  Theatres SHITTY JOBS. K.P. Anderson. K.P. has been the Executive Producer and Head Writer of  THE SOUP w/ Joel McHale for the past 5 years. Having been able to work  side by side with him has been a delight. He regularly opens up for Joel  McHale all across the country. Come see his rare L.A. appearance. Brent Weinbach. Ask any comic that has performed with Brent and they  will tell you ONLY good things. One of the more quoted and referenced  comedians within the comedy community. I often find myself trying to  describe his bits to friends and am always falling short of being able  to. It truly is only something that you have to experience live. Plus Special Guest: STEVE AGEE. Steve, a regular cast member on the  Sarah Silverman Program is a wreck. One of the funniest hypochondriacs  you will ever come across. Steve will swing by to talk about why he  might just be about to die or almost just did. This is a show full of headliners and I couldn’t be more happy  to show them to everybody who comes. This is handpicked comedy.

MELTDOWN.

This will be a fun show. Please come out and reblog and spread the word. It’s a great line up:

Whitney Cummings. I’m not sure if you saw her on the Joan Rivers roast but she completely dominated. She’s got such a great stage presence with really punchy jokes to back it up. Recently she starred in a pilot Produced by Ben Stiller, Directed by David Wain, and co-starring John Goodman.

Duncan Trussell. Duncan just recently wrapped up writing for NICK SWARDSONS sketch show on Comedy Central and has been progressively been becoming my favorite comic to see. One of the smartest and funniest guys around.

Eric Appel. Eric has been consistently pumping out amazing sketches since starting up on the Andy Milonakis Show back in 2005. Recently, he’s written on Crank Yankers, Human Giant and has been responsible for some of my favorite videos on FUNNY OR DIE, where he is a staffed Writer/Producer/Director. On top of that you can see him perform every sunday with Community’s Donald Glover at the UCB Theatres SHITTY JOBS.

K.P. Anderson. K.P. has been the Executive Producer and Head Writer of THE SOUP w/ Joel McHale for the past 5 years. Having been able to work side by side with him has been a delight. He regularly opens up for Joel McHale all across the country. Come see his rare L.A. appearance.

Brent Weinbach. Ask any comic that has performed with Brent and they will tell you ONLY good things. One of the more quoted and referenced comedians within the comedy community. I often find myself trying to describe his bits to friends and am always falling short of being able to. It truly is only something that you have to experience live.

Plus Special Guest: STEVE AGEE. Steve, a regular cast member on the Sarah Silverman Program is a wreck. One of the funniest hypochondriacs you will ever come across. Steve will swing by to talk about why he might just be about to die or almost just did.

This is a show full of headliners and I couldn’t be more happy to show them to everybody who comes. This is handpicked comedy.

jonah ray.

THIS IS HAPPENING!

JUST ADDED!

Frysmith will be here serving up tasty treats!

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Origin Unknown: The Lost Sketchbook of Charles Darwin

It was the 1820’s, Charles Darwin was discovering that his dispassion for boring lectures and the stress of surgical study was so great that he could no longer pursue medicine as a field of study; he dropped out of Edinburgh University. He was forced by his father to attend Christ’s College in Cambridge in hopes that completing his Bachelors in Arts Degree would be his first step towards becoming an Anglican Priest. It was here that Darwin re-connected with his cousin William Darwin Fox who took him on long journeys into the woods to collect beetles. It would seem that Darwin had somehow discovered a passion for natural science in those woods; several of his findings were published, excelling his desire to seek out more exotic journeys and make more discoveries. Years later he would set out on an exploration that would span just over five years, hundreds of miles, and lead to a great number of discoveries aboard a ship made famous by his presence, the HMS Beagle. It is well known that Charles Darwin kept several journals during his travels, and as ship documents suggest, during a repair, a mishap would cause loads of cargo on the Beagle to be lost to the sea.

Origin Unknown: The L­ost sketchbook of Charles Darwin is a series of reconstructed journal remnants discovered off the shores of a remote island in Indonesia forensic studies have lead the scientific community to believe that they were in fact penned by Charles Darwin during his travels. After decades of restoration, anthropologist Dr. J. B. Doronio has compiled these drawings, footnotes, and salvaged logs and turned them into a series of books that would come to be known within scientific circles as The Origin Unknown Documents. Through these documents, Charles Darwin reveals several specimens that still remain undiscovered, as well as offering us a glimpse into what seems to be a documented personal psychedelic experience. This psychedelic experience has led skeptics to doubt whether or not his observational drawings correspond to living creatures or a hallucinatory experience. This book is presented to you as physical evidence of a great man’s journey, the decision to believe that Darwin’s discoveries were of the physical sort or meta-physical sort is left up to the reader.

Only 10 of these have been made. Out of these, only 6 are still available for purchase at Meltdown Comics.


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The Sale of the Decade; The Party of the Year! @Meltcast

Tomorrow night, from 7-10, be there as Caleb & I discuss our best comics of the 00’s, interview various comics luminaries, and hear your live take on the year that was during our “airing of grieveances” segment!

Also, stop by Meltdown to take advantage of the SALE OF THE DECADE:

From 10AM – 5PM: 30% off ALL RECENT SINGLE ISSUES*

(BLACKEST NIGHT #6, FALL OF HULKS ALPHA VARIANT & ANGEL NYE VARIANT NOT ON SALE)

FROM 5PM-CLOSE: 30% OFF ALL GRAPHIC NOVELS

Buy some comics, air some grieveances, have a lot of fun!

The Sale of the Decade; The Party of the Year

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Hero Complex. Los Angeles Times: If you’re looking for Tintin in Los Angeles go to Meltdown!

| Hero Complex Home | For your inner fanboy!

Tintin in the Land of Meltdown

December 14, 2009 |  1:11 am

If you’re looking for Tintin in Los Angeles,
the best place to go is Meltdown Comics & Collectibles – and that’s especially the case between now and Tuesday night.
The good folks at the landmark store on Sunset Boulevard are hosting Tintin in the Land of Meltdown, which is a product expo done in conjunction with importer Kiss That Frog. Here’s the blurb: “A fantastic display of all things Tintin including charming character watches, limited edition cold cast porcelain and resin statues, and a dazzling array of lead miniatures and detailed vehicles that span the cast and events of all the albums … Meltdown will host this surprise exposition within the store allowing fans and collectors the first opportunity to acquire any of these delights under one roof in the United States.”

It’s timely, that’s for sure. All things Tintin are ramping up with an eye toward the Tintin films that are being made by the powerhouse tandem of Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg (the first arrives in late 2011). I myself am just starting my research into the classic character (I bought my first three Tintin books at Meltdown about two months ago), and I will be dropping by Meltdown on Tuesday for the final day of display.
– Geoff Boucher

RELATED: REVIEW: ‘Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin’ by Pierre Assouline

Read it here: Tintin in the Land of Meltdown | Hero Complex | Los Angeles Times.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a74d7881970b-pi

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