Half the crew is under the weather but we’re hanging tough — fresh off his Free Comic Book Day Fraggle Rock Mega-Signing, Sam “The Hammer” Humphries fills in for Caleb and the bombs start dropping. ALMIGHTY’s Ed Laroche joins our roundtable discussion of Dan Clowes’ WILSON (and Chris’ comparison of it to INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #25), and shares his thoughts on Mezzo & Pirus’ KING OF FLIES and Naoki Urasawa’s 20th CENTURY BOYS. We also touch on BATMAN AND ROBIN, SIEGE Battlefield Tie-Ins, UNKNOWN SOLDIER #19, and Aaron raves about the new volume of ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN.
Oh, and Chris praises Mark Millar (must be a full moon)!

 

 


Dan Clowes’ Wilson In Stock! *First 100 copies get a free Wilson poster

Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friend and stranger alike into a series of one-sided conversations, punctuating his own lofty discursions with a brutally honest, self-negating sense of humor. After his father dies, Wilson, now irrevocably alone, sets out to find his ex-wife with the hope of rekindling their long-dead relationship, and discovers he has a teenage daughter, born after the marriage ended and given up for adoption. Wilson eventually forces all three to reconnect as a family – a doomed mission that will surely, inevitably backfire.

Buy your copy of WILSON plus “The Christian Astronauts Newspaper Strip” or any of the great titles in D. CLOWES back catalog at Meltdown Comics then catch DAN C. LIVE! signing at “Chapters” or “Book Soup” or “Sky Light” or “B&N” or some other book store this Summer in support of WILSON.

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NOW IN STOCK: The McSweeny’s S.F. Panoramacelebration-of-newspapers issue!


Issue 33 of McSweeney’s Quarterly will be a one-time only, Sunday-edition-sized newspaper—the San Francisco Panorama. It’ll have news and sports and arts coverage, and comics (sixteen pages of glorious, full-color comics, from Chris Ware and Dan Clowes and Art Spiegelman and many others besides) and a magazine and a weekend guide, and will basically be an attempt to demonstrate all the great things print journalism can (still) do, with as much first-rate writing and reportage and design (and posters and games and on-location Antarctic travelogues) as we can get in there. Expect journalism from Andrew Sean Greer, fiction from George Saunders and Roddy Doyle, dispatches from Afghanistan, and much, much more.

FEATURING:
-One 15″ x 22″ full-color newspaper (100+ pages, including a 16-page oversize comics section)
-One magazine (100+ pages)
-One Books section (90+ pages)
-And two giant double-sided posters

You don’t want to miss this one!

 

July 2nd Ghost World July 16 Return of the Living Dead ….more TBA Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq6AOc0ATnU JUST ADDED-LIVE ART BY: CODAK AND JIM MAHFOOD AKA FOOD ONE ON THE ROOFTOP JULY 2ND! Doors at 8:30pm Movie begins at 10pm sharp. DJ Sets before and after movie All Ages 21+ to drink DRINKING ALLOWED IN THEATRE, ROOFTOP PARTY AFTER THE MOVIE, DJ’S ALL NIGHT!!!! Full Concessions Bar we’d love it if you ride your bike or take public transportation. Come Out and Support! Your rude commentary and disruptive behavior are 100% welcomed…please come and heckle the actors…the other movie goers…and cause a complete ruckus!
Host: Jane Dope, Hard Cora, 2Me
Start Time: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:00pm
Location: Downtown Independent Theatre
Address: 251 S. Main, Los Angeles, CA
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