Results tagged “comicbooks”

JUST LIKE CLOCKWORK: This is your best bet for smooth grooving local hiphop this weekend. Clockwork probably make you very happy, but Macklemore is guaranteed to do so; his live show is unstoppably entertaining and his songs are both thoughtful and hilarious. This is his first show in town since July, people. Plus, XPerience might sing and Candidt might do "VooDoo." All of those prospects in combination are absolutely worth the rainy drive to Nectar. 9 p.m., Friday // Nectar Lounge // $8adv // 21+ IS THIS A MONTAGE?: It sure is.......

DEAD BABY BIKE RACE: The mission statement up for consideration at the Dead Baby Bike Club is: "We just want to ride our bikes and not get hassled by the man." The Dead Babies, a hard-drinking, semi-organized band of bicylists, are holding their annual few-holds-barred bicycle race across the city tonight; it will be a madcap sight to behold. Make sense of their website if you dare; pre-reg is at 5 p.m., and the race ends in "The Greatest Party Known To Humankind." Hint: The Station in Ballard @......

When Titans Clash! by earinc This reminder to go check escape with the new Incredible Hulk movie is brought to you by the Seattlest Flickr Pool - kindly ignore that there's a mixing of comic universes going on here....

Local illustrator/writer/cartoonist Jeremy Eaton has an epic blog post about how the Hulk almost got him laid. Apparently back in the dark ages before the internet, people had to turn to the fan mail columns of comic books for their social networking needs. The story is funny as hell. Go read it. The skepticism in the comments over the authenticity of the "Wendy Wilson" who wrote to him is also great, especially this hilarious speculation from Jeremy: And, yes, there indeed is alliteration at work here, Blogfoot. Good observation. Perhaps the trail......

Admission: We don't know shit about graphic novels (we were more baseball cards than comic books in our day) We read Maus in the mid 90's and the Watchmen for a college class, and that's it. But as we were down in Georgetown for a work function, we thought we'd check out the new store. The lovely and charming Rhea (pictured at right) picked something out for us based on the bibliography just mentioned and our assurance that we "like humor." That book we're holding is Joe Sacco's

Seattlest used to read a lot of comic books. We still read comic books, actually, just not as many of them since we shook the Marvel monkey off our back in college. (Yeah, we read trade paperback collections from the library. And started buying 52. Shut up.) But even at the height of our geekdom, we doubt we read as many comic books as David Campbell, the local guy behind Dave's Long Box. "I'm going to review my comic book collection and you're going to like it!" he......

What will the weekend bring? Why, the new 4A state basketball champion, of course! So the staff of Seattlest picks our favorites in today's critical semifinal game between Franklin and Curtis. Also, they mention some other stuff they are interested in. Michael van Baker is tired (possibly from his recent bare-knuckled fight with former Knick Charles Oakley, seeking revenge after Oakley stole his girlfriend. He predicts a Franklin victory. Once Garfield is eliminated from contention, high-school basketball is dead to David S. On Saturday night he will see 'Capote.' He will then spend all of Sunday speaking in his......

Remember If All of Seattle Read the Same Book, the Seattle Public Library-sponsored event wherein, as you might guess, all of Seattle was encouraged to read the same book? (At the same time, no less.) Well, they changed the name, but this year's go-round is just around the corner. Now it's called Seattle Reads Persepolis, because it's snappy and because this year's book is Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel about growing up in the wake of Iran's Islamist revolution. The library explains: Persepolis is a memoir in graphic novel......

One of our favorite MC's, Aesop Rock, is playing at the Showbox tomorrow night. We like him mainly because he has a great seesaw-type delivery and occasionally drops references to comic books. We like to think he is the MC we would have become if we had actual talent and didn't grow up in a small town in Pennsylvania. If that's not your thang, you can check out up-and-coming buzz band the Oxford Collapse at the Fun House on Wednesday. Their newest single got a four-star rating from......

What's better than comic books? Why, free comic books, of course! Tell your action figures to make way on that shelf, cause the Fourth Annual Free Comic Book Day takes place this Saturday, May 7. What does that mean? It means you and all your Seth Cohen -wannabe friends can choose from among 30 different special edition comic books, absolutely gratis. Go old school and nab a G.I. Joe or be light years ahead of your saber-toting companions with Revenge of the Sith. (Reading which is sure......

If you’re a radio fan who craves the offbeat and simply weird, there’s no better place to tune in on a Friday night than KBCS, 91.3 FM. From 11 pm until 1 am, the esteemed Reverend Bubba Levi Greenacres spins a strange audio web from a techno remix of Lawrence Welk to the Muppets to Shooby Taylor to Leonard Nimoy to Shonen Knife to the Latin Hebrew Hip-Hop of the Hip Hop Hoodios. The program is called "Nerd Rock" and Greenacres......