For those of you who don't normally follow the goings-on in millionyear BUT are nevertheless occasional comic fans, you should know that the Million Year Picnic in Cambridge, MA, USA received our shipment of SCOTT PILGRIM volume 6 today!

Therefore, we will be having a MIDNIGHT SALE tonight over at 99 Mount Auburn Street (downstairs) in Harvard Square ( Read more... )

SPREAD THE WORD!!!

If you can send around links to THIS post here:

http://community.livejournal.com/millionyear/67799.html

I'd be VERY grateful.

We're running events all day!!! Kids' time from 11am-2pm!!!

WOO! My interview with Dan Clowes made it into The Weekly Dig AND you can see it online!!! http://www.weeklydig.com/arts-entertainment/201004/daniel-clowes - in print, I got 2/3rds of a page ( Read more... )

Another 250 word review. This is the review of Planetary volume 4 in hardcover that was supposed to come out weeks ago is out NOW in the 4/21/2010-4/28/2010 Weekly Dig.

Monday night, I once again dragged rmd out for a free preview, this time of the movie adaptation of the DC Comics series The Losers.

It was OK. I was no where near as jazzed afterward as I was for Kick-Ass. The plot was kinda meh. Five guys get burned by the CIA (sort of) and are offered a chance to not only get back to America (from South America ( Read more... )

Kick-Ass actually KICKED ASS!

"Definitely eponymous!" - rmd

I got a pair of passes to see a sneak preview and dragged rmd with me. We were both hella impressed ( Read more... )

Wrote another review for The Weekly Dig, this time for Planetary volume 4, currently only available in hardcover ( Read more... )

When last I posted, it was Wednesday night/Thursday morning and there was much whinging.

( Then it got better... )

Hey comics readers!

Are there any comic trades (or complete GNs) coming out in the next 2 months that you think I should review? They can be YA or adult, doesn't matter. I'd prefer they NOT be standard superhero fare, but alternative superhero-related stuff is not out of the question if it's good.

Lookin' for ideas of what to review for The ( Read more... )

This week's The Weekly Dig has another review by yours truly. I talked about the Ignition City collected trade by Warren Ellis (originally published as 5 or 6 issues by Avatar Press).

He calls it "Deadwood meets Buck Rogers." I liked it a lot.