For those of you wonderful people who have regular pull-lists here at the Isotope and are walking around with sexy mobile devices in your pockets... go ahead and update those lists to your heart's content with Comixology. This is something I wanted to have made for our customers for years!
Long before it was a reality I asked Diamond Comics and several software developers to make a website and a program that would make managing your subscriptions effortless for you folks, but none had the vision to see how this could benefit the entire comic industry... that is until I found the folks from Comixology. These people not only "got it" and built us something beautiful but they've also managed to carve quite a nice high tech comic industry niche for themselves in the process. Bravo, guys!
So don't be shy, start using their great site. And if you have an iPhone, grab yourself the app here. Blackberry user? There's an app for you too!
In keeping with this week's high style theme the ever-fashionable Isotope staff is serving up a hand-picked haute couture selection of gorgeous designer and indy label comics you'll be seeing your favorite celebrities reading on the red carpet this season... the perfect high fashion accessory for the contemporary sexy nerd fashionistas in us all!
We're all about the art this week! With the jaw-dropping Warhol Live exhibit at the de Young Museum wrapping up this weekend (go see it while you can!), the amazing Nick Cave Sound Suits fashion-as-physical-manifestations-of-sound exhibit at the Yerba Buena, and the mobile street art fest that is Bay to Breakers... it's the right week to get your art on!
Boys and girls, it's time to blast off to adventure with the IsoStaff! Grab your trusty bubble-helmet, your decode-o-ring, your favorite raygun and join us in a never-ending quest to defend the universe from tyranny and to keep the galaxies free for retro-futurists everywhere!
Ladies and gents, in honor of our friends at UPS getting us to drive around chasing after them for hours to get our boxes this week (on Earth Day? For shame, UPS!) the IsoStaff is using the power of Photoshop to get ourselves behind the wheel of the big trucks. Who wants a package delivered? Vroom!
Isotope Peeps! A perfect addition to your Easter basket... or even for a little Peep Jousting. And while you're at it, go visit the fab Whitney Matheson and read her new Peep Show posts here and here.
THE GOON creator Eric Powell always seems to serve up something amazing in celebration of summer. From hilarious Eisner Award presenting to the jaw-dropping Satan's Sodomy Baby to creeping us all out with the Powell mask (thanks to fellow madman Tony Moore)... but this year he's really upping the ante, with two great tastes that taste great together!
Upon returning from the beach I was heartbroken to see my favorite wall mural painted over. No more Donkey Kong + Dig Dug + Q-Bert graffiti? How sad! Of course this inspired the week's staff photos...
Checking out everybody's post convention photos gets us all giddy about folks dressing up all foolish, so we're sporting our favorite funnybook character costumes, too. Yes. we know this probably makes us look like huge dorks to some folks out there who frown on such activities. Well guess what? This is a comic book shop and we *are* huge dorks! (sticks out tongue)!
STORM - Superstar aka Madame Natasha Romanova - The Black Widow
The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack HC Jack Kirby's The Losers HC Ex Machina Special #4
Kirsten Baldock - Special Projects Director aka Ms. Zinda Blake - Lady Blackhawk
The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack HC Captain Britain & MI-13 #11 Fables #82
James Sime - Proprietor aka Mr. Stephen Strange - Dr. Strange
Super Human Resources #1 The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack HC Guardians of the Galaxy #11
This week's staff pictures are a trio of techniques on different mediums drawn by the one and only Dave Johnson. Yes... we think his drawing of Kirsten is the best one too!
STORM - Superstar Medium: Sharpie on sketchbook paper. Click to enlarge
War of Kings #4 Secret Warriors #2 Madman Atomic Comics #14
Kirsten Baldock - Special Projects Director Medium: Blue pencil & Sharpie on cardboard. Click to enlarge
I Am Legion TPB Shrapnel #3 Agents of Atlas #2
James Sime - Proprietor Medium: Sharpie on bar napkin. Click to enlarge
Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969 HC Madman Atomic Comics #14 Goon #32
Still waiting for that darn distributor to finally send copies of Scott Pilgrim vol 5 to stores? Well, you'll have to keep waiting! But even if they don't love you, your amigos at the Isotope still do... so if you are on the our waiting list (or act very fast) you're getting a copy TODAY!
Thanks to everyone who helped make this possible, and Happy Birthday Bryan Lee O'Malley!
Scott Pilgrim vol 5 TPB Agents of Atlas #1 Oishinbo A La Carte TPB
(It's true... more than one of us wished for a fourth pick this week, because we're also digging Jonathan Hickman's Secret Warriors big bunches. Nick Fury Agent: of Nothing? C'mon, that rocks!)