comic books

Mayors of Dorkville and MOD Comics is a small comic book imprint started by Mike and Christian Robison of Twin Falls, ID and Carson City, NV. On December 1st they are launching a Kickstarter to fund the first print run of their new story “Champion.”

Come join us Friday evening at Carson City's local game store, Hydra's Lair, to experience some Friday Night Magic!

One of Magic the Gathering's most beloved and prolific artists, Terese Nielsen's brush and imagination fill the Magic card art box with breathtaking geometry and impeccable attention to detail. What began with Force of Will has blossomed into a huge portfolio. Her family recalls being posed as warriors, goblins, and artificers.

On Wednesday, April 19, the excitement of storytelling will be evident when local author William ‘Bill' Hill shares his craft and stories with members of the Carson City Leisure Hour Club.

William Hill is a naturalized northern Nevadan, a native of Indianapolis, Indiana and a product of many places and stories. Bill has lived in numerous locales, including Prairie Village, KS, Bristol, TN, Dallas and Denton, TX, and in south and north Lake Tahoe, NV. Currently he creates from the foothills of the eastern Sierra.

DK's Sierra Mountain Comics sells single-issue comic books, collectibles, trade paperbacks, tabletop gaming supplies, Magic: The Gathering cards and more. It also hosts tournaments and launch parties.
Address: 1801 U.S. Highway 50, Suite J;
Phone: 841-4263;
Online: Facebook.com/DKsSierraMountainComics
Hours: 1-5 p.m. Tuesday; noon-7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday; 1 p.m.-midnight Friday; 1-6 p.m. Saturday; closed Sunday and Monday.

"Green Lantern," the current DC Comic ripoff now playing at the Fandango Galaxy cineflex in Carson City, is all about a corps of Green Lantern good guys who protected the universe from evildoers such as Parallax, the baddest bad guy around.

Movie starts with Temuera Morrison as Abin Sur getting hit by Parallax while sledding through space and crashing on a rocky beach. With his dying breath he send his powerful Green Lantern out to find someone to replace him in guarding Earth from Parallax.

I missed a couple of the "X Man" interations so I can't offer much in the way of comparisons, but world opening audience size was down from the last version. That said, 'X Man: First Class," now screening at the Fandango Galaxy multiplex in Carson City, is a film of its times, a melange of fast cuts, amazing technology which reveals its comic-book birthright with fantasy and some fact.

It's hard to say whether the mythical adventure film "Thor" currently playing at the Fandango Galaxy in Carson City is the best adventure film since "Fast Five," or whether it is a messy marketing adaptation of Scandinavian myth with no logic and sense to the story other than luring the kids in.