Periscope: Portland's storyboard and comics studio.

Two Mercury Spider-books came out on Wednesday: David Hahn's second issue of Spider-man Loves Mary Jane and The first issue of Jeff Parker's Spider-man/ Fantastic Four.

Hahn's book is getting nice coverage at Comixtreme and Dean Trippe's journal. And they're going ape over Parker and Wieringo at All this and Earth 2 , Comics should be good , Hasn't Happened Yet , Unnatural Devotions ,
Comixtreme , Dave Van D.

And in local comix news, Steve Lafler writes:

Greetings, I'd like to invite/remind folks about the Manx Media reading on Tuesday night at The Press Club (wine bar/cafe) 2621 SE Clinton St. at 7 pm. Ben Tanzer will be in from Chicago to read from his new Lucky Man novel, and I will be reading from my new comic book Cat Suit. Both Ben and I pledge to be clever and entertaining! We will sign books after the reading.The Press Club has been doing literary tupe stuff for a while; unless I'm mistaken this is the first time the comix community has sunk it's hooks into this venue. Hopefully it will become habit forming!