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Bridge City Comics

Bridge City Comics is owned by Michael Ring, former Dark Horse marketing guy, the best friend I have in the retailer community, so hopefully my credibility will not be in question when I say the joint is jumping. No signings here, no special events beyond handing out comics. But Bridge City Comics is in a very cool, up-and-coming neighborhood on Mississippi Ave. in northeast Portland, and the neighborhood’s pouring out for the event. Jennifer & Matt Holm, creators of the all-ages comic Babymouse, just stopped in. Michael hadn’t met ‘em before, but he’s a fan of the book, so I predict a signing … Randy Jarrell, an editor at Oni, is here, and he just started up a conversation about Iron Man. Ring’s a new dad, so he hasn’t seen Iron Man yet. He literally just squealed, “I can’t wait to geek out!” Egads. On the way out of Floating World, I ran into Joe Nozemack, Publisher of Oni, himself starting to make the rounds of shops. I bet he hasn’t seen Iron Man. He’s much less a superhero than Ring, who’s currently debating the quality of fight scenes in today’s comics movies. Expectations for The Hulk’s fight scenes are not that great, because “It’s more about brute force than carefully orchestrated fights.” Free Comic BOOK Day, guys. This place is pack, though, lots of kids, lots of adults.