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Marvels Epilogue release with Kurt Busiek

Excalibur Comics 2444 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

Come join legendary writer Kurt Busiek at your friendly neighborhood Excalibur Comics for the release of the Marvels Epilogue! 5:30-8 PM on July 24th! Don't miss this event decades in the making! An all-new standalone epilogue to the classic MARVELS graphic novel written by Kurt Busiek and fully-painted by Alex Ross! A "Marvels" look at the "all-new, all-different" X-Men of the 1970s. In this 16-page story, Alex and Kurt bring Marvel's world to brilliant, realistic life one last time, as the now-retired Phil Sheldon and his daughters, in Manhattan to see the Christmas lights, find themselves in the middle of a clash between the outsider heroes and the deadly Sentinels, giving them a close-up perspective on the mutant experience. Also featuring a behind-the-scenes look at…

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Daniel Nieh

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland

Victor Li is devastated by his father’s murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father’s things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur – in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China’s leanest communist years. Victor travels to Beijing, where he navigates his father’s secret criminal life, confronting decades-old grudges, violent spats, and a shocking new enterprise that the organization wants to undertake. Standing up against it is likely what got his father killed, but Victor remains undeterred. He enlists his growing network of allies and friends to finish what his father started, no matter the costs. Daniel Nieh’s Beijing Payback (Ecco) is a fast-paced revenge thriller, bursting with…

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