Neighborhood:
Milwaukie You penned a brilliant dystopian comic without ever leaving your mother’s basement...
Welcome to Milwaukie!
This Southeast working-class holdout might be best explained in three words: gore, graphic novels and grain. (read more) Local celebrity? Would-be Olympic medalist (and confirmed reprobate) ice princess Tonya Harding. Contribution to the literary body? Comics publisher Dark Horse, responsible for unleashing 300 and Sin City. With an honest-to-God grain producer, Bob’s Red Mill, rounding it all out, you have a charming remnant of small-town Americana. With a twist.
Suss it out at: Dark Horse’s Predator vs. Alien-decorated storefront (10956 SE Main St., 654-4184) and Bob’s Red Mill Bakery (5000 SE International Way, 607-6455, bobsredmill.com).
