Sentences with phrase «other older comics»

Other older comics I love are Loki Agent of Asgard, Young Avengers, In Real Life, Help Us!

Not exact matches

I make them in the oven too and my son calls them Defeated Potatoes because I flatten them with the potato masher before they go in and they look like they've been stomped on by a dinosaur or some other large creature only an 11 - year - old boy who aspires to be a comic book artist could dream up.

Since lucking into the comics stash at the library, my 4 - year - old refuses any other literary offering.

Also, as proud as you might be about your old Barbie collection or limited addition comic magazines, refrain from sharing this kind of information with millions of other users!

Some of the superheroes who will be introduced to the viewing audience include Peter Petrelli, an almost 30 - something male nurse who suspects he might be able to fly, Isaac Mendez, a 28 - year - old junkie who has the ability to paint images of the future when he is high, Niki Sanders, a 33 - year - old Las Vegas showgirl who begins seeing strange things in mirrors, Hiro Nakamura, a 24 - year - old Japanese comic - book geek who literally makes time stand still, D.L. Hawkins, a 31 - year - old inmate who can walk through walls, Matt Parkman, a beat cop who can hear other people's thoughts, and Claire Bennet, a 17 - year - old cheerleader who defies death at every turn.

Other enjoyable performances back Sandler's up: Emmanuelle Chriqui is a charming leading lady; Lainie Kazan's crack comic timing put me in mind of her uproarious portrayal of the ultimate Jewish mom in 1982's My Favorite Year (and she doesn't look like she's aged a day since); as two of the Zohan's old foes, John Turturro is amusing (even if he's in danger of becoming this decade's answer to Vito Scotti if he takes on too many more ethnic roles), while Sandler's longtime buddy and perpetual hanger - on Rob Schneider for once DOES N'T make you want to tear out either his hair or your own.

It joined a handful of other curiosities I was glad to catch at all: Peter Bogdanovich's labored sex farce She's Funny That Way, Saverio Costanzo's jaw - dropping vegan - momma horror story Hungry Hearts, David Gordon Green's messy Manglehorn and its confirmation of Al Pacino's embrace of grumpy old manhood, and (prior to its HBO airing) the two - part serving of Olive Kitteridge, a darkly comic, stingingly apt anatomy of depression across decades of marriage, as portrayed by Frances McDormand (Olive) and Richard Jenkins (long - suffering dear Henry).

But the story it's based on in the comics is more than 20 years old at this point, and has been influencing Marvel properties in comics and other media ever since.

Yesterday, comics fans got into a bit of a tizzy (some of us got into a bigger tizzy than others) about a variant cover for the upcoming first issue of Invincible Iron Man featuring Riri Williams looking way too sexualized for a 15 - year - old character.

, Mattel to Release Hoverboard 47:45 — Review: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 1:23:55 — Trailer Trash: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Beyond the Black Rainbow 1:31:40 — Other Stuff We Watched: Moneyball, Real Steel, Puss in Boots, Justice League: Doom, Comic Book Men, Full Metal Jousting, Eastbound & Down, Celebrity Apprentice, 555, The American Friend, Tokyo - Ga, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The Island, Apollo 18, Our Day Will Come, Race with the Devil, Ghost Rider, Crank, The Interrupters, Wet Hot American Summer, Elite Squad, The Abyss 2:30:15 — Junk Mail: The Artist Feedback, The Grey Spoilers, Old Video Podcasts, Favourite Tom Hanks»80s Comedies, Watching Digital Presentations of Classic Films, Objective Goodness and Jobbers 2:54:10 — This Week's DVD Releases 2:55:15 — Outro

Screenwriters John Ronson and Peter Straughan (who very loosely based the character on Frank Sidebottom, the comic persona of the late U.K. performer, Chris Sievey, amongst other musicians) are aware of the thin line between madness and genius, but rather than exploit that tired trope, they use it as a jumping off point to explore issues as inherent to both art and life as identity, voice, creative output, and that age old question of what it really means to sell out.

The other problem is that the comics are not super fresh; nothing is less than six months old, and the vast majority of the collection is much older.

«What a lot of other people were doing was to take the venerable old horse of the comics industry and putting it on a skateboard and calling it motion comics,» Gibbons said.

Alan Lawrence Sitomer, on the other hand, delivers his own fearlessly comic account of a 13 - year - old grappling with inopportune erections, in the well - executed The Downside of Being Up (2011).

My friend Jon Lebkowsky (an editor at bOING bOING and the co-founder of Fringe Ware) says, «Your Popeye post sent me to Amazon, where I discovered you can acquire old original issues of Mad Magazine (and various other comics, including Batman # 1 and Superman # 1) for the Kindle.

Interwoven with his large - scale graphics and comic - strip works are found materials such as empty bottles, discarded syringes, old sheet metal and other fragments from the street, remade into sculptural installations.

Other inspirations include classic comic strips like George Herriman's Krazy Kat and Bud Sagendorf's Popeye, old Warner Bros. cartoons, Lynda Barry's illustrated novels, contemporary animated series like Adventure Time and Steven Universe, and recent autobiographical zine comics.

While many of us move onto other imagery in our paintings as we get older, Alejandro successfully explores a potentially awkward inter-relationship between very tightly rendered traditional portraiture, comic and cartoon imagery, underpainting, over-drawing, and abstract expressionism.

It looks like the world remains in that «same as it ever was» formulation for climate diplomacy, with Alphonse and Gaston — the United States and China — still locked in the old tragi - comic routine, each offering the other the opportunity to step first.

Dad (old enough to know better) and Daughter (young enough to be a smarty pants) take a look at the best and brightest children's picture books, chapter books, YA and comics and loads of other great kids stuff Frequency about 14 posts per week.

The other day I came across one of my old comic books about the «man of steel» and my thoughts went to how the role of the modern day Realtor has a lot in common with my favourite superhero.