Sentences with phrase «about comics in»

With behind - the - scenes information about comics in more recent decades as well.

Former comic readers started reading again after hearing about comics in the general news media.

couldn't care less about D&D, because they couldn't care less about comics in the first place.

We want to have fun and talk about comics in the way we want to talk about them — with an understanding that comics impact people.

My most recent book — Redeeming Laughter, about the comic in human life — takes up directly from where I ended in A Rumor of Angels, referring to humor as one of the signals of transcendence.

Not exact matches

He's known for his writing on race and politics — so it makes sense that his latest project, a comic book series for Marvel called «Black Panther,» is about the first black superhero in mainstream U.S. comics.

StarTalk Radio is a podcast and radio program hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, where comic co-hosts, guest celebrities and scientists discuss astronomy, physics, and everything else about life in the universe.

A year ago Sony suffered a major hack that prompted a string of events that seemed worthy of a tragic - comic blockbuster, in response to the studio's comedy about North Korea, «The Interview.»

IGN interviewed Nolan at New York Comic Con asking about the perplexing end to the Caped Crusader's run in «The Dark Knight Rises.»

Now, readers of The Uncanny X-Men comics in 1981 might know what it's all about but to everyone else it appears to be just another feel - good corporate marketing effort.

Episode VII may have left some questions as to Luke Skywalker's role in the reshaping of the galaxy, but the man behind the robe, Mark Hamill, left no ambiguity about how he feels about gender roles at Comic Con.

In this Marketing Over Coffee: comiXology CEO and co-founder David Steinberger talks about the state of comics, subscription services, and getting the world hooked.

That's funny because last I checked, just about every sex scene in hollywood, slutty axe body spray commercials, video games, and main stream comics caters exclusively to males.

It is hard to say just what Moby - Dick, Melville's greatest and most famous work, really is: a metaphysical Romantic tragedy about Captain Ahab's sexual obsession with an enormous white whale; an immense picaresque comedy about sailing; or a serio - comic grand opera that begins with the narrating Ishmael bored by the streaming crowds of New York and ends with him alone in the ocean, floating on the harpooner Queequeg's coffin.

The author is a pastor in the UK who writes a comic strip about Jesus, Christianity, and the church.

While awaiting his death in the Tower of London, More wrote this most unusual example of prison literature, a spiritual treatise peppered with comic stories about nagging wives and overscrupulous donkeys.

So in the case of the immediate man when he is in despair it is impossible to represent him truly without a touch of the comic; it is, if I may say so, a clever trick to talk in this jargon about a self and about despair.

you speak in a degrading manner about others» inteligence then go on and quote your iron age comic book?

In a typical display of twisted»70s fundie logic, our congregation believed that comics about Satan and the occult were more wholesome than reading about Spiderman or Archie and Jughead.

A contextualist understanding of events linked to the indeterminate world at large invites the romantic adventure; the mechanist hypethesis about the predictable regularity of action poses instead the ironic rejoinder; organicist images of an ultimate integration tend to the comic; and formist perceptions of adherence to structured pattern are more tragic in their orientation.

But about this people concern themselves very little in our age which they think has reached the highest attainment, whereas in truth no age has so fallen victim to the comic as this has, and it is incomprehensible that this age has not already by a generatio aequivoca given birth to its hero, the demon who would remorselessly produce the dreadful spectacle of making the whole age laugh and making it forget that it was laughing at itself.

In Cinemax's Outcast, which, you guessed it, is based on a comic by Robert Kirkman, is about a minister (along with another protagonist) and, you guessed it, strange encounters with demonic possession.

That idea of Fawkes largely stems from his use in V for Vendetta, a 2006 movie based on the comic books by Alan Moore about a mysterious masked revolutionary who brings down a totalitarian regime, succeeding where Fawkes failed by blowing up parliament.

On the one hand the bible says that Jesus said «Love your neighbor as yourself» but on the other hand the theology is all about segregating people after they die into the saved and the damned (as depicted in the comic).

Wright: What's great about Michael Cera in this part is that he has a very great comic persona and amazing sense of timing in this part and as an actor.

These Christian comics are from ASBO Jesus, a blog which uses humor and satire to raise issues about what Christians do and say in the world.

I delight in anything you write, whether it be about brittany spears, a comic, theology, happyness, disappointment, family, politics, art whether its controversial, pisses me off, makes me laugh, makes me think, convicts me, empowers me.....

Religion and faith were constant themes in the original comics, but even the tone of the series itself served as commentary about joy and hope.

He is at work on a harrowing yet comic memoir about having been recently kidnapped in China and on an obsessive modern love novel.

If it is being considered a workable model we are in a world which is much more realistic than the one we were in before — and certainly more than the one we were in before the election, when May's tragic - comic aides killed all rational thought about the issue.

In January, Gove fell out with history professors, teachers and some of Britain's leading comic actors after claiming that the classic sitcom Blackadder was responsible for spreading left - wing myths about the First World War.

Earlier, he was quite happy with the dustup of Heins and Gallo vs Cahill and again, no information... what is basically a comic strip is now a «chapter book»... People, you got ta drop the fun and games cheering peanut gallery and insist on good journalism that gives you a clue about what's going on in your government.

- In Piled Higher and Deeper: The Everyday Life of a Grad Student, read how Jorge Cham created a comic strip about a group of overworked, underpaid, procrastinating graduate students and their terrifying advisers.

Much has been written about the triumph of geek culture, but what I am seeing all around goes deeper: not just a fondness for comic books and fantasy novels, but a wholesale embrace of scientific thinking in popular entertainment.

By HELEN HASTE History, literature and two thousand years of stand - up comics show us countless ways in which Western culture is ambivalent about femaleness and the feminine — and particularly about female sexuality.

As a teenager he began to sell his own comics — a graphic novel about two people falling in love in one case, a dreamy series of meditations about philosophy in another.

Subaru's mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopy with COMICS are particularly useful to Juno's instrument, by providing information about the temperature field and the distribution of ammonia, a condensate in Jupiter similar to water in the Earth's atmosphere.

The journey of a great white shark, the adventures of «science sleuths» and the inner workings of our genes are just a few of the stories told in comic strips and books, tapping into a rich medium for communicating science and presenting an effective way to use such art forms to teach readers about...

In the press conference, Gianotti also took questions about a less serious topic: the choice of the «Comic Sans» font for her 2012 Higgs presentation, which prompted much teasing as it seemed incongrous with the solemnity of the discovery.

Conservationists in Pakistan have created a comic book about snow leopards and the conflicts the cats can get into with humans.

«However, from a scientific perspective, it's important to remember that we're talking about the first law of thermodynamics,» says Suveen Mathaudhu, a program manager in the materials science division of the U.S. Army Research Office, adjunct materials science professor at NC State University and hardcore comics fan.

As the buzz about Deadpool grew, so did Reynolds» fear of disappointing fans: «By the time we were in [postproduction], we'd been to Comic - Con, and people went crazy for it.

In The Price of Illusion, I write about burning a smudge stick in my office to counter negative people — it's a comic scene, and it made people think I was smoking poIn The Price of Illusion, I write about burning a smudge stick in my office to counter negative people — it's a comic scene, and it made people think I was smoking poin my office to counter negative people — it's a comic scene, and it made people think I was smoking pot.

After reading this i was realized that using the comic book heroes was a great way to get people interested in what you had to say about this cool workout!

Just because I like to toe the edge at how much it takes for me to get sued by marvel comics by putting photos of their stars on my blog but I would read that article thoroughly and take into account everything that I talk about in there you know, from compression to ice to you know, kinesio tape, foam rolling, EectroStem, just like look at all my recommendations and see which ones that are practically within your control to implement.

But I sure as heck remember Tay, who sat behind me in BEPP (otherwise known as hell) and provided comic relief about burritos versus pizza and ever - decreasing marginal utilities.

There's something very old Hollywood about Jennifer's look, comprised of an off - the - shoulder, full - skirted LUBLU Kira Plastinina dress with a bow belt, plus a crown braid (of course), at the Twentieth Century Fox event during Comic - Con in San Diego.

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