True confession — a buddy and I actually ordered the «real» submarine that you could order off
the back page of a comic book.
Not exact matches
It doesn't take a lot
of wit or imagination to use Richard Nixon as a bad guy, but it's still satisfying to watch a climatic showdown between two supervillains — one brought
back from out
of the past and the other from off the
comic - book
page — and wait to see who blinks first.
Mike Mignola's «Hellboy» was a favorite
comic of mine for a short while,
back when it first appeared in Dark Horse
comics in the
pages of John Byrne's «Next Men»,
back in early 1990s.
Back in 2005, the trailers for Sin City looked like nothing I'd seen before, a phenomenal
page - to - screen adaptation that captured the flavor
of Frank Miller's modern noir
comic book series via the spendthrift imagination
of filmmaker Robert Rodriguez.
I'd say the effect was like zapping between TV channels, but that metaphor is probably meaningless to the target age demographic that film addresses: it's more like surfing between websites on a low concentration threshold, or rather like leafing through a few
pages of a
comic, before tossing it aside and skimming another from the same giant stack, then going
back to your first title again, before eventually realizing that all along you've been reading parts
of the same vast, wildly complicated story.
It's beautifully drawn, but right away the lack
of a landscape mode becomes a problem, as the
comic opens with a two -
page spread and the only way to read it is to scroll
back and forth from one side to the other.
We go
back and ask, «What would be ways
of making
comics from before the time we were broken in to using a
page to make
comics?»
Cyclops, while single - minded, is the only one we've watched come to grips, quietly unfolding in the
back pages of a digital
comic.
And now that we are all awaiting the release
of Rise
of the Tomb Raider, Dark Horse
Comics is letting fans get into the action early by bringing the beloved character
back to the
pages of comics with the Oct. 7 release
of the new miniseries Lara Croft And The Frozen Omen.
From GAME you'll also get a 40
page Marvel
comic detailing the
back - story
of Monkey and his female companion Trip.