Sentences with phrase «become more comic»

Alas, since then, his films have become more comic booky — and I mean this in the degrading sense of any person who makes high / low art distinctions.

Not exact matches

Before becoming one of the world's best - known comic strip writers and authors, Scott Adams spent more than a decade in the corporate world, moving into management after being held at gunpoint twice while working as a teller.

In the various versions of the tale that entered the repertoire of the commedia dell» arte, the elevation of the story's comic aspects over the tragic became more pronounced.

Back then, comic books were intended primarily for children, but as our society becomes more and more visually oriented, there are more and more comic books being put out for adults.

Over time Thor became a fixture of sorts on here, not a legendary poster, but more of a harmless, Garrison Keilor - type Upper Midwest Frozen Tundra comic relief type.

Arts and crafts become more intricate, and a child might spend hours weaving friendship bracelets or drawing comic strips.

No, I didn't really delve into all the books like I had earlier in the decade, but I certainly became much more interested in Bats himself and I picked up quite a few comic anthologies to get me back into the swing of things.

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.

He began his career as a standup comic in the early to mid -»70s, with middling results at best, a period during which he also met another, albeit more successful, comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, who would also become a lifelong friend.

Since the franchise was effectively rebooted with Casino Royale, an approach more becoming of comic books has been employed: different writers and directors come in and somehow try to stitch all the character's actions together into an overarching narrative.

Ronan, for instance, becomes a bit of a hero in the comics and it's be great to see him more than a crazed, brick - flying maniac who's easily distracted by dance moves.

If you are more of a fan of the franchise than that, then The Incredible Hulk Special Edition DVD may tempt you by offering the previously noted audio commentary and deleted scenes along with alternate openings and featurettes (The Making of Incredible Hulk, Becoming The Hulk, Becoming The Abomination, Anatomy of a Hulk Out, and From Comic Book to Screen).

And as comic book films become more prevalent, perhaps this trend of world mashups will go beyond just shared cinematic universes and into this weird wave of smashing together disparate properties.

Based on the iconic DC Comic book, Wonder Woman has earned more than $ 410 million in the U.S. and over $ 820 million worldwide, set numerous box office records, including becoming the highest - grossing film directed by a woman, the highest - grossing superhero origin film domestically, and the largest opening for a female - led comic - based Comic book, Wonder Woman has earned more than $ 410 million in the U.S. and over $ 820 million worldwide, set numerous box office records, including becoming the highest - grossing film directed by a woman, the highest - grossing superhero origin film domestically, and the largest opening for a female - led comic - based comic - based film.

If you are looking for an older, more classic version of Wonder Woman, then this is the place to start, considering this reboot by Pérez planted a lot of the seeds for what and who Wonder Woman became in comics today.

With one superhero movie after another, summer moviegoing at the multiplex has become more like a trip to the comic - book store.

The awkwardness of it all, observed with great nuance by Peele, makes for a perfect comedy of manners, until cringe becomes something altogether more horrific — even if Chris» paranoid friend Rod (Milton «LilRey» Howery) continues to bring the comic relief.

Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).

For that matter, indestructible comic creations like George Cole's Arthur Daley in Minder, Nigel Hawthorne's Sir Humphrey in Yes Minister, the Steptoes, Arthur Lowe and co in Dad's Army, John Cleese's Fawlty Towers or Only Fools and Horses insinuate themselves between the cracks of British life far more persuasively than the most earnest television documentary (at which Britain has become world - renowned).

As Marvel's first successful comic - book - to - film adaptation, the original «Blade» instantly became an underground hit with the sleek, yet comical Wesley Snipes headlining as the title character, and even «Blade 2» was more than a mere duplicate thanks to its thorough vampire history, but «Blade: Trinity» is nothing more than a blended carbon copy with a bloodthirsty desire to maximize the death count.

Ironically, the movie becomes more broadly comic as the painter's failures accumulate, resulting in some of Kitano's funniest gags.

Since the movie plays some of its carnage with razor - sharp comic timing (especially Brooks» scenes), it becomes more and more disturbing as well.

With the third installment it somehow becomes more typical of a comic book villainy scenario than... Continue reading «MOVIE REVIEW: IRON MAN 3 (2013)»

Folks can try to champion the first film and this one as anti-comic-book-movie movies, but, make no mistake, both of these blockbusters end up becoming comic book movies anyway just with more willingness and success to subvert the formula.

Every moment an exhausting workshop of ideas (and every character the same), The Caveman's Valentine is a concept so «high concept» that it suddenly became clear to me that the film fits into the comic - book genre of entertainment, with Romulus's «Caveman» a slightly more mundane version of Todd McFarlane's urban noir hero, Spawn.

Don't look so surprised: This may be a Disney — Marvel comic - book film — and, as such, pretty much designed by one of the world's biggest corporations to generate piles of money — but these movies have become steadily more politically self - aware and socially conscious over the years.

More than 12,000 single - issue digital comic books will become available for sale on the Amazon Kindle Store starting Thursday, and will also be available on the Amazon Kindle platform around the world.

In December, the company put 450 children's books on the Kindle Fire, and this past June the Kindle became more kid friendly when it updated its apps to support children's books, graphic novels and comics.

After I started commenting and talking to people about comics online, I wanted to become more engaged.

And in the future, as more comics are formatted for tablet screens rather than the printed page, a Guided View - like experience may become far more common.

That said, it certainly looks like day - and - date comics will continue to become more plentiful this year.

The main reasons why the comics are going to experience a price increase this April is because physical copies of these books will finally come with a «free» digital copy of the same issue, allowing readers to maintain a physical collection alongside building a digital library of books, an avenue of comics reading that's become steadily more popular than physical books in recent years.

As the comic book market has become more specialised, its products have become more expensive, and its audience more elitist.

There is a resource commitment when deciding to publish kids» comics digitally, and it's very time - consuming, but from our perspective it's absolutely worth it and will only become more so as kids increasingly embrace digital reading.

As more and more publishers translate comics into apps, the question of how to re-imagine the format becomes all the more important.

Voyager's mobile comic viewer co-developed and owned with Celsys, BS Reader has become the official application for all the three mobile phone carriers in Japan and now used by more than 90 % of all the mobile phone users in Japan.

Creators Bill Oterson, creator of the comic strip Mister Stupid, which ran in a Tallahassee, Florida, newspaper, doesn't do much cartooning any more, but it's interesting to read the local paper's account of how he became a cartoonist and balanced it with his other livelihood, carpentry.

While the variety of digital comics is expanding and becoming more variable, most titles available for download are «mainstream» in the sense of being works of genre fiction originally published as or made for serialization as periodical pamphlets.

I first became aware of your work in the indie comics scene and it seems like you had a shift, first with Incredible Change - Bots and then with your Star Wars Darth Vader and Jedi Academy series where your work became not only a little more sentimental and nostalgic, but also geared toward a younger reader.

Publishers Weekly: Selling Comics to a Diverse Audience It's no secret that the audience for comics has become far more diverse over the last decade.

As more tablets aside from Apple's iPad become available, sales and availability for comics should continue to rise.

As comic culture becomes more and more prevalent in mainstream channels, there are loads of people out there who see comic movies, TV shows, artwork, but who have never picked up an issue.

From the continuation of the hit Dragon Ball Z to American films inspired by manga like Ghost in the Shell, it's clear that comics from all parts of the globe have become more popular than anyone expected back in the early days of the industry.

In general, the development of digital comics has seen the page change alongside other digital media to become more «plastic» (Murray 1997) and mutable.

As children and teens become more engaged with e-books, from enhanced digital copies that include audio and video links to comics that are now available electronically, digital borrows will continue to soar.

I'm pretty sure that most of the «general public» (i.e. the remaining comics reading general public) will mainly be consuming comics digitally, particularly as tablets become even more common.

If you are a reader who can't get over the barrier of «it's a sports comic,» it'll take a few more chapters to see if it becomes sports - heavy or comedy - heavy, and I'd wait a little bit to see if you should take a crack at it or not.

When Spider - Man's origin has been retold 1,000 times... when magazines like ULTIMATE SPIDER - MAN are designed to nullify the continuity in the original series, by reshaping it... when readers have become accustomed to the «decompressed storytelling», as opposed to the «done - in - one» storytelling of the sixties and seventies... When there are more wordless pages and panels today, making the books «cinematic,» as opposed to the more heavily written comics of the 60s and 70s...

«Instead of a relaunch, it's more of an expansion of the platform to become that ultimate fan experience and offer the best part of Marvel — not just the best of digital comics.»

One big change that we're seeing is that comics become more available and attractive to casual readers, no doubt.