Sentences with phrase «comic superhero tale»

Not exact matches

But «Ready Player One,» based on a 2011 novel, is vying for moviegoers at a time when the box office has been dominated by serial tales of comic - book superheroes and sequels to established hits, making it tougher for new material to shine.

The Marvel superhero, first seen in a March 1963 issue of Tales of Suspense, is busier than ever with his own eponymous comic - book series.

Black Panther (1966)-- While Black Panther is predated by the black characters of All Negro Comics (1947), Waku, Prince of the Bantu (Jungle Tales, 1954), Lobo (Dell Comics, 1965), and even Gabriel Jones of Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos (1963), he is the first black superhero in comic books.

Discover exactly how Batman Begins after watching this comic - book tale, which follows his transformation from traumatized child to superhero.

Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican filmmaker who has been weaving horror, gothic romance, comic books, demonic superheroes, mythic tales, and creatures into the DNA of his films since his debut, Cronos, which premiered almost exactly 25 years ago at the Cannes Film Festival.

Still, Moore's casting of a gay teen hero in a high - concept fantasy marks an significant expansion of GLBTQ literature into genres that reflect teens» diverse reading interests; given the mainstream popularity of comics - inspired tales, the «average, ordinary, gay teen superhero» who comes out and saves the world will raise cheers from within the GLBTQ community and beyond.

The fact that comics can be mainstream (movies based on comic book superheroes like Batman are pretty much the only sure thing at the box office nowadays) or highbrow (Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992) isn't anything new.

The New York Times describes the paintings as «rendered in the style of comics and pulp fiction book jackets, a dash of Mad magazine, a spoonful of Tales of the Crypt, some grotesques, some superheroes, always action, emotion, drama.»

«Following from his interest in superheroes and comic book narratives, Meggs delves deeper into the subject of fantasy to explore characters and stories from older mythological tales through the morals, dualities and emotions that these superhuman characters represent.