Sentences with phrase «early comic book»

«That was in my top three list, along with a 40 by 40 «Marilyn» and an early comic book painting,» Eric Shiner, the museum's director, said, adding that these are the works «we've been after for a very long time.»

National Galleries of Scotland holds the important early comic book painting, In the Car 1963 along with two prints, and an example of wallpaper produced by the artist in 1968.

Not exact matches

Either / Or emerges as the most fertile and delightful of Kierkegaard's literary achievements in this regard, though almost all the early books abound in comic invention.

Their pietism, which I confused with Lutheranism, early made me restive, not least because of my precocious reading of Britannica articles on evolution and Gibbon's Decline and Fall (my father's library was short on comic books).

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.

Their comic book — style biography follows its hero from his early job on the Manhattan Project through his role investigating the Challenger disaster.

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.

Once, in what seems like another lifetime, I was a comic book collector, and for about three years in the late»70s and early»80s, X-Men was one of the books I purchased religiously, dolling out a portion of my meager allowance to the guy behind the cash register at El Dorado Comics.

But Constantine, which follows Keanu Reeves title character as he teams up with Rachel Weisz's Angela to prevent Satan's arrival on Earth, takes a leap out the plausibility window early on, something presumably dictated by the comic book that the film is based on.

In a summer during the early - to - mid sixties, I surreptitiously acquired a copy of a specific issue of Playboy — not for the pictures, though those were nice, but for an essay on The Great Comic Book Heroes, by Jules Feiffer.

I've written before on this blog about the difficulties Marvel might face adapting Ant - Man, given the enormous damage to the superhero's reputation following a very nasty, very well documented domestic violence episode (involving his wife Janet van Dyne, AKA The Wasp) in an early 1980s comic book run.

He's always been one of my favorite characters just because he's just so visually impressive and you know, when you're a comic book reader, the writing's important, but also you want these incredible looking characters and action and I always loved him from my early days collecting comics.

This entry ties in more with the comic book roots of the character, as the Nighstalkers are introduced, the team of vampire hunters of which Blade was a member in the comic book world of the early 1990s.

Speaking to IG earlier this year (February 6), Reynolds said: «I never want to play another comic book character again; Deadpool, I would like to play for the rest of my life — that'd be fun.»

Crossbones (Frank Grillo), one of the franchise's few double - dyed bastards, gets an early look - in but is benched in favour of Zemo (Daniel Brühl)-- who's a typical MCU baddie in that he's more grounded than his comic - book equivalent but considerably less interesting.

Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) was an affectionate return and tribute to the early days of Saturday morning matinees and cinema, with comic - book archaeology hero Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) battling the Nazis while searching for the sacred Ark of the Covenant - the first in a very successful trilogy of films.

The current comic book - based TV show landscape is set to add one more show early next year, with «Marvel's Agent Carter» scheduled to debut on ABC for an eight - episode run during a «Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.» midseason hiatus.

Spider - Man is a fun movie, much in the spirit of the comic book's early days, that amazingly is able to give Spider - Man's origin, as well as that of the Green Goblin, while also introducing many characters like J. Jonah Jameson, Mary Jane, Aunt May, Uncle Ben, and Harry Osborn, enough to seem familiar, and then set up the exciting showdown all in the span of a modest two hours.

Leaked footage from a cancelled Sin City game shows early stages of development of the dark noir comic book adaptation that could have been.

Marvel Studios concept artist Andy Park reveals early designs for Ant - Man's suit, including a few that closely resemble the hero's comic book counterpart.

In this charming, warm - hearted and very funny animated comedy, Kevin Hart and Thomas Middleditch star as best friends George and Harold, fourth grade pranksters who wreak havoc by day and write comic books by, well, early evening.

Released during the early days of the comic book move boom, The Incredibles remains a high watermark for films about superheroes.

Boasting a bigger cast with a slew of newcomers who will supposedly be pivotal in the franchise's future, the upcoming comic book flick teases a crazy good time at the cinema, and based on the early reviews from the critics, it appears to fulfill its promises.

So he understands the intense scrutiny comic book films are subjected to, starting when the earliest details of their production are made public.

The 11 - volume franchise concluded in the early 1940s and has hardly existed since, aside from a short - lived newspaper strip and the occasional comic book.

It also offers two featurettes --» The Origin Story of Big Hero 6: Hiro's Journey,» which follows the process of adaptation process from comic book to animate feature, and «Big Animator 6: The Characters Behind the Characters,» with the animators discussing the evolution of the characters on the screen — deleted scenes (in rough form, as they were removed in early stages of production; you can see one of them at the end of the post), and Easter Eggs for the kids to hunt for.

And as far as female - led comic book adaptations are concerned, it's by far the largest opening as the second closest is Paramount's Ghost in the Shell, which debuted with $ 18.6 million earlier this year.

Early last year, it was revealed that The CW was developing a reboot of Tales from the Darkside from Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Joe Hill, and while the series never materialised, IDW Publishing announced a four - issue comic book series based upon scripts Hill produced for the aborted show.

The first Venom trailer, which premiered earlier this year, didn't really impress me, mostly because it looked like a retread of about a hundred other comic - book movies of its ilk.

In chronological order, it covers the design and evolution of Batman's vehicle in the DC comic books, the early film serials, the 1960s TV show, the cartoons, and all eight movies, with input from various individuals of importance, including Christopher Nolan, Joel Schumacher, Adam West, the TV Batmobile's customizer George Barris, Tim Burton (in seemingly old footage), Batman historians, crew members, stuntmen, comic book artists, Comic - Con attendees, and ventriloquist / Batmobile owner Jeff Ducomic books, the early film serials, the 1960s TV show, the cartoons, and all eight movies, with input from various individuals of importance, including Christopher Nolan, Joel Schumacher, Adam West, the TV Batmobile's customizer George Barris, Tim Burton (in seemingly old footage), Batman historians, crew members, stuntmen, comic book artists, Comic - Con attendees, and ventriloquist / Batmobile owner Jeff Ducomic book artists, Comic - Con attendees, and ventriloquist / Batmobile owner Jeff DuComic - Con attendees, and ventriloquist / Batmobile owner Jeff Dunham.

From the opening credits to an early gag involving a portrait artist, Steven Spielberg's The Adventures Of Tintin formally announces its intent to respect the style and vision of Hergé, the Belgian artist who created Tintin and took the boy reporter / adventurer through two dozen books of comic - book adventures over the course of more than 40 years.

It takes a while to get to the X - Force / Cable stuff, but it's worth it, especially for people who grew up reading comic books in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The site was started in early 2018, in the dark days before anyone on the Internet had anything to say about comic book movies or pop culture.

Fans were treated to an early look at the upcoming Netflix comic book drama, which unifies the four previous Marvel series.

He did Dead Again during the early 90s craze for thrillers, and now that it's 2011 comic book movies seem to occupy the same place in Hollywood — everyone watches them.

He's the 44 - year - old London - born writer - director who turned comic - book movies on their head with his Dark Knight trilogy, a brooding take on Batman that retained the cocksure intelligence and visionary edge of his earlier films like Memento and Insomnia.

It's a crucial part because in the comic books, with the exception of the first handful of Ant - Man stories, Wasp came on pretty early on in the comics in the»60s and you really thought of them as a partnership, a romantic partnership as well as a hero team.

In the case of The Rocketeer, the literal source, Dave Stevens's early - eighties comic - book series, was itself true to the Saturday Matinee heroes, the mosaic of which also bore Indiana Jones.

«X-Men: First Class» is a prequel to the popular comic book movie series from the early 2000s.

The script is by Neil Cuthbert, who made other unfunny comic book adventures with Mystery Men and much earlier with Return of Swamp Thing, and Pluto Nash is cut from the same cloth.

It's imbued with the same spirit that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby brought to comic books in the early 1960s.

Based upon a long - running title that apparently did not overlap with my early teen years spent celibately sulking around comic book shops, Guardians of the Galaxy stars Parks and Recreation's lovable lummox Chris Pratt as Peter Quill, an interstellar slacker doofus catting about the cosmos hooking up with alien chicks and listening to a K - Billy's Super Sounds of the 70's soundtrack on his retro cassette Walkman.

Back in June we brought you some images from the set of Thor: Ragnarok showing early construction of some practical Asgard sets, and now thanks to Comic Book Movie we've got another peek thanks to another batch of photos which indicate that the building work is almost complete; check them out here... SEE ALSO: Thor: Ragnarok Comic - Con footage -LSB-...]

«By far the silliest, most comic book - y of the X-MEN movies, APOCALYPSE is overstuffed with inferior callbacks to Singer's earlier efforts.»

Debut writer - director Gillian Robespierre springs an early surprise with Obvious Child, a screwball comedy that clears the decks for a breakout performance from Jenny Slate as Donna, an oversharing stand - up comic who will joke about everything from the stains on her pants to the abortion she has booked for the following day.

A generous section of full - screen Galleries is divvied up into numerous sub-sections - «Production Stills» (55 pictures); shots of an Old Yeller comic book under «Publishing» (13 stills); «Biographies» (43 frames) for Tommy Kirk, Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Kevin Corcoran, Beverly Washburn, and Chuck Connors (strangely, the remaining cast member, Jeff York — who also played with Parker in the «Davy Crockett» series — is not included); lobby cards, posters, and merchandise in «Advertising» (17 stills); fan letters to Fred Gipson and invitations for early movie screenings found within «Documents» (30 stills).

Early traces of this can be seen in R - rated comic book adaptations including Wanted, The Punisher: War Zone and arguably Watchmen.

A few years ago, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane revealed that he was developing a new animated series based upon his comic book character, even going so far as to unveil some early concept art for the potential show.

It by and large ignores Origins and concentrates on events that transpire after X-Men: The Last Stand, and does so by taking Wolverine back to a wildly popular early 1980s comic book story arc popularized in a «Wolverine» limited series by author Chris Claremont and illustrator Frank Miller.

Well, we can now confirm the part is indeed Grillo's and he'll portray the Red Skull protege Crossbones in the comic - book sequel set to roll before cameras early next year.