Sentences with phrase «known as comic»

(For those wondering what the heck it is, the Wikipedia page for Comiket explains: «Comiket, otherwise known as the Comic Market or CM, is the world's largest comic convention, held twice a year in Tokyo, Japan.

Loosely based on the life of Chris Sivey, better known as comic persona Frank Sidebottom, we only get a glimpse of Michael for a few minutes near the end.

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¨» ¨ British comic Ricky Gervais — perhaps best known as boss - from - hell» ¨ David Brent from BBC's The Office — publicly quit the micro-blogging service within weeks of joining.

A seductress with extraordinary psionic abilities, Emma Frost has become known among comic fans as a character with flexible morals.

Professional speakers and stand - up comics have what is known as «saver lines» locked and loaded, ready to be used at a moment's notice.

Meanwhile, Vox recently floated the idea of Fox going all - in on Deadpool by launching a film series, similar to Disney's The Avengers series, that would see his character team up with others from the X-Men comics to form a group known in comic books as the Uncanny X-Force.

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.

He's best known as the creator of the popular Dilbert comic strip, but Scott Adams is an accomplished business writer and commentator.

«Everybody I would talk to knows the characters and read comics as kids, and we just didn't,» Bettany said.

A press release elaborated on its plot: «The comic depicts early events in Colonel Sanders» life that eventually led to the discovery of his real super power: the combination of a pressure cooker and secret blend of 11 herbs and spices, better known as his world - famous Original Recipe Chicken.»

In his lifelong quest to collect all six Infinity Stones, Thanos has some nice help from the group known as the Black Order in Avengers: Infinity War — though comic book fans might recognize some slight changes from the source material.

Little - known comic Michelle Wolf becomes the latest surrogate for partisan warfare, as her edgy White House Correspondents Association speech over the weekend continued to be debated.

As Hollywood's supply of comic - book heroes seems to run dry, studios know the Good Book comes with a built - in audience of billions.

According to the chaplains and such well - known cancer therapists as the Simontons (whose recent book bears the comic title Getting Well Again), 8 as long as the patient does not understand the relationship between person and cancer, the malignancy festers.

No, Socrates, thee I can understand; thou dost treat him as a wag, as a sort of merry Andrew, thou dost treat him as a butt for laughter, thou hast no objection, it has even thine approval, that I prepare and serve him up as a comic dish — provided I do it well.

As comic nerds know, Thor's hammer Mjölnir is only his so long as he's worthy of holding onto iAs comic nerds know, Thor's hammer Mjölnir is only his so long as he's worthy of holding onto ias he's worthy of holding onto it.

Perhaps best known for his text on the sociology of religion, The Sacred Canopy, Berger has also shown a keen interest in issues of development and public policy and in the nature of religious belief in the modern world, as evident in A Far Glory: The Question of Faith in an Age of Credulity (1992) and in his most recent book, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience.

As the drivers faced their cars for that comic half sprint, half shuffle known as the Le Mans start, rain doused the coursAs the drivers faced their cars for that comic half sprint, half shuffle known as the Le Mans start, rain doused the coursas the Le Mans start, rain doused the course.

it's like they know we're not 12 anymore and decided to get as cerebral and weird as that character was in the comics.

Comic books, now generally known as graphic novels, have increasingly been finding their way into classrooms and school libraries as teachers search for tools to not only help their students learn how to read, but to tap into the vivid imagination that is the hallmark of childhood and turn their students onto a lifelong love of reading.

As some of you may know, I'm a nerd... like, Comic Con Nerd.

Kumar is best known as a stand up comic.

Comic Relief, better known as Red Nose Day, has raised more than # 1bn for charities in 30 years but one MP said it has «tattooed images of poverty in Africa» onto people's minds.

Former President John Dramani Mahama joined hundreds of mourners as popular comic actor Asonaba Kwaku Darko known on screens as...

The Atomic Age kicked off with a bang on July 16, 1945, with the detonation of a test uranium fission bomb at the Alamogordo Test Range in the New Mexico desert, during what's known as the «Golden Age» of comic books and strips.

ATLANTA — Known to comic book aficionados as a potent superhero, xenon — in real life, a mild - mannered noble gas — may soon turn its super powers to medicine.

In their original comic - book incarnation, the Marvel heroes known as the Fantastic Four gained their superpowers thanks to their exposure to a particularly intense cosmic radiation storm.

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.

I also purchased a green tweed pencil skirt at the same time as this top (who knows what I was thinking at the time), and I also still have that because I wear it when I dress up as Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler from The Big Bang Theory (it doesn't happen often, but it is a go - to for comic con since it's easy, haha!).

The makeup, is also very similar to the comic book Sin City, some of you know it as the movie.

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Award - winning actress Frances McDormand (Fargo) delivers a stunningly powerful performance in this darkly comic drama that has been hailed as one of the Think you know Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson better than anyone else?

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In a move inspired by 2006's Planet Hulk comic storyline, Thor is forced to compete in the Grandmaster's «Contest of Champions», where he must face the current reigning champion — the green - skinned goliath known throughout the universe as the Incredible Hulk (mo - cap Mark Ruffalo).

But mothers, as all adolescent boys know, should not be trusted to make minute distinctions among comic books, and what I ended up with was the current X-Men Giant Size Annual No. 3 («The Awesome Attack of Arkon»).

In the original comic book version, an anonymous crook named Joe Chill killed the elder Waynes, but in the film, Joker - or Jack Napier, as he was known then - was the one who did the deed.

Although probably best known as the voice of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, New York native Robert Smigel's legacy is really more that of a writer.

A 33 - year - old actor and comic best known for his long - running role as Maurice in the Britcom «The IT Crowd,» Ayoade has an evident gift for the kind of slightly offbeat comedy that's about the differences between a character's self - perception and the way the world sees him.

We see Bill Hicks for what he was at different parts of his life as told by the ten people that knew him best from his mother to his siblings to fellow comics and friends.

More often than not, the undeniably talented comic actor's hits (Billy Madison, Big Daddy, The Longest Yard, Click ad nauseum) personify him not only as an arrested adolescent but a perpetually (and psychotically) angry one; the box office success of movies as unpleasant as those reveals things about their fans that I'm not sure I want to know.

As a teen comics fan in the early Eighties, I remember all the talk about a new Batman movie, so I really like the parts about the flick's long development; it's cool to know what was going on behind the scenes while we geeks waited anxiously.

Disaster Movie follows the comic misadventures of a group of ridiculously attractive twenty - somethings during one fateful night as they try to make their way to safety while every known natural disaster and catastrophic event - asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, the works — hits the city and their path as they try to solve a series of

The son of comedian Harry Einstein (better known to millions of radio fans as Parkyakarkus), Brooks briefly attended Carnegie Tech before launching a hills - and - valley career as a standup comic.

OK, obviously none of that happens, except for Wade blowing himself up — and if you've ever read a comic book in your life, or seen a movie, or drawn breath, you know that a superhero film doesn't start with the hero offing himself unless it plans to undo the damage as soon as possible.

Disaster Movie follows the comic misadventures of a group of ridiculously attractive twenty - somethings during one fateful night as they try to make their way to safety while every known natural disaster and catastrophic event - asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, the works — hits the city and their path as they try to solve a series of mysteries to end the rampant destruction.

Here's what you need to know: This is less Deadpool 2 than Deadpool Squared, a studio and its star (Reynolds is credited as co-writer) committing to hyper - violent self - referential comic - book buffoonery.

But Mr. Beatty (despite the recent evidence of «Love Affair») well knows how to avoid making a fool of himself and how to treat sheepish naivete as a fine comic advantage.

Cast as a bounty hunter who is sent to Brazil to retrieve the son of a well - known mob boss (American Pie's Seann William Scott), the film provided Johnson with the sort of opportunity to display his comic flair — a notable talent that was mostly neglected in the special - effects - laden Scorpion King.

It's taken a number of years for a Black Panther film to come to fruition, which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who knows the long history of the character even getting his own comic book line.