Sentences with phrase «like older comics»

It's comic books are nothing like the old comic books.

Not exact matches

It makes photos look like they came from old newspapers and comic books.

There's a way in which Christian comics could function like Old Testament prophets.

I make them in the oven too and my son calls them Defeated Potatoes because I flatten them with the potato masher before they go in and they look like they've been stomped on by a dinosaur or some other large creature only an 11 - year - old boy who aspires to be a comic book artist could dream up.

Rowan takes mass produced items, like Lego, tape measures and old comics and re-purposes (or upcycles) them into «handmade, wearable treats!»

Hi My Name is Connor Agrippino I'm a Single 24 yr old Looking for Love I love Kamen Rider Super Sentai I like To watch movies and Sometimes Play Videogames I also Love Star Wars Indiana Jones and the Marvel Movies and sometimes like to Read comic books on the internet

Comic con dating site I am 21 and thank God I think like a 32 - year - old lol.

I like manga, anime, comic books, Korean dramas and old school video games.

Christian Bale's straight arrow has a tender heart — and that's just what it used to be like in the good old comic book days.

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.

While the young lovers drive the plot, the comic heart of a play like this one belongs to the servants and the hapless older generation.

Shows like those lean more toward seriousness and away from the colorfully ridiculous old comic books.

This may seem like a dramatic departure to fans of the Spider - Man comics, as May is usually seen as much older, in an almost elderly fashion, with graying hair.

Bursting with the same charismatic, comic book energy that skyrockets through most of his movies, old crime reporter, novelist, war hero, writer - director and sometime producer Samuel Fuller, almost 69, still moves and talks like his daffy action flicks — like the wild man from Borneo — in quick, short, blocky punches, like two - fisted slabs of socko headline type.»

What I do know is that Petrie, the king of the formula convention, would have been infinitely more interesting discussing why it is that people like him think that putting Clark Kent glasses on someone outside of old comic books renders him or her unrecognizable.

No, literally, the first day of shooting I was like scared out of my pants, «cause I'm like, you know, I'd been reading Marvel comics, like, you know, like there's a thing with Marvel like where they do, like, you know, for like there's a one stage, you know, for my kid that was one years old, and then all of a sudden like it gets more sophisticated as time goes on.

Bringing back some comic sidekicks like the two pirates from the old movies might have been a good idea.

Fox owns the rights to a number of Marvel characters, and Millar has some experience with the comics outlet having written books like The Ultimates, Civil War, and Wolverine: Old Man Logan.

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.

In Saturday Night Live sketches and early movies like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, Sandler certainly has something, but part of what's compelling about him as a comic presence is a kind of goofy, vamping sheepishness about being the center of attention — coupled with a secret desire to hold that attention, hence the stammer - to - roar dynamic of the old «Denise Show» bit on SNL or the righteously ill temper of Happy Gilmore.

Of course the Will Eisner comic this flick is based on is quite old — like WWII old, like it was old when your dad was a kid.

Olsen proves that she can be a comedy force just like her older twin sisters and not just an actress who is limited to performances in dramas and comic book movies.

Several sequences are well executed and transcendently comic, like the old - fashioned musical number that introduces Channing Tatum's character or a lengthy sketch in which an increasingly exasperated Fiennes attempts to teach Ehrenreich how to enunciate a line.

Wolverine 3 is still quite the perplexing project as we had originally expected to be some sort of an adaptation of Old Man Logan, the more we're learning about the third film the less it's looking like a straight - up version of that comic.

Trank tries to slip references to the comics in the movie too — like Johnny's «Flame on,» said offhandedly during a military training operation; or The Thing's catchphrase, «It's clobbering time,» which in the movie is something Ben's older brother said to him as a child when he beat him, and for some reason, Ben decides to bring back in the climax?

What works like comic hellfire is the casting of good old Jeff Bridges who is spot on and very funny at times.

Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World aside, most comic book movies are centred on men and boys — and that's even looking beyond Hollywood's superhero franchises to films like A History of Violence, Oblivion and Old Boy.

I thought it was hinting that the movie was possibly about super powered kids or something cool like that, like a live - action version of the old comic, I think it was called «Power Pack».

But just as it was the generation that grew up on comic books that made the best comic book movies, filmmakers like 26 - year - old Josh Trank are starting to arrive, who grew up with games as a key part of their cultural upbringing.

In the old Prius, driving over these obstacles felt like as noisy and confusing as crashing a performance of «The Mikado,» the Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera.

initially the feel of that art (by Erika Henderson) is children's or tween comics, and at a glance it is sort of silly, and I will let you know how my 8 - 11 year olds think of it, [Harry, 11, interjects, «Yeah, I really liked it!

And those of you who don't like Amazon, they own very, very little of the sales market compared to the old American News Company, that basically controlled all magazine, most comics, and most book distribution in this country in the first half of last century.

Last year you released the Red Circle app that allowed subscribers to read the older comics in an Unlimited format and also buy the New Crusaders comics one at a time — so it's a bit like the new app.

Archive.org also has a good - sized selection of comics, mostly older titles from Dell and the like.

The iBooks top ten also looks a lot like last week's list, except that everything has been squeezed out by The Walking Dead and My Little Pony, the strange bedfellows of the iBookstore — and that Lady Mechanika comic, which is two years old, has mysteriously popped up in the # 10 slot.

If they are reading manga (as opposed to just plain old men's magazines) the magazines you are likely to see them reading are not the oversize phonebook - like magazines like CompAce or Ultra Jump, but thinner, staple - bound books like Biweekly Comic Magazine Big Comic Superior (ビッグコミックスペリオール).

Digital distribution do get new readers, readers like me from south america who doesn't have a comic book shop nearby, trusting only boutiques to bring weeks old Spider - Man singles at roughly $ 15, for us in the far corners of the world is actually the birth of a culture, one of buying comics instead of downloading scans

It's like the old school indie attitude towards superhero comics, it's so prevalent that it must be bad.

But, as much as I hate sounding like an old man, I just don't know how people justify spending this kind of money on comics anymore.

Perhaps the fact that manga has a younger audience than American comics, which has always been considered a strength, is now a weakness: older collectors have money and like to spend it (and in fact, art - house manga publishers like Vertical and Drawn & Quarterly have weathered the storm better than most), but many teenagers don't have credit cards or paypal accounts to pay for things online, and for really young kids, free - to - play is what they know.

Instead, there's a weak collection of Marvel graphic novels, relatively obscure manga, self - published stuff, and some scans of old 1950s comics, along with a few gems like Vera Brosgol's «Anya's Ghost.»

«Swell» is also the sort of word that convinces people like Drew from Travel Is Free that I am actually a 75 - year old Borscht Belt comic chomping on a cigar as I write this column.

We'll have to see how it goes in the future but as for this week, it looks like we're on an upward swing with Gyrostarr (High Voltage Software, 1 - 4 players, Rated E for Everyone - Mild Fantasy Violence, 700 Wii Points) coming out for WiiWare along with Alex Kidd in Miracle World (Sega Master System, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone - Comic Mischief, 500 Wii Points) and BURNING FIGHT (NEOGEO, 1 - 2 players, Rated E10 + for Everyone 10 and Older - Mild Suggestive Themes, Violence, 900 Wii Points) for the Virtual Console.

Yes, the cover mechanics in GOW were innovative for their time, but the «story» (cough) seemed to me like it was written by a 13 - year - old kid who'd smoked too much bad weed before reading a bunch of Rob Liefeld comics.

The only ones still coming up with this ridiculous claim are those who are in the pockets of the NRA (politicians, right - wing media) who want to divert the conversation away from sensible gun control, so they'll quickly try to blame it on age - old scapegoats like entertainment (games, violence on TV, music, comics, whatever).

While I like the new art direction, which now uses a cel - shading to emulate the comics, the gameplay still looks like it's using the stale engine, that some of the older Spidey games used.

We played some retro game too and Comic Sans had a pinball table, it was fun to see some older classics like Virtua Fighter and Dance Dance Revolution.

The intro tells the story in comic book style which is great and the games graphics also brought me back to old - school games like Doom II and Hexic.

Without knowing the history, the game looked like it was pulled from a 10 - year old's imagination and put together with terrible dialogue and brutish warmongering driving the comic book - like story.

From a history of creating and teaching comics, and being inspired by the sequential imagery of Goya, Hogarth, Jacob Lawrence and more, Mayerson establishes — with deliberately juxtaposed images — a non-linear narrative within these structures, using this age - old manner of displaying paintings to create an enveloping panel - to - panel, comic - like cosmology.