Sentences with phrase «long as the comics»

And as long as the comics have words, your child is reading.

(Maybe this makes me old school, but as long as comics creators are building pages in this shape, I think it's only right that I read them as the creators intended.)

Not exact matches

Instead, comic books are completely legit entertainment as long as it's factored into the travel and entertainment budget and they are not overspending on it.

The little independent store transitioned to non-digital physical goods a long time ago, which will insulate it as comic book sales inevitably go completely digital (no other medium lends itself as well to tablets as comic books).

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.

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.

As you're reading this, I am either in the midst of a long day at work or heading to see one of my all time favorite comics for one of his 4 shows in Buffalo this weekend!

Just as the rain cloud perpetually hangs over Joe Btfsplk in the comics, McAdoo has been shadowed for a long time by the opinion that he is not a «forced» in the game, as Abdul - Jabbar is a «force,» or Cowens or even Erving.

Not long after Neville's debut, WWE started portraying him and Stardust as comic book characters.

But a few others among us have the ability to become fully - fleshed comic book action heroes and perform amazing feats of strength without any CGI help — again, as long as they're given the right training regime and diet plan.

Let's be real about this — building a back of comic book proportions can only be achieved through brutally heavy, exhausting workouts, over a long period of time, which is the exact reason why bodybuilders with massive, thick backs, huge traps and three - dimensional rhomboid muscles get instant respect as soon as they walk into a gym.

For me, as a second generation geek and someone who has grown up on superhero I have long been a fan of Marvel comics and then later I fell in love with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Comedy The weeks leading up to a young couples wedding are comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay their long standing feud to.

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.

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.

For comics fans and average moviegoers alike, I feel as though this will be a movie long - discussed.

Killmonger's plan for «black liberation,» arming insurgencies all over the world, is an American policy that has backfired and led to unforeseen disasters perhaps every single time it has been deployed; it is somewhat bizarre to see people endorse a comic - book version of George W. Bush's foreign policy and sign up for the Project for the New Wakandan Century as long as the words «black liberation» are used instead of «democracy promotion.»

Originally famous as the bodacious, brain - challenged Bundy offspring Kelly on Fox's long - running dysfunctional family sitcom Married... With Children, Christina Applegate parlayed her comic talents and sexy image into a parallel movie career.

Hemsworth is spectacular here (as long - time readers will recall, I referred to him as the Christopher Reeve of the MCU — he can handle the heavy lifting, but he's also got terrific comic timing and delivery).

Banderas» charming, often comic performance, a cute one by child actor Adrian Alonso as Zorro's son and pint - sized counterpart, an amusing one by Rufus Sewell, who plays his villainous role as a Hispanic Christopher Walken, some imaginative PG - rated methods of disposing of the bad guys and a number of rather audacious parallels to contemporary politics and warfare place this clearly in the «guilty pleasure» category; like the original, it's notably longer than it has any right to be (perhaps Steven Spielberg executive producing both of them is a factor?)

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.

What's so ballsy is that the greatest comic book heroes have been painted as losers for once — and it's been a long time (if ever) since we've seen that happen.

Fans long believed that weapon could be either Jarnbjorn, the axe Thor currently wields in the comics as Odinson the ex-God of Thunder, or even a design inspired by the Mjolnir from the Ultimate Marvel comics universe.

Based on his long - running comic book, which debuted in 2008 before wrapping up at the end of 2013, «Locke & Key» would have combined a classic haunted house tale with complex and rich mythology, and as such managed to attract some heavyweight names: «Star Trek» duo Kurtzman & Orci were writing with «War Of The Worlds» scribe Josh Friedman, Steven Spielberg was producing and «Never Let Me Go» helmer Mark Romanek was brought on to direct the pilot, which reportedly cost as much as $ 10 million.

True, the pleasing presence of comic pros Jason Bateman and Tina Fey, along with It dude of the moment Adam Driver and «House of Card's» Corey Stoll as a quartet of disgruntled siblings, goes a long way to mask the failings of a script that doesn't quite do justice to the novel on which it's based.

It joined a handful of other curiosities I was glad to catch at all: Peter Bogdanovich's labored sex farce She's Funny That Way, Saverio Costanzo's jaw - dropping vegan - momma horror story Hungry Hearts, David Gordon Green's messy Manglehorn and its confirmation of Al Pacino's embrace of grumpy old manhood, and (prior to its HBO airing) the two - part serving of Olive Kitteridge, a darkly comic, stingingly apt anatomy of depression across decades of marriage, as portrayed by Frances McDormand (Olive) and Richard Jenkins (long - suffering dear Henry).

In an interview Rudolph helpfully singled out an Altman film he worked on as assistant director, The Long Goodbye — a much better film, one that can accommodate in its gallery of gargoyles a tragic figure like Sterling Hayden's alcoholic novelist as well as a nightmarishly comic one like Mark Rydell's Jewish gangster.

As long as there has been Marvel and DC Comics many fans have argued which is superior in comicAs long as there has been Marvel and DC Comics many fans have argued which is superior in comicas there has been Marvel and DC Comics many fans have argued which is superior in comics.

There are so many extras, such as collecting new suits, new special powers, and classic comic book covers, that you will play this game for a long time.

Comic books have a long history of using contemporary world affairs as fodder for their plots, but Batman v Superman utilizes them in a dark, uncomfortable way that precludes entertainment.

So what begins as a lark — with the vast assortment of comic book characters trotting out their costumes; middle - aged Bruce Banner humorously being so out of practice that he can no longer transform himself into the Hulk; Tony Stark bantering once again with Gwyneth Paltrow's Pepper Potts; Holland's Peter Parker looking so childish even he seems to wonder what he's doing in this company; Dave Bautista stealing every scene he's in; Scarlett Johansson and Don Cheadle being given absolutely nothing fresh or original to do; Evans trying to leave his Captain America persona behind him — transforms into something genuinely threatening and grim, something, in fact, that has to be taken seriously: the prospect that evil can win.

And as even a casual reader of such comics knows, the concept of a short - lived «superhero death» is a long - standing meme of the genre.

While Phoenix has flirted with numerous comic book roles, including Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman, many have often viewed him as a «serious actor» who wouldn't want to do any of those projects for the long run.

Beltrami joins The Fantastic Four with a long list of action film credentials, from the recent Snowpiercer and World War Z to older comic book films such as Hellboy, Blade II and The Wolverine.

He's also traded in the likes of Dean Jones, Buddy Hackett and Michele Lee for the more contemporary co-star slate of Lindsay Lohan and Justin Long, who act as driver, mechanic, and comic relief.

From The Secret Policeman's Ball to Teenage Cancer Trust, comedy and charity have long had a heart - warming, rib - tickling relationship, as comics around the world take to the stage to make people laugh and raise both money and awareness for good... Read More

The comics are written by long - time Sonic comic writer Ian Flynn, who's been chief writer on the Archie Sonic The Hedgehog comics since issue 160 all the way to 290, and will continue as the comics move to IDW.

Capcom's extremely limited - edition vinyl version of the hip - hop soundtrack to Marvel VS Capcom 2 can be yours at Comic - Con 2009, as long as you're willing to shell out big bucks.

In the comics, Killmonger is typically depicted as shirtless, but dons a gold and red jaguar armor with a long pointed mask in a dual with T'Challa.

I've long since given up on Levy (something about his child - catcher role in New York Minute (as well as his impenetrable avant - garde turns in Christopher Guest's arrogant flicks) have turned me right off), but Martin, one of the smartest, most transgressive comics of his generation, you just sort of want to like.

For a long time, Please Give seems like it's about nothing much at all, but as these four lives awkwardly intertwine, Holofcener keeps finding the moments between them that are both comic and true.

Even as parody, Machete Kills is sadly lacking in any comic or inventive stylings and the inside joke wears thin long before the credits roll.

Although comic book superheroes have long been as mainstream as baseball and Pepsi, it's taken more than half a century for Black Panther to get his own movie.

Rival to T'Challa in the film, just as the character Killmonger has been a long time arch-rival to The Black Panther in the comics.

As it turns out, it is something that has had a long history in the comics, but under a different name.

DC on the other hand, can point to Heath Ledger's Joker as the greatest comic book movie bad guy in history, even if the clown prince of Gotham existed long before the DCEU was a twinkle in Warner Bros» eye.

Stanley Tong, perhaps because of the constant shifts to the rather mundane world of today, isn't able to keep the magic of the story going for long, especially as some of the more cheesy comic elements, another symptom of Jackie's involvement, bring things back down to the pure entertainment level again.

A failed (though ambitious) experiment in mystical sci fi horror, Dante 01 emerges from its very long gestation to resemble nothing so much as a poorly translated Heavy Metal comic strip.

As well, the package offers an exclusive collectible 72 - page comic book containing Detective Comics # 27 (the very first Batman story), Batman: The Man Who Falls (a classic story that inspired Batman Begins), and an excerpt from Batman: The Long Halloween (a chilling story that also inspired the film).

It owes its lineage to Richard Donner's Superman and to the Golden Age of comics, and it identifies director Johnston — long before The Wolfman and Captain Americadid — as Donner's (and Joe Dante's, sans perversion) direct cultural descendant.