Sentences with phrase «most modern comics»

Not exact matches

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.

• Most scenes in modern blockbusters — superhero movies, comic book stories, FX - driven tentpoles, etc. — feel both perfunctory and dead on arrival.

Save for his two Hellboy movies (among the most irreverent and entertaining comic book films of the modern era), his more straightforward genre fare — Mimic, Pacific Rim, the ripe gothic melodrama of Crimson Peak — are pretty anaemic once you get past the beautiful production design.

Hulk — Halfway between a regular Ang Lee movie (dysfunctional families, lots of slow drama) and a modern comic book movie (the Spider - Man and X-Men movies), most people hated this film.

Few modern comic actors have done more for the 4/20 cause than Seth Rogen, and this festive farce may well be his most drug - addled to date.

It kicked off in 2008 with Iron Man, which gave birth to one of the most popular franchises in modern movie history and introduced a new generation of fans to classic comic book characters.

Cold - shouldered by the Academy for most of his career, Chaplin got two honorary awards, one at the start of his career (in 1929) and another at the end (in 1972, for «the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century»), but nothing specifically for the great achievements — the towering comic masterpieces City Lights, Modern Times and The Great Dictator.

Now, in the face of Disney's looming $ 60 billion acquisition of Twentieth Century Fox, Brian K. Vaughn, one of the best comic book writers of the modern era may be tackling one of Marvel's most alien superheroes.

Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action - adventure takes Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan.

And news has just hit that the Wakandan monarch's next ongoing comics series will be written by Ta - Nehisi Coates, a national correspondent for The Atlantic widely regarded as one of the most important chroniclers of the modern black experience.

Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action - adventure takes Wolverine, the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan.

Joe and Anthony Russo's modern superhero masterpiece is the film most likely to define the next generation of comic book movies.

Strip Magazine is an attempt to recapture the glory days of British adventure comics; most of the stories are new, with the exception of «Hook Jaw,» a classic 1970s comic about a killer shark, which has been cleaned up and relettered for modern readers.

If you look at a company like Comixology that powers almost all of the mainstream comic book apps, it looks amazing on most of the modern Apple devices.

This landmark app launches with over 500 of Marvel's greatest comic books, from classic stories to modern tales, featuring Iron Man, Captain America, Spider - Man, Hulk, Thor and more of the world's most popular Super Heroes.

With that in mind, we've pulled a Marvel comic from the not - so - modern era and broken it down, one most excellent fact at a time!

The most famous modern comic book writer in the world, Alan Moore, is leading a research and development project to create an app enabling digital comics to be made by anyone.

This is most prominent in the final few pages which are home to an action sequence that winds up being the comic version of an annoying modern action movie that reckons doing a jump cut every 0.2 milliseconds is a good thing.

Daedalic Entertainment presents the most recent impressions of their modern adventure Silence at San Diego Comic - Con.

Of the six typefaces Morris used (Georgia, Helvetica, Trebuchet, Comic Sans, Baskerville, and Computer Modern), he found that readers who saw the statement in Baskerville were most likely to agree with it.Other studies have shown that readers perceive a link between the ease of reading a typeface and the ease of the task it describes: