Sentences with phrase «of modern comics»

Economics of Digital Comics walks the reader through the history and business models of the modern comics world, starting with the «traditional» print formats and progressing through the new digital formats, then compares what is necessary to hit revenue benchmarks in each format.

What exactly is a reboot in the preferred nomenclature of the modern comics world?

Moore wanted them left broken and his public pronouncements today — worsened by creator disputes with DC Comics - are usually typified by an angry denunciations of modern comics.

«The western and noir vibes of the film seemed to shine in the format and there was not a trace of modern comic hero movie sheen.

Not exact matches

The overall aesthetic design of your ad: color schemes, styles, layout and tone; bold versus subtle, traditional versus modern, serious versus comic, masculine versus feminine, young versus old, and everything in between.

In this obscure indie film, two little read - comic books come together in a subtle, dialogue - heavy character study that plays out like a slow - burning portrait of good and evil in the modern world.

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.

The careful arrangement of the items, with the occasional tongue - in - cheek humor (i.e. Condom Man comic book), helps the viewer travel chronologically from ancient times through modern.

Britain played a leading role in creating the modern form of the comic.

About Site - A little series of comics about a group of modern witches by Vicky - Pandora.

A biography of the pioneering comedian Richard Pryor that features interviews with family members who describe his often difficult life as well as sit - downs with modern - day comics who explain the influence Pryor's unique style had on them.

Even with the enormous success of Christopher Nolan's Gotham trilogy, the modern approach to the comic book blockbuster is for each film to form a mere link in a seemingly infinite chain.

Infinity War is to the decade of MCU storytelling what huge - ass battle finales are to the modern comic - book movie.

With the idea of isolationism and the prejudices of the modern world well in mind, Black Panther is not only an outstanding work in comic book filmmaking.

Set in the city of Montreal, Alan Rudolph's romantic comedy - drama Afterglow paints a wryly comic portrait of two modern marriages drifting toward the rocks.

Even Stan Lee, whose brief cameos are almost the one constant of all modern Marvel comic films, doesn't appear until the second half of the season.

Inspired by the popular comic book series produced by Top Cow Productions, Inc., The Darkness II is an intense first person shooter that delivers a twisted and gripping narrative of tragedy, modern crime drama, and supernatural horror.

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.

The two both star in Marvel's hotly anticipated upcoming superhero film — the first of the modern era of comic book movies to star an almost all - black cast — and posed together for pictures at the annual ceremony.

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.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

Flitting from one sly comic digression to the next, the director conducts a broadly satirical investigation of both the modern art world and the troubled conscience of 21st - century Europe, indicting the hollowness lurking beneath its ostensibly progressive, humanist values.

Formalist technics can be worked seamlessly into modern films, like the comic book qualities of Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, or they can be sloppy, like every time a current Top 40 hit makes its way into the soundtrack of a period piece.

The tangled, darkly comic plotting might smack of an assortment of crime movies from around the world, but the visual style has a distinctive character, closer to the static panels, crisp lines, and muted colors of modern graphic novels than to traditional animation.

Black Panther debuted in Marvel Comics in 1966 as the first superhero of African descent in modern American comics.

-- but one suspects that many of those pieces were written by people who hadn't seen «Obvious Child,» a legitimately great modern comic love story that also managed to include genuinely progressive politics, granting the genre a breath of fresh of air.

Openly trolling the ambitions of other modern comic - book movies, the sequel to Deadpool, the surprise hit that cast Ryan Reynolds as the self - destructive and puerile Bugs Bunny figure of the present superhero blockbuster landscape, mostly outdoes its predecessor in terms of style and satirical intent: Now that he's...

«Tower Heist» is a modern comic fable about working stiffs (the serving class of a cushy NYC high - rise) stung by Wall Street excesses (the penthouse billionaire, the lost pension fund) trying to stick it to «the man» in some soul - satisfying ways.

Dean Koontz continues this all - new modern reimagination of the classic horror tale Frankenstein, created exclusively for comics!

Chris Pratt was hailed in the lead up to this movie's release as something of a comic Indiana Jones for a modern era, and that's not a bad description of what we saw on screen.

Then, next year brings Chris Evans» Cap back for a story ripped from Ed Brubaker's comic book run about Bucky (Sebastian Stan) recovered, resurrected, brainwashed and augmented into lethal killer Winter Soldier for what is promised as a blend of spy thriller and World War II hero Steve Rogers continuing to find his place in the modern world.

Indeed, with DC and Warner Bros. having lined up a rather ambitious slate of forthcoming films featuring heroes that will essentially be new to modern cinema, there are a number of characters that comic and film fans alike have been eager to see.

And while Anderson plays with the conventions of young love, runaway adventure, and family comic - drama with a knowing, modern sensibility, he never makes fun of it.

A who's who of filmmakers and composers assembled at this year's Comic - Con International to discuss the role played by music and sound design in modern superhero movies and television series.

We have a hunch that if 2005's «Fantastic Four» were released today, in the context of the modern backlash against dark comic book movies, the film might be better - received.

The central mystery of Winter Soldier's identity would be known to any modern Marvel comic fan worth his or her salt, so the writers make the smart decision to make that conflict more of a B plot in the overall tapestry of the proceedings.

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.

Openly trolling the ambitions of other modern comic - book movies, the sequel to Deadpool, the surprise hit that cast...

In 2003 the modern wave of superhero movies was still in its infancy, and Ang Lee — still the best filmmaker to do a comic book movie — got experimental with «Hulk.»

Hugh Jackman first played the character of Wolverine back in 2000 in the film that launched the modern day, comic book blockbuster - Bryan Singer's X-Men.

A renowned journalist and author who regularly tackles the cultural, social, and political climates of modern African - Americans, a mainstream comic book might seem out of the realm for the National Magazine Award winner.

Back in 2005, the trailers for Sin City looked like nothing I'd seen before, a phenomenal page - to - screen adaptation that captured the flavor of Frank Miller's modern noir comic book series via the spendthrift imagination of filmmaker Robert Rodriguez.

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.

Long gone are the origins of comic books which served as allegory to modern social situations, these films are only about violence, hero's repeatedly saving the day and leave the intelligent moviegoer with little substance.

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.

Not quite a comedy but as darkly comic a crime drama as you'll find, this offbeat modern noir («based on actual events,» according to the credits, but then Fargo claimed the same thing) is a weirdly compelling portrait of a town that has its own sense of justice and pitiless equilibrium and director Henrik Ruben Genz maintains the unsettling mood perfectly.

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.

One of the great comic book movies ever made and arguably the best one involving any of the X-Men (although X2: X-Men United deserves to be in the conversation), Hugh Jackman's final go as Wolverine is a surprisingly simple, straight - forward modern Western about heroism, aging, friendship and family that strikes quite the emotional chord.