Sentences with phrase «read comics off»

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Williams had been somewhat of an off - beat personality in the first nine of his 10 years in the league, sporting dreadlocks and reading Spiderman comics.

Maybe they're in the comic — which I have not read, but it came off as the film - set - in - Africa

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.

This writer was lucky enough to catch the film early at Comic - Con last month (read my glowing review here), and coming fresh off a double feature of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz at The Music Box Theatre in Chicago, I can't wait to see it again.

I've met Presidents, Dined with Kings, flown a stunt plane, raced on - road and off, interviewed the stars, read the book, bought the comic, played the game and kissed the girl.

OK, the not so good stuff: I am beginning to despise 3 - D (it adds nothing, while diminishing the brightness of colors); Jotunheim (land of the Frost Giants) is plain, gray and boring; Natalie Portman, fresh off an Oscar is just terrible as an astro - physicist with a teenager - style crush on Thor; Tom Hiddleston as Loki is one of the weakest villains I have ever seen in a super - hero / comic book movie; Rene Russo must not have read the script prior to accepting her role — she has about 3 lines and is totally wasted.

Attempts at comic relief and a few scares come off as too goofy to work effectively, making this a film only of interest for drive - in cinema regulars, Haim's staunchest of fans, and those who are insatiably curious after reading the Koontz novel.

Some might argue that part of the appeal of comic book reading comes from going to the store and grabbing the newest issue off of the rack.

So why is it that once we've gotten home, kicked off our uncomfortable shoes and loosened our ties, we relax by watching The Office, Mad Men, or cult classic Office Space, read books like Jonas Karlsson's The Room or even comics such as Dilbert?

The guided view makes each comic panel take off the entire screen, making it easier to read the text.

Angel: At the same time, I never feel inclined to read a «comic» novel, and I think that if Skippy Dies had been presented to me as a comic novel first and foremost, I would have been put off.

Despite all of the (old) people clamoring about how no one wants to read comics on a computer screen and what about holding the paper and blah blah blah you kids get off my lawn with that rock music, there is an entire generation of people out there who have been reading comics on the web.

With the improvements to digital reading that came about with the widespread development of full - color tablets, interactive children's book apps and digital comics apps have taken off.

Read this book for the period detail, for the beautifully observed characters, for an evocation of a «golden moment» of creative collaboration, or just to put yourself in the hands of a master of comic writing (which, by the way, is so much harder to pull off than it seems).

The big issue with all these comic readers is that the 10 - inch iPad screen actually isn't quite big enough to comfortably read comic book dialogue bubbles off of.

Other than figuring out what order to read these in, I've got to choose whether or not to pay full retail for a digital comic that I do not legally own and can not download or to order Heartbreak Soup and Maggie the Mechanic off Amazon for twenty bucks (ten bucks cheaper!)

I'm actually OK with buying digital comics at full price as long as I can download the files off my phone or table and read them on other machines (so I actually own them), but in cases where that isn't available or I already own the print comics I've been looking into scanning services like 1dollarscan.com (not actually one dollar unless you're scanning less than 100 pages w / o OCR).

Another neat feature: ComicRack remembers where you finished reading, so that when you return to a comic after exiting the app, you'll pick up where you left off.

While many of us spent Monday barbecuing, watching X-Men: Days of Future Past or otherwise enjoying the day off from work, comiXology got a jump on the season with the launch of its «Summer Reading List,» offering one free digital comic a day for 20 days.

YACReader remembers where you finished reading, so that when you return to a comic after exiting the app, you'll pick up where you left off — a nice touch.

Then the manga boom and manga bust and leveling could all happen off to the side, and no one would have to encounter scary ideas like «women make comics» and «women read comics» and «women buy comics» and they could keep the now - more - narrowly - defined comics industry the exact shape that they wanted to, albeit a little smaller and a little sadder for the exclusion.

With the Doctor Who: Comic Creator you can frame your own epic battles between Daleks and Cybermen, design a completely new monster, take off in the Tardis to destinations unknown or read a brand new tale.

• Not content with a single Cyber Monday sale, digital comics platform comiXology is juggling four: 50 percent off 100 comiXology Submit titles; read Marvel's entire Infinity epic for $ 49.99 (or select individual issues for 99 cents each); the aforementioned Vertigo collected editions deals; and 50 percent off the entire line of Action Lab Entertainment comics.

I started reading comics and manga in junior high, went off to art school, and in my second year I decided to make a mini-comic and try things out... I haven't looked back.

UPDATE: To celebrate Chinese New Year and thank you all your continued support, I convinced Comixology's big wig to run a 50 % off sale on all Moth City titles — meaning you can get any of the comics for... Read more

It's the title that broke manga in the US — no comic has had a bigger influence than SAILOR MOON, the manga / anime that kicked off the shojo manga boom, made it safe for girls to read comics, and introduced the idea of cosplay to America in a big way.

Going off to academic conferences and reading some of the weightier academic books about the theory and practice of comics, it was really, really difficult to get into.

It is more of a digital comic, as it lacks the narrative choices of other visual novel styles, and it starts off pretty slow, but despite that, it does culminate in an intriguing climax that makes me want to read part two.

Having attended just one small, local Comic - Con in the gloomy city of Aberdeen, which you can read about here, I wanted to check out a bigger event but couldn't afford to simply jet off and go to the biggest Comic - Con in the world held in San Diego.

Think about it this way: those who indulge in comic books do not read them to see the protagonist face off against the same few villains over and over again.

If you have never read the comic books don't let that minor omission put you off to this game.

Need to get back into the comics last issue I read was 104 (i think its the one carl went off hidden in the truck) so have some catching up to do (not that much really) I'm currently reading the books, read rise of the governor, I'm halfway through road to Woodbury and I have fall of the governor pt1 sitting ready to go.

Let's start off with the story as when you play the game in single player, you get comic strip like cut scenes with speech bubbles that without the right TV you are going to have a hard time reading.

The seemingly straightforward elements play off the disjointed images of the landscape and the comic figure, defying any attempt at easy, one - dimensional readings

«Stephen King started off reading comics, «Tales from the Crypt.»