The site was started in early 2018, in the dark days before anyone on the Internet had anything to
say about comic book movies or pop culture.
Not exact matches
Netflix and Marvel brought Jon Bernthal out on stage at the 2015 New York
Comic Con, and he had some interesting things to
say about playing fan - favorite The Punisher.
It is hard to
say just what Moby - Dick, Melville's greatest and most famous work, really is: a metaphysical Romantic tragedy
about Captain Ahab's sexual obsession with an enormous white whale; an immense picaresque comedy
about sailing; or a serio -
comic grand opera that begins with the narrating Ishmael bored by the streaming crowds of New York and ends with him alone in the ocean, floating on the harpooner Queequeg's coffin.
How
about we get over what this ancient
comic book
says altogether?
So in the case of the immediate man when he is in despair it is impossible to represent him truly without a touch of the
comic; it is, if I may
say so, a clever trick to talk in this jargon
about a self and
about despair.
But, without a trace of irreverence, can we not also
say there is something genuinely
comic about Easter?
On the one hand the bible
says that Jesus
said «Love your neighbor as yourself» but on the other hand the theology is all
about segregating people after they die into the saved and the damned (as depicted in the
comic).
These Christian
comics are from ASBO Jesus, a blog which uses humor and satire to raise issues
about what Christians do and
say in the world.
Although some late night
comic likely has already
said this, how
about getting his mouth stapled?
Joseph Percoco, an aide and sometime enforcer to the current Governor Cuomo who also served the first Governor Cuomo, was
said to provide
comic relief, recounting how the current governor frequently gives him grief
about his tie, or his weight.
«My brother
said he always thought there should be [a
comic strip]
about grad school, because that's when the real pain begins.»
«However, from a scientific perspective, it's important to remember that we're talking
about the first law of thermodynamics,»
says Suveen Mathaudhu, a program manager in the materials science division of the U.S. Army Research Office, adjunct materials science professor at NC State University and hardcore
comics fan.
After reading this i was realized that using the
comic book heroes was a great way to get people interested in what you had to
say about this cool workout!
The long monologue
about comic books and Superman's secret identity takes an awfully long time to
say something which could have been handled in a couple of lines, without adding anything particularly profound or bringing new insights on the popular culture it is referencing.
I will
say one thing
about TDK and Aquaman: The
comic book character is unbearably pitiful and TDK managed to translate that perfectly into a just - as - pitiful game.
... Another
comic book movie reboot is gearing up to go into production this year in Spawn, and creator and director Todd McFarlane has been chatting
about how the title character will communicate in the film, as well as speaking
about its hard R - rated tone: «It's funny in Hollywood, if you
say you want to do an R - rated movie, they go like «Oh like Deadpooland like Logan?»
And the
comic book version made me nervous, and I would argue with Lauren [Shuler - Donner]
about it, and she'd
say, «He must have the ponytail and the cravat.»
Say what you will
about the LBGT agendas, I'm still all for wholesome movies like Beauty and the Beast over the glut of explosive
comic superhero movies.
Instead, the sequel is
about Wade Wilson wanting to have a kid even though he can't, which Reynolds
says makes it «kind of a family film masquerading as a
comic book film.»
Fox has been promoting this one as a «surprise» inclusion to their San Diego
Comic Con line - up and even though just
about everyone guessed that surprise would be «X-Men: Days of Future Past» from the moment the news broke, having the opportunity to see so many X-Men grace a single stage was a thrill to
say the least.
As a big fan of
comic book supervillains, I'll be the first to
say that they don't work in non-
comic book movies, and Strong is
about five minutes from slapping on an iron mask and demanding to be called Doctor Doom.
Hit the jump for what Singer had to
say about managing the time - travel, adapting the
comic, and considering the previous X-Men movies.
• I'm not sure what there is to
say about Raising Arizona's iconic chase sequence other than that it epitomizes everything that's great
about the movie — in particular the Coens»
comic ingenuity, Sonnenfeld's tremendous camerawork, and Burwell's delirious score.
So for something like Lobo, without
saying too much
about it, it'll feel, I imagine, quite different because the Lobo
comic itself is quite different.
One fan asked
about the possibility of Bucky Barnes and Black Widow getting together like they've done in the
comic books, with Stan pointing to co-director Anthony Russo,
saying «ask this guy for BuckyNat.»
I never read the
comic book, but judging from what this article
says about the series, I'm picturing part Warehouse 13 meets The Thing.
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige previously spoke
about Swinton's casting and the decision to take the Ancient One in a different direction,
saying that the Ancient One's early
comic appearances were «stereotypical» and «don't hold up to what would work today.»
The 1980 Borg — McEnroe marathon — one set was decided by an 18 — 16 tiebreaker — previously supplied inspiration for a ribald spoof, 7 Days in Hell, a very funny 2015 HBO special, starring Andy Samberg, that via
comic hyperbole had more to
say about the era than this film does, with its timid peek inside Studio 54 and its inconclusive scene
about Borg and his bride being urged to sell access to their wedding to the tabloids.
Suffice it to
say it's
about three cute people and their encounter with pop culture, only instead of being Almost Famous, it's based on an Archie
comic.
In the
comics, she has superhuman strength and agility, and she's also basically impervious — but you could
say all these things
about all the Black Order members.
«Ryan's trip informed as much
about the movie as any of our
comics,»
says Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige.
What does it
say to you
about where we are in the evolution of the superhero genre that this R - rated, irreverent
comic - book movie resonated so much with audiences?
Rightly or wrongly, after director Bill Condon's announcement in the UK gay magazine Attitude that, «LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston» and that the
comic sidekick would deliver»... a nice, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie», there hasn't been much else
said about this remake.
Nicolas Cage has been talking
about comic book movie roles and he
says he would love to play Doctor Doom
SM: For me, I would
say to them if the things that you loved
about reading the
comic strip or the earlier specials, the heart, the emotion, and the laughs that you have with these characters, we have retained every bit of that.
Who wouldn't want to hear as much as Smith has to
say about pinching her
comic technique from Kenneth Williams?
So you have to wait 1/3 of the film, to wait for the most hackneyed, cornball resolution in war film history.And
say what you want
about modine, he looks like olivier next to sheen's unintentionally
comic performance.
That
said, I've always harboured the suspicion that Bryson has enterprisingly built an entire
comic travel - writing career out of the simple trick of deliberately booking himself into the worst hotel in town and then, rather unsurprisingly, being funny
about it.
At a certain point, our dullard duo Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim (who wrote, directed, and star) break the fourth wall, turn directly to the camera, and explain half of a joke they just told (It's
about the play on «soft» and «hard,» they
say, forgetting, apparently, to mention the
comic «Rule of Three» that precedes it).
Comic shops are not sale or return — it's just straight sale — so they're actually MUCH more up for this sort of thing than,
say, an indie bookstore, which will just bitch
about not being able to return unsold books.
And I want it to
say something
about the
comic within.
Like I
said, I wouldn't be into
comics if I couldn't talk
about them whenever I have the time, and if I couldn't get the number of angles on them that the internet provides.
Okay, well, let's
say, instead of jumping in and writing
comics designed to attract women readers (Minx
comics discovered this is harder than it looks), how's
about writing
comics which don't actually put women off?
And while Stan Lee the character worries
about being able to create more
comics, the real - life Stan Lee
says that's not a problem: «'' It's like working on a puzzle — you've got the elements, now you have to figure out what's missing, what's the one thing that is unexpected and will be exciting to the reader.»
Marvel can
say whatever it wants
about Infinite Comics, but you can sense where its priorities lie: While the company's producing eight Infinite series, it still has more than 60 ongoing
comic books that aren't exclusively digital.
They
say that they had dinner with her and «never talked
about comics,» because they were too busy talking
about everything else.
There's just not enough space to list the reasons why Williams was important and well - loved — in an industry so fueled by internal drama, it's hard nearly impossible to find someone who's managed to come out of the relentless gossip unscathed, but I can honestly
say that, in all of my years in
comics, I've never heard a negative word spoken
about Dylan Williams.
Bluewater makes a
comic about a wrestler,
say, and the wrestling websites run the press release with a bit of breathless commentary --» Wrestler X has always loved reading
comics, and now he is a
comics character himself!»
A number of the experimental digital - first
comics are free, and creators such as Thrillbent's Mark Waid have
said up front that they want to figure out the model first and then think
about monetizing it.
Here's another inside look: Speaking
about his
comic Saga, drawn by Fiona Staples, Brian K. Vaughan
said «I don't know if creators at other companies are privy to exactly how many digital copies their books are selling these days, but the statements Fiona and I get from Image are pretty staggering.