Sentences with phrase «very good comic book»

Long considered one of the very best comic book stories of all time, turning Watchmen into a film was considered to be a fool's errand; its thematic and structural complexities weren't made for movies.

Not exact matches

The very best part about Comic Con are the free books.

What makes X-Men better than other comic book adaptions (say, The Phantom or Punisher) is that the film style is very loyal to comic book styles.

It's one of my favorite comic book series and with AMC recent notable series being very well received and successful like Mad Men and Breaking Bad.

I've written before on this blog about the difficulties Marvel might face adapting Ant - Man, given the enormous damage to the superhero's reputation following a very nasty, very well documented domestic violence episode (involving his wife Janet van Dyne, AKA The Wasp) in an early 1980s comic book run.

That's a common theme in comic books and for a very good reason.

The game features full voice acting, which is surprisingly VERY well done, and the story transitions through comic - book style cutscenes.

How you mix the two of those works very well in the comic books, but it's going to take a lot of thoughtfulness to make that all work and not blow the reality that we've created.»

In this charming, warm - hearted and very funny animated comedy, Kevin Hart and Thomas Middleditch star as best friends George and Harold, fourth grade pranksters who wreak havoc by day and write comic books by, well, early evening.

Nevertheless, the latest batch of photos from the set give us our very best look yet at the comic book - accurate costume / muscle - suit that Levi is sporting in the film; check them out here...

While Turtle Power could have segued straight into the hasty sequels, which were subjected to the usual diminishing returns and aren't very well - regarded, it wisely instead chooses to celebrate the impact of the franchise at large, which has far exceeded the three - year lifespan anticipated as a best - case scenario back when Eastman and Laird were developing their comic book series into a toy line (there are even priceless video clips of a meeting at Playmates).

«Well, I would certainly do what Nicolas wanted to do, and I can only guess what his version would be, but as I grew up with and am now married to a comic book fan, I think it's important to be true to the original comic books, because I know that the fans love every detail and it's very important to them.

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).

The highlight of Coates's writing in Black Panther isn't the way he skillfully laces the comic with broader political themes about power (though he's very good at that); instead, it's his ability to give the book's intimate character relationships a sense of humanity and dignity.

As it is a comic - book type of film, the characters are little more than broad caricatures, which, despite a very stocked cast of well - known actors, makes it not really a film one would watch for the acting.

The 1080p transfer relays the film's comic book feel very well and looks sharp doing it.

There will be many conversations and laughs had thanks to Deadpool 2's mid-credits scene, an instant contender for one of the very best to ever appear after a comic book, or any other kind of movie.

As a comic book nerd, I can't very well skip «Man of Steel».

Ed Brubaker is a very good writer of comic books, I think.

A comic book movie, very much like a Bond movie, of which this owes more than a debt of gratitude to, is only as good as its villain, and here we have two in Serkis» Klaue and Michael B. Jordan's Erik Killmonger.

Clocking in at a shade under an hour and a half, with very little dialogue, the film has about the consistency and depth of a comic book, albeit a very well - drawn one.

Being a two - part story, Avengers: Infinity War has the potential to make things very dark for our heroes, but this being a comic book movie, there's always the expectation that good will win in the end.

A major reason that there are not enough histories, analyses and reference books about comics is that collecting comics is a very difficult job, and libraries have not been collecting well enough.

For it to chart two weeks in a row suggests that the raw numbers might not be very high — that comics may not be selling that well on Kindle, so a few purchases will push a book up into the top ten.

These comics sold very well, bookstore sales have increased 736 %, and direct - market sales, which include those in specialty stores like comic book shops, rose 226 %

The survivors are likely to be retail chains or independent stores with a very good sense of what it takes to create a pleasant, appealing retail environment — pretty much the antithesis of at least one class of comic - book store.

Studios) is her first foray into the comic book world, and it has been very well received.

So there are these comics that are perennial, groundbreaking, very well respected books that apparently our audience still hasn't gotten to.

Here you will learn how to contact the best comic book publishers available out there and how to publish your own comic book in a very short span of time.

I've admired DeConnick's writing for years — it's very, very good — but it never rose to greatness; by which I mean a book that can be timeless, and belongs in the annals of comic book history alongside such game - changers as Preacher, Frank Miller's Daredevil and Dark Knight, Watchmen, and the like.

Using only anecdotal evidence from the comics shop I use (which is neither as ridiculously diverse as comic book shops in Manhattan, say, but they do try to keep a lot of different stuff on their shelves), Marvel's efforts aren't selling very well.

Yes, the true importance of the iPad could very well be how it revitalizes and revolutionizes comic books.

The store manager, Alex, knows Joy and me very well, and helped my dad through the process of getting our free comics (Joy and I had used the Free Comic Book Day website to pick them out ahead of time and I'd given a list to my dad).

It brings in most new comic book titles and offers a very good array of manga titles, including some that are often only available through orders, such as DMP's numerous yaoi titles.

The reviewer observes that the cartoonist in question has, in fact, produced something very good, and perhaps not typical of the reviewer's notion of what a comic book is like.

It's here where the game gets its moniker: this isn't an origin story for Batman, it's an origin story for the strange, twisted and dark connection between the vigilante and his greatest adversary To my delight Batman: Arkham Origins takes the time the time to delve into psychology of the Joker and his strange fascination with the Batman, treading dangerously into hallowed ground that many a comic book has explored, but doing so with an expert touch that quietly ensures that it can stand proudly alongside the best comic works that have tacked the very same subject.

Generally speaking, comic books based on separate properties for the sole purpose of promotion aren't very good.

While not being analyzed as something to be judged upon score-wise, I really liked the fact some of the levels had a really typical Brazilian setting, something rarely seen in games nowadays, as well as a very strong Brazilian influence in some of the characters, such as footballers who fall on the floor when touching them, a reimagining of Mônica from the comic book Mônica's Gang, and my personal favorite, an Argentinean as a boss.

If you're a fan of movies, comic books, or explicit comedy, there's a very good chance that you've seen Deadpool.

It is something that doesn't work so much in the comic books, but works very well on the screen.