All posts tagged "comics"
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Legendary comic Joan Rivers dies at 81
“My mother’s greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would...
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Galactic Triumph: Guardians of the Galaxy (Review)
Guardians of the Galaxy is an utterly joyful experience, devoid of the slightly cheesy, soapbox nature of some of Marvel’s more pompous leading characters
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Artists back away from Superman and Boy Scouts due to anti-gay controversies
An illustrator for DC Comics says he will not work on a new Superman project due to controversy associated with one of its authors, Orson...
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The Best Medicine
Nearly 10 years ago comic Suzanne Westenhoefer told Metro Weekly she had quit smoking, in part because of the Mautner Project. ''I'm not going to...
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Stuck
Myths are a special kind of story. They're always changing, adding new colors and flavors to time-tested formulas. No two versions need be the same,...
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Avenging Marvels
Take a minute to consider how incredible it is that The Avengers exists. This movie, after all, is more than seven years in the making....
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Comic Culture
Fandom has reached something akin to a roaring pitch on the fringes of today's pop culture. For every hit television show or movie, dozens of...
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Spiderspoof
''It seems like a lot of theaters take themselves a little too seriously,'' says Mickey DaGuiso. That's certainly not true of Landless Theatre, the company...
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American Idol
Captain America: The First Avenger is a tease. The latest in a string of superhero movies churned out by Marvel Studios, it's little more than...
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Stung
After a path to the big screen that bounced around more than one of Billy's trips in a Family Circus cartoon, The Green Hornet has...
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Lambda Sci-Fi
Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica -- I'm just not a fan. But that didn't keep me from engaging in scintillating conversation with members of...
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De-Clawed
What happens when the badass becomes the sweet and sensitive one? You lose the edge. And that's exactly the problem with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. There's...
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Identity Crisis
Let me make myself perfectly clear: Watchmen isn't your ordinary comic-book superhero movie. It's an extraordinary comic-book superhero movie. Cast of 'The Watchmen' The long-awaited,...
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Stand-up Guy
There's no doubting Eddie Sarfaty is a funny man. Maybe you've heard his unique style of connecting the dots that, for example, begins with gays...
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Marvelous
Wait a minute. Didn't they just make The Incredible Hulk into a movie? Why yes, yes they did. The difference with the new version, however,...
