Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Comics
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Comic buying is temporarily on hold at the moment, but that isn’t stopping me from paying attention to the developing story of the Sinestro Corps within the DC Universe. Finally, the villain Sinestro seems to have moved from an almost comic (pardon the pun) character to one who is deadly serious. It was hinted at…
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Link off Monitor Duty: Lileks on Batman to an old (2005!) podcast about the evolution of Batman theme music. I still find it amusing that the 1960s Batman theme music is still chanted in the school playground by my children, even though none of them have seen the original TV show. (All that might change…
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Just saw the Call for Papers (closed) for “World Building: Seriality and History” conference on comics held by the University of Florida. Nice to see Kiwi, Dylan Horrocks (Hicksville) as a keynote speaker. Now I know the conference exists then I’ll be on the lookout for other CFPs from them. Hopefully by then I’ll also…
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Time Magazine’s Top 10 graphic novels of 2006 – TIME 25 Top Ten 2006 Locus’ lists for 2006 – Locus Online: Locus Magazine’s Recommended Reading: 2006:
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AKMA (AKMA’s Random Thoughts – Convergence) points to a couple of articles in SBL Forum that begin to take the genre of comics as serious fodder for theological engagement. As he points out though, the engagement is fairly cursory and doesn’t really begin to scratch questions about why religious motifs and symbols appear in comic…
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A new type of fish with a Batman-like marking on its tail is named after the Caped Crusader. Cool. See New fish is named after Batman | Practical Fishkeeping magazine.
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Dropped by my comic shop today to collect a couple of Christmas presents I’d ordered through them (games, in this case). Reminded me about the way they organize their customer files. If you have subscriptions for comics etc. with them you have your own folder in the filing cabinet behind the counter. The folders are…
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Later on this week I’ll hopefully have time to pop into town and pick up the next issue of Ion from the comic shop. And it’s nice to find someone else who has been pondering some of the the plot lines relating to what exactly morality is the Green Lantern Corps, particularly in terms of…
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With the “Revenge of the Green Lanterns” story arc coming to a close last month, current Green Lantern writer Geoff Johns gave this recent interview over at Newsarama.com: GEOFF JOHNS – GREEN LANTERN, OA, PRIME, & MORE – NEWSARAMA. Now, I liked the story arc, and on the whole I’ve enjoyed Hal Jordan’s return, the…
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Here’s something I hadn’t considered. Taking the 9/11 Commission’s report and reworking it in a comicbook/graphic form to make it accessible for a different audience. See The 9/11 Report – Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón.