Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Comics
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Just listened to the podcast of this weeks “The Spirit of Things” from ABC in Australia. The Spirit of Things – 20 August 2006 – Virgins, Vampires & Superheroes Popular spirituality is not a new phenomenon, but the media, cinema and the internet have conspired to make it more diverse than ever before. Miraculous sightings of the…
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Joff alerts me (via email) to the news that JMS will be coming to the Auckland Armageddon in October. See pulpexpo.com – Joe Straczynski – Film and Comic Writer. (Curses! The link disappeared over the weekend) Related links: Joff’s experiences of the Wellington expo. Greenflame: Post-Armageddon. 2002 article – Wired News: Of PowerPoint and Pointlessness…
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What with the various Crises in the DC Comics universe(s) in the past 20 years or so, it’s pretty hard to figure out what’s what with all the retconning. (See Crisis on Infinite Earths, Identity Crisis, Infinite Crisis, plus Zero Hour and other bizarreness.) Post Infinite Crisis DC Comics produced a serialized (new) history of…
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Papercutz, more well known for their comic book versions of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, have release a biographical graphic novel of Pope John Paul II. See John Paul II – in comics!. A different slant from the Homopater comic (and the very bizarre Battle Pope comic).
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According To Me: The Rules has a bit of a rant about the importance of paying attention to the rules and background that belong to this history of comic book characters. Good stuff.
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Via Tensegrities a link through to Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins: Sneak Preview: NBC’s Heroes. Contains a good overview of what the new TV series “Heroes” looks like (having seen the pilot). He argues it’s in the style of a Vertigo or Image style comic – darker and with more…
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The Lone Ranger gets a makeover in a new comic book series produced by Dynamite Entertainment. It’s being co-written by Brett Matthews who wrote for Firefly and worked on the Serenity comic book. See Dynamite Entertainment! – Lone Ranger #1 for some brief details and some page images, and NEWSARAMA.COM: BRETT MATTHEWS TALKS THE LONE…
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Not satisfied with just watching the films of their favourite superheroes some fans set about making their own fan films and trailers for the films they’d like to see. Three good examples are: TheForce.Net | World’s Finest – Superman/Batman team up. TheForce.Net | Grayson – Robin seeks justice for the death of the Dark Knight.…
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A couple of reflections from the latest Superman movie. Darren’s finished off his study guide for the movie and posted it over at Digital Orthodoxy – Superman Returns. And Dave Zimmerman ponders his sympathy for Lex Luthor at Strangely Dim: Sympathy for the Bad Guy.
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Heidi Campbell’s new blog, When Religion Meets New Media, has a link to this article Muslims craft their own video games | csmonitor.com. Looks like an interesting game. I wonder if it’ll be available here in NZ? Related to this is the development of Middle Eastern comic books. At this point they follow American formats…