Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Comics
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Selection of articles on spirituality and religion in comic books. At the comics shop, religion goes graphic – MORE NEWS AND FEATURES – MSNBC.com. Sequential Tart: Tart To Heart (vol VI/iss 12/December 2003) : Spirituality In Comics. Discussion spawned by X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills at Religion in God Loves, Man Kills – Captain Comics…
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I read a lot. For pleasure and work. But it’s not the primary way I like to engage with ideas and stories. I prefer diagrams and other graphical representations to complement the written text. So today I was looking forward to swinging past my regular comics shop and picking up a copy of Action Philosophers…
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Sometimes you just have to admire some people’s obsessions. Not only does it look good, but it feels right too. See The “Ultimate Thing” costume.
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Looks like the new Serenity comic book series from Dark Horse will be called “Better Days”, and will be set before the Serenity movie. It will explore some of the unresolved plots from Firefly and will be written by Joss Whedon and Brett Matthews (who did the first series). Can’t wait.
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Neil Gaiman and Adam Rogers write in Wired on The Myth of Superman Superman is different because he doesn’t really belong to the writers who’ve created his adventures over the last 68-plus years. He has evolved into a folk hero, a fable, and the public feels like it has a stake in who Superman “really”…
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International Superheroes is a web site that aims to build up a database of information about various superhero characters from around the world that are often overlooked in a world dominated by the US-based DC and Marvel characters.
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Dave Zimmerman ponders To Be or Not to Be Super? On the Creating and Curing of Mutants at Pop Thought. Using the upcoming X-Men III movie he wonders about what exactly normal is. Some connections with discussions about therapy vs. enhancement related to technology, and to other discussions about the nature of personal identity.
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Not the science fiction movie based on Firefly but rather Serenity – America’s Premier Inspirational Manga a newish Christian comic book series. Anyone know anything about it and if you can get it in NZ? I’ve seen some pretty awful Christian comic books in my time but maybe someone’s got the right end of the…
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Article here by The Minneapolis Star Tribune (I think) on the recent (international) free comic book day. It’s done as a comic itself and it’s not too bad. See TwinCities.com | 05/05/2006 | Saturday is free comic book day. I didn’t get to a shop on the day as I had to pick up my…
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Stumbled across this online Green Lantern game the other day at DC Kids. Sure it’s Kyle Rayner and not Hal Jordan. And he’s in his original outfit (not enough green and too much “metal”) but it’s the only online Green Lantern game that I know of. See : DC Kids : Green Lantern Game.