Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Comics
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Somewhere out there there’s someone in an anorak who put this together – amazing. As well as reading some of the early issues with Dan Date in them (I’d already read some of the old Eagle comics) I read every issue between 25 August 1979 (when Tornado was absorbed into 2000AD) and the end of…
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ABC’s Encounter programme’s most recent episode focuses on religion and comic books – Islam, Judaism and Christianity in four-colour frames. Both the podcast and a ‘mini-comic’ of the episode are available at: Encounter – 19 December 2010 – Comic Book Superheroes
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This could either be really good (they seem to be paying attention to the origin story, Jordan’s attitude, and the alieness of the GL Corps) or really bad (the CGI looks really dodgy, can’t decide between humour or drama, and too much time on Earth). See the trailer at IO9.com – In the full-length Green…
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Someone recently pointed me towards Pax Avalon: Conflict Resolution, a ‘superhero’ comic book series with a Mennonite background. I can’t even imagine how that would play out, so I’ll try and get an issue or two and have a look. There’s a review of it over at Pax Avalon by Steven “Reece” Friesen | ComixTALK…
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While at CMRC 2010 I found out about this range of books from Continuum. Looks really interesting – especially the ‘Graven Images’ book. “Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books & Graphic Novels” (Continuum) “Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence” (Jorn Ahrens, Arno Meteling) “The Power of Comics: History, Form and…
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Tomorrow in the Bible and Popular Culture course we begin to look at ethics and how interpretation of the Bible (esp. origin stories) functions in that. At some point we’ll intersect with comic book narratives as contemporary morality plays. While surfing around the web today thinking about that, I came across this course that deals…
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Picked up a copy of the new Serenity one-shot comic focusing on the late character of Wash. I’m a big Firefly/Serenity fan and have read all the other comics that the series spawned, but this one left me pretty much cold (except for a feel-good moment at the end). Hopefully the next one focusing on…
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I’m not a big Marvel comics fan, though I’ll read them if they’re around (and I quite like Spider-Man), but I do like DC and Vertigo. So reasons to acquire an iPad just increased. See Newsarama.com : DC Does DIGITAL: iPhone, iPad App Premieres on iTunes And, even with exchange rates, the comics will cost…
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Today is Free Comic Book Day and so, with my eldest in tow and all kids’ sports fixtures accounted for, I headed off to Gotham Comics (one of the two comic shops I frequent regularly) to see what was happening. [I headed off to Gotham Comics rather than Heroes for Sale because of the free…
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A more detailed interview with Dylan Horrocks that picks up some of the things I mentioned back in Greenflame ยท New version of Hicksville!. See On the edge of the world – Entertainment – NZ Herald News