Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Comics
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Quite possibly the most useful little application I’ve come across in a while – Jomic – a viewer for comic book archives
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Not sure how I feel about this, but Marvel is resurrecting Marvelman (AKA Miracleman). I think of the character as a British figure, reminiscent of some of the UK comics I grew up with, so how will this pan out? (See Newsarama.com : MARVELMAN Returns Via Marvel Comics in June) Anyway, it’s been a while…
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The Green Lantern movie can’t get here soon enough for me (unless it sucks, in which case that’ll be really disappointing), and it was nice to see two Kiwi connections to the film today: Temuera Morrison is going to play Abin Sur and Taika Waititi is going to play Thomas Kalmaku. Another space opera for…
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There’s a new 10th anniversary edition of Dylan Horrocks’ “Hicksville” coming out! You can read more about it here – Newsarama.com : Dylan Horrocks Welcomes Readers Back to HICKSVILLE. And there’s a book launch and exhibition for it on Friday, 19th March, here in Auckland. See Hicksville at the High Seas! « Hicksville Comics I…
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Over the past year of so I’ve become quite interested in the whole ‘warrior nun’ figure in contemporary comic book. From The Magdalena and Warrior Nun Areala through to more recent The Sisterhood. While they tend to follow the standard superhero formulae (including ‘spandex’) there are the odd moments where some interesting religious/spiritual material gets…
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A quick list from Newsarama site of movies coming out this year using comic books as their original source material. Newsarama.com : Comic Book Movie Decade – the Next 365 Days. As noted around the web with Disney’s acquisition of Marvel, Warner Bros. and DC have some significant challenges facing them – though it looks…
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If you liked Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and you like comic books then you might be interesting in this coming out from Dark Horse – Dr. Horrible (one-shot). You can read an interview with the writer over at Newsarama.com : [Zack] Whedon’s DR. HORRIBLE: DHC’s Latest One-Shot Wonder.
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A while back I wrote a piece for Candour, a Presbyterian eZine, on some of the different ways religion and comic books interact. A few months later I needed to lecture in that area for my Bible in Popular Culture course, and so had all the notes prepared. I love it when a plan comes…
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I don’t know if something like this (In-App Sales and iTablet: The Killer Combo to Save Publishing? | Gadget Lab | Wired.com) would work, but I really like something like that to buy and read comics and graphic novels on. If the screen was the same size as a printed comic book page and in…
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Some random pop culture links while I’m clearing out browser tabs. Firstly, I’m really wondering how this comic book crossover is going to work. ‘Truth, justice and the American way’ and American superhero icons meet THE 99, a comic book which aims to provide Muslim and Arab youth with culturally-relevant heroes whose superhero strengths, actions…