Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Comics
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Part 1 of an interesting interview on the comic book character ‘Robin‘ and sidekicks in general. I’m looking forward to Part 2. See Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Boy and Girl Wonders: An Interview with Mary Borsellino (Part One). See also: Project Girl Wonder
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I stumble across A Softer World. The strips are an eclectic mix, and often dwell on death and grief, but there are some thought provoking strips in there.
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Way, way back I started reading the late Robert Jordan’s “Wheel of Time” series. Probably back in 1991, I think. Anyway, I liked some of the series premises, even if I couldn’t stand how most of the latter books dragged, increased the number of extraneous ancilliary characters, and never appeared to be heading for a…
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An interesting short story giving a spin on Superman. See Last Son of Tomorrow by Greg Van Eekhout.
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Looks like another comic to add to my religious comic mini-collection. In this case it’s Mark Millar’s American Jesus. You can read an interview with Millar over at Newsarama.com : American Jesus: Book of Revelation Told in Comic Book. A preview of the comic can be found here: Newsarama | FULL ISSUE – Mark Millar’s…
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Newsarama.com : Could Kindle Kill Comics? e-Reading Devices Cloud Future raises some of the possibilities (positive and negative) digital comics as a product for readers like the Kindle might bring.
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I enjoyed Justice League: The New Frontier so this looks promising Newsarama.com : Warner Bros Announces Green Lantern: First Flight. And, seeing GL on the big screen looks like it might be getting closer too – Newsarama.com : Warners’ Green Lantern, Jonah Hex Get Release Dates.
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I’ve been meaning to get hold of "Batman Gotham Knight" for a while now. It’s a collection of Batman short stories animated and interpreted by different anime creators, similar to the "The Animatrix". Henry Jenkins has some thoughts on whether it qualifies as true transmedia storytelling over at Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Many Lives…
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Next year I’m teaching the general education course The Bible in Popular Culture (in which I can indulge my love of comics etc. and be paid for it), so I’ve been checking material to add the that which previous lecturers have used. A while back (Greenflame ยท More comics and religion) I noted that there…
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A colleague returned from SBL in Boston with a copy of Steve Ross’ Blinded for me. It’s a graphic interpretation of the Acts of the Apostles from Saul/Paul’s perspective, but as with Ross’ previous graphic novel Marked this one remixes the 1st century Mediterranean world with contemporary imagery and settings. The retelling creates quite a…