Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Comics
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Interesting article over at Suspension of Disbelief on the portrayal of religion in comics. See Suspension of Disbelief: Guess Who’s Coming To Shabbos Dinner? (Spoiler: it’s Superman.)
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Seems like the DC Comics character of the Spectre is on the minds of several people at the moment. Personally I never really knew about him until his path intersected that of Hal Jordan (the Silver Age Green Lantern). In the issues from around that time that I’ve read the character shifts from one who…
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Was going to write something about Green Lantern: Rebirth, superhero origin stories and the Incarnation but it’s late, I’m tired and it’s almost Christmas Day and I need to go to bed so I’ll start tomorrow well. So have a good Christmas and all the best for the New Year. P.S. If you do want…
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I’ve got several ideas running around in my head for academic articles relating to religion and comic books. But I’ve never really figured out where I could send them, nor read other examples of how people engage with comics at an academic level. Until now. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies The objective of ImageTexT is to…
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There are songs that define the moment you’re in. You hear it on the radio and it takes you back to a certain time and place. For better or worse (probably worse) the current song that defines this moment (the end of 2005) is the Ookla the Mok song “Super Powers“. You can download the…
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Tripped into the city on Saturday to Armageddon and had an enjoyable half-day there. Avoided the long queue to get in by having prepaid for a ticket and spent a few hours looking around before heading to the panel with Mark Waid (Wikipedia). The bottom couple of levels of the Aotea Centre had things like…
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You can see the first 11 minutes of Serenity as an video stream here.
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Dave Zimmerman over at Strangely Dim linked through to a podcast interview he did with Andy Rau over at Think Christian » Blog Archive » Holy podcasts, Batman! Talking about God and superheroes with Dave Zimmerman. It’s a fairly large MP3 (50+ Mb) but I found it interesting. Particularly the last 20-30 minutes where the…
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Dropped by Suspension of Disbelief today after many months away and some how ended up at the following interview Time did recently with Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon. Gaiman (who’s a Brit) had this interesting thing to say about writing scripts in the US aimed at family viewing, But then, I get fascinated because, in…
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Off to see the pre-release screening of Serenity tonight in town. After a day of cold, wet rain, hail and strong winds (& snow in Christchurch) it’s a nice way to end the day – especially as I’m going with a couple of other enthusiasts. Managed to get the first two of the comics that…