Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Comics
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It’s Friday, which is normally my evening of space opera – Andromeda followed by Star Trek : Enterprise. But Andromeda finished last week leaving the total amount of space opera across all channels as Doctor Who and Enterprise. TVNZ seems to have dropped the ball on Stargate (Stargate on TVNZ) and I guess in NZ…
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Via Conrad Gempf’s blog I see that New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III has a blog. Not only that but but he’s blogging about the Fantastic 4! And Conrad Gempf posts a comment there about the one, true Green Lantern – Hal Jordan (though Alan Scott is also a favourite). I enjoyed Witherington’s commentary “Conflict…
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Thwarted in my efforts to get to see “Batman Begins” this week. Instead I read several articles by David Zimmerman (Strangely Dim) on “Batman Begins” and the “Fantastic Four”. This week I hope to make it in to the cinema, though with the school holidays on my normal 10am morning slot where there’s only a…
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Got a whole bunch (well, at least 2) ideas running around inside my head about the origin stories that occur in comic books, their significance for the development and understanding of characters and their possible function within the community of faith. While thinking about these I came across two interesting – and opposing – blog…
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Saw this yesterday which made me smile: UserFriendly April 20, 2005. (I guess Star Wars comics/cartoons are back on the agenda for a while.) Reminded me of this article from last year in the NZ Listener – Beer and fear by ear by Olivia Kember | New Zealand Listener. Loved the opening paragraph, It must…
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Tim and I were talking yesterday about my comments to his post SansBlogue : Hell wants him. Heaven won’t take him. Earth needs him and I’ve decided to turn them into a post over here in response to that. Bear in mind my comments are more about the genre of comic books than the movie…
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Suspension of Disbelief : A Fact-Check for the Four-Color World is a group blog reality-checking comic stories. “Incredible stories in a realistic world” might be their slogan. Thus, in the spirit of educating the public and the publishers, we here have created this group blog. We’ll complain when creators get the facts wrong, and congratulate…
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From Comic Book Movies by David Hughes, Why this sudden fascination with comic book heroes? Perhaps because so many directors and studio executives grew up (as I did) on Marvel and DC comics – an entire generation learned about morality, heroism and the difficult choices faced by heroes not from the classics, but from Spider-Man…
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Being something of a comic book junkie (see: Greenflame: Holy Warrior Nuns, Batman!) I was interested to read this yesterday over at Jolly Blogger: Superman, Jesus Christ and Jim Caviezel. Great posting with lots of links to interesting articles and sites linking in religious themes with comic book characters (mostly Superman).
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I’ve been a comic-book junkie ever since I can remember. As a child I remember growing up reading and collecting various comics (both British and American). Every now and then I stop off at a comics shop and have a look around to see what’s being published now. The July Sojourner’s magazine had an interesting…