Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Comics
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During February my office door was covered in images of angels in popular culture. For March I’ve decided to go with warrior nuns in comic book culture. So my door now looks like this. I may add some more to it, but I think with The Magdalena, Warrior Nun Areala, The Sisterhood and Chrono Crusade…
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I’ve got “Green Lantern and Philosophy: No Evil Shall Escape this Book” and Superheroes: The Best of Philosophy and Pop Culture (Free on Kindle) so I’ll be reading this on the train to see whether to get the book. Superman and Philosophy: First chapter available for free – The Comics Professor.
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I never really watched the 1990s X-Men cartoon series, but I might go back to it now having discovered this snippet of God-talk in it. Would be interested to see what other examples of religion and spirituality were found in the show, and if so, how they were portrayed.
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The second part of the recent episode of Media 7 looks at some of the intellectual property issues in the comic book industry. See Media7 | Television New Zealand | Series 8, Episode 19
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I love Star Trek, and have a soft spot for the Legion of Superheroes, but this could go horribly, horribly wrong. How will the Legion of Superheroes meet the crew of the Starship Enterprise? Author Chris Roberson fills us in.
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Apparently it’s Comic Book Month at Auckland Libraries this month.
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I’ve tried reading comics on an iPod. It really didn’t work for me. I’ve tried the browser-based app from Comixology to read comics and that didn’t really work for me either, and neither do CBR/CBZ readers. So I remain with paper issues and trade paperbacks, but an A4 size tablet might do it (and I…
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After waiting for somewhere over 30 years I finally got to see a Green Lantern movie on the big screen. And as a fanboy of longstanding I have to say my feelings about it were pretty mixed. On one hand I think they got some things right – the aloofness of the Guardians, Sinestro’s focus…
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Having spent the last few months immersed in pop culture related to angels, vampires and wizards (see below), it’s time to return to the superhero and space opera genres. (If I have time later this year, then I’d been keen to whip out a paper on the theologies found in angel fiction). In particular, I’ve…
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Has anybody seen this? Comic Book Literacy : A Documentary Film About Comics in the Classroom and Beyond Looks like it might be interesting.