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Showing posts with label Comics. Show all posts

07 May 2009

The Punisher

The Punisher (Frank Castle) is a fictional comic book character, an antihero in the most important parts of the Marvel Comics universe. Created by Gerry Conway and artists John Romita, Sr. and Ross Andru, first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man # 129 (February 1974).

The Punisher is a vigilante who considers murder, kidnapping, extortion, coercion, threats of violence and torture acceptable crime-fighting tactics. Encouraged by the death of his family, who was murdered by the mob when they witnessed the execution of a gang in New York's Central Park, the Punisher wages of one-man war against the masses and all criminals in general by using kinds of weapons. Killer family were the first to be slain. A war veteran, Castle is a martial arts master, secret tactics, guerrilla and other weapons.

The Punisher's brutal nature and willingness to kill made him a new character in mainstream American comic books in 1974. In the late 1980s he was part of a wave of psychologically troubled anti-heroes and featured in several monthly publications, including The Punisher War Journal, The Punisher War Zone and The Punisher armory. While acts of violence and dark nature, The Punisher has enjoyed some mainstream success (though softening) on television making guest appearances in Spiderman: The Animated Series. Dolph Lundgren Punisher described in 1989, Thomas Jane in 2004 and Ray Stevenson in the year 2008.

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23 April 2009

Iron Man

Iron Man is a fictional character, a superhero from Marvel Comics. First appeared in Tales of Suspense # 39 (March 1963), and was created by writer-editor Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber and artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby.

Born Anthony Edwards "Tony" Stark, he is a playboy and genius industrial engineer who suffered severe liver damage during the abduction and forced to build a destructive weapon. He even created the powered armor to escape his life and imprisonment store. He then decided to use the suit to protect the world as Iron Man. By multinational Stark Industries, Tony made military weapons and their metal suit filled with technological devices that enable him to fight crime. Initially Iron Man is a vehicle for Stan Lee to explore Cold War themes, particularly the role of technology and American companies in the war against communism. Next fantasy back from Iron Man are gradually disappearing from the Cold War themes, replacing more contemporary issues such as corporate crime and terrorism.

For most of the history of the comics, Iron Man is a member of the Avengers superhero team and appeared in some incarnation of his own various comic book series. Character is adjusted for several animated television series and films. The character played by Robert Downey Jr. in a live-action movie Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk features briefly, Downey will reprise role in the upcoming sequel, Iron Man 2.

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24 March 2009

Hulk Comics

The Hulk is a fictional character, super hero who appeared in a comic from Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and first appeared in The Incredible Hulk # 1 (May 1962). In 2008, Wizard magazine named the Hulk a hobby seventh largest Marvel Comics character. Empire magazine called it the fourteenth largest comic book character as a whole, and the fifth highest ranking in the Marvel stable.

The Hulk is the role of emotional and impulsive alter ego of withdrawn and reserved physicist Dr. Bruce Banner. The Hulk appears shortly after Banner was accidentally exposed to an explosion of gamma bomb test he created. Banner will also inadvertently change the Hulk, depicted as a giant, raging, humanoid monster, resulting in extreme complications in Banner's life. Lee says Hulk creation was inspired by a combination of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Frankenstein.

Although the color of the Hulk is a character change throughout the history of publications, the most consistent, is the green shade. When the Hulk, Banner significantly feats of strength, where the proportion of directly with the anger of the character increases. Strong emotions like anger, fear and sadness also trigger to force the changes to the Banner Hulk. A common storyline is the pursuit of both Banner and the Hulk by the police or army, because the damage caused.

The character has since been described in various other media, notably by Lou Ferrigno in two television series, six films and animated television series, through the use of CGI in Hulk (2003) and The Incredible Hulk (2008), as well as in three animated series and various video games.

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13 February 2009

Grimm Fairy Tales Comics

Grimm Fairy Tales is a comic series published by Zenescope Entertainment that began publication in June 2005.

This is a horror series that takes the old stories and twists them, sometimes to extend and sometimes change.

These days teenagers have enough problems to overcome. Sela And that is where he gives insight into their problems by showing them that it is worse. He came in one of the youngsters at the time and helping them through their problems, by telling them a story. When he was in a room full of animals. Sela gain skills and strength and books from the old data with the aim of helping humankind, even if the advice sometimes fall on deaf ears.

Sela has many names and appearances, but one of the alternative identities that he often uses is Dr. Mathers, a teacher. Sela also known as section appears as a young woman with long black hair and glasses.

Recently, in the Grimm Fairy Tales Annual # 1, has published a new character named Belinda. He acted as a counterpart of Sela, and instead of using stories to help people, he used it to their lives worse. He briefly Sela fill the role as narrator to a group of small children in a school, and told them to play version of Jack and Jill, The Old Woman Who Live In Shoe, Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, Little Boy Blue, and Pinocchio. Pinocchio, Peter Peter, and Jack and Jill of all shows that Belinda has a hand in influencing. When she finished reading, children terrible trauma, with the exception of a boy named Timmy. As he approaches Belinda and said he would like his stories, he told her boyfriend that her mother had done bad things for him. Belinda told him he would help him, and he "helping hand" seen in # 20, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Belinda and Sela fought on # 22, The Snow Queen, and # 23-24, Snow White and Rose Red, which will be exploring their relationship.

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09 January 2009

Ghost Rider Comics

Ghost Rider is the name of several fictional supernatural anti-heroes who appeared in Marvel Comics. Marvel earlier used the name for the Western character whose name later changed to Night Rider and subsequently to Phantom Rider.

The first Ghost Rider was acrobatic motorcyclist Johnny Blaze, who to save his mentor, agreed to give his soul to "Satan" (later known as an arch-demon named Mephisto). Instead, his soul be bound by the entity named Zarathos. When using power Zarathos "Blaze of meat consumed by the fire of hell, making his head into a skull. A fiery motorcycle and mounted it uses a trademark of fire explosion of the hand bones. He played in the 1972-1983 series.

Next Ghost Rider series (1990-98) shows Danny Ketch as a new Ghost Rider. After her sister injured by ninja gangsters, Ketch came in contact with a motorcycle that somehow contains the mystical essence had been enchanted by a "Spirit of Vengeance. This spirit had originally said a Puritan man named Noble Kale, an ancestor of both Blaze and Ketch. This was however later claim.

Johnny Blaze appeared in the series in the 1990s as a supporting character, and reduced to Ketch's brother. In the mid 2000s comics, Blaze is Ghost Rider again, replacing Ketch.

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28 December 2008

Green Lantern Comics

Green Lantern is the name of several fictional characters, superheroes in comic books published by DC Comics. The first (Alan Scott) was created by writer Bill Finger and artist Martin Nodell in All-American Comics # 16 (July 1940).

Each Green Lantern Power Ring that gives users more control over the physical world along the wielder has sufficient strength and will to use it. While the ring Golden Age Green Lantern (Alan Scott) is a magical force, the ring worn by all subsequent Lanterns were technological creations of the Guardians of the Universe, which rings awarded to eligible candidates. These people are intergalactic police known as the Green Lantern Corps.

After the Second World War, when sales of superhero comic books generally declined, DC ceased publishing new adventures of Alan Scott as Green Lantern. In the beginning of the Silver Age of Comic Books in the late 1950s to DC editor Julius Schwartz, who provided the writer John Broome and artist Gil Kane Green Lantern character, this time to revive as a test pilot Hal Jordan, who later became one of the founders of the Justice League of America. In the early 1970s, writer Denny O'Neil and artist Neal Adams worked with archer Green Arrow Green Lantern in an innovative, socially conscious, and award-winning stories that pitted the legal sense-and-order-oriented populist Green Lantern with arrow. Several cosmically themed series followed, as well as individuals may differ in the role of the Earth's Green Lantern. The most prominent of whom was John Stewart, Guy Gardner and Kyle Rayner.

Each of the Green Lantern of Earth is one of the members of the Justice Society of America or the Justice League of America, and John Stewart are characterized as one of the main characters in both the Justice League and Justice League Unlimited animated series. The Green Lanterns are often depicted as a good friend of many people who have become Flash, the most remarkable is the friendship between Alan Scott and Jay Garrick (Golden Age Green Lantern and Flash), Hal Jordan and Barry Allen (the Silver Age Green Lantern and Flash) before, and Kyle Rayner and Wally West (the modern age Green Lantern and Flash) and Jordan are friends with the West.

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23 November 2008

Ex Machina Comics

Ex Machina is a creator of comic book series created by American Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris, and published by DC Comics under the Wildstorm trail.

Series details the life of Mitchell Hundred (also known as The Great Machine), the world's first and only super hero, behind his actions on 9 / 11, elected mayor of New York City. Hundreds of stories set during the term of office, and interwoven with flashbacks to the past as the Great Machine. This, the second series exploring the political situation in Hundred, and the mystery of the superpower.

Ex Machina was launched in 2004 as part of Wildstorm DC Comics' trail. Vaughan has stated that this series would last for fifty issues.

The title comes from the Latin comic phrase "deus ex machina", and also as a reference to super hero persona's Hundred, Great Machine, in his now ex-Machine ". In the first edition, Mitchell said he opted for The name "Big Machine" is based on a quote about the society by Thomas Jefferson. why is one of the series' recurring themes is the tendency of people to depend on their governments and have always wanted to save them become.

Vaughan said that comics are "born out of my anger with what he regarded as our political leaders today (on both sides of the aisle).

Vaughan has admitted the series as a means to the real world of contemporary politics to discover too, but stated that the subject of open discussion is not something he prefers.

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14 October 2008

Superman Comics

Superman is a fictional character, a comic book superhero widely regarded as icons of American culture. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster was born in 1932 when she still lived in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective Comics, Inc. in 1938, first appeared in Action Comics # 1 (June 30, 1938 ) and later appeared in several radio series, television programs, films, newspaper strips and video games. With the success of his adventures, Superman helped to create the superhero genre and makes its primacy in American comics. Characteristic appearance and iconic character: blue, red and yellow costume, complete with robes, with the stylish "S" shield on his chest. This shield is now typically used in the media symbolize the character.

Original story of Superman relates that he was born Kal-El on the planet Krypton, before rocketing to Earth as a child by his father, scientist Jor-El, moments before Krypton's destruction. Discovered and adopted by a Kansas farmer and his wife, children raised as Clark Kent and imbued with a strong moral compass. Very early he started to display superhuman abilities, which when reaching adulthood, he decided to use the benefit of mankind.

Although designed for less flatteringly as "Big Blue Boy Scout" by some fellow superheroes, Superman is hailed as "The Man of Steel", "The Man of Tomorrow", and "The Last Son of Krypton" by the general public in the comics . Like Clark Kent, Superman lives among humans as "mild-mannered reporter" for the Metropolis newspaper Daily Planet (Daily Star at the beginning of the story). He worked with reporter Lois Lane, with whom he had a relationship with each other. This relationship is enhanced by the marriage repeated in various media, and the union is now located in the main continuity of the strips.

DC Comics / Warner Bros. slowly expand the role of supporting character, strength, and symbols throughout the year. Superman's backstory has been modified to adventures as Superboy, and the survivors of Krypton were created, including Supergirl and Krypto the Superdog. Superman is also recognized and adapted in various media, from radio to television and movies, perhaps especially by Christopher Reeve illustrated in Richard Donner's Superman: The Movie in 1978, which gathered the film critics and was Warner Bros. 'The most successful of his time. Superman Returns motion pictures released in 2006, with performances at the international box office which exceeded expectations. In the seven years since the debut of Superman, the character has renewed and updated several times.

Significant improvements occurred in 1986 when John Byrne and renewed "retconned" signs, reducing the strength of Superman and delete some characters from the canon, in a move the media attention. The press was again collected by DC Comics in the 1990s with The Death of Superman, a storyline and then saw the dead character back to life.

Superman has fascinated scholars, with cultural theorists, commentators and critics explore the impact of character and role in the United States and the world. Umberto Eco discussed the mythic qualities of characters in the early 1960s, and Larry Niven, the impact of the sexual relationship the character might enjoy with Lois Lane considered. Nature of ownership is often the subject of dispute, with Siegel and Shuster twice suing for the return legal ownership. Copyright again today in the dispute, with changes in the law allows copyright Siegel's wife and children to claim a share of the copyright, a move DC parent company Warner Bros.

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30 June 2008

Spider-Man Comics

Spider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character first appeared in Amazing Fantasy # 15 (August 1962), and was created by writer and editor Stan Lee and designed by artist Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby and the plot. Lee and Ditko characters conceived as an orphan by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben raised as a normal teenager, to deal with the normal struggles of their youth in the side of costumed crime fighters. Spider-Man's creator gives him the ability to stick to walls, shoot their own invention of the spin using the "web-shooters," and quickly respond to danger with "spider-sense", which his enemies, including fighting Doctor Octopus, the Sandman, the Lizard, the Green Goblin, Venom and many others.

When Spider-Man first appeared in the early 1960s, teenagers in a comic book superheroes are usually submitted to peer into the role of the protagonist. Spider-Man series broke ground by showing Peter Parker, a teenage high school students who "self-obsessions with rejection, inadequacy, and loneliness" young readers could easily relate. Unlike previous teen heroes such as James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes and Robin, Spider-Man does not benefit from a mentor protégé of each adult as Captain America and Batman, and he must learn for himself that "with great power comes great responsibility" - an entry in the text box on the last panel of the first Spider-Man stories, but then dropped by his guardian, Uncle Ben.

Marvel has featured Spider-Man in several comic series, the first and longest bear named The Amazing Spider-Man. Over the years, Peter Parker character has developed from shy high school student to student in trouble with a married teacher and member of the superhero team the New Avengers. In the comics, Spider-Man is often referred to as "Spidey", "Web-Slinger", "wall-crawler" or "web-heads."

Spider-Man is one of the most popular and commercially successful superheroes. Marvel's flagship character and mascot company, in different forms of media, including several animated and live action television shows, syndicated newspaper comic actor and successful series starring Tobey Maguire as "environmentally friendly" hero. Spider-Man Empire magazine named the fifth greatest comic book characters.

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12 May 2008

Batman Comics

For these people there are different forms of literature. These reading materials can be considered as non-fiction and fiction reading material form. In the fictional form comic books like Batman comics are the main company for people of all ages.

Batman was first introduced to the public by Detective Comic in their book number 27. Batman character created by artist Bob Kane and Bill Finger. As the latest Batman Crime Fighter success. Therefore let the DC Comics Batman comics as a separate comic book title in 1940. Since that time remained a favorite Batman comics.

Batman bring a sense of reality into the fantasy world of superheroes. Many people can relate to a certain level, he describes the character Batman.

While the Batman comics of this crime fighters have gained a place in the chronological record of superhero fiction, there are many occasions where the Batman character has changed or adjusted to meet the current trends and ideas. This example can be seen in the early period of the history of Batman comics.

Like everything there is an evolution of the original characters. Although batman true to the origin, the general theme of his world changed.

Like many comics in the period 1939-1949 is described as pulp fiction the Batman of the many characters for that period in time. For the character more realistic Batman Comics showed Batman fighting his enemies as a vigilante fighter only uses his skills, strength and intelligence.

Unlike the other superheroes Batman was not super powers or special abilities. He is described as motivated to fight crime in the street, but one that still respects the right of his home city of Gotham. In many Batman comics Batman is shown as a silent and grim crime fighter who battles his enemies by himself.

Batman mystery of the human population strikes curiosity. Who is this guy? Why does he fight crime? Where is his passion come from? This is a fundamental question that often makes us come back.

For the character seem more human batman series creators and then add the other characters for the Batman comics. For most of the history of Batman's sidekick Robin is shown fighting with him Batman.

After that additional players from the Batman comics will appear as Police Commissioner Gordon's daughter Barbara Batgirl and Batwoman. Several criminals who appeared in the Batman comics are also known. The names of Penguin, the Riddler, Catwoman and even the Joker are people we know.

While many changes that have taken to the mysterious man, comics Batman comics are still read by many people. Batman movies that many of us have seen the proof of the popularity of this superhero and the ever growing host of Batman fans.
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