Showing posts with label Detective Comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Detective Comics. Show all posts
Vintage Comics: That's the Spirit - Part 8
Another one? OK, some fighting spirit then!
Be sure to check out all my other The Spirit (the comic!) posts!
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Vintage Comics: That's the Spirit - Part 7
I had a very strong feeling, after seeing the trailer some months ago, that the movie The Spirit would be awful. It certainly didn't make me want to see it. It seems my feeling wasn't all wrong. And I bet I wasn't the only one.
The reception according to Wikipedia:
"The film has received generally negative reviews from critics. As of December 26, 2008, it has a 17% positive rating from 49 reviews on the movie-review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, the consensus being, "Though its visuals are unique, The Spirit's plot is almost incomprehensible, the dialogue is ludicrously mannered, and the characters are unmemorable". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said, "There is not a trace of human emotion in it. To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material"." (more...)
Try the comic books instead.
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Be sure to check out all my other The Spirit (the comic!) posts!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6 (the movie poster)
...see 'em all.
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Vintage Comics: Splash
slightly cropped and adjusted panels
The Allen Bellman Splash Page Gallery
"Splash page or sometimes referred to simply as a "splash", is a full page drawing in a comic book. A splash page is often used as the first page of a story, and includes the title and credits. Splashes that are not on the first page of a story are sometimes called interior splash pages. Interior splashes may, or may not include titles and/or credits. A panel that is larger than others on the page is called a splash panel. A splash that appears across two pages of a comic book is called a "double splash" or a two-page spread. Rarely, splash pages will stretch over more than two pages; such multi-page spreads often take the form of fold-out posters." - Wikipedia
Vintage Comics: That's the Spirit - Part 6
I know! I know!
...that I said before that I wasn't going to give the coming The Spirit movie any more free advertisement but this teaser poster was just too nice not to post.
via Bibi on Mento
Be sure to check out all my other The Spirit (the comic!) posts!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
...see 'em all.
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Vintage Comics: That's the Spirit - Part1
Who is The Spirit?
By the way, there's gonna be a lot of hoopla about The Spirit later this year on the count of the Frank Miller movie version hitting the theaters in December. (Trailer). I'm rather skeptical... OK, no more free advertisement from me about that, but maybe I'll post a few more The Spirit cover pages. The creator Will Eisner's designs of these are probably what I love most about the comic.
Visit Will Eisner.com.
One other thing. Movies has been based on comic book characters for a long long time and you've probably noticed that they produce more of those movies now than ever before. It is probably due to the movie industry's lack of "own" ideas and the fact that there is hardly no technical limitations left to what you can visualize on screen. And just think about all the merchandise you can sell if you make a hit. That's got to a be tempting prospect. Anyway here are a few interesting and related Wikipedia links:
-List of films based on English-language comics
-List of comics based on films
-Superhero film
-List of films based on DC Comics
-List of films based on Marvel Comics
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Comics: Detective Comics covers
"Detective Comics is a comic book published by DC Comics since 1937."/"Originally an anthology-style comic, featuring stories in the "hard-boiled detective" genre popular at the time..."/"However, the fame of Detective Comics was assured by issue #27 (May 1939), which featured the first appearance of Batman (as "The Bat-Man")." (Wikipedia: Detective Comics)
More covers of Detective Comics or go here for 421 other titles.
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