Ask Chris Special Edition: The Best Of 'Ask Chris'
This week marks the 200th installment of ComicsAlliance’s weekly Ask Chris column, in which senior writer Chris Sims tackles reader questions that send him delving into comics history, the metaphors at the heart of his favorite characters that have developed over decades and, every now and then, straight up fan-fiction. To mark the occasion, we’ve gone back through the archives (and taken a quick poll of readers) to sort out the absolute best of the past 200 columns, covering topics like the secular humanism at the heart of Scooby-Doo, the complicated chronology of Super Mario Bros., the 75-year competition between Marvel and DC, and more. And Batman. So, so much Batman. Click each title to read the full article! Fueled by the anticipation for The Dark Knight Rises, Chris takes a look back at Bane, both as a foil for Batman and the ultimate synthesis of several "evil Batman" characters -- including an often-overlooked direct prototype from a few years before Bane made his debut.
I Has a Sweet Potato
02:29 pm: I Has a Sweet Potato You know, a lot of times I write up random posts and then don't post them. But Best Beloved just called me, and I could not really explain why I was inarticulate about sweet potatoes, so I said I'd go ahead and post this. That way, she can read it at work and know just what kind of day it has been. (Short version, for those who do not feel like reading the whole post: ARRRRRRG. Fucking sweet potatoes.) The longer version, summarized in conversation form: Dog: I am starving.Me: Actually, no. [There is a pause, during which the dog exits the room in a pointed manner.] [From the kitchen, there comes a noise like someone is eating a baseball bat.] Me, yelling: What the hell are you doing? [There is a pause.] [There is a noise like someone is trying to eat a baseball bat very very quietly.] [There is a pause, during which I do not even bother trying to return to what I was doing. [There is, as I wholly expected, a baseball-bat-eating noise.] Me, wearily: What NOW?
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The Second Coming - Yeats
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? The Second Coming was written in 1919 in the aftermath of the first World War. This printing of the poem has a page break between lines 17 and 18 making the stanza division unclear. Several of the lines in the version above differ from those found in subsequent versions. Yeats, William Butler.
Top 5 'Lost' Western Film Classics — WhatCulture.com
Everyone loves a western surely? From John Wayne being an all American hero in John Ford’s early classics… to Jimmy Stewart as the ‘Naked Spur’… Late sixties revisionist years with Leone’s Dollars Trilogy, ‘Once Upon A Time in the West’ and Peckinpah’s ‘Wild Bunch’… and rebirth with Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’. So many timeless classics to wile away an afternoon or evening on the delights of DVD players. Around similar era’s are some ‘lost’ western classics that for one reason or another aren’t held in the same universal regard or even heard off. They’re usually met with western anoraks like myself with critical acclaim as some of the best ever made in the genre. 5. (1980 Michael Cimino) Gasp! It’s a brave film too as if you’re going to fail go for the epic spectacular. 4. (2003 Kevin Costner) I’ll hold my hand up and admit I was dubious about ever watching ‘Open Range’ my first thoughts included – ‘Costner directing a western? …To say I wasn’t disappointed would be an understatement. 3. 2.
Ask Chris - ComicsAlliance
Q: Is it ever worth it to change comics canon to match the canon from other media? -- @firehawk32 A: This is a really interesting question for me, because I always think of myself as someone who doesn't really get excited about superheroes showing up in movies or TV. I mean, obviously, that's not actually true -- I mean, I cowrote what was essentially a full-length novel about The Dark Knight, Batman: The Animated Series ranks alongside oxygen and pizza as my favorite thngs in the universe, I could not have been more stoked about seeing Arnim Zola The Bio Fanatic in two major Hollywood films, and there will never be a time when I'm not still mad about Man of Steel. But at the same time, and at the risk of sounding like even more of a hipster elitist than usual, those aren't the "real" versions of those charactesr to me. Read More Q: Why is DC One Million the best crossover ever? A: Whenever I'm asked about my favorite DC crossover, the one that I always go with is Invasion! Read More
Jess Nevins LoEG Annotations
Annotations for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo: River of Ghosts By Jess Nevins Page 4. "Pendant Books" Padraig O Mealoid points out that this is the same publisher that's named on the cover of Sal Paradyse's Crazy Wide Forever in the Black Dossier. I believe this is a reference to the Harold Robbins novel The Carpetbaggers (1961), which became a 1964 film of the same name, directed by Edward Dmytryk. (I confess to not understanding the “Centurion” part of the title). Nevada Smith, a character in The Carpetbaggers, was mentioned Nemo’s Heart of Ice on Page 7 Panel 2. Re Jonas Cord: Centurion: From Wikipaedia Cord personally pilots a gigantic flying boat called the Centurion, "the biggest airplane ever built", to prove its airworthiness in order to meet a naval contract condition. Interesting presumably unintended echo between 'Hughes H-4 Hercules' and Hugo Hercules... “Irving Clifford.” Page 5. This is a reference to the Men’s Adventure genre of pulp-style magazines. Page 7. “Kor”
Shaw Brothers Martial Arts Movies
RYM relies on advertising income to support the site. Please consider adding an exception to adblock for rateyourmusic.com, or subscribing to help with bandwidth/server costs. Sign up or Log in to catalog your music and film collection, receive recommendations, and create and share your own lists A list by gigiriva Categories: Genre, Films [List232219] | Shaw Brothers Studio is largely known for its martial arts films, but only "few" of the 900 movies produced by the Hong Kong company are actually martial arts movies.
The 14 Weirdest Moments In The Bible
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Funniest Misheard Song Lyrics from The Archive of Misheard Lyrics
Latest Misheard Stories Artist: 2147 Song: Eve The Story: Don't eat the fruit in the garden, Eden,, It wasn't in God's natural plan., You were only a rib,, And look at what you did,, To Adam, the father of Man. Continue Reading... All Time Funniest 100 Lyrics Here are the top 100 misheard lyrics of all time as ranked by our viewers!
Pretty Much All Songs From The 1970s I Think
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