Comic Books
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Heroes Never Rust #67: The Power and Humility of Superman
Heroes Never Rust #67 by Sean Ironman The Power and Humility of Superman Issue two of Superman: For All Seasons covers the summer from Lois Lane’s point of view. It opens with Superman flying through Metropolis over Lois’s narration about Perry White, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Planet, telling her not to believe what she sees… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #66: Superman, A Man’s Son
Heroes Never Rust #66 by Sean Ironman Man of Steel: Superman, A Man’s Son One of the complaints that I hear about the superhero films made in the last few years is that they are origin stories. How many times must we get Spider-Man’s origin? Superman’s origin? I must admit that I have made the… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #65: Feed the Beast
Heroes Never Rust #65 by Sean Ironman Feed the Beast: What a Man Must Become to Survive Vietnam Many of the Marvel Comics characters created in the 1960s have their origin tied to war. The Fantastic Four tried to beat the Russians to Mars during the Cold War. The Incredible Hulk was born during a… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #63: Lost in Vietnam (The Punisher’s Platoon)
Heroes Never Rust #63 by Sean Ironman Lost in Vietnam: The Punisher’s Platoon In the first issue of Born, readers were given two points of view: Stevie Goodwin and Frank Castle. Readers only get Goodwin’s viewpoint in the second issue. Frank Castle remains as the main character. By showing him through Goodwin’s eyes, the… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #62: Vietnam, the Good America, and the Real Origin of the Punisher
Heroes Never Rust #62 by Sean Ironman Vietnam, the Good America, and the Real Origin of the Punisher I’ve written about my love for the Punisher before. To me, Frank Castle is one of the most interesting fictional characters. And I do mean fictional characters, not just comic book characters. He is the only character… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #61: The Golden Age That Never Was
Heroes Never Rust #61 by Sean Ironman The Golden Age That Never Was Last week, I finished reading Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, which is about the U.S. ambassador to Germany and his family in the 1930s. Throughout the book, Hitler and his men… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #60: Captain America, and the Moral Dialectic of Straightforward Heroism
Heroes Never Rust #60 by Sean Ironman Captain America, and the Moral Dialectic of Straightforward Heroism In issue two of Captain America: Dead Men Running, Sergeant Vicq and the other four American Soldiers continue to dig their graves. The comic opens on a close-up of Captain America’s shield. “We are dead. We start dying the moment… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #59: Captain America Vs. The Banality of Evil
Heroes Never Rust #59 by Sean Ironman Captain America Vs. The Banality of Evil There was a time, long before Captain America: The Winter Soldier or The Avengers films, when Captain America didn’t have much going on. The World War II veteran was revived from his iceberg in 1964. Even with the sliding timeframe of the… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #58: Brutality
Heroes Never Rust #58 by Sean Ironman Brutality Fight sequences can be difficult in comics, in really any medium. What do you show? How long should it last? How should it be paced? How should the characters fight? How much detail in the injuries is shown? And there are many more questions to consider. Unfortunately, superhero… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #57: Paneling
Heroes Never Rust #57 by Sean Ironman Paneling Ten years ago, I took a Digital Rhetorics course in college. The professor made it a comics class. We spent the semester studying and making comics. When it came to creating our own comics, we were told to draw a grid of panels on a page and… Continue reading
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