Comic Books
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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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Heroes Never Rust #56: Showing the Details and More Details and More Details
Heroes Never Rust #56 by Sean Ironman Showing the Details and More Details and More Details Billy Butcher has been telling Hughie for three issues that superheroes are dicks. We’ve gotten a little bit of a taste for that a couple of times. For example, in issue one, Hughie’s girlfriend was killed when a superhero… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #55: A Nemesis and a Newbie
Heroes Never Rust #55 by Sean Ironman A Nemesis and a Newbie There is no one right way to tell a story, but there are ways that work and ways that don’t work. Two ways that work in comics (and in other storytelling mediums) are on display in issue three of The Boys. Billy Butcher… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #54: Introductions
Heroes Never Rust #54 by Sean Ironman Introductions Now that the tone and racy content has been set, issue two of The Boys sets up the characters. In the premiere issue, readers were shown two of the main characters (Billy Butcher and Wee Hughie), but now the rest of the team comes out to play.… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #52: Choice Over Power
Heroes Never Rust #52 by Sean Ironman Choice Over Power he other day I was driving down I-4 and thinking about Harry Potter and how much I don’t give a shit. Living in Orlando, I can’t escape all this talk about the new section of Harry Potter opening at Universal Studios. I was given the… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #51: We3 gud. Gud dog. Home now.
Heroes Never Rust #51 by Sean Ironman We3 gud. Gud dog. Home now. The final issue of We3 is bloody and violent and heartwarming. It’s a fitting end to the series that seems like it ended too quickly, but I guess there’s only so far a story about three animals in robot suits searching for… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #50: Bad Dog. Bad Dog.
Heroes Never Rust #50 by Sean Ironman Bad Dog. Bad Dog. The second issue of We3 picks up a few minutes after the premiere issue. The three animals run from military helicopters and jeeps. This is my favorite of the three issues. It’s basically a series of action scenes displaying the power of the robotic… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #48: War at Home
Heroes Never Rust #48 by Sean Ironman War at Home This morning, I watched the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan. My internet was down and I decided to check out what DVDs I had while I ate breakfast. I don’t know why I chose Saving Private Ryan. It’s been years since I’ve seen… Continue reading
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