Comic Books
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Heroes Never Rust #28: Comics = Text + Art
Heroes Never Rust #28 by Sean Ironman Comics = Text + Art Comics undergo cycles just like any other creative medium. For a decade or so, a certain style will be in vogue, and then another style will become popular. In the early 1990s, art-driven comics were the thing. Then, the industry had some dark years… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #27: God Loves, Man Kills
Heroes Never Rust #27 by Sean Ironman God Loves, Man Kills In the 1980s, Marvel Comics began to push for graphic novels, a longer, book-length comic for the serious fan. The fifth book was X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills (one of my favorite titles for a comic book). The X-Men was becoming Marvel’s biggest hit,… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #25: The Important Stuff
Heroes Never Rust #25 by Sean Ironman The Important Stuff When adapting a work into another medium, let’s say for the sake of this column adapting a comic book into a film, one can’t include everything. That’s understood by most audiences, I believe. What the adapters strive for, however, is to keep the important stuff,… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #22: The Next Generation
Heroes Never Rust #22 by Sean Ironman The Next Generation There are new superheroes created all the time, but the most of the ones the general audience knows about were created decades ago. At times, I’m saddened by that fact. When I look around at the superheroes being created, most tend to fall into one… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #21: Roles and Expectations
Heroes Never Rust #21 by Sean Ironman Roles and Expectations In the first issue of Gødland by Joe Casey and Tom Scioli, the hero, Adam Archer, fights Maxim, a dog-like alien creature who had just arrived on Earth. Like superheroes such as Spider-Man, Archer taunts the alien. But then he thinks, “Christ…Why do I keep… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #20: The Future
Heroes Never Rust #20 by Sean Ironman The Future I keep coming back in my attempt to define a superhero to it being a person with superpowers who saves people. That is the most basic answer I can find. But what does “saving people” mean? Save them from what? In what way? Most superheroes seem… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #19: Justice
Heroes Never Rust #19 by Sean Ironman Justice At the end of Black Summer, a mini-series by Warren Ellis and Juan Jose Ryp, Tom Noir, the main character, asks, “How far do we go in pursuit of justice?” In an earlier post, I attempted to figure out what makes a superhero a superhero. One of… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #18: A Different Take
Heroes Never Rust #18 by Sean Ironman A Different Take I hate fan fiction. I believe it’s copyright infringement and can be harmful to those writers who are working on an ongoing series. As a writer, I can’t understand why someone would spend so much time writing a story involving someone else’s characters. Some people… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #17: Brains
Heroes Never Rust #17 by Sean Ironman Brains I like watching movies and reading books that make me think. I don’t like to waste my time with trivial things or works that seem to be too easy. Many people tell me how good a book or a movie is and that I should see it… Continue reading
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