Sentence examples for ambitious comic from inspiring English sources

Another excursion into gothic-tinged territory here: a cheerfully ambitious comic horror with an innovative twist.

Hill plays Leo, an ambitious comic and writer who shares an apartment with a sitcom actor (Jason Schwartzman), and a fellow standup (Rogen).

An ambitious comic novel that is more about how to read than about book groups or Jane Austen; all the members have different, private Austens, and their proprietary attitudes speak to the improbability that any two readers, or any two Janes, are alike.

An ambitious comic drama, unpredictable in its streakiness and sharp turns, its sine curve of climaxes and nadirs, it began with a clownish subplot (David Wells's book) and a brush with tragedy (Derek Jeter's freakish opening-day shoulder injury), and it has approached its conclusion the same way.

A generous, optimistic, inventive and ambitious comic novel, set in the golden age of comic books (late 1930's to early 50's) and thematically permeated by two ideas: escape (from Nazism, from Brooklyn) and the mystery of the golem of Prague.

"The editor was very excited and told me, 'Great we've never had a graphic novel before!' I pointed out that it was only a one-page comic, but the editor repeated, 'Right, and we never had a graphic novel before!'" As a result, Spiegelman decided it was time to embrace the term that has come to characterize "an ambitious comic book," whether the narrative is drawn on one page or three hundred.

Whether Gunn's film hits Avengers-like numberemainain to be seen, but everything points to it being the most exhilaratingly ambitious comic-book origins tale since 2008's Iron Man.

Twenty-five-year-old Smith's ambitious, busy, comic portrait of immigrants in late twentieth-century London owes much to Salman Rushdie in terms of style, but the freshness and youthful vigour of the writing is all her own.

Cole's improvised film scenario, about an ambitious young comic-book artist fighting a deadline, had Fox dragging his drawing table into the bathroom, pulling his pants down, and continuing to work while seated on the toilet.

The play, written as a wicked satire on the middle class, has become in Mr. Martin's hands an ambitious amalgam of comic book and social commentary, made out of sex jokes, slamming doors and sophisticated repartee.

It is ambitious, affecting, intelligent, plangent, comic, kooky and impassioned.