Like sketch comedy, "The Colored Museum" bombs as often as it kills (in the stand-up comic meanings of the words).
This issue heralded the dawn of the so-called Silver Age of comics, meaning that Marvel only just missed out on the major superhero revival of the late 1950s.
Celebrated anchor Jon Snow is in Greenland today – footage on tonight's bulletin will depict him literally on snow, and too little, I feel, will be made of this scenario's comic potential – meaning that tonight's programme will be helmed by Jackie Long and Cathy Newman, both of whom I find preparing their scripts at the centre of the office.
In addition to a gallery spotlighting local talent and a wide selection of comics by area artists, they've also sponsored model drawing sessions and events like a 24-hour comic challenge (meaning artists have one day to finish a 24-page strip).
According to Vulture's Kyle Buchanan, Fox will bring "X-Men: Days of Future Past" to Comic-Con, meaning some of the film's cast members will be in attendance at the San Diego Convention Center on Saturday afternoon.
Asked to introduce Marvel comics to China, the Labbrand consultants came up not long ago with "Man wei" — roughly phonetic, foreign-sounding and eminently suited to superheroes with the meaning "comic power".
Between official inaction and the failure of many populist Islamists to condemn violence, a sensitive and well-meaning comic book comes as a welcome measure, however modest.
This seems to be just what Sternbergh wants, as suggested by his diagnosis of what went wrong with action films: "Eventually the shirtless commandos gave way to men in tights," meaning comic-book superheroes; "and from the technical end, computer animation gobbled up everything, chewing it all into weightless pixels".
Rounding out the first act is "Hana-Ko," a short comic or Kyogen (literally meaning "mad words" or "wild speech")-style play reminiscent of Aesop's Fables.
