The New Yorker, December 28 , 1929P. 9 Willy Pogany has taken liberty to modernize characters in Mother Goose.
The writers decided to modernize the character and depict him similar to Edgar Bergen's dummy Charlie McCarthy, but equally as rambunctious as the puppet in the book.
That fits into a broader theme of Snyder's heralded four-year run on the character: modernizing the Batman myth for a contemporary audience, one concerned with gun violence, catastrophic climate change and terrorism, and less concerned with scaring criminals off into the night.
For Mr. Barton, who has attempted to modernize the characters and make them more accessible to us, most of them are neither heroes nor villains.
But increasingly they give rise to reactions and behaviour that have a de-modernizing character.
DC's flagship characters were relaunched, John Byrne retelling and modernizing Superman's origin with The Man of Steel (1986) and Frank Miller recounting Batman's early adventures in his Year One (1987) story arc.
Haggard is arguably the most influential country singer of his generation, modernizing Lefty Frizzell's way of stretching words or phrases to add a distinctive character.
The films, especially "The Prisoner of Azkaban," added small touches like modernizing the wardrobe and adding original scenes, to remind audiences that these characters are just kids at the end of the day despite the very adult tasks they faced.
The environment editor of The Los Angeles Times traveled on foot, mule and horse across 3,200 miles of wilderness along the Continental Divide, hooking up with a colorful cast of characters and describing a Western way of life under growing pressure from modernizing forces.
It even offers some exhibits in digraphia, a mixture of Chinese characters and the Latin alphabet that some scholars, both Chinese and non-Chinese, say is important for modernizing Chinese, but is rejected by a Beijing government intent on preserving linguistic "purity".
The first Russia is modernizing.
