I’ve always thought of the Big Two (DC and Marvel comics, the two largest comics publishers in North America) as being like the Republican and Democratic political parties respectivly. not in terms of politics, but rather as ideologies. DC is conservative, the company ideology is that the heroes they produce are absolute, they are above [...]
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Click the names to find out more about them This past Sunday brought the 21st season premier of the Simpsons. Entitled “Homer the Whopper,” it dealt with Homer Simpson being cast as the main character in an adaptation of a comic book called “Everyman” written by one of the show’s many secondary characters, Comic Book [...]
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Deadpool is the New Wolverine: A Character Representing the Times or Just One Shoved Down Our Throats?
Everyone knows Wolverine, right? The guy Hugh Jackman played in the three X-Men movies and recently spun off into his own origin film this past summer? Well, before the characters mainstream success, Wolverine was a superstar of Marvel Comics. Well, all comics for that matter. You see, back in the 80′s and 90′s, anti-heroes (amoral [...]
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