And so begins a tragi-comic saga, a sequence of ludicrous if well-meant mishaps, as the manager mounts an improbable expedition to return the beautiful Yulia Ragayev's body to her native Soviet village.
The new movie is the third to feature Mike Myers's comic creation - a spoof British spy from the 1960s.
Superman stories have proliferated in every medium, beginning with his two extremely long-running comic-book titles and a newspaper comic strip that launched in 1938-39.
The evening felt, rather, like a kind of ironic punishment, a comic book-style retribution for a sin I must have committed and deeply suppressed long ago.
Next I drove to my favorite Rollerblading location, listening en route to a stand-up comic, a mystery novel, and an Eckhart Tolle lecture.
This special will interweave clips of the cast from San Diego Comic-Con with a more personal roundtable discussion.
On discovering the compere was the Australian comic Julia Morris - a woman no less - he asked for a discount, before calling back to cancel the booking.
As with The Loop (and most of the remainder of the Kin's UI, for that matter), contacts are presented as a comic book-style grid that can be managed with a two-finger tap gesture.
I'm a humorist, a comic actor, a sometime musician-filmmaker-novelist-blogger.
Essentially, the results of a player's in-game choices are used to populate a post-game comic book-style story -- progress, character info, settings, dialogue, achievements and screenshots are all pumped into an algorithm alongside the results of said variables, metrics from your playthrough, and your performance therein.
Lee Lovely, the head of the Latin American division of a medical-device company, says that when it came time to design a lounge for his 13- and 15-year-old sons he took inspiration from his own favorite arcade games and comic books for a superhero-themed space.
But events - even those with a comic element like the McKinley episode - continue to demonstrate what Senator Frank Lautenberg called the almost incomprehensible magnitude of trying to secure a US transport network which includes 3.9 million miles of roads, 600, 000 bridges, 361 ports and more than 5, 000 public-use airports.
Capcom is using Comic-Con to unveil a brand new game, rumored to be Ultimate Marvel vs.
Comic-Con is now a mandatory stop for action-movie makers looking to build buzz.
Social media, which is prevalent at Comic-Con, is a big part of that.
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Yu's appearance at this summer's San Diego Comic-Con won him a slew of new fans and generated buzz for the book.
Employees at GDF-Suez, a utility, stuck thousands of them to the windows of its HQ near Paris to represent Tintin, a comic-strip hero.
He had "the most amazing smile and joy, " said Ryan Frost, a friend who bonded with Mr. Sullivan while waiting in line for a comic-book auction.
The recording's overall mood, recalling the manic days of the 1960s, is something like a hyperactive Beatles album, an impression heightened by liner notes with a comic-strip layout and larky photographs.
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The scenes in which Charu, the wife (Madhabi Mukherjee), and Amal, the cousin (Soumitra Chatterjee), sublimate their passion through literature have a comic-romantic charm: their proper sensibilities prevent them from ever admitting their feelings, let alone consummating them physically.
These days, when Mr. Schwarzenegger promotes a film, such as when he participated in a Comic-Con International panel with his "The Expendables 2" co-stars including Sylvester Stallone and Randy Couture, his handlers still prep him as they would have in office, quietly slipping him note cards to review backstage.
"We call it a Dick Tracy watch, " said Carl Taussig, director of information surfaces at HP Labs in Palo Alto, California, in a reference to the comic-strip detective whose high-tech wristwatch doubled as a two-way radio.
Based on a 2008 comic book, Kick-Ass tells the story of a group of high school vigilantes who dress up as superheroes.
Set in a suburban high school, Lilley introduced us to Mr G, a Broadway theatrical impresario trapped inside the body of a camp high school teacher - perhaps the funniest Australian comic creation since Norman Gunston, a hapless television reporter from Wollongong who rose to pre-eminence in the 1970s.
Earlier this year, New York City Ballet invited the Brooklyn-based art collective Faile to erect a tower of comic book-style drawings in the theater's elegant promenade.
Smart, adult drama is hard to come by these days, but here we have a deeply tense film filled with much-needed moments of comic relief and a cast of characters that feels fully realized despite its scope.
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Imagine a standup comic who delivers the punch-lines of his jokes first, a plane with landing gear that deploys just after touchdown, or a stick of dynamite with a unique fuse that ignites only after it explodes.
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We've had a crack, we've really had a laugh, him being a northern comic - it was brilliant.
In the film the comic goes on a road-trip to the resort after he learns his hamster has only a week to live.
His performance is large-spirited comic acting: a pure specimen of Celtic soulfulness, the magical substance that everyone else in the movie has been trying to produce synthetically.
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