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.

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Floor-to-ceiling (a very high ceiling, too) windows frame the Strip, receding into the distance like a neon-lit comic book .

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Why does it seem like summer movies are always just a bunch of cheesy blockbusters, packed with comic book characters and explosions?

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His first U.S. effort is full of bold, broad comic book strokes -- some of them pleasingly original, like a car chase through a cornfield, the husks of corn thudding against the windscreens like oversized bugs.

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By coincidence, photo retailer Photojojo featured a pointer on its Twitter feed today to the pop culture blog Accidental Mysteries, and a lovely spread on Camera Comics, a 1940s comic-book series glamorizing the work of historical photographers like Matthew Brady and fictional heroes like Jim Lane Insurance Investigator!

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The 1943 French comic book, "Red Rackham's Treasure, " included a shark-like submarine with dorsal fins and a tail.

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This is the best superhero movie of all time, not only a comic book film adaptation but also a war movie, a story influenced by classic literature like A Tale of Two Cities.

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Dakan had brought in his grad school buddy, a classics scholar named Jack Emmert, to build a game featuring the science fiction of comic-book superheroes-without paying license fees for established characters like Batman or Spider-Man.

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