Graphic Novel
Photo & Video and Social Networking
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Graphic novel is the perfect app to use if you want to create a story from your mobile photos. Have...
murphydave (35 KP) rated Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero in Books
Jul 7, 2017
Micah Ulibarri (79 KP) rated Goodreads: Book Reviews in Apps
Mar 24, 2018
For the most part they even have all the titles there, even if I'm the first one to interact with it. There has only been two times when they have not had the book I had read uploaded.
I enjoy the social media aspect of it too. A number of my friends are on it and it starts up lots of conversation and helps us recommend books to each other. It's also very friendly and easy to use.
Cultures of Comics Work: 2016
Casey Brienza and Paddy Johnston
Book
This anthology explores tensions between the individualistic artistic ideals and the collective...
Jim Butcher's the Dresden Files Omnibus: Volume 2
Jim Butcher, Mark Powers, Joseph Cooper and Carlos Gomez
Book
When the Chicago Police Department are baffled by cases, they turn to Harry Dresden: private...
The Initiative
Tabletop Game
The Initiative — a unique co-operative board game of story, strategy, and code-breaking — lets...
Walt Kelly's Pogo the Complete Dell Comics: Volume 4
Book
Following on the heels of Hermes Press' critically acclaimed Eisner nominated reprint of Walt...
Studio O+A: Twelve True Tales of Workplace Design
Primo Orpilla and Verda Alexander
Book
An artfully - designed book which tells O+A's design story in a series of twelve true tales - plus a...
The Art of Jim Davis' Garfield
Jim Davis and R.C. Harvey
6.0
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This monograph will feature original production art from the comic strip, original cels from the...
Connor Sheffield (293 KP) rated Avengers: Infinity War (2018) in Movies
Apr 28, 2018 (Updated Apr 30, 2018)
So this films has been everything marvel has been building towards for the past decade and that in itself is truly incredible and whilst I am not as big a Marvel fan as I am DC, I can honestly say I have loved every step of the way. The films only got better with each wave of the universe and there have been some true masterpieces, Superior to the DC cinematic universe for it's continuity and it's structure, I am not afraid to admit that or foolish enough to deny that.
However at the time of writing this I have literally just come out of the screening of Avengers: Infinity War and I have to say I was impressed but also slightly disappointed. Here's why...
I was impressed with the performances, and everything that has connected the Marvel cinematic universe up to this point and the cast portray that history incredibly well. You can really tell that these characters have had all this history and even the newer cast like Black Panther, fit well into that history and the overall atmosphere of the universe.
Brolin was incredible as Thanos and the writers did something unexpected with his character that really makes the audience think about his intentions.
However, the overall impact of the film was a little lost on me and possibly me alone, for the simple reason that it all happens so fast. There's a lot of action, a lot of laughs and a lot of serious impact moments, but without spoiling names, the loss of characters in this film didn't impact me as much as I'd hoped.
But here's why that might just be me, and it really comes down to 3 words:
Comic Book Movie
No matter how hard I try, I can't escape that when I watch these films. They are comic book movies and we already know a lot of these characters have more movies to go. So I know that no matter what will happen, it will all work out one way or another in the end you'll lose some characters but will they really be gone gone, or will we see them in another film, or at least hear about them in another film.
It's not because I'm a DC fanboy or anything cos honestly I know I'd feel this way about any comic book movie. It's just not something I can seem to grasp when it comes to my feelings towards comic book movies. The whole "they made comic characters feel real and live in our reality" I get to a certain extent but that doesn't mean I'll walk out of a movie in tears over the death of even my favourite comic book character if it were to happen. Some films have that impact on me, I'm not a robot, but comic book films just don't seem to work for me when it comes to that true emotions of loss. But as I said that's just me. I was hoping infinity war would change that cos I knew this was a biggy, but sadly it didn't quite happen. It came close with certain scenes. But not quite.
So overall I give it 9/10 because it was a brilliant film. Without a doubt ONE OF the best comic movies, not the best, but certainly one of.
