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After playing as Oliver Queen/ Green Arrow for 5 years ever since 2012. Arrow has reached its 100th episode. The 100th episode happens to air right in the middle of the CW 4-way superhero crossover, which is the channel Arrow airs on. Since Arrow was such a big success it has caused Warner Brothers/ CW to spawn off 3 other superheroes shows Flash, Supergirl, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. Since the fans of all these show love crossovers. The CW decide to do a 4-way crossover. The crossover is…

The Lodges want to support Archie’s dad, Fred Andrews, to run for mayor. However, Archie doesn’t want his dad to be involved with the Lodges’ business, so he avoids campaigning with his girlfriend, Veronica Lodge, because he felt like that the Lodges are controlling both his dad and himself. He also told Jughead about the secret that Hiram Lodge has already purchased the town’s diner, Pop’s. He hopes that Jughead can help him by exposing Hiram’s plan to the public. However, Jughead refuses…

way, very strange, goes by Hammerhead) just high-fived the universe for this bodacious gift from DC and IDW comics. The winged guardian of Gotham teams with those saviors from the sewers...Batman and the Turtles in an epic 6 part miniseries from writer James Tynion IV (Constantine, The Eighth Seal) and artist Freddie E. Williams II (The Flash). Ok, ok, ok...down to business. Is this comic worth it's ink and paper? Happy to say yes. It's always difficult with these magnets of nostalgia…

There is no doubt that Watchmen is a graphic novel rich with intertextuality. Not only does Watchmen make references to other superhero comics by parodying popular heroes, such as Captain America as the Comedian and Superman as Dr. Manhattan, but Watchmen is full of internal intertextuality, from the newspapers and advertisements that litter the streets of New York to the personal files, publications, and mementos of the heroes in the novel. The most significant of these documents are the…

women cannot be smart, strong, and sexy? Female characters throughout cinematic history struggle to find the balance between the three feminist traits. In 1941, feminist Moulton Marston is able to crack the code with his creation of the Wonder Woman comic which follows Diana Prince, the lead character which mirrors the trajectory of the women’s movement in America (Dockterman). Almost 35 years later, Lynda Carter appears in Douglas S. Cramer and Stanley Ralph Ross’ 1975 television show, The…

Good morning and welcome to Current Affairs Week. My name is Ellie O’Brien and I’m here today to deconstruct and analyse a political cartoon, which is shown here on the screen. This cartoon by Cathy Wilcox was published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 1st October 2014. I will begin by talking about the context of the cartoon, then move on to the two main satirical techniques used, and I will conclude by evaluating the effectiveness of the cartoon. So now let’s look at the context… A report in…

Created in 1968 and running until 2016, Zap Comix was a ground-breaking and defying comic book that defied convention and societal law (Comic Code) it became a model for the Comix movement. A comic that has evolved with the ages taking a progressive and often regressive stance on ‘hot topics’ of the time. In Zap Comix Issue 1 Crumb describes himself as a ‘raving lunatic’ through the use of self-caricatures in this case; Flakey Foont and Mr. Natural. Showing from the get-go Crumb wasn’t one to…

In order to know exactly what the stumbling block principle is, a stumbling block must be defined as it is used in the Bible. First, in order to understand a stumbling block, “offense” must be defined. Offense within the Bible can be defined in two ways. It can be seen in the Bible as God or Jesus causing unbelievers to stumble in their ways and become saved, and it can also be seen as an experienced Christian causing a new Christian to act against their conscience; this offense can also be…

title “Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe”, which is the main focus of this rhetorical analysis. This title is, for the most part, self explanatory in the basics of what happens in those four issues; Deadpool moves through the marvel universe killing every hero, villain and antihero. Deadpool’s psychotic break is caused by his realization that he is a comic book character with no true control over his actions. In absolute defiance of the fourth wall he rampages across the marvel universe in…

Around the beginning of the twenty-first century, Marvel produced X-Men crossover series. However, readers opposed these series because the plots veered away from the main storyline. With the release of the film X-Men (2002), fans were able to see a new form of the X-Men as Professor Xavier fought for peace with while Magneto attempted to completely control human society thus making mutants superior. The 2008 publication of Grant Morrison’s New X-Men further exposed readers to a reinvented…