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Fantastic Four Compendium
MA4 6889 Advanced Game Official Accessory The FANTASTIC FOUR™ Compendium by David E. Martin All Marvel characters and the distinctive likenesses thereof The names of characters used herein are fictitious and do are trademarks of the Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. not refer to any person living or dead. Any descriptions MARVEL SUPER HEROES and MARVEL SUPER VILLAINS including similarities to persons living or dead are merely co- are trademarks of the Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. incidental. PRODUCTS OF YOUR IMAGINATION and the ©Copyright 1987 Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. All TSR logo are trademarks owned by TSR, Inc. Game Design Rights Reserved. Printed in USA. PDF version 1.0, 2000. ©1987 TSR, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Table of Contents Introduction . 2 A Brief History of the FANTASTIC FOUR . 2 The Fantastic Four . 3 Friends of the FF. 11 Races and Organizations . 25 Fiends and Foes . 38 Travel Guide . 76 Vehicles . 93 “From The Beginning Comes the End!” — A Fantastic Four Adventure . 96 Index. 102 This book is protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America. Any reproduction or other unauthorized use of the material or artwork contained herein is prohibited without the express written consent of TSR, Inc., and Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. Distributed to the book trade in the United States by Random House, Inc., and in Canada by Random House of Canada, Ltd. Distributed to the toy and hobby trade by regional distributors. All characters appearing in this gamebook and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks of the Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. MARVEL SUPER HEROES and MARVEL SUPER VILLAINS are trademarks of the Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. -
The Incredible Hulk
The Incredible Hulk Monster, Man, Hero Dana McKnight Texas Christian University hen Marvel Comics introduced The Incredible Hulk in 1962, the following question was displayed prominently within a bold yellow question mark on W the front page: “Is he man or monster or…is he both?”1 Today, it seems easy to dismiss questions about the Incredible Hulk being a monster by merit of the popular Marvel Universe films, which brought the Incredible Hulk to a wide audience. I suspect that most Americans recognize the Incredible Hulk as a member of the Avengers: a hero, not a monster. However, when the Incredible Hulk first made his debut, Stan Lee expected his readers to wonder whether or not the Hulk would be a villain or a hero.2 Drawing from the first six issues of The Incredible Hulk I will discuss how the Incredible Hulk is simultaneously a hero and a monster, both an allegory of the military might of the United States in the atomic age and of the tenuous relationship between security and safety manifest in the uncontrolled destructive power of nuclear weapons. I will close with a glimpse into the contemporary post-9/11 Hulk. Man or Monster? First, it is cogent to get back to the “man or monster” question posed by Stan Lee in the very first issue of The Incredible Hulk, because the Hulk was both a man, Bruce Banner, and a monster, the Hulk. The “man-or-monster” question is not new and was 1 Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, “The Coming of the Hulk,” The Incredible Hulk, no. -
Super Heroes V Scorsese: a Marxist Reading of Alienation and the Political Unconscious in Blockbuster Superhero Film
Kutztown University Research Commons at Kutztown University Kutztown University Masters Theses Spring 5-10-2020 SUPER HEROES V SCORSESE: A MARXIST READING OF ALIENATION AND THE POLITICAL UNCONSCIOUS IN BLOCKBUSTER SUPERHERO FILM David Eltz [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://research.library.kutztown.edu/masterstheses Part of the Film Production Commons, Literature in English, North America Commons, and the Screenwriting Commons Recommended Citation Eltz, David, "SUPER HEROES V SCORSESE: A MARXIST READING OF ALIENATION AND THE POLITICAL UNCONSCIOUS IN BLOCKBUSTER SUPERHERO FILM" (2020). Kutztown University Masters Theses. 1. https://research.library.kutztown.edu/masterstheses/1 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Research Commons at Kutztown University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Kutztown University Masters Theses by an authorized administrator of Research Commons at Kutztown University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SUPER HEROES V SCORSESE: A MARXIST READING OF ALIENATION AND THE POLITICAL UNCONSCIOUS IN BLOCKBUSTER SUPERHERO FILM A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Department of English Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Kutztown, Pennsylvania In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in English by David J. Eltz October, 2020 Approval Page Approved: (Date) (Adviser) (Date) (Chair, Department of English) (Date) (Dean, Graduate Studies) Abstract As superhero blockbusters continue to dominate the theatrical landscape, critical detractors of the genre have grown in number and authority. The most influential among them, Martin Scorsese, has been quoted as referring to Marvel films as “theme parks” rather than “cinema” (his own term for auteur film). -
Avengers Explored
2020 Avengers Explored IRON MAN AND CAPTAIN AMERICA: A STUDY IN TRANSMEDIA, ADDITIVE COMPREHENSION AND ADDITIVE MYSTERY OLIVIER SNEPVANGERS Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 2 1. Theory: Transmedia and Narratology… Assemble! ............................................................................. 5 1.1 Transmedia .................................................................................................................................... 5 1.2 Narratology .................................................................................................................................. 10 1.3 Method ........................................................................................................................................ 19 2. Analysis: Captain America and Iron Man: A tale of two superheroes ............................................... 20 2.1 Captain America: Fragile body, Strong mind ............................................................................... 20 2.2 Iron Man: Fragile ego, Strong suit ............................................................................................... 29 2.3 Steve and Tony: Fragile friendship, Stronger together ............................................................... 37 2.3.1 The narratological nature of the relationship ...................................................................... 37 2.3.2 Exploring and expanding on Stony -
SGX-Shield: Enabling Address Space Layout Randomization for SGX Programs
SGX-Shield: Enabling Address Space Layout Randomization for SGX Programs Jaebaek Seo∗x , Byoungyoung Leeyx, Seongmin Kim∗, Ming-Wei Shihz, Insik Shin∗, Dongsu Han∗, Taesoo Kimz ∗KAIST yPurdue University zGeorgia Institute of Technology {jaebaek, dallas1004, ishin, dongsu_han}@kaist.ac.kr, [email protected], {mingwei.shih, taesoo}@gatech.edu Abstract—Traditional execution environments deploy Address system and hypervisor. It also offers hardware-based measure- Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) to defend against memory ment, attestation, and enclave page access control to verify the corruption attacks. However, Intel Software Guard Extension integrity of its application code. (SGX), a new trusted execution environment designed to serve security-critical applications on the cloud, lacks such an effective, Unfortunately, we observe that two properties, namely, well-studied feature. In fact, we find that applying ASLR to SGX confidentiality and integrity, do not guarantee the actual programs raises non-trivial issues beyond simple engineering for security of SGX programs, especially when traditional memory a number of reasons: 1) SGX is designed to defeat a stronger corruption vulnerabilities, such as buffer overflow, exist inside adversary than the traditional model, which requires the address space layout to be hidden from the kernel; 2) the limited memory SGX programs. Worse yet, many existing SGX-based systems uses in SGX programs present a new challenge in providing a tend to have a large code base: an entire operating system as sufficient degree of entropy; 3) remote attestation conflicts with library in Haven [12] and a default runtime library in SDKs the dynamic relocation required for ASLR; and 4) the SGX for Intel SGX [28, 29]. -
Making Sense of Iron Man's Science 26 April 2016, by Chris Marr, Sciencenetwork Wa
Making sense of Iron Man's science 26 April 2016, by Chris Marr, Sciencenetwork Wa UWA Professor Adrian Keating suggests that some of the technology seen in the latest Marvel blockbuster, such as controlling the exoskeleton with simple thoughts, will be available in the near future by leveraging ongoing advances of multi- disciplinary research teams. "Dust grain-sized micromachines could be programmed to cooperate to form reconfigurable materials such as the retractable face mask, for example," Prof Keating says. However, all of these devices are in need of a UWA Professor Adrian Keating suggests some of the power unit small enough to be carried yet providing technology seen in the latest Marvel blockbuster, such enough capacity for more than a few minutes of as controlling the exoskeleton with simple thoughts, will superhuman use, he says. be available in the near future. Credit: Marvel Studios Does anyone have a spare Arc Reactor? Currently, most exoskeleton development has been With this week's release of the new Captain for medical applications, with devices designed to America movie, Civil War, it's another opportunity give mobility to amputees and paraplegics, and to see Captain Rogers and Tony Stark as Iron Man there are a number in commercial production and draw on their superhuman strength and use. technology—even if they bring it to bear against each other this time around. Dr Lei Cui, who lectures in Mechatronics at Curtin University, has recently developed both a hand and But how much of our favourite superheros' power leg exoskeleton, designed for use by patients who lies in science and how much is complete fiction? have undergone surgery or have nerve dysfunction, spinal injuries or muscular dysfunction. -
Marvel-Phile
by Steven E. Schend and Dale A. Donovan Lesser Lights II: Long-lost heroes This past summer has seen the reemer- 3-D MAN gence of some Marvel characters who Gestalt being havent been seen in action since the early 1980s. Of course, Im speaking of Adam POWERS: Warlock and Thanos, the major players in Alter ego: Hal Chandler owns a pair of the cosmic epic Infinity Gauntlet mini- special glasses that have identical red and series. Its great to see these old characters green images of a human figure on each back in their four-color glory, and Im sure lens. When Hal dons the glasses and focus- there are some great plans with these es on merging the two figures, he triggers characters forthcoming. a dimensional transfer that places him in a Nostalgia, the lowly terror of nigh- trancelike state. His mind and the two forgotten days, is alive still in The images from his glasses of his elder broth- MARVEL®-Phile in this, the second half of er, Chuck, merge into a gestalt being our quest to bring you characters from known as 3-D Man. the dusty pages of Marvel Comics past. As 3-D Man can remain active for only the aforementioned miniseries is showing three hours at a time, after which he must readers new and old, just because a char- split into his composite images and return acter hasnt been seen in a while certainly Hals mind to his body. While active, 3-D doesnt mean he lacks potential. This is the Mans brain is a composite of the minds of case with our two intrepid heroes for this both Hal and Chuck Chandler, with Chuck month, 3-D Man and the Blue Shield. -
Spaces of Sovereignty in Marvel's Secret Wars
Neal Curtis, ‘Doom’s Law: Spaces of Sovereignty in THE COMICS GRID Marvel’s Secret Wars’ (2017) 7(1): 9 The Comics Journal of comics scholarship Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, DOI: https:// doi.org/10.16995/cg.90 RESEARCH Doom’s Law: Spaces of Sovereignty in Marvel’s Secret Wars Neal Curtis University of Auckland, NZ [email protected] Sovereignty is both the foundation and source of law and the determination of the territory to which the law applies. In this latter sense, sovereignty and the law it supports are an explicitly spatial phenomenon, as can be seen in the meanings of the Greek word nomos, which aside from the law can also refer to a division that marks out a specific territory. This article posits that the Marvel crossover event entitled Secret Wars (2015, 2016) encapsulates the ways in which superhero comics might help us to understand the spatiality of sovereignty. It also considers how resistance to Doom’s law was focused on the transgression of borders and the creation of alternative spatial arrangements. Keywords: Agamben; graphic justice; law; political theory; Schmitt Introduction: When the World Goes Rogue Fifteen years of a ‘War on Terror’ have been an especially fruitful time for studying superhero comics. The exceptional politics of the Bush Doctrine encouraged numerous scholars to return to important questions about the relationship between law and violence, and the nature of a state of emergency that are central to both the superhero mythos and an understanding of sovereign power. At a time when states themselves became rogue or took on the role of the vigilante—at least from the perspective of established International Law—scholars naturally gravitated towards thinking about what the exceptional status of the superhero might tell us. -
AT61 SOUND for IRON MAN.Pdf
FEATURE Veteran Sound Designer and Re-recording mixer, Christopher Boyes, suits up for this big-budget action flick. Text: Strother Bullins AT 48 The story of Marvel Comics’ Anthony send various versions of signature sounds for Man has this sleek, high-tech suit, Iron Monger Edward ‘Tony’ Stark is a compelling one. approval from Favreau and Picture Editor, Dan is the exact opposite. As Jon [the director] Wealthy/charismatic businessman/inventor, Lebantal. The first thing that really happened described him, ‘he’s a garbage truck,’ or ‘steam Stark is badly injured, and creates a self-saving was Industrial Light & Magic’s (ILM) screen machine’.” suit of armour that doubles as a means to protect test of the Iron Man ‘Mark I’ suit – there are With those two thoughts from the director, the world. As Iron Man, Stark is the ultimate Mark I, Mark II and Mark III suits. Supervising Boyes retreated to his studio’s library of sounds mechanical/technological innovation on his Sound Editor, Frank Eulner, did a pass on that to find a ‘steam donkey’ – a century-old winch exterior, and entirely human on the interior. for ILM. Jon saw that and fell in love with used to haul logs from gorges. This became the Frank’s work. That’s where the job landed on It was this premise that drove the sound design. basis of Iron Monger’s rougher sound. our doorstep, with Frank’s first pass at Mark I.” Up to the challenge was Skywalker Sound’s “It made incredible, weird moaning sounds of Christopher Boyes, who accepted the dual roles At that point, Boyes jumped headfirst into various different natures. -
Alternative Comics: an Emerging Literature
ALTERNATIVE COMICS Gilbert Hernandez, “Venus Tells It Like It Is!” Luba in America 167 (excerpt). © 2001 Gilbert Hernandez. Used with permission. ALTERNATIVE COMICS AN EMERGING LITERATURE Charles Hatfield UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI • JACKSON www.upress.state.ms.us The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Copyright © 2005 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First edition 2005 ϱ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hatfield, Charles, 1965– Alternative comics : an emerging literature / Charles Hatfield. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-57806-718-9 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 1-57806-719-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Underground comic books, strips, etc.—United States—History and criticism. I. Title. PN6725.H39 2005 741.5'0973—dc22 2004025709 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix Alternative Comics as an Emerging Literature 1 Comix, Comic Shops, and the Rise of 3 Alternative Comics, Post 1968 2 An Art of Tensions 32 The Otherness of Comics Reading 3 A Broader Canvas: Gilbert Hernandez’s Heartbreak Soup 68 4 “I made that whole thing up!” 108 The Problem of Authenticity in Autobiographical Comics 5 Irony and Self-Reflexivity in Autobiographical Comics 128 Two Case Studies 6 Whither the Graphic Novel? 152 Notes 164 Works Cited 169 Index 177 This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Who can do this sort of thing alone? Not I. Thanks are due to many. For permission to include passages from my article, “Heartbreak Soup: The Interdependence of Theme and Form” (Inks 4:2, May 1997), the Ohio State University Press. -
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Marvel Comics Avengers Chronological Appearances by Bob Wolniak
Marvel Comics Avengers Chronological Appearances By Bob Wolniak ased initially on the Bob Fronczak list from Avengers Assemble and Avengers Forever websites. But unlike Mr. B Fronczak’s list (that stops about the time of Heroes Reborn) this is NOT an attempt at a Marvel continuity (harmony of Marvel titles in time within the fictional universe), but Avengers appearances in order in approx. real world release order . I define Avengers appearances as team appearances, not individual Avengers or even in some cases where several individual Avengers are together (but eventually a judgment call has to be made on some of those instances). I have included some non-Avengers appearances since they are important to a key storyline that does tie to the Avengers, but noted if they did not have a team appearance. Blue (purple for WCA & Ultimates) indicates an Avengers title , whether ongoing or limited series. I have decided that Force Works is not strictly an Avengers title, nor is Thunderbolts, Defenders or even Vision/Scarlet Witch mini- series, although each book correlates, crosses over and frequently contains guest appearances of the Avengers as a team. In those cases, the individual issues are listed. I have also decided that individual Avengers’ ongoing or limited series books are not Avengers team appearances, so I have no interest in the tedious tracking of every Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, or Hank Pym title unless they contain a team appearance or x-over . The same applies to Avengers Spotlight (largely a Hawkeye series, with other individual appearances), Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, Vision, Wonder Man, Hulk, She-Hulk, Black Panther, Quicksilver, Thunderstrike, War Machine, Black Widow, Sub-Mariner, Hercules, and other such books or limited series.