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  • The director made her name in China with the 2009 movie "Sophie's Revenge" – starring Zhang Ziyi — a romantic comedy she wrote and directed about a Chinese comic-book artist getting back at the man who proposed to her then dumped her.

    Hollywood's choice Jonathan Landreth 2011

  • "Less mystery, menace, sadism and comic-book kink than most of Thorn's adventures, but enough to keep the fans happy till next year."

    Silencer (Thorn Series #11) by James W. Hall: Book summary 2010

  • The four books reviewed here - in comic-book form or by collection of sayings, through adventure tale or indirect confession - provide one possible illustration, a workable prototype.

    The forging of a holy man Post 2011

  • We had planned to have a search to find the best, most interesting, most acerbic comic-book staff in North America.

    Kevin Smith Invades Reality TV With Comic Book Men 2012

  • A clean half-century after Stan Lee and Jack Kirby birthed the Fantastic Four in 1961, we have faith in certain unshakeable truths that -- in comic-book land -- we hold to be shelf-evident.

    'Fantastic Four'-Shadowing: How this week's much-heralded death will go down Michael Cavna 2011

  • The four books reviewed here - in comic-book form or by collection of sayings, through adventure tale or indirect confession - provide one possible illustration, a workable prototype.

    The forging of a holy man Post 2011

  • America needs distinctive alternatives to all those comic-book movies that seem to have been written by the same computer and concocted in the same CGI shops.

    'Earth' Orbits Eccentrically, Creates Star Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • KICK-ASS tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a comic-book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero.

    Red-Band Trailer for KICK-ASS Featuring Chloe Moretz as Hit-Girl – Collider.com 2009

  • Courtesy of ComicConnect.com / Metropoliscomics.com ... way back in 1952 comic-book artists trying to spice up the Western genre had ranchers battling aliens in the shortlived "Space Western" series.

    Howdy, Space Partner 2011

  • TV Guide Magazine: This series happily fosters the notion that comic-book fans can't get laid.

    Kevin Smith Invades Reality TV With Comic Book Men 2012

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