Comics

Interview: Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa, Creator of the Comic Book The 99

October 9, 2011

Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa, creator of the comic book series The 99, which is also currently being produced as an animated series, is the subject of the upcoming documentary Wham! Bam! Islam!, to air on PBS on October 13th. From the website: Al-Mutawa came up with the concept of The 99: a team of superheroes, each [...]

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Green Lantern: First Flight

August 19, 2009

I watched Green Lantern: First Flight over the weekend, a DC Animated film. These movies have always been enjoyable and this latest installment in the franchise is no exception. Test pilot Hal Jordan assumes the Green Lantern mantle from the late Green Lantern, Abin Sur within the first couple of minutes of First Flight and [...]

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Fulfilling My Comic Book Street Cred

February 19, 2009

I finally got around to reading Watchmen, a limited comic book series that came out in the 80s. I say finally because my brother bought it come years ago and I even had it on my own shelf for some months now. Accolades are written all over the edition we have and I have admit, [...]

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Batman: Gotham Knight

July 11, 2008

I watched Batman: Gotham Knight last night. This is the third movie in the recent trend of straight-to-DVD animated features from DC Comics and Warner Brothers. This is how I would rate the movies thus far: -Superman: Doomsday – Only ok. However, it was at least better than Superman Returns (but seriously, what wasn’t?) -Justice [...]

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My First Podcast!

May 11, 2008

I got my first Mac a while ago and it came with all this cool stuff, including Garageband. I always wanted to try it out so I figured I would create a podcast, which I finally did over this weekend. So here it is folks, my first podcast. Download Bushra’s First Podcast: The Effects of [...]

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Falling off the Comics Wagon with Y: The Last Man

April 12, 2008

Years ago, I used to read Superman comic books. One comic came out every week and I got all of them. I did that for 5 and half years. While I never stopped being a Superman fan, I didn’t want to keep reading because the weekly comics just didn’t hold my interest anymore. However, reading [...]

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