Improving the Foundations: Batman Begins from Comics to Screen

Darius, Julian

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Sequart Research & Literacy Organization

Peace and Other Stories contains scripts for the graphic novel Peace, seven short stories, and the graphic novel When the Koi Speaks -- all starring Irene, a poor Greek girl merged with Buddhist nothingness to become a fearsome killer.As a girl, Irene begged on the streets for food. When she married a rich Japanese businessman, she thought her life complete. But when she and her life are brutalized, her refusal to surrender begins a journey that will lead her to Japan and to become an assassin so ruthless that gangsters the world over speak of her in whispers.

Peace And Other Stories

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

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Batman Begins and the Comics studies the 2005 film, directed by Christopher Nolan, paying particular attention to how it draws on its comic book source material. Grossing over $200 million at the U.S. box office, Batman Begins was co-written by comic book writer David S. Goyer and was widely praised for its fidelity to the comics that inspired it. This book contains scene-by-scene annotations, including notes on scenes cut from the film, as well as an essay on previous attempts to film Batman's origins, an essay on the film's relationship with past Batman films, and a week-by-week study of the film's box office performance.

Batman Begins And the Comics

This definitive, unauthorized study of Christopher Nolan's landmark 2005 film demonstrates how BATMAN BEGINS adapted and fused a half century of comic books into a single, unified movie. This book also examines past attempts to film Batman's origins, how those origins evolved over time, and where Nolan's realism falls on a spectrum with past Batman movies and even the 1960s TV show. Dr. Julian Darius manages to reveal secrets to even the most hardcore Batman fan, while remaining fully accessible to those new to the character. From Sequart Research &amp; Literacy Organization. More info at http://Sequart.org

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MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT examines WATCHMEN from a variety of perspectives and uncovers surprising answers about the history of scientific theory, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, WATCHMEN's murder mystery, Rorschach and Steve Ditko, the secrets of Captain Metropolis and the Minutemen, whether the Comedian was right, who shouldn't read WATCHMEN, and how the motion picture adaptation illuminates the original text. From Sequart Research &amp; Literacy Organization. More info at http://Sequart.org

Minutes to Midnight: Twelve Essays on Watchmen

Meaney, Patrick

Klock, Geoff

Loyd, John

Callahan, Timothy

Phillips, Gene

Bensam, Richard

Cormier, Jon

Borsellino, Mary

Hudsick, Walter

History & Price Guides

PLANETARY excavated the secret history of the super-hero genre and in the process helped set that genre's future. KEEPING THE WORLD STRANGE offers an archaeology of the archaeologists, examining PLANETARY and revisionism, decompression, future studies, proactive vs. reactive super-heroes, conceptions of the multiverse, and more. These essays offer new and different vantage points from which to see the genre-busting series, which continues to twist and to grow with each new reading. From Sequart Research &amp; Literacy Organization. More info at http://Sequart.org

Keeping the World Strange: A Planetary Guide

Sanderson, Peter

Thurman, Kevin

Walker, Cody

Nevett, Chad

Payton, Ross

Richardson, Andy

Stokes, Caleb

No other run divides Legion of Super-Hero fans like Keith Giffen’s. To detractors, it dismantled everything good about the series. In this short book, Dr. Julian Darius argues that Giffen’s run offered an ambitious and unprecedented response to the growing maturity of super-hero comics — one that, far from trashing Legion history, actually respected it.

Revisionism, Radical Experimentation, and Dystopia in Keith Giffen's Legion of Super-Heroes

In 1988, Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE offered a violent, literate, and controversial take on the Joker's origins and his relationship with Batman. Now, Dr. Julian Darius examines it in the context of the high-art ambitions of 1980s super-hero comics, exposing the narrative's ambiguities and secrets. From Sequart Organization. More info at http://sequart.org

And the Universe so Big: Understanding Batman: The Killing Joke

INFINITE CRISIS wasn't just a crossover mini-series; it was a sprawling network of multiple such mini-series, leading both in and out of the main one. It redefined not only the DC Universe but what a crossover could be. In its scale, it exaggerated both the advantages and the downsides of the universe-wide crossover form. In this short book, Dr. Julian Darius explores the event from start to finish, including its place in the history of super-hero comics.From Sequart Organization. More info at http://sequart.org

Everything and a Mini-Series for the Kitchen Sink: Understanding Infinite Crisis

Martian Comics Vol. 1: Moon to Moon (Martian Lit Collections)

Kamaputra, Fahriza

Yaciuk, Donovan

Campos, R. L.

Independently published

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