Superheroes. Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Wonder woman, Iron Man, The Hulk. These are characters that millions of children for almost the last century have grown up with in their hearts and in their minds. Spawned from dreams and from myths, those illustrious superheroes listed above are human created representations of our deepest human desires and our most vivid imagines brought to a fictional world where our imagines can run rampant.
Yet, entrenched in the deep sweaty spandex of these beloved superhero comics is a deeper and darker evil, a kind of permanent stain that stinks and rots right through the stretchy fabric of a superhero’s attire and leaks into the entire heart of comics.
Comic books as have long been perceived and stereotyped as a more “childish” or infantile escapism, where the whole medium has been narrow casted to only represent those familiar spandex or even latex superheroes. Yet, while remaining more a niche market with the advent and ever growing shadow of technology the medium of comic books still remains an active and economically feasible producer in literature and content.
Not quite a novel, not quite a movie. Comics bend our minds visual and linguistically and for more then a century have delivered unique stylized concepts and ideas hidden with ink lines and word bubbles without all the superhero tights and spandex hogging the lime light.
That’s where we come in. Our goal is to expose and illuminate the hidden gems of the comics medium past and present. Our main goal is try and spread knowledge and interest of the non-superhero comics, which deserve to be valued and read as any other great film or novel does. At the same time, there are many superhero-based comics, which employ and push the boundaries of narrative and visual elements, we are going to inform you and the viewers about these too. We’re going to cover as much ground as possible with the comic’s medium and try and appeal to the most number of genres.
We’re going to vindicate comics and you’re all going to help us. We can’t do this alone.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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