...need to be unlocked, but once they're available, a player can swap them in and out of the team at will. Forming specific groups, such as the Fantastic Four , imparts a bonus for that team. A new combat feature is Fusion attacks. Built up...

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...to be unlocked, but once they're available, a player can swap them in and out of the team. Forming specific groups of superhumans, such as the Fantastic Four , imparts a bonus. A new combat feature is Fusion attacks. Built up over time by...

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Gaiman created the epic comic book series The Sandman Movie writer Neil Gaiman , best known for penning Beowulf and Stardust , has won this year's Booktrust Teenage Prize with The Graveyard Book. The story is about a child abandoned in a...

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' DILBERT ' (UFS)Enlarge Image In recent weeks, some 'Riffs readers have questioned why it was the Scott Adams comic strip " DILBERT." and not the homegrown "CUL DE SAC," that was chosen to remain housed in The Washington Post Magazine ,...

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...age. Created by Steve Ditko in the '60s and gaining in popularity as comics veer deeper into philosophy and conspiracy, this role model for Watchmen 's Rorschach is ripe with possibility. Anything from an ambitious costume change to a species...

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...me, Europe is not just blond-haired, blue-eyed people. It has minorities! ok, but how many people saw Watchmen? i did, and it was a waste of time, it was a horrible movie that was way too long, and her nude scene wasn't great, so i don't...

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Today's idea: Maybe if we invested in the things that we hate, we'd become rich, the creator of " Dilbert " muses. Finance | "We generally hate companies when we think they have too much power. And that correlates with profits. " So writes...

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...authors of our time. Comics had a " Citizen Kane " moment back in the 80s (two, actually, if you count " The Dark Knight Returns ") when " Watchmen " hit the scene. These books ushered in an era where images accompanied by text could tell serious,...

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...about writing lyrics for their latest musical project. Moore , who wrote the stories on which the films From Hell , V For Vendetta and Watchmen were based, confirmed the collaboration during an interview with Mustardweb.org. "They came...

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...and "Cul de Sac" and " Lio." The other day, one reader said "Get Fuzzy's" character arrangement had largely followed the blueprint of " Garfield." But to the adult reader's eye, methinks, comparing those two strips is like comparing...

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...Universal Press Syndicate over the way his panels were laid out in the Sunday section. Bill Watterson , creator of the universally-beloved Calvin and Hobbes , was a perfectionist and a true believer in his art form, yet he evidently hated...

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...created the character of Batman for D.C. At Marvel , Stan Lieber (you know him as Stan Lee ) and Jack Kurtzberg ( Jack Kirby ) created the Fantastic Four and X-Men. Lieber also takes credit for originating Spider-Man and Daredevil. The...

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...panel arrangements, but this kind of misery memoir is an acquired taste. 128pp, Titan, GBP18.99 Neil Gaiman , the creator of The Sandman and Coraline , returns to comics with a tale that imagines Batman 's foes invited to a wake in...

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...strip they would move to KidsPost -- so "Frazz" could return to the daily comics page -- one of the most mentioned features after " Peanuts Classics" has been Brian Bassett 's warm and fuzzy strip, "RED AND ROVER." "Red and Rover" was...

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...strangest videos, short films and features ever made. " The Wiz ," 1978, directed by Sidney Lumet The director of " Network " decided an " Oz "-themed allegory about urban black America staring Jackson , Diana Ross and Richard Pryor was a good...

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...related terms atop a news story and you'll get a page listing all the stories featuring that term. Tech wizards resurrect ' Snow White ' and ' Oz ' in all their glory " Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ": Diamond Edition Price : $39.99 ( DVD and...

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...mini doughnuts. Or the vintage actors encountered at the Oz launch party (see sidebar). THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE OZ : Of course, " Oz " fanatics already have a copy or two of this film. An annual TV special for decades, it's probably been taped...

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...included in the new DVD set repeats the legend that a waistcoat worn by the Wizard ( Frank Morgan , center) once belonged to " Oz " author Frank Baum. Costumers stumbled upon it at at a random second-hand store. Decades later, the movie...

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