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Kraken In Popular Culture
References to the fictional kraken are found in film, literature, television, and other popular culture forms. Comics In various comics, particularly DC and Marvel Comics, multiple creatures have been named Kraken. The Kraken from ''The Umbrella Academy'' was named so after the kraken (sea monster) as he has the ability to breathe under water. In the Disney comic series "Tamers of Nonhuman Threats", the Kraken appears in the fifth story, "Let's Get Kraken". In this story, the Kraken has a natural enemy, the sperm whale. The kraken is an aquatic monster that has appeared in many comics publications. A Kraken was featured in the story "The Kraken" in issue #49 of ''Adventures into the Unknown'' by ACG in 1953. ''Champion Comics'' #5 (March 1940, Harvey Comics), ''Monster Hunters'' #10 (Oct. 1977, Charlton Comics), ''Indiana Jones and the Sargasso Pirates'' #2 (Jan. 1996, Dark Horse Comics), and the Japanese comic, ''One Piece (ワンピース Wan Pīsu)'' #62 (November 15, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Piece
''One Piece'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' since July 1997, with its individual chapters compiled into 104 ''tankōbon'' volumes . The story follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy, a boy whose body gained the properties of rubber after unintentionally eating a Devil Fruit. With his pirate crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, Luffy explores the Grand Line in search of the deceased King of the Pirates Gol D. Roger's ultimate treasure known as the "One Piece" in order to become the next King of the Pirates. The manga spawned a media franchise, having been adapted into a festival film produced by Production I.G, and an anime series produced by Toei Animation, which began broadcasting in Japan in 1999. Additionally, Toei has developed fourteen animated feature films, one original video animation, and thirteen television specials. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Age Of Comic Books
The Golden Age of Comic Books describes an era of American comic books from 1938 to 1956. During this time, modern comic books were first published and rapidly increased in popularity. The superhero archetype was created and many well-known characters were introduced, including Superman, Batman, Robin, Captain Marvel, Captain America, and Wonder Woman. Etymology The first recorded use of the term "Golden Age" was by Richard A. Lupoff in an article, "Re-Birth", published in issue one of the fanzine ''Comic Art'' in April 1960. History An event cited by many as marking the beginning of the Golden Age was the 1938 debut of Superman in '' Action Comics'' #1, published by Detective Comics (predecessor of DC Comics). Superman's popularity helped make comic books a major arm of publishing, which led rival companies to create superheroes of their own to emulate Superman's success. World War II Between 1939 and 1941 Detective Comics and its sister company, All-American Publicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dynamite Comics
Dynamite Entertainment is an American comic book publisher founded by Nick Barrucci in 2004 at Mount Laurel, New Jersey. It is best known as the owners of ''The Boys'' franchise across several IP medias. Dynamite primarily publishes adaptations of franchises from other media. These include licensed adaptations of film properties such as '' Army of Darkness'', ''Terminator,'' and ''RoboCop'', and licensed or public domain literary properties such as Zorro, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, ''Alice in Wonderland'', Red Sonja, Tarzan (as ''Lord of the Jungle'') and John Carter of Mars (as ''Warlord of Mars''). It also publishes superhero books such as ''Project Superpowers''. Creators who have produced Dynamite's books include Alex Ross, John Cassaday, Matt Wagner, Garth Ennis, Howard Chaykin and Frank Miller. Dynamic Forces, a distribution of Dynamite's comics and books, announced a partnership with Diamond Distribution in 2008, when Diamond had the rights to publishing the internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grimm Fairy Tales (comics)
''Grimm Fairy Tales'' is a dark fantasy comic book series by Zenescope Entertainment that presents classic fairy tales, albeit with modern twists or expanded plots. It began publication in June 2005. Summary Each issue of ''Grimm Fairy Tales'' has two parts: a frame story and a fairy tale. The frame story revolves around Dr. Sela Mathers, a Professor of Literature with the supernatural ability to help people avoid bad life decisions by subjecting them to visions, in which they see themselves as the protagonists of allegorical fairy tales. As the series progresses, she struggles with the fact that several people ignore her lessons and ruin their lives anyway, and begins using her ability to dispense justice instead (see issue #15 "The Three Little Pigs"). Sela's nemesis is Belinda, who has the same ability as Sela but uses it for evil. The other portion of the story is a twisted version of a classic fairy tale. The fairy tales are often violent and end in depressing ways, warni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
God Is Dead (comics)
''God Is Dead'' is a comic book series created by Jonathan Hickman and Mike Costa, published by American company Avatar Press. It deals with ancient gods and goddesses from mythologies around the world coming to Earth to lay claim to the world of man. The subplot deals with a group of people named the Collective, who resist the ancient gods. Publication history ''God is Dead'' began as a six-issue limited series in September 2013, with Hickman and Costa as co-writers. Once the initial six-issue story arc concluded, the comic became an ongoing series with Costa as the only writer. In August 2014, Alan Moore and Simon Spurrier contributed to the first issue of a new story arc entitled ''God Is Dead: The Book of Acts''. The series concluded in 2016 with its 48th issue. Cover art The cover art of the comics typically featured five different covers. The initial one would be a solid color with a religious symbol. The other styles of covers were "Enchanted", "Iconic", "Carn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avatar Press
Avatar Press is an independent American comic book publisher founded in 1996 by William A. Christensen, and based in Rantoul, Illinois. Avatar Press is most notable for publishing bad girl comics, such as ''Faust'', ''Pandora'', ''Hellina'', ''Lookers'', ''The Ravening'', and Brian Pulido's ''Lady Death''. Such comics are currently published under the "Boundless Comics" imprint. Avatar has a strong web presence, anchored by Warren Ellis' ''FreakAngels'' webcomic, as well as the comics news site Bleeding Cool, helmed by Rich Johnston. History Publisher Christensen had been a freelance contributor to '' Wizard'' magazine before founding Avatar Press. The company initially published only limited series. Avatar subsequently expanded to other formats. As part of an effort to expand beyond its reputation as a bad girl publisher, Avatar offered a number of noted creators an opportunity to publish creator-owned books with no content restrictions whatsoever. Among the creators to take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poseidon
Poseidon (; grc-gre, Ποσειδῶν) was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.Burkert 1985pp. 136–139 In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a chief deity at Pylos and Thebes. He also had the cult title "earth shaker". In the myths of isolated Arcadia he is related with Demeter and Persephone and he was venerated as a horse, however, it seems that he was originally a god of the waters.Seneca quaest. Nat. VI 6 :Nilsson Vol I p.450 He is often regarded as the tamer or father of horses, and with a strike of his trident, he created springs which are related to the word horse.Nilsson Vol I p.450 His Roman equivalent is Neptune. Poseidon was the protector of seafarers, and of many Hellenic cities and colonies. Homer and Hesiod suggest that Poseidon became lord of the sea when, following the overthrow of his father Cronus, the world was divided by lot among Cronus' three sons; Zeus was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kraken Isaac
The following list comprises the various antagonistic factions that appear in the manga ''Saint Seiya'' and the sequel '' Saint Seiya: Next Dimension'', written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada. The antagonistic characters appear as various deities from Greek mythology, who rule over the realms that form Earth, and their servants who form part of their armies created to wage war against Athena, the protector of the Earth realm. In addition, several factions aren't presented as soldiers of these armies, but as organizations who pursue their own ends. Black Saints The . alternatively spelled as in the anime, appear as servants of the Bronze Saint Phoenix Ikki, on his quest to kill all the Bronze Saints. The Black Saints are former Saints who were stripped from their title and Cloth for using their strength for personal gain, turning to a life of crime and violence. All of them trained in Death Queen Island along with several sons from Mitsumasa Kido, but most of them died. Alth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Seiya
, also known as ''Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac'' or simply ''Knights of the Zodiac'' (translated from the French title ''Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque''), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine '' Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from 1986 to 1990, with its chapters collected in twenty-eight ''tankōbon'' volumes. The story follows five mystical warriors called the Saints who fight wearing sacred sets of armor named "Cloths", the designs of which derive from the various constellations the characters have adopted as their destined guardian symbols, and empowered by a mystical energy called "Cosmo". The Saints have sworn to defend the reincarnation of the Greek goddess Athena in her battle against other Olympian gods who want to dominate Earth. In North America, the manga was licensed for English release by Viz Media. Since 2006, Kurumada has been publishing a sequel manga titled '' S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judge Kraken
Judge (or street judge) is a title held by several significant characters in ''Judge Dredd'' and other series which appear in the British comics '' 2000 AD'' and ''Judge Dredd Megazine''. In the fictional future history of the series, the role of "Judge" combines those of judge, jury and police officer, thus avoiding long legal wrangles by allowing for criminals to be tried and sentenced on the spot. Since they overthrew the U.S. Constitution in 2070, Judges have also held supreme political power in Mega-City One. Collectively they are known as the Justice Department. Overview In the comic strip, Judges are the product of many (normally 15) years' of training and psychological conditioning. Training, which takes place in the Academy of Law, generally begins at age five. The Judges recruit promising children, and grow their own clones. Judge Dredd is himself a clone of the Judges' founder, Chief Judge Fargo.''2000 AD'' prog 552 Their standard issue firearm is the Lawgiver hand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleetway
Fleetway Publications was a magazine publishing company based in London. It was founded in 1959 when the Mirror Group acquired the Amalgamated Press, then based at Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London. It was one of the companies that merged into the IPC group in 1963, and the Fleetway banner continued to be used until 1968 when all IPC's publications were reorganised into the unitary IPC Magazines. In 1987 IPC's comics line was sold to Robert Maxwell as Fleetway Publications. Egmont UK bought Fleetway from Maxwell in 1991, merging it with their own comics publishing operation, London Editions, to form Fleetway Editions, but the name "Fleetway" ceased to appear on their comics some time after 2002. In August 2016, Rebellion Developments acquired the Fleetway library from Egmont, making it the owner of all comics characters and titles created by IPC's subsidiaries after January 1, 1970, together with 26 specified characters which appeared in ''Buster Buster may refer to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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