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• In Media Res
  Re: What’s the Point of a Reboot?, or, Waiting for Godot in a Comic Book Shop

  Slipperiness of Terms

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Tuesday, August 7, 2012 — 1:58 pm

   Thanks for your thoughtful reply to my post, William! My initial motivation for addressing the issue of recent (and near-future) comic book reboots was Marvel's refusal to term Marvel NOW! a "reboot." I was struck by the extent to which Ma ...
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  Re: "No More Origins": Memory, Trauma, and X-Men: First Class

  Continuity and Ret-Cons

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Friday, August 10, 2012 — 2:52 pm

  Another issue this week's posts have been circling around is the fact that many of the reboots/relaunches/adaptations are based on comic book properties (even Mirror, Mirror,- and, more obviously, Once Upon a Time- is drawing on the success of Bill W ...
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  Re: The Avengers and the Evolution of the Multi-Film Franchise

  Corporate Cinema

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Monday, May 7, 2012 — 3:39 pm

  What's amazing to me is how Marvel Studios has managed to create such a tight continuity in terms of narrative, style, and tone over six films. It really is an acheivement of corporate restructuring and filmmaking, which is why the presence of a part ...
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  Re: THE AVENGERS: The Rise of Superhero Movies and the End of Superhero Comics

  Video Killed the Comic Book Star

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Thursday, May 10, 2012 — 3:09 pm

  Zaki: I really like how you provide some context for the history of the superhero film. I also found your statement that the superero movie "may well have killed the superhero comic" to be very provacative. Could you expand on this thought a bit ...
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  Re: What Fangirls Want: Making More of and More from Marvel's Men

  Spin-offs and "Small" Stories

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Friday, May 11, 2012 — 3:16 pm

  Thanks for capping the week off with a great post, Kayley, and I think your post ties into some of the things Jim discussed in Monday's post. In particular, I'm thinking of Jim's claim/prediction that Marvel Studios will use the films about ...
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  Re: Joss Whedon's The Avengers

  Authorial Voice

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Tuesday, May 8, 2012 — 3:23 pm

    Great post, Roger, and you bring up some really interesting issues regarding the relationship between corporate franchises, authorial voices, and ownership structures. In regards to The Avengers, I think it's particularly telling that the film is o ...
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  Re: I have an Army/We have a Hulk : Thinking Politics in The Avengers

  Tony and Bruce

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Wednesday, May 9, 2012 — 3:36 pm

  I found one of the most compelling relationships in The Avengers to be that between Tony Stark and Bruce Banner. Both are brilliant scientists, and both are in possession of a powerful weapon. And, to a certain extent, both Tony and Bruce don't have ...
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  Re: Special Effects: New Perspectives on Old Questions

  Ontology and Practice

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Wednesday, November 9, 2011 — 2:24 pm

  Bob- I'm completely with you in regards to the overstatement of ontological issues at the expense of practices and techniques. As the wonderful Dynamation short shows, special effects continue to be deployed in much the same manner today, albeit with ...
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  Re: Digital Materialism: "300" Bodies in Virtual Space

  Virtual Forces

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Wednesday, November 9, 2011 — 7:04 pm

  Great points, Bob. The artisinal forces on  300 are certainly an important strand in the film's 'becoming.' I hadn't considered this kind of print authorship as a specifically different species- I grouped it under the larger umbrella o ...
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  Re: The Exposure Economy

  Content Farms

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Wednesday, May 4, 2011 — 4:38 pm

  Thank you, Caroline, for raising such an interesting issue and for continuing what seems to be shaping up as a theme for this week so far: "free" labor. I found Ellison's distinction between "amateur" and "professional" ...

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