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Rod Lott
“Captain America: The First Avenger” is Marvel’s third — third! — superhero movie just this summer, following “Thor” and “X-Men: First Class,” so it would be reasonable to expect audiences to be burned out on men in tights.
Thursday 23 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: superhero
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Enlist in ‘Captain America,’ the final and finest superhero adventure of a summer season flooded with them.
Know your Snooki!
She is a best-selling author, after all.
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Gazette staff
As reported in the August issue of Wired magazine, one college class among “TV-Themed Course Work” across our nation’s hallowed halls of higher ed is the University of Oklahoma’s “‘Jersey Shore’ GRC: Depictions of Gender, Race, and Class on the Shore.”
Captain America
Star-spangled s**t.
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Rod Lott
Not long after “Batman” changed Hollywood in the summer of 1989, every studio wanted to have the next comics-based blockbuster. I remember visiting Penn Square Mall’s multiplex (as I did often back then) and seeing a poster for “Captain America.” The one-sheet was comprised of little more than a close-up of Cap’s iconic shield and a promise to arrive next summer.
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Kids dig superhero movies? Introduce them to words, too, as the annual Free Comic Book Day returns Saturday at various stores and libraries throughout the metro. Visitors can choose from specially produced titles featuring The Avengers, Superman, Spider-Man, Transformers, Snoopy, The Simpsons, The Smurfs, Sonic the Hedgehog, Voltron, Mega Man, Donald Duck and many more. Visit freecomicbookday.com.
Saturday
Mutant Girls Squad
Yes, another story about teen girls with octopus arms.
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Rod Lott
If you thought the X-Men series could use schoolgirl uniforms and tools protruding from naughty bits, have the Sushi Typhoon guys got a movie for you! It's called Mutant Girls Squad and, being from Japan, is three times crazier than America would think to make, or have the guts.
The Dark Knight Rises
Christopher Nolan directs a fitting send-off to his Batman trilogy.
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Phil Bacharach
Due to the twisted savagery of a young man in a Colorado movie theater, The Dark Knight Rises will forever be a footnote in American history. Hopefully, that horrific massacre will not influence perceptions of this epic conclusion to writer-director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy.
Captain America: The First Avenger
Enlist in 'Captain America,' the final and finest superhero adventure of a summer season flooded with them.
Heroic hangover
Local comic book creators launch ‘Knuckleheads,’ a series about an unlikely superhero.
Features
Alyssa Grimley
A comic book shop is more than just a place to buy the latest gotta-have graphic novel. It also can be the start of a creative partnership.
