comic book

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  • They were definitely Asian, or so said a vigorous, middle-aged woman who owned a pornographic comic book store nearby. —  Blindfold Game
  • Hahn did not take his cues from the rather sedentary monuments of his day, but (impossibly) appeared to have been influenced by the work of heroic comic book artists such as Jim Steranko and Neal Adams, and thus the statue had a more fluid dynamic than was customary ... or perhaps he was influenced by Black William himself, for it was he who had commissioned the sculpture and overseen its construction. —  FSFMagazine,July2007
  • In Philip's half of the stale-scented space: stacks of comic books, science fiction novels, drawing tablets, plastic figures of comic book heroes and villains. —  The Lesson of Her Death
  • If there exists a comic book not currently in development, then surely it must be under option. —  FSFDec2003
  • We are already beginning to see remakes of comic book movies, the next in line being next year's The Punisher , which will likely be a better film than the 1989 version starring Dolph Lundgren ... but probably only marginally better, and it will cost ten times as much to make. —  FSFDec2003
 

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