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  • The three old friends talk a little about adventures they shared but this story is mostly about the interpersonal encounters of the old days, when they were teens, younger, fresher, less sure of themselves and their place in herodom.

    22 « March « 2010 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2010

  • The three old friends talk a little about adventures they shared but this story is mostly about the interpersonal encounters of the old days, when they were teens, younger, fresher, less sure of themselves and their place in herodom.

    Comic Book Reviews: The Arrow Falls 2010

  • You guys think that Scott Pilgrim and Kick-Ass (both more alternative comic book adaptations) may just yet give IM2 a run for its money, kind of like the first Iron Man flick came out of B-ranking herodom (as far as the general public was considered) and made such a huge splash..

    Early Buzz: Ten Reviews From a Test Screening of Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World | /Film 2010

  • Especailly if he makes a mockery of the Ben Halls of this world in terms of outlaw herodom.

    gillpolack: Thanks to eneit I have decided that my p gillpolack 2009

  • What I mean to say, Mister Stransydzki, is that every truly classic superhero needs to suffer a traumatic loss to be truly forged in the waters of super-herodom, and a traumatic loss may be necessary to sell The Web in this new, Segway-powered age.

    An Open Letter from The Web to J. Michael Straczynski Brian Hughes 2008

  • What I mean to say, Mister Stransydzki, is that every truly classic superhero needs to suffer a traumatic loss to be truly forged in the waters of super-herodom, and a traumatic loss may be necessary to sell The Web in this new, Segway-powered age.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Brian Hughes 2008

  • Especially in the final half-hour or so when every major character has an existential speech about the nature of good and evil and herodom so that they can telegraph to the audience everything the movie itself could not.

    Further on The Dark Knight (or: I knew I liked Robert Downey, Jr.) 2008

  • For other readers, including yours truly, it made Koryak an unlikable character whose claim to herodom was a farce.

    The Comic Treadmill 2009

  • And, I'm thinking Dede is headed for martyred herodom, at least among Democrats.

    Yahoo! News: Top Stories 2009

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