Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

658 VAMPIRES AND ZOMBIES human mindlessness triggered by any number of reasons including disease, spiritual invocation, alien in ...

VAMPIRES AND ZOMBIES 659 returned to avenge their death, others came because they were just overwhelmingly evil, and still more ...

660 VAMPIRES AND ZOMBIES Movie Association of America’s new rating system in 1968, comics also looked to cash in on the macabre. ...

VAMPIRES AND ZOMBIES 661 magazine. Th is human with vampire powers was a foray into the new territory. Once the character was ap ...

662 VAMPIRES AND ZOMBIES In the 1980s and 1990s, there were several short-lived zombie series among the various independent publ ...

VAUGHAN, BRIAN K. 663 Th is reciprocal relationship of genre fi lm and television with comics is best exempli- fi ed by Joss Whe ...

664 V FOR VENDETTA new talent and was subsequently given small writing jobs. His fi rst major work was DC-Vertigo’s Swamp Th ing ...

V FOR VENDETTA 665 V for Vendetta emerged from a number of sources. In his early 20s, Moore had submitted a proposal for a chara ...

666 V FOR VENDETTA protagonist into a modern Guy Fawkes, Moore and Lloyd tapped into something that was emblazoned in the memori ...

V FOR VENDETTA 667 Weaving as V, Natalie Portman as Evey, Stephen Rea as Finch, and John Hurt as Adam Sutler, the leader of the ...

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W WAID, MARK (1962–). Born in Hueytown, Alabama, Waid’s fi rst connection to the comic book industry was freelance reporting for ...

670 WALKING DEAD, THE stint. In 2000, a number of high profi le creators, including Waid, developed the Gorilla Comics imprint f ...

WALKING DEAD, THE 671 the hodgepodge group of people who vary considerably in size, shape, intelligence, orientation, philosophy ...

672 WAR COMICS Statements such as “We are the walking dead,” in issue #24, provide moments of pause within the narrative for cha ...

WAR COMICS 673 have been used for political purposes, and have been particularly useful in presenting images of war that are at ...

674 WAR COMICS Th e character types were similarly predictable, a range of characters drawn from diff erent backgrounds to repre ...

WAR COMICS 675 over hyperbolic adventures and attempted to recapture both the antiwar stance and the quality of Kurtzman’s work ...

676 WARE, CHRIS propaganda imagery that appeared immediately in the wake of 9/11. One Captain America miniseries, Th e Chosen (2 ...

WARREN PUBLISHING 677 and Françoise Mouly: Ware’s ingenious strips combined autobiographical anecdotes with the clichéd devices ...