![]() ![]() The set-up was an attempt to embrace the history of the "New Teen Titans" while staying true to the general idea behind the Teen Titans, which is that it is a team made up of the main teen heroes in the DC Universe. In 2003, Geoff Johns rebooted "Teen Titans" with artists Mike McKone and Marlo Alquiza. We were going to do 15, but there are just too many good ones! NOTE: With so many to choose from, we decided to eliminate "52," since he co-wrote it with three other guys (Grant Morrison, Mark Waid and Greg Rucka), so we thought it best to spotlight only comics Johns wrote by himself (or with a single co-writer). With the news of Johns returning to comics creation in the near future, we thought we'd spotlight the greatest DC Comics stories that he has done over the years. RELATED: DC Comics: The 15 Biggest Moments of 2016 ![]() Of course, that doesn't mean he has stopped writing, as Johns also recently hinted that he might be writing a "Watchmen"-related comic book in the future. This was made evident last year when he was named the President of DC Entertainment (as well as retaining his previous title of Chief Creative Officer). For well over a decade now, Geoff Johns has been one of the most important creative voices at DC Comics, not just in the world of comics, but in television and film. ![]()
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Like the Hobbit Trilogy, the Harry Potters, and The Hunger Games the movies simply don’t do the books justice, a skilled author’s ability to conjure scenes in one’s head is unrivalled - Michael Lewis is no exception. ![]() After watching Adam McKay’s “The Big Short”, I approached Michael Lewis’ “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” not completely in pitch black. ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is unusually clever but not compelling in the least. Hubbard or Tom Thomm or to hear Spratt bemoan "illegal straw-into-gold dens" in this unusual context, the novel's broad satire overshadows elements like plot, conflict and characterization. Ffordes whimsical fifth novel, his first not to feature literary detective Thursday Next, is consistently witty, but its conceitputting a criminal spin on nursery rhymeswears a bit thin. ![]() Meet Inspector Jack Spratt, family man and head of the Nursery Crime Division. In The Big Over Easy, Fforde takes a break from classic literature and tumbles into the seedy underbelly of nursery crime. While it can be charming to encounter Mrs. Jasper Fforde's bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every genre with its literary derring-do and brilliant flights of fancy. ![]() Fforde crafts a police procedural out of this bizarre alternative universe that prizes, as The Eyre Affair does, literacy (detectives, for example, garner recognition less for solving crimes than by writing articles about cases for the likes of Amazing Crime Stories or Sleuth Illustrated). ![]() Wolff." Working with an ambitious young detective, Mary Mary ("Quite Contrary"), Spratt later takes on the case of "fall guy" Humpty Dumpty. Jack Spratt, the dedicated but underappreciated investigator in the Reading, England, Nursery Crimes Division, is depressed because the court finds the three little pigs "not guilty of all charges relating to the first-degree murder of Mr. Fforde's whimsical fifth novel, his first not to feature literary detective Thursday Next, is consistently witty, but its conceit putting a criminal spin on nursery rhymes wears a bit thin. ![]() ![]() In “The End of the Myth,” for which he was awarded this year’s Pulitzer for nonfiction, he focuses on sociolinguistic analysis of our unruly national myths, those suggested by words such as “frontier,” “border,” “freedom” and “wall.” The book is a subtle but highly readable analysis of these metaphors in American thought and actions from Colonial days to this moment. Grandin - a Yale historian whose previous books, including his Pulitzer Prize finalist “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City” (2009), have mostly featured Latin America - fortunately excels in both history and English. One myth, of freedom and opportunity, is replaced by another, grim, notion: that of closure, and of whiteness that must be protected. ![]() While Grandin spends most of his book examining the debates about and extensions of Turner’s notion, he offers a new thesis: that the frontier myth is now, in any case, dead, its prominence having been usurped by the mighty (and also misguided) myth of the Border Wall. ![]() Native Americans) ever westward, over the Appalachians, past the Mississippi, over the Rockies and, on, eventually, to the Pacific. In “The End of the Myth,” Grandin observes that it instead allowed white Americans to push problems and problematic people (e.g. Turner suggested that our open frontier served as a benign safety valve. ![]() ![]() Now the bright, beloved companion of Rowan's student days has become a man dominated by dark moods and even darker secrets. But Janus quit the order without explanation. Then she encounters a lost friend: Janus, one of the few rare Steersmen. They may contain clues to Slado's location, but combing through them would take more time than Rowan has to spend. In the seaside town of Alemeth, the Annex holds centuries of steerswomen's journals. But how does one stop the most powerful man in the world? Both the Inner Lands and the Outkskirts are now threatened by his magic-and before the destruction becomes too great to reverse, Rowan must find Slado so that he can be stopped. ![]() The steerswoman Rowan has learned that Slado, a mysterious wizard, has secretly been working spells of incredible power. How do you find a person you have never seen, or have never heard described? And what if the consequences of not finding him are too terrible to imagine? ![]() ![]() ![]() The Montgomery Playhouse is in “Kentlands”, a smart New Urbanist-planned community in Gaithersburg, MD. and Michael Redgrave, the 1970 Soviet cartoon, the 1974 CBS radio drama, the 1975 made-for-TV film with David Niven, the 1985 film starring no one you’ve ever heard of, the 1986 film with John Gielgud, the 1988 animated television special, the 1992 BBC radio 4 adaptation, the 1996 film with Patrick Stewart, the 1997 TV film starring Ian Richardson, the 2001 Australian film, the 2007 BBC Radio 7 reading by Alistair McGowan, the 2008 Bollywood adaptation, the 2010 graphic novel, the 2011 audiobook narrated by Rupert Degas, the 2016 French-Belgian film, and nor, indeed, the 2017 animated feature film with the voices of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, for which I can be forgiven as it hasn’t been released yet. However, and to my shame, neither did I catch the 1944 film starring Charles Laughton, the 1962 BBC television drama featuring Bernard Cribbins, the 1966 ABC television musical with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Unfortunately, I was too young to read the original. The Canterville Ghost is a short story by Oscar Wilde which made its first appearance in America in The New-York Tribune on Sunday, March 27, 1887. ![]() |