Marvel Comics billed him as “the wildest superhero ever—because he’s real!” Although the pages of The Human Fly, (1977-78) were fiction, they were indeed loosely based on a mysterious masked man who set out to become the “world’s greatest stuntman” and “the greatest superhero that has ever lived or will live.”
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For many years, a man has been living a comic book style double life in St. Petersburg, Florida. At night, armed with a gun filled with rubber bullets, a mask adorned with a chess piece symbol, and a stock of supplies, Knight-Hood patrols the streets of St. Petersberg.
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'Heroes in the Night' is a deftly written, entertaining book that sheds light on the strange but timely, understandable and relevant subculture that is the RLSH movement.
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There is some good material here and Hit Girl remains great, but often 'Kick-Ass 2' sets up for something outrageous and then cowers from it. “Have fun. That’s what it’s all about,” says Jim Carrey's character. Sadly, 'Kick-Ass 2' doesn't listen.
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Most of what I treasure about the superhero genre are the symbolic meanings and mythological wisdom embedded within it. And while I love comic books and comic-related material, there’s definitely no mistaking them for anything resembling realism. This goes even for something as dark and somber as Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight film …
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