anti-hero Archives

And if that means stripping down to his underwear and singing Taylor Swift's hit single, "Anti-Hero"? Well, then it's gonna happen – as it did on Wednesday night during "The Give Back-ular Spectacular!" co-sponsored by The Union Solidarity Coalition. JACK BLACK/TAYLOR SWIFT (Image: Lucasfilm, NBCUniversal) But before his spectacular performance, Black kicked things off by stripping down[...]

DC Comics has suspended publication in print and in digital of all-new comic books intended for the direct market of comic book stores. The exception are

Here's the list of PR plans that DC Comics has told retailers that they have arranged for the release of new YA titles Anti/Hero from Kate Karyus Quinn

Appears a number of networks and streaming services are looking to bet on the talnets of one Tom Ripley, with Deadline Hollywood reporting that Oscar-winning screenwriter Steve Zaillian is looking to write and direct a series centered on the sociopathic anti-hero from Patricia Highsmith's crime novel series The project is looking for a direct-to-series order,[...]

It was always in plain sight—in the comic itself—and in interviews Grant Morrison has done—that Nomax may well be the devil, that Ray Spass may well be doomed, and that simply coming to understand the nature of the anti-hero might be a lot of the point of the comic[...]

But he's also the anti-hero of all mythology, and most shaped by our modern take on the "Byronic Hero", according to Morrison. And here's our definition of "Byronic Hero": Byronic heroes tend to be characterized as being intelligent, cunning, ruthless arrogant, depressive, prone to violence, self-aware, emotionally and intellectually tortured, traumatized, highly emotional, manipulative, self-serving, spiritually doubtful,[...]