What one word connects the following? 1. In a certain comics universe, the dimension in which criminals are held in a state of suspended animation. 2. Lee Falk's popular creation with the nickname The Ghost Who Walks. 3. Erik, who haunts the Paris Opera House.
"Choleti's wife Carlotta is a spoiled woman with a bad personality and terrible voice; The Phantom takes an instant dislike to them both. Choleti and Carlotta refuse to listen to warnings about the ""ghost"" who haunts the opera house, even when Joseph Buquet, Carlotta's wardrobe man, goes into the depths of the opera house and is killed. Christine Daae comes to the Paris Opera House to receive voice lessons that Phillipe, the Comte de Chagny promised her, learning that she is not the first pretty face Phillipe brought there. Carlotta dismisses her, but upon learning that Christine has a powerful"
"les autres"" or ""Hell is other people"", a reference to Sartre's ideas about the and the perpetual ontological struggle of being caused to see oneself as an object from the view of another consciousness. English translations have also been performed under the titles ""In Camera"", ""No Way Out"", ""Vicious Circle"", ""Behind Closed Doors"", and ""Dead End"". Three damned souls, Joseph Garcin, Inès Serrano, and Estelle Rigault, are brought to the same room in Hell and locked inside by a mysterious valet. They had all expected torture devices to punish them for eternity, but instead find a plain room furnished in"
"the two-dimensional characters attempt to retrieve Homer from the third dimension. Homer likens the entrance to the third dimension to ""something out of that twilighty show about that zone"". An area of the queue for the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror theme park attractions in California and Paris uses subtle effects to simulate air currents coming out of a solid wall, as well as playing a subtle recording of the little girl's dialogue at intervals. In the exit area of the Florida version of the attraction, there is an area of the wall outlined in chalk, exactly like the portal"
"of dimensional shifts and dark worlds created by atrocities, twisted desires, nightmares, and madness is a common horror concept seen in Silent Hill, Darkness, Hellraiser, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. Possessions, entities capable of body jumping, and curses which can take over a person and twist a location into a deadly maze are other dangers which the characters can encounter. The Amityville Horror, The Exorcist, House on Haunted Hill and 1408 are movies that use this concept. There are also aspects which are seen in ""The Thing"", Resident Evil, and similar games and movies where an entity or pathogen"
"dimension that borders on the minds of all intelligent beings and living things, inhabited by many strange creatures. Some of them are very dangerous, seeking to invade the sleeping minds of humans. The Sleepwalkers act as guardians to defend these minds and the Mindscape, almost as a sort of ""dream police"", apprehending such evil creatures. One such Sleepwalker was tricked by his archenemy Cobweb (who like Sleepwalker had a real name that is unpronounceable by humans) into entering the mind of a New York college student named Rick Sheridan and became trapped. Rick himself is an ordinary human being, majoring"
"that has shown him nothing but cruelty since birth. Kay's ""Phantom"" is not a sequel, but rather a retelling of the original Leroux novel. While the book draws mainly from Leroux's text, there are also obvious references to Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical: several phrases from the musical's lyrics are used to describe certain circumstances in the book. There are also nods to the Lon Chaney film version of the story. The character of Javert shares his name with the obsessive police captain who hunts Jean Valjean for twenty years in Victor Hugo's novel ""Les Misérables."" The storyline surrounding Erik's vain,"
"dimension to space, and there is room for an indefinite number of universes, all alongside of each other, as there is for an indefinite number of sheets of paper when we pile them upon each other"". There are many examples where authors have explicitly created additional spatial dimensions for their characters to travel in, to reach parallel universes. In ""Doctor Who"", the Doctor accidentally enters a parallel universe while attempting to repair the TARDIS console in ""Inferno"". The parallel universe was similar to the real universe but with some different aspects, Britain has a fascist government and the royal family"
"Erik (The Phantom of the Opera) Erik (also known as The Phantom of the Opera, commonly referred to as The Phantom) is the title character from Gaston Leroux's novel ""Le Fantôme de l'Opéra"" (1910), best known to English speakers as ""The Phantom of the Opera"". He is unique in that he is both the titular protagonist and at times the antagonist of the novel. The character has been adapted to alternate media several times, including in the 1925 film adaptation starring Lon Chaney, the 1943 remake starring Claude Rains and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical. In the original novel, few details"
"on the foundations of the Palais Garnier, Erik had discreetly built himself a lair to disappear in, complete with hidden passages and other tricks that allowed him to spy on the managers. Leroux uses the operatic setting in ""The Phantom of the Opera"" to use music as a device for foreshadowing. Ribière makes note that Leroux was once a theatre critic and his brother was a musician, so he was knowledgeable about music and how to use it as a framing device. She uses the example of how Leroux introduces the song ""Danse Macabre"" which means ""dance of death"" in"
"and trapped on a confining platform. Seven of the figures face forward, but the eighth, at the back and unseen by his companions, has turned his head. He looks outside the barrier, perhaps hoping for a world with fewer rules and restrictions."" In a series of sculptures entitled ""Living in Confined Spaces"", Reekie explores his sense of the ever-increasing restrictions we place upon ourselves. The food we eat, the way we think, our notions of physical and political space are all in some ways becoming more limited. ... At the same time, these pieces also illustrate how humans can rise"
"used as synonyms for ""comics"" are ""sequential art"", a term coined and popularized by Will Eisner, and graphic novel, which is normally used to denote book-form comics—although this usage is not consistent. A panel (alternatively known as frame or box) is one drawing on a page, and contains a segment of action. A page may have one or many panels, and panels are frequently, but not always, surrounded by a border or outline, whose shape can be altered to indicate emotion, tension or flashback sequences. The size, shape and style of a panel, as well as the placement of figures"
"them. This is hard for him as his other punishment is having no memory of his life on Earth. ""Jack"" was joint winner for the ""Best Dramatic Comic"" award at the Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards in 2004. ""Jack"" covers subjects related to the attitude persons can exhibit in life, as well as its consequences to them and to the surrounding people. Frequent features are disease, rape, murder, suicide, bereavement and redemption. The comic is divided into a number of arcs (subplots) of varying length. Artwork style and presence of color differ from arc to arc. Arcs take place on Hell,"
"the two worlds are most similar at this point, and with increasing distance from it, they resemble each other less and less.) They belong wholly to this world, and he belongs to ours, but somehow penetrates theirs, through madness or some other reason. One feature of the alternate world is that little time ever passes, and it is always a year that seems like 1996 to Christopher; apparently time cycles here. While not an accomplished artist, Baker has been a prolific one, who however is mostly known only in Kansas City. His work has appeared in only one nationally known"
"the DC Comics universe) would cross over into the main DC Comics universe. One comic book did provide an explanation for a fictional universe existing as a parallel universe. The parallel world does ""exist"" and it resonates into the ""real world."" Some people in the ""real world"" pick up on this resonance, gaining information about the parallel world which they then use to write stories. Robert Heinlein, in ""The Number of the Beast"", quantizes the many parallel fictional universes - in terms of ""fictons"". A number of fictional universes are accessible along one of the three axes of time which"
"the Opera"", in an episodic format of seven chapters from different characters' points of view – first Erik's mother, immediately revolted by her own son; then Erik as a boy being exhibited as a circus freak; then Giovanni, a character of Kay's creation, who takes him in; then Nadir, known in Leroux's novel as the Persian, who is greatly expanded upon and gives an account of Erik in the bloodiest days of his life; then Erik, describing how he settled into his role as Phantom of the Opera; then a back-and-forth narrative between Erik and Christine Daae, whom he loves"
"or animated (""Shrek""). It has also been used in the movie """". Comic fantasy Comic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy that is primarily humorous in intent and tone. Usually set in imaginary worlds, comic fantasy often includes puns on and parodies of other works of fantasy. It is sometimes known as low fantasy in contrast to high fantasy, which is primarily serious in intent and tone. The term ""low fantasy"" is used to represent other types of fantasy, however, so while comic fantasies may also correctly be classified as low fantasy, many examples of low fantasy are not comic"
"movement is achieved with television and motion pictures. A virtual world is a simulated environment, which allows the user to interact with animated characters, or interact with other users through the use of animated characters known as avatars. Virtual worlds are intended for its users to inhabit and interact, and the term today has become largely synonymous with interactive 3D virtual environments, where the users take the form of avatars visible to others graphically. These avatars are usually depicted as textual, two-dimensional, or three-dimensional graphical representations, although other forms are possible (auditory and touch sensations for example). Some, but not"
"throughout the film, with images taken through distorted objectives or a plastic work on the sets and costumes, for example in the scene of the designer. Patrick Bokanowski creates his own universe and obeys his own aesthetic logic. It takes us through a series of distorted areas, obscure visions, metamorphoses and synthetic objects. Indeed, in the film, the human may be viewed as a fetish object (for example, the doll hanging by a thread), with reference to Kafkaesque and Freudian theories on automata and the fear of man faced with something as complex as him. The ascent of the stairs"
"mates. Leicht has cut the forms of these leisure demons from heavy aluminum plate and enameled them with their normal, unnatural colors. But each creature has also been abraded, scratches in the enamel showing the metal underneath. One geometric thing – an abstracted dog? an ""Imperial Walker""? – has been scratched with a message like a toilet-stall graffito or the ""Pray"" scratched on the metal of New York City phone booths. Fashion Moda is most often associated with graffiti art and its acceptance into the art world through such figures as Fekner, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jenny Holzer, and Keith Haring. In"
"created by artist Mr Doodleburger, uses footage from the Australian TV drama show Home and Away, but through the use of clever overlaid audio tracks, casts one of the main characters of the show, long running character Alf Stewart as a vicious violent character in a parallel version of Home and Away. ""see main article"" Alf Stewart Rape Dungeon Series There have been a few series where parallel universes were central to the series itself. Parallel universes in modern comics have become particularly rich and complex, in large part due to the continual problem of continuity faced by the major"
"hook holding the door open. The ""blood drip"" is coloured water, and the ""ghosts"" are actually a criminal gang living in secret rooms in the mansion and playing a trick on him, taking advantage of the local legends to frighten away interlopers. When a chamber in a mansion manifests a loud, eerie whistling, Carnacki is called to investigate. He makes an exceedingly thorough search of the room, but can find no explanation. He is still not convinced of the supernatural nature of the sound until he climbs a ladder outside and peers into the room through the window: the floor"
"he tells people about their dreams, he manages to obtain some money. One day, Ian wakes up to witness a futuristic version of reality. It is then revealed that Ian Dormouse was a shifty vagrant who sleepwalked through life but he has since converted to become the Dream King, the most enigmatic mystic in Moscow's underground Burlesque scene. Furthermore, strange and evil men begin to follow him while he attempts to escape them. Walk-In (comics) Walk-In is a comic book series, published starting in 2006, created by musician David A. Stewart, Jeff Parker, and Ashish Padlekar. The series is part"
"of people who have escaped justice. In ""Blast of Tempest"", chaos theory and the butterfly effect are incorporated into the main theme, where time travel and breaking out of parallel universes become the main plot. In the film ""Waking Life"" a discussion of Laplace's Demon takes place, as well as a handling of the retort from Quantum Mechanics. In the webcomic ""Dresden Codak"", this concept is used in a page melding philosophical notions and a ""Dungeons and Dragons"" séance titled ""Advanced dungeons and discourse"". In this page, Kimiko Ross has to burn the second law of thermodynamics in order to"
"they are abiding in. Bloo, Mac, Coco, Eduardo, and Wilt become curious with her sudden disappearance. They go up to the attic and enter the toy box, discovering for themselves the vast world that resides in it. They ask around a small town if anyone has seen a woman of Frankie's description but nobody responds. A group of weeble policemen discover they have entered the world and chase after them, but the gang are saved by a heroic man. He tries to warn them that their pursuit of Frankie will lead through extremely dangerous environments, but they are determined to"
"(2000). In ""Understanding Comics"", he notes that the movie roll, before it is being projected, arguably could be seen as a very slow comic. Related terms include: visual narrative, graphic narrative, pictorial narrative, sequential narrative, sequential pictorial narrative, sequential storytelling, graphic literature, sequential literature, and narrative illustration. The related term sequential sculpture""' has also been used. Sequential art In comics studies, sequential art is a term proposed by comics artist Will Eisner to describe art forms that use images deployed in a specific order for the purpose of graphic storytelling (i.e., narration of graphic stories) or conveying information. The best-known"
"forms an image of hell, but the voices of W1, W2 and M (an eternal triangle) do not follow a predictable sequence. In this respect, action and dialogue differs from that of ""Come and Go"", where it is shaped by the mathematical sequence, a series of ritual movements: as one character leaves, another moves up into the vacant centre."" Both ""Come and Go"" and ""Quad"" trace shapes through highly patterned movements and interaction that mimic life through extreme abstraction. These works are the inner rhythms laid bare."" ""Geometrical structures of light and darkness shape the stage settings of ""Ghost Trio"","
"Ralph Bakshi's work, Chris Marker's ""La jetée"" or animation like ""Liquid Television"". Pizzolo gave Bloody Disgusting additional thoughts on differences between motion comics and illustrated films: The simple answer is illustrated-films are an attempt to merge comic book sequential art with cinematic storytelling, whereas motion comics seem more intent on re-purposing comic books into cartoons. And I don't mean to sound like a dick because I think motion comics are cool, these are just different. On first glance, they look very similar ... and people might say 'it's moving comics on a screen, that's motion comics' to which I say"
"time where repression shared a room with wild decadence, but with hard demarcations. Restrictive, decorative clothing evokes bondage – once known as The English Vice – without ever speaking its name."" ""Steven Cook's Alternity fetishises the fetish. Careful digital manipulation places these proper ladies and gentlemen in a parallel world; a hyperreal interzone of rubber, piercings and tattoos."""" Warren Ellis 2002 * """"Steven Cook is an artist who works with digital media and photography. His latest series of work Alternity, manifests possible pasts in mendacious but startlingly believable photographic images. These alternate narratives are strangely familiar, yet have a sense"
"the first one, ""13th Floor St Antonio"", is an attraction based on San Antonio, Texas superstitions, while the second, named ""House of Torment"", is about the Apocalypse in Austin, Texas. The Parisian legends told during the visit are inspired by real facts, coming from literature or Parisian folklore: the Catacombs of Paris, the crocodile in the Paris sewers, the Phantom of the Opera, the prisoner in the iron mask, the vampires of Paris, the Paris Métro, the Père Lachaise Cemetery, the phantom of the Tuileries, the Alchemist's Library, the Bloody Baker, the assassins' cabaret, gargoyle and chimera, the hunchback of"
"in a print comic, like dynamic panel transitions and captions or dialogue boxes that appear sequentially on an image at the prompting of the reader."""" The user retains control over the pace of the reading experience, advancing the story with each swipe – sometimes staggering elements into the existing screen (for example, a new word balloon) and at other times revealing an entirely new screen. This narrative technique was inspired by the work of a French comic book artist, Yves Bigerel (alias ""Balak""), who was recruited by Marvel as artistic consultant, storyboarder and artist. Infinite Comics Infinite Comics is an"
"story and style mirror elements from Gaston Leroux's ""The Phantom of the Opera"". V and the Phantom both wear masks to hide their disfigurements, control others through the leverage of their imaginations, have tragic pasts, and are motivated by revenge. V and Evey's relationship also parallels many of the romantic elements of ""The Phantom of the Opera"", where the masked Phantom takes Christine Daaé to his subterranean lair to re-educate her. As a film about the struggle between freedom and the state, ""V for Vendetta"" takes imagery from many classic totalitarian icons both real and fictional, including the Third Reich"
"in the comic book series ""What If"", ""What The--?!"" (formerly ""Not Brand Echh"") and ""Exiles"". The concept of a continuity is not the same as ""dimension"" or ""universe""; for example, characters like Mephisto and Dormammu hail from alternative dimensions and Galactus from another universe, but they all nevertheless belong to the Earth-616 continuity (where all the dimensions and universes seems to be connected to the same main timeline). A continuity should also not be confused with an imprint; for example, while the titles of some imprints, such as Ultimate Marvel, take place in a different continuity, some or all publications"
"The inhabitants of this universe monitor travel between the others, often stepping in with their Zone Cop police force to punish those who travel without authorization between worlds. In more recent years, the comic has adapted the alternative dimension from the video games Sonic Rush and Sonic Rush Adventure, home to Sonic's ally Blaze the Cat. The continuities seen in various other Sonic franchises also exist in the comic, most notably those based on the cartoon series Sonic Underground and Sonic X. For some years, a number of other universes were also featured that parodied various popular franchises, such as"