User Reviews

Heroes Manufactured, A Great Documentary, A little long but fun, interesting and educational.

The film touches on the lives of Canadian comic book illustrators and how they take on the world of comic conventions as well as the competition of producing and selling their work to fans while growing their audience.

The film focuses on a number of artist including both male and female.

I personally would have wanted to see more representation of the female voice in comics; however, they seem to have had a limitation on who they interviewed as you don't spot many women at their events. This could have been due to the nature of the industry.

The film does focus on Studio Comics and their owner/creator quite a bit as his story seems to be one of the main story arcs.

What I found most interesting was the part about Stan Lee where the film opens up with his famous line from Spiderman comics " With great powers, come great responsibility" This theme is introduced early but is brought back towards the end as we see an example of how comic book representation accomplishes this in the real world.

The film also touches on Canadian comic book history which was interesting and used quite nicely in the film but dragged a little too long.

Overall a great film for Comic book fans, Really enjoyed this!

Pretty interesting flick.

The film explores the inside look into the creation of independent comic books in Canada and abroad. The film lays out the sensationalism of pop culture and mass media. Celebrity culture galore and comic book culture galore.

Some really neat insight into dc comic book creator Ty Templeton who worked on Batman animated series comics. I also like the bit about Neal Adams, He is a really interesting guy. Seems abit of clown but he gives you the facts about getting involved with the industry and how crumby some people can really be around you.

I would give this film a good rating. 7 out of 10.

If you like pop culture and sensationalism, watch this film. If not you missed out I guess!!!!

I enjoy watching the movie at Cineplex, a story never seen before. the best part of the movie is to come to the realization that a greater number of the comic books are created in Canada. Stan Lee participation is fantastic but the real hero of the documentary is Alphonso's Story, at times you can feel what he feel throughout the movie, his energy is what it makes the film go quick with the desire to see more about of him and his comics. the participation of a great number of other no-so-well-known comic book creators is amazing too, the selection was simply great.

A good entry level documentary. Feels a bit slow and mundane at times buy a good first take on the Canadian Comic book industry!

I personally would have wanted to see more about the comic book artists in Canada but the film took a turn into a different area that I did not expect which made it interesting but steered away from its Canadianism.

The film portrayed the story of a Mexican-Canadian artist by the name of Alfonso Espinos, who runs a comic book publishing company called Studio Comics Press.

It follows a variety of artist in a balanced sense but turned away from the fact that it is Canadian by nature. I really enjoy the interviews and think that the story was interesting on a whole. Great Film with a unique twist at the end, hint, hint Stan Lee appearance!!!!

Very nice doc put together.

A lot of Cameos of Celebs, not real big on that. But the subject was good and they didn't overdo it with Cameos. I almost think they were not needed.

It does help move the film a little though, Which I would like to add.

Very cool insight into independent comic culture and Scene. I would have wanted to see them get out of just Canada. There is a bigger world of comics out there.

But for what they made, it was nicely arranged!

I'd give it a 9, but it needs some work on the story as they focus too much on one artist!

I recommend it as a good watch!