We see from New Gods 1 that Jack was previewing New Genesis at the end of Thor 128, and that there are technological wonders like floating platforms, flying devices. We even see in New Gods and the Hunger Dogs graphic novel that Lonar found Thor’s helmet whom Highfather referred to as an Elder God.Īs Jack gave us a small preview at the end of Thor 128 of New Gods with their technology, he starts of this storyline by zooming the reader into his brave new world. Some have argued that the figure with the headdress and hammer in the background is actually the Mighty Thor himself and Jack is really trying to show the reader this is a relatively early company cross over epic. In the first couple pages, we see this is essentially the continuation of Thor 128, 1966 and Jack was ready to explode his ideas onto these pages with himself as editor and writer. Jack decided to submit his next generation Thor characters under his new DC agreement with Carmine Infantino and the New Gods was born. Specifically look at the note in the back of the top right panel which also states that all was forgiven for Jack over at DC Comics by Carmine, and that he was welcome back.įast forward to 1970, Jack Kirby was living in Thousand Oaks, California to improve the weather for his daughter’s asthma, and he decided to take Carmine Infantino on his offer especially since Jack Schiff’s ally and fellow editor, Mort Weisinger also retired from DC that year. We see in Not Brand Ein some panels drawn by John Verpoorten and written by Roy Thomas, that Jack slaved for his wage at Marvel creating stories. However 10 years later, Jack Schiff was gone as he retired in 1967, Carmine Infantino got promoted to editorial director the same year and that black ball was removed. These images were printed in 1971 Jack Kirby Portfolio in black and white and in color at the Jack Kirby Collector 26, 1999.Īs we saw in the Atlas Implosion episode, Jack Kirby was black balled at DC Comics in 1958 when he and editor Jack Schiff had a lawsuit over profits of the Sky Masters newspaper strip. Just as we mentioned in the newspaper strip to comic episode, the illusion of change maintains a company’s brand and maintains income, so why significantly progress or evolve a story?.Īround 1967, Jack Kirby felt that he had created or co-created so many concepts for Marvel that he started creating designs for these New God’s and purposely didn’t submit them anywere as he was a freelancer, so why not keep some of his own ideas? In the battle to end all things, Thor and Loki die in a battle to the death, a great upheaval brings about the end of Asgard and the birth of “a new civilization… a golden age…” These next Gods were a fusion of Gods with technology, and we dont see any more of this period as it is very likely that Stan Lee and Martin Goodman had no incentive to shake up a money making comic book. This was shown in Thor 127-128, 1966 which depicted the Ragnarok of the Norse Gods, where all good things had to come to a cataclysmic end. ![]() Jack took that interest and with Stan Lee co-created Marvel’s Thor in the 1960s, but there was a time in the later part of that decade when Jack wanted to progress the story through Ragnarok into a second generation of Gods. Thor is a story of the Norse Gods which Jack Kirby was interested in since he was a child and dabbled in comics since the 1940s. Those three are Thor that he worked on in the 1960s with Stan Lee, the New Gods for DC Comics from the early 1970s, and his 1980s series Captain Victory. He was able to pioneer many comic genre’s like Superheros, Romance, Crime and horror, but as mentioned in the “Ancient Aliens in Comics” episode, he would often go back to the epic concept of “Space Gods.” However there were a few works in this genre that were actually related to one another as one large trilogy. As Jim Steranko said, Jack wasn’t analytical about his art, but his hands would move and intuitively he would start from the top left of a page and end up at the bottom right with unconscious ideas put to paper. Read Alex Grand’s Understanding Superhero Comic Books published by McFarland Books in 2023 with Foreword by Jim Steranko with positive reviews by comic book professionals, Jim Shooter, Tom Palmer, Tom DeFalco, Danny Fingeroth, Alex Segura, Carl Potts, Guy Dorian Sr.
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![]() ![]() She spends more time with the professors, the archduke candidates from top-ranking duchies, and even the Sovereignty’s third prince, much to her guardians’ displeasure. Somehow, Rozemyne manages to cause even more problems, and in quicker succession than the year before. She goes on another library-inspired rampage and pushes the other Ehrenfest second-years to finish their classes on the first day, all while hunting for new allies to recruit into her Library Committee. With the advancement ceremony and fellowship gatherings complete, Rozemyne’s new year at the Royal Academy can properly begin. Shocking developments abound in this climactic conclusion to Part 3! This volume ends with a series of short stories leading into Part 4, alongside the now familiar four-panel manga drawn by You Shiina! Their plots sow discord within the temple, and what happens next will change Rozemyne’s future forever. ![]() As the High Bishop, she eventually has to travel through the Central District for the Harvest Festival, and in the midst of all this, she even gets her first little sister.īut as everyone prepares for winter, the political struggle between nobles intensifies. Her joy leads to a flurry of activity as she pours her all into advancing the paper-making industry and gathering more support, all so that she can create a world with more books for her to read. With it, she and Ferdinand can brew a potent potion known as a jureve, the power of which will finally make her a normal, healthy girl! Well, probably. Rozemyne now only needs the ruelle fruit she failed to gather last year. This is another action-packed volume of this biblio-fantasy, where the Saint of Ehrenfest overcomes a winter of mysticism and battle! Including two lengthy short stories and a four-panel manga drawn by You Shiina! Her love for books keeps growing, and the mana within her is likewise becoming progressively stronger! She must hunt the Lord of Winter with the Knight's Order, then gather ingredients for her jureve potion during Spring Prayer. Her influence in both noble society and the temple is increasing steadily, and her squad of Gutenbergs work on improving the printing press while she sells picture books in the castle. With her hands full teaching kids too young for the Royal Academy and even tutoring guard knights with bad grades, she's incomparably busier than last year. In the midst of an approaching winter, Rozemyne the High Bishop is traveling between the temple and castle more than ever, participating in noble society, the baptism ceremony, and the Dedication Ritual. 1 seed from Poland, can join Serena Williams and Justine Henin as the lone women to win three or more French Opens since 2000. The tournament airs live on NBC Sports, Peacock and Tennis Channel through championship points in Paris. I shot for 23 years, 22 of which wereĪ post shared by Matt Emmons on at 9:04pm PDTĪt the French Open, Iga Swiatek of Poland eyes a third title at Roland Garros and a fourth Grand Slam singles crown overall. ![]() It’s time to move on to other things, to exercise other talents and grow as a person. Sure, there’s logic to it, but it’s also a feeling. Lastly, thanks to all the fans out there! So why retire a year before the next Olympics? Simply put, it’s time. ![]() You’ve always been there in every situation and you’ve had such a positive impact on my life. Because of them, my career not only continued, but got even better. Heather Linden and the staff at Sports Med in Colorado Springs – they put me back together after some serious physical issues before and after London. Hana Grégrová, Yuman Fong, and Ashok Shaha – these three saved my life and helped me get back to competing when I had thyroid cancer. Without those two organizations, none of this would have happened. My sponsors: Anschutz, Bleiker, Pardini, Walther, Eley, RWS, Champion, AHG, Kustermann, Hitex, Shaklee, Salon Samui, among others. It was fun and you all helped make it that way. All of them helped shape me as an athlete and person. I may miss some people, but here’s the short list: my coaches: Paul Adamowski, Ed Shea, Randy Pitney, Dave Johnson, and Dan Durben. Shooting is mainly an individual sport, but success does not come alone. My wife, Katy, and my children – for always believing in me, encouraging me, and certainly giving me some good advice along the way. I hope I can be half the parent to my kids as you were to me. Thanks mom and dad for, well, everything! I can never thank you enough for your guidance, encouragement, teaching me good morals and habits, support, and love. ![]() These are the people who helped make it happen. The picture here not only shows all of my international medals, but more importantly, my family. I actually decided in March, but only now was I able to get my family together and do it the way I wanted. MORE: Kim Rhode triumphs over theft on road to record-breaking Olympic bid Follow time has come to announce my retirement from sport shooting as an athlete. In 2007, he married Czech Olympic shooter Katerina Kurkova. He overcame thyroid cancer, diagnosed in August 2010, to make the 2012 Olympic team and earn a bronze in the three positions event. I can only move forward.”Įmmons finished his career with an Olympic medal of every color, earned at back-to-back-to-back Games. “There’s nothing I can change about the past. “Life’s too short to dwell upon the negative,” Emmons said then. He scored 4.4 and dropped to fourth place. As he set up for the shot, his finger twitched and hit the trigger. Emmons blew a three-point lead, dropped to eighth and handed unknown Chinese Jia Zhanbo the title.Īt the 2008 Beijing Games in the same event, Emmons had such a lead that he could have scored a 6.7 out of 10.9 on the last shot and still won. But on the last shot, he misfired at another competitor’s target. Two days later, he led the smallbore rifle, three positions final. It’s time to move on to other things, to exercise other talents and grow as a person.”Įmmons decided to retire in March, according to the post.Īt Athens 2004, Emmons won the smallbore rifle, prone position title, using a borrowed gun after his was sabotaged. “Sure, there’s logic to it, but it’s also a feeling. “Why retire a year before the next Olympics? Simply put, it’s time,” was posted on his Instagram. Matthew Emmons, a shooter who may be better known for the Olympic gold medals he didn’t win rather than the one he did, has retired after four Olympics at age 38. Like previous Stalker games, in Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl you play the role of a Stalker, a traveler who has come to the deadly Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (known simply as the Zone) for reasons which range from personal gain to more collectivist motives. The Kyiv-based devs at GSC Game World changed the spelling of Stalker 2's subtitle from Chernobyl (the Russian spelling) to Chornobyl (the Ukrainian spelling), roughly a month after Russia declared war on Ukraine on February 24 2022. The latest update from GSC came in the form of this June video on "Game Development During the War", which speaks about the widespread difficulties of continuing development while bombs are dropping less than a mile away from the office. The game's release was understandably pushed from December 2022 to December 2023, with no firm release date in place. Shortly after the video was released, VGC reported that a portion of the dev team had relocated from Kyiv to Prague, capital of Czechia, to continue work on Stalker 2 away from the endless bombardments and other horrors of the invasion. "But we will definitely continue", the developers added at the end of the video. In March, development on Stalker 2 was "shifted to the sidelines" according to a video entitled "Lights! Camera! War." which was published on GSC's YouTube channel. The future is unknown, but we hope for the best, are ever sure of our armed forces and our belief in Ukraine." Our country woke up with the sounds of explosions and weapons fire, but is ready to defend its freedom and independence, for it remains strong and ready for anything. Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Februled to a huge shift in focus for the developers, who quickly issued a strong statement against the invaders: "As of today, the Russian Federation has officially declared war on Ukraine. Stalker 2's developers, GSC Game World, are based in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital. In total, 4 trailers have been released by GSC Game World - plus one very creepy and impressive teaser - and you can watch them all from their YouTube channel. But there are also some very creepy-looking mutants too. This trailer focuses largely on the story and impressive cutscene-free interactions with the various NPCs you'll meet throughout the game. Steam Pack: Animated Avatar, Animated Avatar Frame & Animated Profile BackgroundĪbove is the latest Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl trailer released by GSC Game World.Extended Campfire Content: more guitar tunes and tales that you can hear in the game around the stalkers' campfires.If you pre-order any of these editions, you'll also receive the following: Multiplayer: 3 Costume Skins + 7 Weapon Skins.Season Pass with access to all future DLCs, including 2 Story Expansions.Multiplayer: 2 Costume Skins + 3 Weapon Skins.Singleplayer: 1 Costume Skin + 3 Weapon Skins. ![]() Pre-orders for Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl are now available once more, having been temporarily discontinued due to a change in Xbox store policy back in September 2022. Or at least, without spending money specifically on the game. Stalker 2 will launch day one on Xbox Game Pass, so everyone subscribed to Game Pass will be able to play Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl for free. This means Stalker 2 will not be coming to either PS4 or Xbox One. The game won't run on last-generation consoles, according to GSC Game World's PR manager Zakhar Bocharov. As for Playstation owners, the latest news was that Stalker 2 would be an Xbox exclusive for three months - which means we could potentially see a PS5 release after this time. On PC, Stalker 2 will be purchasable on Steam, Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store, Xbox Store, and GOG. Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl will be available on PC and Xbox Series X|S. ![]() Since then, the War in Ukraine forced the Kyiv-based developers to relocate to Prague (more on this below), and as a result the game was delayed once more to its current tentative December 2023 release window. Previously Stalker 2 was expected to release on April 28 2022, but a delay moved this date down to December 7 2022. I wouldn't be surprised if news of another delay soon pushes Stalker 2's release into 2024 instead. ![]() However, until we get a firm release date, we should take this release window with a pinch of salt. This is the date given by the Stalker 2 Steam Store page. Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl is currently expected to release in December 2023. Watch on YouTube Stalker 2 expected release date ![]() It’s a nifty accessibility feature for those who like racing games.Ĭurrently, Sony has not announced when the Access controller will launch. The interface also has a toggle mode, which will keep a button pressed regardless of user input. They can even fine-tune the sensitivity during gameplay. Users can configure each and every button and switch on the controller. The distance of the analog stick from the controller can also be adjusted.īesides the customizable layout, the controller also offers four 3.5mm AUX ports.ĭuring the announcement, PlayStation also previewed the controller’s user interface on a PlayStation 5. It can be oriented in any orientation and mounted onto a tripod. The Access controller, as the announcement calls it, will offer a variety of customized buttons for users including analog stick caps, pillow button caps, flat button caps, overhang button caps, curve button caps, and swappable tags.ĭesigned with a circular form factor, the Access controller will help disabled gamers to play their favorite titles. Today, during Global Accessibility Awareness Day, the company might have confirmed the final name for the controller. Months ago, Sony revealed the controller as Project Leonardo. Today, the company has revealed more information about the upcoming controller. The controller presented a configurable layout for all sorts of ergonomic setups. SEE ALSO: Trials of Mana review: A nice glow upĮarlier this year, PlayStation unveiled an incredible controller to cater to disabled gamers. Trials of Mana is available on iOS and Android devices via the App Store or Google Play Store. The game was received well by its release on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Steam platforms. The series’ action battle system will put players to the test as they encounter enemies. ![]() The game features a selectable main cast with upgradable classes and over 300 different abilities to learn as they discover a world of secrets and mysteries. Originally released in Japan as Seiken Densetsu 3 in 1995, Trials of Mana is a remake of the third entry in the classic Mana series. The starting items are the Rabite Adornment and Silktail Adornment. Players can also receive two pieces of starting gear to help jumpstart their quest. The mobile version of the game includes many features, including new touch controls, adjustable graphics settings and cloud save capabilities. Now, the 3D remake of the JRPG classic Trials of Mana is now available on mobile. From the 16-bit era to the mobile gaming platform, this game is rich in history spanning 26 years. Since its release in 1995, the Trials of Mana has come a long way. ![]() You can´t find a 2nd secret area in 1 world (only 1 secret area in a world / map part) There are 5 random secret worlds in each run / savegame. You can get 1 (of at least 3) secret weapon in each run / savegame. I only got Webslicer available in a new run / savegame after I collected the Heatseeker (in my first run). available only after I collected Webslicer. tried many savegames (and difficulty normal/hard) but didn´t change anything. had to find the Heatseeker and then start a new savegame for Webslicer / find Webslicer and start new savegame for Fatbeam. If you have problems finding the secret areas. I finished the first game in over 15 hours, but the second game in around 4-6 hours. Just walk all the map (and the complete rooms not only enter one room and leave search each room) and watch your screen. For a long-awaited sequel, it sure ended quicker than I expected. To offer another comparison, Axiom Verge 2 is essentially Happ’s Super Metroid.It is the best comparison for how a game simply feels while playing that I can muster. if you´re near one secret area entrance the screen changes a little bit (you will know what I mean if you found one of them). use drill, hack weapon, warp, or just walk into a wall / try everything if screen changes. It includes maps to help you 100 the game, and assorted tips to help you through the game including item descriptions and special cheat passcodes. if you still can´t find the entrance and for example the screen changes on right side of a room - look if there´s another room on the map to the right and try the left side of this room. This guide includes a full, spoiler free walkthrough for Axiom Verge for PS4, PS Vita, PC, Nintendo Switch, Wii U, Xbox One, all the things really. the screen changes if you´re near a secret entrance but it doesn´t have to be exactly this room (most time it is exactly the room you´re in). ![]() ![]() The secret areas & weapons don´t count for 100% items/map. Weapons updated There are nine weapons that you can find in Axiom Verge 2. Axiom Verge 2 is the Non-Linear Sequel to Axiom Verge, developed by Thomas Happ. The map will show yellow and purple dots/signs if you found 100% in the world you´re in. Axiom Verge 2 bears loose connections to its predecessor, but it’s also self-contained enough that you can approach it with no knowledge of the original.You play as corporate billionaire Indra. ![]() Only three of them are needed to advance in the story. However, the most powerful weapons are optional, and. convinces its leaders and elders to turn themselves into living weapons. Find the right one for you.You will get 1 item (you need for 100%) from a enemy / you have to use hack weapon on it / but this item only counts for 100% score at end of the game it´s doesn´t count for 100% item icon on the map. There are a lot of frustrating parts in it, difficulty spikes, and a lot of not knowing what to do. If you like the 2d Metroids, then wait for a sale and get it. Thats.simply not cool in a game like this. Like Zelda's pieces of the hears.there are items you have to find 5 or 6 of them to boost your life or weapon damage up one. Either the items found are not really interesting, or worse.in parts. Even picking up a pack of missiles in Super Metroid feels like a reward. Super Metroid is a masterpiece because there is so much hidden, and rewards for really exploring. It sounds confusing, so think of it this way: if you get a gun that does double damage on blue enemies, but then find out with each dark blue enemy that they are dark blue, because the gun doesn't do double damage to them for being a slightly off shade of blue than necessary.that is the best way I can describe it without spoiling what items you really get.īut that is not the worst of the maximum effort part of it. Most likely you will find out you can't when you try.every single time you think you can. Also there is a lot of "I got this item and I think I know what I can do with it" but you can't. The abilities either sound really cool on paper (like phasing through walls), but come out as severely clunky in play. There is a lot of interesting elements of this game, but sadly the game suffers from maximum effort/minimal gain. Unfortunately.this game really needs a "maybe so" option instead of just yes or no on recommending the game. ![]() Understanding the risk to protocol, Mobius asks for access to Hunter C-20 in order to learn what she saw under the Variant’s control and to track down Loki and the Variant. If the Variant had reached the Time Keepers, there’s no telling what would have happened. In a stern, hushed whisper away from prying ears, Renslayer reminds Mobius how difficult it is to keep the timeline stable, and it’s the Time Keepers that stand between them and full-scale calamity. Unfortunately, they’re upset with the revelation that there are now two Loki variants on the loose, and blame Renslayer for it as she was the person to give Mobius permission to leverage Loki. Still shaken, Renslayer states it’s jarring to stand before the Time Keepers even in the best of circumstances. When the golden elevator doors open, Mobius catches Renslayer rattled and asks what the Time Keepers said and if she’s okay. ![]() In present day, Renslayer is called into the Time Keepers’ chamber as Mobius nervously waits for her outside. Eyeing Renslayer with venom, Sylvie opens a Time Door with the TemPad and escapes through it. Back in Renslayer’s custody in the TVA courtroom, as she’s dragged up the aisle to the judge’s dais by the hunter, Sylvie bites Renslayer’s hand and steals her TemPad. Sylvie, scared and overwhelmed, navigates the Time Variance Authority (TVA) alone as she’s shuffled through the various processing rooms ahead of her trial. Despite Sylvie’s protests, Renslayer pulls Sylvie through the Time Door as the Minutemen set a reset charge. Renslayer scans Sylvie, declares her the variant they’re searching for, and arrests Sylvie for crimes against the Sacred Timeline. Suddenly, a Time Door opens behind her, and a young Renslayer, in Hunter attire, leads a team of Minutemen through it. In Asgard, a young Sylvie sits on the terrace happily playing with a wooden Valkyrie and Pegasus figures. However, there are sub-categories in the game modes available in Quick Play which decide what objectives the two teams will have to play for. A random map from the rotation is picked, and the game plays out in a BO5 where the first team to win three rounds is awarded the victory. In all Quick Play games, players are divided into two teams: Attackers and Defenders. Quick Play is one of the first modes a player unlocks alongside the Newcomer playlist. Survival against waves of enemies known as the White Masks Two objective locations that the Defenders need to protect from Attackers seeking to occupy itīest-of-7 standard search & destroy with no rank progressionīest-of-7 standard search & destroy with rank progression Let’s look at the game modes usually available in the live version of Rainbow Six: Siege.ĭefenders are assigned to keep a hostage secure from the Attacking team Aside from that, they’re a fantastic way to grind your Battle Pass, gain Renown currency, and even unlock brand-new limited cosmetics for your Operators! Either you get tired of playing the same objective every game, or the stressful nature of Ranked finally destroys your motivation to play any longer.įortunately, Siege has a plethora of available playlists and game modes to choose from when you feel like you need a break. Turning around and claiming that Siege will now be a core focus for its live service vision with twelve more years of content is obtusely ignorant to the bigger picture.Ranked can be a bit much sometimes, we know. We might have expressed a frown or withdrawn sigh when their demise was announced, but it was sadly expected as Ubisoft milked the cash cow so hard its milk turned to powder. ![]() I completely forgot about Roller Champions too! There are so many of these games that, to put it bluntly, just don’t matter or inspire anything close to passion. The same goes for Hyper Scape, which was developed under the same roof and likely even shared resources that Siege would have actually benefited from. Its existence has been wiped clean as Year 8 and ten more years becomes the main focus. Rainbow Six Quarantine has all the gameplay quirks of Siege with many of the same names, but a nifty twist wasn’t going to pull players away from a platform that already houses so much investment. Ubisoft noticed the profits its competitors were raking in and put several live service projects in the works which only serve to cannibalise what it already has. You could often label that as an admission of defeat, although it nails the understanding of changing in the name of survival. ![]() It is not the biggest game, live service, nor shooter in the world today. Siege is now promising it will be around for twelve more years, although what exactly that will entail, or if it can even continue to keep up with changing trends, remains to be seen. Sitting in the room as Year 8 is unveiled, the development team has an aura of rapturous confidence, and an uncertain determination of what exactly the future holds. It succeeds in spite of its original goals that fell to the wayside in pursuit of required innovation. Ubisoft saw where the gamer winds were blowing and sought to turn its premiere multiplayer experience into one that fans could call home for decades, with the company dedicating another ten years to the title as its eighth comes into view. It didn’t begin its life in 2015 as a live service hit, but evolved into one out of necessity. The Rainbow Six Siege Invitational in Montreal this weekend feels like a transitional period for Ubisoft’s tactical shooter.
in the Sixties, with 20 nonfiction titles overall - is a holistic, dialectical study. oeuvre - bookended by 1990’s City of Quartz and last year’s Set the Night on Fire: L.A. His work on Los Angeles is certainly his most popular, but caught in a reductionist binary between optimism and pessimism that tracks with the city’s own cultivated theme of “sunshine and noir” (to use Mike’s own construction from City of Quartz ). ![]() Mike Davis and his wife Alessandra Moctezuma at their San Diego home on July 6, 2022. He said that he will avail himself of California’s End of Life Option Act and is spending his days at home “surrounded by love and incredibly pampered.” The occasion for this appreciation is the recent announcement by his wife, the artist and curator Alessandra Moctezuma and later by Mike himself in interviews, that he has suspended treatment for cancer and is in palliative care. The slides throw light on scenes from across the more than 30 years I’ve known Mike. Mike tells us that the future must be “excavated in the past,” rescued from under the ruins of reaction. There have been large-scale experiments such as the Paris Commune or the Spanish Republic, and countless small-scale ones, like Christian Base Communities in 1980s rural Central America. His faith in revolution is historically situated, pointing toward a string of moments in which “utopian” visions have flourished in the here and now, before crumbling under the weight of counterrevolutionary forces and internal contradictions, only to be taken up again. ![]() He braids them together with an indefatigable faith in a revolutionary project: nothing less than the liberation of humanity from human exploitation, which today also requires the end of humanity’s malevolent exploitation of the natural world. Over the years he’s blurred the lines between these disparate fields. He is also conversant in “hard” sciences like geology, and can read specialized literature in fire science and climatology. But his work roams far beyond Los Angeles, including popular and scholarly work on environmentalism, Marxist theory, urbanism and public health. ![]() I’ll show a few slides that depict moments with author Mike Davis, the most consequential writer and thinker on Los Angeles since… perhaps ever. A transparency is a positive photographic image imprinted on plastic or glass, through which light is projected onto a wall or screen, dramatically enlarging its viewing surface. |