n the 20th century, no artistic medium in North America with so much potential for creative expression has had a more turbulent history plagued with less respect than comic books. Through animated montages, readings and interviews, this film guides us through the history of the medium from the late 1930s and 1940s with the first explosion of popularity with the superheroes created by great talents like Jack Kirby and hitting its first artistic zenith with Will Eisner's "Spirit". It then shifts to the post war comics world with the rising popularity of crime and horror comics, especially those published by EC Comics under the editorshiop of William B. Gaines until it came crashing down the rise of censorship with the imposition of the Comics Code. In its wake of the devastation of the medium's creative freedom, we also explore EC's defiant survival with the creation of the singular "Mad Magazine" by Harvey Kurtzman. We then move to the resurgence of the superheroes in the late 1950's and 1960's typified with the rise of the dramatically innovative Marvel Comics edited by Stan Lee. Still more important is the rise of the the gleefully uninhibited underground comics created by eccentric talents like Robert Crumb and Dan O'Neill. These leads to profiles of creaters like Harvey Pekar who take the medium into new directions of expression. In the late 1970s and '80s we see the rise of alternative comics with such bold talents like Jaime Hernández for "Love and Rockets, Sue Coe for How to Commit Suicide in South Africa and especially for Art Spiegelman for his searing Pulitizer Prize winning Holocaust account, Maus. Finally, we learn of the medium's superhero mythos' revitalizing moment with the creation of Frank Miller's ferocious min-series "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns". Taken together, the film makes its arguement that the medium is far more than the stereotype of juvenile trash but rather it is an artform with a wild history and an exciting future.

《开心半小时》是一档集欢乐趣味内容于一体的娱乐类节目，为观众奉上丰富的午间快乐盛宴，成为大家茶余饭后不可或缺的精神食粮，为平淡的生活添加更多快乐的元素。

《开心半小时》是一档集欢乐趣味内容于一体的娱乐类节目，为观众奉上丰富的午间快乐盛宴，成为大家茶余饭后不可或缺的精神食粮，为平淡的生活添加更多快乐的元素。

尼克（杰西-艾森伯格饰）是小镇里普普通通的披萨店外送员，但因其超凡的驾车技巧，无论你在小镇里的任何不起眼的角落，他都能凭借单手操方向盘单手架着香…

《惊魂半小时》讲述了由杰西·艾森伯格主演的一个小镇送披萨的家伙尼克，本来好好过着自己平凡生活，却无意遭遇了俩罪犯（分别由喜剧演员丹尼·麦克布耐德和尼克·斯旺森 饰），并被他们胁迫去抢银行。在短短的不到一小时时间内，抢银行或者脱险都是无法完成的任务，而尼克便找到他以前的好朋友、历史老师察斯特（阿兹·安萨里 饰）帮忙。在紧张的半小时内，他们要处理被迫抢银行、警察、杀手、重型武器的危险，同时还要面对彼此之间友谊的考验……

《经济半小时》是中央电视台创办最早，影响最大的经济深度报道栏目。20年来，《经济半小时》始终用经济的眼光关注社会热点，总是选择重大经济事件、业界风云人物作为报道的核心，以严谨的态度、新闻的眼光、经济的视角、权威的评论，深度报道经济事件、透彻分析经济现象、准确把握经济脉博。 　　栏目不仅成为经济管理部门最信任和最愿意借助的电视发言平台，也是观众了解经济资讯、获取经济言论的权威渠道。在强化经济特色的同时，经济半小时努力提高了节目对观众的吸引力和社会影响力，取得了影响力、收视率、收益的三丰收。

網絡世界流傳着大量影片，將全球一瞬間發生的各類珍貴片段捕捉過來。有些網片蘊藏鮮為人知的資訊與知識，有些為捕捉眼球不惜一切，延伸不少討論空間，也成了網絡熱話。節目由洪永城、區永權領銜主持，挑選出世界各地充滿話題性或關注熱度的片段，帶到觀眾眼前，並與各界專家連線，針對每條影片加以討論和分析，甚或加插測試與實驗，嘗試引證片段內容的真偽，讓大家進一步長知識。

由洪永城、區永權主持的《瞬間直擊半小時》話題貼身，資訊與知識兼備，觀眾、網民激讚。節目載譽歸來，兩位男主持在第二輯繼續帶領女拍檔胡美貽、伍韻婷，搜羅世界各地的網絡熱話片段，並連線不同範疇的專家，就着影片內容加以討論與分析，同時帶來實用建議，也會按需要加插相關測試、實驗。製作團隊用心耗時，精挑細選值得關注、探討的瞬間畫面，讓大家長知識、防意外。